Successful pilotsProcurement · FMCG · Food & agri · Manufacturing · Public sector

Procurement, Sourcing & RFP Intelligence

Three procurement agents on one governed stack: weekly commodity advisory, vendor and contract intelligence, and an RFx agent that drafts, issues and evaluates RFPs with every score explained.

0.5%commodity price accuracy vs source, weekly advisory
100%of contracts above SAR 50k tracked, 90-day expiry alerts
ScoredRFP evaluations with evidence for every criterion
The problem

What this workflow costs today.

01Buying on yesterday’s price

Commodity decisions on corn, soya meal, DDGS and freight rely on broker calls and scattered market reports.

02Contracts expire unnoticed

Renewal dates, SLAs and price clauses live in PDFs and inboxes, so auto-renewals and missed SLAs cost money.

03RFPs take weeks to run

Drafting specifications, chasing suppliers and comparing bids by hand slows sourcing and weakens negotiation.

04Evaluations are hard to defend

Scoring sheets lack evidence trails, which creates audit and supplier-challenge risk.

Three agents, one stack

From market signal to signed contract.

Each module runs on its own and shares one supplier, contract and price record with the others.

Successful pilotCommodity Procurement Intelligence

Weekly advisory across corn, soya meal, DDGS and freight, delivered every Monday at 08:00 with price outlook, drivers and a buy, hold or hedge view.

Weeklyadvisory every Monday 08:00
0.5%price accuracy vs source
≥ 3procurement decisions influenced
Successful pilotVendor & Contract Intelligence

A living registry of vendors and contracts with expiry alerts, SLA tracking and price benchmarking against market and history.

100%contracts > SAR 50k tracked
90 daysexpiry alert notice
≥ 5vendor SLAs monitored
Validated proof of conceptSourcing & RFx Agent

Drafts the RFP from a requirement brief and approved templates, shortlists suppliers, answers clarifications, and scores bids against weighted criteria with evidence.

RFPdrafted from brief and templates
Weightedtechnical and commercial scoring
Evidencecited for every score
See it in action

Watch the agents at work.

A walkthrough of the agents at work: what they see, what they decide, and where people stay in control.

Procurement, Sourcing & RFP Intelligence demo videoAITHENTIC demo · YouTube
How it works

The AiX™ loop, applied end to end.

Every agent follows the same five steps, so behaviour is predictable and every step leaves evidence.

1
Observe

Market prices, freight indices, contracts, vendor master, purchase history, requirement briefs and supplier responses.

2
Reason

Explains price drivers, compares contract terms to market and history, and checks bids for completeness and compliance.

3
Decide

Ranks buy timing, renewal actions and supplier shortlists; scores bids against the approved weighting.

4
Act

Issues the Monday advisory, raises expiry and SLA alerts, drafts RFPs and prepares the evaluation pack.

5
Learn

Compares advice to actual prices and awards, and improves scoring and forecasts each cycle.

The agent team

Specialist agents, separated by duty.

No single agent both proposes and approves. Each one has a narrow job, its own tools and its own permissions.

Market Intelligence Agent

Collects prices, freight rates and news from approved sources and writes the weekly commodity advisory.

Contract Registry Agent

Extracts parties, value, dates, SLAs and price clauses from contracts and keeps the registry current.

RFx Drafting Agent

Builds RFPs and RFQs from the requirement brief, policy templates and past awards.

Bid Evaluation Agent

Normalises supplier responses, scores them against the weighted criteria and cites the evidence for each score.

Connects to:
SAP MM / AribaOracle ProcurementDynamics 365 Supply ChainContract repository (SharePoint)Microsoft FabricMarket data feeds
Authentic AI at the centre

Autonomy you can govern, trace and control.

Speed comes from autonomy. Trust comes from the three things around it. This is how each is designed into Procurement, Sourcing & RFP Intelligence.

Autonomy

Monitoring, advisories, alerts and first drafts run on their own; issuing an RFP and awarding a contract never do.

Governance

Procurement policy, delegation of authority and evaluation weightings are loaded as rules the agents must follow and cannot edit.

Traceability

Every price call cites its sources; every bid score links to the clause in the supplier response that justified it.

Control

Tender committees see the full scoring matrix, can re-weight criteria and override any score with a recorded reason.

AiX™Authentic AIExplainable, traceable, reconcilable
Autonomy bands

What the agent does alone, and what it never does.

Bands are agreed with the business before go-live and widened only on evidence from the pilot.

ActionAutonomyAccountable owner
Publish the weekly commodity advisoryActs autonomouslyHead of procurement
Raise contract expiry and SLA breach alertsActs autonomouslyCategory manager
Draft an RFP from an approved briefRecommendsCategory manager
Score bids and recommend a shortlistRecommendsTender committee
Issue the RFP to suppliersHuman approvesCategory manager
Award the contractAssistsTender committee
Acts autonomouslyRecommendsHuman approvesAssists only
Decision recordIllustrative
RFP
Fleet maintenance services, 3-year term
Criterion
Response time SLA, weight 20%
Supplier B response
Section 4.2: 4-hour on-site response, 24/7
Score
4 of 5, evidence cited
Flag
Price schedule missing year-3 escalation clause
Status
Clarification drafted, awaiting category manager approval

Guardrails

  • Agents never contact suppliers without an approved RFP
  • Award decisions stay with the tender committee under the delegation of authority
  • Commodity advice restricted to approved data sources
  • Supplier data segregated by tender and access-controlled
Outcomes & measurement

Every metric has a baseline and a method.

Success metrics are agreed before build and signed off with the client after the pilot.

MetricTargetHow we measure
Commodity price accuracy0.5% vs sourceAdvisory price vs published source price
Contracts tracked100% above SAR 50kRegistry coverage vs contract ledger
RFP cycle timeDown vs baselineDays from brief to evaluation pack
Evaluation challenges upheldZeroSupplier challenges upheld against scoring

Pilot results are company-reported and engagement-specific. Figures and names in decision records are illustrative.

How we deliver

The A.G.E.N.T. Method.

Agentic process reengineering, one workflow at a time.

AAudit

Map how the workflow really runs today, with owners, data lineage and the tacit rules.

GGauge

Agree the business outcome, the baseline and the success metrics before build.

EEngineer

Redesign for agent-first execution: agents, tools, rules and autonomy bands.

NNavigate

Pilot inside your controls, train owners and move bands only on evidence.

TTrack

Measure against the baseline and report the result the business signed off.

Start with one workflow, one agent and one measurable result.

Book a working session with our team in Dubai, Riyadh or the UK. We will map the workflow, agree the metric and show the agent running on data like yours.

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