The Agentic AI Shift in Procurement: A Live Showcase (Techwatch)

Procurement’s mandate has flipped. Teams are asked for more savings, faster cycles, and tighter compliance, all without adding headcount.

The old answer was to layer more tools and copilots onto the same manual work, but that model breaks under current pressure because it adds steps without absorbing volume. Agentic AI changes what a lean team can actually deliver, moving procurement from assistance to autonomous execution across the lifecycle.

In this live Techwatch showcase, Zycus puts Merlin AI Agents to work across Source-to-Pay, running the Intake-to-Outcomes (I2O) journey end to end, from the first request to captured savings. You see agents execute intake, sourcing, and negotiation autonomously while approvals, compliance, and policy guardrails stay intact. No pilots. No six-month rollouts. Just built-in Agentic AI delivering measurable outcomes in real workflows today.

What you’ll see:

• AI Agents handling real procurement workflows – Merlin executing intake, sourcing, and negotiation autonomously, not just assisting
• Autonomous execution without losing control – manual bottlenecks disappearing while approvals, compliance, and policy guardrails stay intact
• The Intake-to-Outcomes journey live – a walkthrough from first request to captured savings, with every intake converted into a measurable outcome
• Built-in vs bolted-on – why built-in Agentic AI delivers on total cost, speed, and adoption where bolted-on tools cannot
• Scale without adding headcount – the same team absorbing more volume as agentic execution takes on the work

Watch the full session on demand to see how built-in Merlin AI Agents turn every intake into a measurable outcome, so lean procurement teams scale output without scaling headcount.