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The series named the gap, the architecture, and the barriers. This blog names the 35% who closed all three, and what the next 24 months cost organizations that haven’t. TL;DR Three blogs. One arc: the ambition-execution paradox, the automation-autonomy architecture gap, the governance barriers blocking scale. This blog names who navigated all three. 35% of […]
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The barriers are known. Named. Quantified. And the remediation most organizations are running is aimed at the wrong target. TL;DR The two leading barriers to AI scale in procurement are security concerns (50%) and trust in AI decision-making (47%). Neither is a technology problem. Most remediation is aimed at the wrong target. Adding governance as
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The maturity curve has two halves, not four steps. The architecture that wins the first does not graduate to the second. TL;DR Automation and autonomy sound similar. They are different architectures with different design centers. 71% of procurement teams are stuck one stage short of autonomy on a four-stage maturity curve. The next step is
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Three procurement leaders who have lived the crossing from pilot to production share what the analyst frameworks don’t cover: the organizational failures, the CFO conversations, the early warning signs, and what actually changes when AI stops being an innovation initiative. From the Agentic Procurement Summit 2026 · Final Session · Panel: Peter Scharbert, Partner, EY;
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A live production demo of the Merlin Agentic Platform revealed the difference between AI that answers questions and AI that completes processes, and why the architecture decision is the highest-leverage choice on the CPO’s AI roadmap. From the Agentic Procurement Summit 2026 · Session 7 · Devika Sanil, Solutions Consulting, Zycus TL;DR This blog covers
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The session that moved from theory to deployment. How IBM and Zycus built a joint offering for tail spend, where the autonomous versus human line gets drawn, and what makes the difference between agentic AI programs that scale and those that stall. From the Agentic Procurement Summit 2026 · Session 6 · Kuntha Chelvanathan, Partner,
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