Sourcing Agent
Transform your procurement operations with an intelligent AI agent that orchestrates the entire sourcing lifecycle across your procurement ecosystem—from request intake to vendor selection and negotiation—maximizing spend influence while ensuring compliance with your procurement policies. By integrating with your P2P platforms, ERPs, and supplier intelligence systems, the agent accelerates sourcing cycle times, optimizes vendor selection, and increases savings opportunities.
Transform your procurement operations with an intelligent AI agent that orchestrates the entire sourcing lifecycle across your procurement ecosystem—from request intake to vendor selection and negotiation—maximizing spend influence while ensuring compliance with your procurement policies. By integrating with your P2P platforms, ERPs, and supplier intelligence systems, the agent accelerates sourcing cycle times, optimizes vendor selection, and increases savings opportunities.
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Market and supplier data, right at hand
Access real-time pricing information, market trends, and forecasts to make data-driven sourcing decisions and strengthen your negotiation position.
Identify optimal suppliers
Discover alternative vendors by comparing capabilities, risk profiles, and performance metrics to build a qualified supplier shortlist.
Kick off supplier onboarding
Streamline supplier registration by automatically creating vendor records, initiating approval workflows, and preparing preliminary RFI documentation.
Connect to your tech stack
- Procure-to-Pay: Coupa, SAP Ariba, Jaggaer, Oracle
- Contract Management: DocuSign CLM, Icertis, Conga, Ironclad
- ERP Systems: SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Workday
- Market and supplier data: Beroe, Aravo, Dun & Bradstreet, Origami Risk
- Business Intelligence: Power BI, Tableau, Looker
- Communication: Outlook, Gmail, Slack, Microsoft Teams
Business-led configuration
- Customize your sourcing workflows using Tonkean's no-code orchestration platform with intuitive drag-and-drop interfaces, eliminating IT dependency
- Configure agent skills, integrations, and knowledge sources to align with your specific sourcing requirements and procurement policies
- Empower category managers to directly manage approved vendor lists, evaluation criteria, and approval thresholds through distributed administration
- Maintain robust governance with comprehensive audit trails, granular permission controls, and enterprise-grade security standards
Frequently asked questions
Agentic orchestration is an AI-driven approach to enterprise process automation that dynamically adapts to business needs. Unlike traditional automation, which follows rigid, pre-defined workflows, agentic orchestration uses AI agents to intelligently route requests, enforce policies, and coordinate multi-system workflows without requiring human micromanagement. Platforms like Tonkean enable enterprises to implement agentic orchestration by embedding AI-driven workflows directly into existing systems like ERP, procurement, legal, and IT platforms—without disrupting how employees work.
AI agents create value across the procurement ecosystem—not just for procurement teams, but critically for their stakeholders and requesters. For business users, agents provide intuitive self-service purchasing experiences, guided buying assistance, and real-time status updates—eliminating the friction and delays typically associated with procurement processes. For procurement professionals, agents automate routine tasks like supplier identification and data collection, allowing them to focus on strategic activities. The result is faster fulfillment for requesters, higher compliance with preferred vendor policies, and greater spend influence for procurement teams. By orchestrating workflows across systems and departments, agents transform procurement from a perceived bottleneck into a responsive business enabler.
AI agents can be configured with rules-based orchestration to ensure that every request follows the correct approval path, includes necessary documentation, and adheres to company policies. Solutions like Tonkean embed audit trails, approval hierarchies, and risk assessments into every workflow, ensuring that enterprises maintain full visibility and control. This approach helps organizations scale compliance efforts without adding administrative overhead.
