Procurement

Every large company runs a make-or-buy discipline on almost every serious expense it has. The one exception is the function that acquires its people.

Two algorithms set a price between them in under 200 milliseconds. Neither of them saw the supplier on the edge of insolvency. There is a job that does not get automated, and it is more specific than the consultants will tell you.

The standard story is compensation. The real story is identity. And no salary survey will surface it.

Where should AI create value in procurement? The answer is a ratio, not a list.

Should you consolidate your electronics manufacturing services suppliers in a tariff war? A decision memo with three options, honest trade-offs, and a recommendation.

Procurement has spent decades optimizing for the wrong scoreboard. It's time to measure what actually matters.