Merlin Autonomous Sourcing Launch Series
Autonomous Sourcing is here.
Merlin Autonomous Sourcing launches in Europe with priced, sourced and defensible awards in one connected flow, and your approval at every gate.
A two-part launch · 60 min each + Q&A
The Analyst View
AI agents in the sourcing cycle.
MAS Live Demo
Problem to award, in one flow.
Two hours that take you from AI debate to a live award decision.
Where sourcing breaks, and what an agent can actually own.
Bertrand Maltaverne
Lead Analyst, Upstream Procurement
The Hackett Group
One sentence in. A defensible award out.
Raoul Groening
Lecturer
Kalaidos University
Anthony Gray
VP Sales
Zycus
Chinmaya Behera
AVP Product Management
Zycus
Asmita Mukherjee
Senior Solutions Consultant
Zycus
2
Sessions
60
Min each
1
Connected flow
0
Slideware
Built for CPOs and the leaders who own the AI decision.
Save my seatMerlin Autonomous Sourcing builds the strategy before the first supplier is contacted, then runs the event end to end.
Understand
Business problem captured
Strategize
Should-cost model and sourcing strategy built
Evaluate
Suppliers scored on cost, risk and ESG
Decide
Defensible award recommendation produced
Merlin Autonomous Sourcing
Bundled IT Services · Live
Session
Strategizing
OrionCloud Systems
Shortlisted
Northbridge IT
Shortlisted
Helvetia Managed
Shortlisted
Supplier evaluation
OrionCloud Systems
Best total value
Northbridge IT
Lowest unit price
Helvetia Managed
Strongest ESG
Award recommendation
Winning supplier
OrionCloud
Annual savings
€9.69M
Contract value
€4.71M
3-year savings
€29.07M
Runner-up · Northbridge IT
Score 88 – lowest unit price, but 4 weeks longer transition and weaker ESG evidence.
Reviewed by category lead – ready for human approval
Approve awardType your message...
20 steps. One session. What could take weeks of analyst effort happens in one guided conversation.
Thinks like your best category manager.
Business problem
Stated in plain language
One sentence in. No templates, no intake forms.
Category intelligence
36-month spend, contracts, should-cost
Should-cost baseline built before an event exists.
Supplier discovery
D&B, AVL and ESG gates
Only qualified suppliers reach the event.
Executes like your fastest sourcing team.
RFP execution
Pricing tables, questions, Go / No-Go
30-line pricing tables in 3 minutes. 8+ compliance gates.
Award recommendation
Four scenarios with savings
Every scenario carries its own rationale and evidence.
AI decides. Suite governs. Human approval gate at every stage – every action logged and policy-mapped.
60%
Faster
From sourcing strategy to award recommendation.
3–5×
More events
Same team, more categories sourced each quarter.
8–15%
Extra savings
Additional savings surfaced on sourced spend.
100%
Policy compliant
Every award backed by rationale and evidence.
An independent analyst voice, and the team building Merlin Autonomous Sourcing.
One hour to settle the argument. One hour of the product doing the work, end to end.
The independent case for Autonomous sourcing.
The Sourcing Plateau
Cycle times, where the hours go, and why savings performance has flattened.
The Fragmented Reality
Point agents everywhere, integration maturity nowhere. Under a third are ready.
The Leap
Autonomous AI as a paradigm change, and the use cases already returning value.
Effectiveness, Not Just Efficiency
The value is doing better, not only doing faster.
From Stack to Mesh
Suite versus best-of-breed is over. Orchestration becomes mission critical.
Closing
A pointer to session two, where multi-agent sourcing is shown in practice.
Fifteen minutes of frame. Then the system does the work.
Opening and Recap
Moderator · 2 minWhere session one left the argument, and why this hour is product, not slideware.
The Real Shift for Sourcing Teams
Raoul Groening · 5 minFor the first time the process changes, plus the test to hold every vendor to.
What We Built, and Why
Chinmaya Behera · 5 minThe agents, their handoffs, and humans at the approval points that matter.
What This Changes for the Business
Anthony Gray · 5 minWhere value lands first, and a realistic first ninety days on your S2P stack.
Live Demo: Problem to Award
Asmita Mukherjee · 22 minShould-cost, scored shortlist, a ready RFP, four award scenarios, audit trail.
Mini Panel
All speakers · 10 minThe hardest part of a multi-agent flow, and where human judgement stays.
Q&A and Closing
11 minLive questions, three takeaways, and what a MAS pilot involves.
Watch it run end to end. If it looks like something your categories need, we’ll run a pilot on your own spend, contracts and suppliers.