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  • October 23rd, 1pm ET

Autonomous Sourcing Strategies:How Agentic AI Finds Savings Others Miss

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Agentic AI changes the game by autonomously running sourcing workflows, negotiating with suppliers, and surfacing opportunities your team typically can’t get to (especially in tail and mid-tail spend).
 
In this session, we’ll demystify “autonomous sourcing” vs. traditional automation and show how agentic AI continuously scouts events, recommends the next best action, and executes multi-round strategies, so you capture savings that usually go untapped. You’ll learn where AI agents fit alongside your category managers, what controls keep humans in the loop, and how leading organizations are already reducing manual effort and unlocking measurable value. Walk away with a pragmatic playbook to pilot, prove, and scale agentic AI for sourcing this quarter.
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Key takeaways:
  • Agentic AI, clearly explained: What “agentic” means (autonomous decision-making with goals, tools, and feedback loops) and how it applies to sourcing events, negotiations, and award decisions.
  • Where savings hide: How autonomous negotiations and predictive targeting uncover value in fragmented categories and tail spend that humans rarely prioritize.
  • From rules to results: Why leading teams report major manual-effort reduction (e.g., up to ~90% on routine tasks) and faster cycle times when using autonomous negotiation agents.
  • Designing human-in-the-loop controls: Guardrails, exception paths, and approval patterns that keep risk low while letting agents run.
  • Data & rate management readiness: The data foundations (item/rate libraries, event templates) that make autonomous sourcing effective.

  • Practical rollout strategies: How to select categories, define KPIs, and prove ROI before scaling.

Speakers

Who you will hear from:

HOST: Andreas Welsh

Chief AI Strategist and Founder

Intelligence Briefing

Raj BajaJ

Strategy Sr Manager, Supply Chain and Procurement

Accenture

Missi Anderson

Center of Excellence, Sourcing Manager

Intel Corporation

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speaker bios

Andreas Welsch is an internationally recognized AI leader, advisor, and speaker known for helping the world’s leading enterprises turn technology hype into business outcomes. He is the Founder & Chief AI Strategist at Intelligence Briefing, the best-selling author of the “AI Leadership Handbook,” and the creator of several popular LinkedIn Learning courses on AI agents for business leaders.Over the last 23 years, including in global leadership roles at SAP, he has advised Fortune 500 leaders on realizing business value from AI, accelerated the integration of AI across enterprise applications, and positioned SAP as the leader for Business AI. Before that, Andreas led global IT process automation projects. Outside of work, he contributes to academia as an Adjunct Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of AI, Robotics, and Workplace Automation.Andreas is a frequent keynote speaker and expert panelist, and has been named a LinkedIn Top Voice, DataIQ’s AI Leader of the Year, Thinkers360’s Top 10 Thought Leader in Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, The Futurum Group’s Top 14 AI Influencer, PEX Network’s Top 30 AI Leader, SwissCognitive’s Top 50 Global AI Ambassador, and engatica’s Top 200 Worldwide Business & Technology Innovator. 

Raj Bajaj has 18 years of Supply Chain & Procurement experience leading digital transformation programs, Cost take-out, Operating model, and AI / Generative AI projects. Raj brings a lot of knowledge to advance ideas.
Raj has cross-industry experience within my tenure in Strategy Specifically, Telecom, High-Tech, Software & Platforms, Energy (Upstream and Mid-stream), Utilities (Natural Gas & Electric), Healthcare, Consumer Products, Financial Services, and Life Sciences industries.

Missi Anderson brings over 26 years of progressive expertise in sourcing, procurement, and data systems innovation to the forefront of autonomous sourcing transformation. Currently serving as Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence Sourcing Manager at Intel, Missi is a recognized expert in advanced eRFX platforms, having mastered both COUPA and Keelvar systems to execute complex multi-round bids, e-auctions, and autonomous bidding across diverse commodity portfolios. With an MBA in Production & Operations Management from the University of New Mexico, Missi combines deep technical acumen with strategic business insight. Missi has successfully navigated the evolution of procurement from manual processes to AI-driven autonomous systems.