Sourcing Assistant

Overview

The Sourcing Assistant orchestrates the sourcing lifecycle from supplier discovery to award. It understands buyer intent, creates events grounded in contracts and past sourcing data, analyses bids with supplier risk and market inputs, and generates counteroffers at scale. This leads to agility through quicker event launches and award decisions, as well as cost savings through policy-driven negotiations.

Tasks this assistant can help with:

• Creating sourcing events using contractual, historical, and supplier data
• Recommending qualified suppliers and discovering new suppliers from a network of millions
• Analysing bids across cost, quality, and risk dimensions with market inputs
• Recommending awards with explainable trade-offs and reasoning
• Automating negotiation and counter-offer generation

Example use cases for this assistant:

• Reduced manual effort in event creation and bid evaluation
• Enhanced sourcing agility for urgent and high-volume events
• Improved decision quality for better total cost analysis and transparent trade-off analysis
• Automated negotiations that ensure no savings opportunity is left on the table

Benefits

Faster time to award
Shorten sourcing cycles through automated event creation, bid analysis, and award recommendations.

Smarter supplier decisions
Analyse bids by supplier risk, market data, and sourcing objectives with transparent reasoning.

Stronger negotiation outcomes
Generate counteroffers focused on price, payment terms, and delivery levers based on competitive bid data.

Reduced manual workload
Eliminate event setup and bid comparison tasks with recommendations based on previous events, contracts, supplier data, and thorough research.

Agents used by this assistant

Use the Sourcing Assistant to orchestrate specialised AI agents, including Joule Agents that apply SAP’s process expertise or custom agents you create.

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