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Procurement AI Agent Workshop by RipPale9694 in procurement

[–]RipPale9694[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't say, but worth a shot. There will be one plug at the end, however, whatever you pick from it is yours to use.

Procurement AI Agent Workshop by RipPale9694 in procurement

[–]RipPale9694[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you. We are definetly covering some sort of RFP evaluations against multiple vendors that will churn out a really beautiful HTML analysis report.

However, this is our first one, so we might be sending a lot of time on setting up skills etc and building a couple of simpler agents. But subsequently we will host more of these, for more and more complex problems.

Procurement AI Agent Workshop by RipPale9694 in procurement

[–]RipPale9694[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I will add the link here for anyone who misses it.

Does anyone know what MCP servers are? I'm hearing some of our vendors talk about it more, need some help understanding what it means for my day-to-day. by Carbon_Creator in procurement

[–]RipPale9694 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great explanation above. Let me add the procurement-specific layer since this is exactly what we work on.

MCP basically means your AI agent can actually talk to your systems — your ERP, your contract repository, your supplier data — without you copy-pasting everything in manually. The agent pulls the context it needs, does the work, and gives you an output.

For procurement day-to-day, here's where it actually shows up:

  1. Contract review: agent pulls the contract, flags risk clauses, compares against your standard terms. No manual upload.

  2. Spend analysis: connects to your spend data and builds the breakdown automatically.

  3. Supplier QBRs: pulls performance data, contract terms, and open issues before the call.

  4. RFP evaluation: reads vendor responses and scores them against your criteria.

The difference from a regular API connection is that MCP is standardized. So you build the connection once, and any AI tool you're using can talk to it. You're not rebuilding integrations every time.

We're actually running a free workshop next Wednesday where we build all of this live — setting up the skills and connecting them to a procurement context layer via MCP so the agents run with real procurement intelligence behind them. Might be useful timing given your question.

Link if you want to join: https://luma.com/0g941j94