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There is a version of this post that starts with a market trend, quotes an analyst and ends with a call to action. This is not that version. The Procurement Futures Fund exists because of a conversation I kept having, with CPOs, with category directors, with senior procurement professionals who had been in the function […]
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Ask someone in sales what their AI stack looks like and they will talk for twenty minutes. Clay for prospecting. Apollo for data enrichment. Gong for call intelligence. Their CRM has a copilot. Their enablement platform has AI coaching. The function has been rebuilt around tools that reduce the administrative burden and amplify human judgment.
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If you are writing a job description for a Chief Procurement Officer today and dating it 2030, what would the requirements section look like? It would include the things it always has: commercial acumen, supplier relationship management, category expertise, risk judgment, stakeholder influence. These do not go away. But by 2030, they will be the
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I want to share something I have been watching happen in the market over the past eighteen months, because I think most procurement leaders know it is happening but have not yet decided what to think about it. Autonomous negotiation is not a pilot programme at a handful of early-adopter organisations. It is in production,
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When we designed the Procurement Futures Fund, one of the first questions on the table was: who reviews applications and confirms eligibility? The easy answer would have been to keep that decision internal. Faster, simpler, no coordination overhead. We did not take the easy answer, and this post explains why. Why vendor-judged programmes have a
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A question we have been asked more than once since launching the Procurement Futures Fund: why only half? If the goal is to remove the financial barrier to Agentic AI training, why not remove it entirely? Why ask a senior procurement professional to co-invest when the whole point of the fund is to make upskilling
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The Procurement Futures Fund panel reviews every application against five questions. Understanding what those questions are, and how the panel thinks about the answers, is useful whether or not you are planning to apply. These are not trick questions, and they are not designed to eliminate applicants. There are no hidden criteria. The panel is
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TL;DR This is a curated list of 11 real AI courses for procurement leaders moving into the agentic AI era — every one accessible without coding, plus a technical tier for your data team. The curriculum is built in three layers: Foundations (understand the tech), Application (lead agentic AI without writing code), and Governance (oversee
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