New year, new strategy to combat economic uncertainty? Not so much. Procurement leaders are relying on the same standard playbook as they, along with the rest of the world, continue to anticipate a ...

Supply chain managers and procurement professionals are watching a new kind of negotiation take shape, one that doesn’t involve people sitting across a table or trading emails. Instead, artificial ...

TOKYO, Japan, Apr 9, 2026 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation's automated negotiation AI initiative has been named as a use case in "Deploy AI Agents in Procurement: A Roadmap to Success" (*1), a ...

TOKYO, Dec 2, 2025 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) will begin offering its "NEC AI Agent Service for Procurement Negotiations" in Japan starting this December. This service ...

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Instead of being feared as a replacement for procurement professionals, AI should be seen as a potent assistance.

Agentic artificial intelligence is beginning to shift procurement from a function defined by insight and analysis to one increasingly driven by execution, particularly across the high-volume, ...

It’s time to ensure your contract negotiations are set for the busy season, also known as “peak season,” the busiest period of the year for supply chains—running from mid-August through December. Peak ...

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Understanding the anatomy of a threat (50% substantive and 50% emotional) is essential to learning how to navigate the remainder of the conversation effectively. Nobody likes to be threatened.