Moving beyond the hype,
The Impact of AI in Supply Management explains how advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI can be responsibly integrated into procurement's strategy, operating model, and culture. With a strong emphasis on trust, governance, and explainability, this book shows how AI becomes a structural capability—not a bolt-on tool—reshaping how procurement delivers value across the enterprise.
What truly distinguishes this work is its people-centered approach to intelligent procurement. With insights tailored for executives, practitioners, suppliers, and regulators, the book positions AI not as a threat to procurement professionals, but as a force that elevates their strategic impact, resilience, and relevance. Readers will gain an end-to-end view of AI's impact across spend analytics, supplier management, contracts, risk, and sustainability, leaving them equipped to lead with clarity, confidence, and responsibility in an AI-enabled future.
Key Features:
- Clearly explains the technologies powering modern procurement, including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, robotic process automation, computer vision, and generative AI
- Describes exactly where AI adds the most impact and where human judgment must remain firmly in control
- Offers practical frameworks you can use immediately in strategy sessions, board discussions, and transformation roadmaps
- Helps prepare your team and yourself for the future roles, skills, and shifts AI will demand of your supply management organization
- Contains guardrails for AI literacy, helping procurement professionals interpret, challenge, and govern AI insights responsibly
- Explores how AI reduces bias, improves supplier evaluation, and strengthens compliance with ESG and regulatory requirements
- WAV features numerous white papers on various AI-related topics-- available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com/wav