Indirect,
Augmented.
Indirect procurement is being transformed. Its strategic potential is finally within reach. Built on solid digital foundations and accelerated by AI. The catch: you have to know how to use it. Read what changes, pick what works, apply what creates value.
Every month, what to know and do to transform your indirect procurement with AI. No evangelism. No pitch.
First Tuesday of every month, 07:30 CET. One-click unsubscribe.
The foundations are there. AI is the accelerator. Now the reading.
Fifteen years of digital programs laid the groundwork: P2P, e-procurement, supplier master data, consolidated spend, contract governance. Most mature mid-market firms already have it.
What was missing was the lever to break through the transactional load. PO entry, invoice matching, contract review, SLA tracking, supplier follow-up. Fifteen years of tools never moved the work. AI actually does.
The result: the transformation is underway. The strategic potential of procurement is being realized. But the window is narrow, the ecosystem moves fast, and every month brings new models, new tools, new methods. You need to read that movement.
What separates those who actually transform their function from those who buy three more SaaS, is reading the month in motion.
This newsletter is that reading. A monthly map to navigate AI-powered indirect procurement. Not a trend radar. Not a press digest. The map an operator draws for peers, walking the ground.
How AI actually moves your indirect procurement. Every month.
This newsletter doesn't talk about AI in general or fuzzy digital transformation. It talks about one thing: concretely improving your indirect procurement with AI. Sourcing, negotiation, contract review, audit, P2P, tail spend. That's what you get from a 7-minute monthly read.
Not one more license, not a PoC gathering dust. How to use it concretely to move a recurring sourcing, a negotiation, an audit. Before your peers do.
One real case per issue: recurring sourcing, contract review, tail spend, P2P. Method, prompt, measurable result. Replicable on your spend.
30 newsletters and 200 articles compressed into a single read. Less noise, more signals that actually change indirect procurement.
Someone who codes his own tools, tests models the day they ship on real RFxs, and has run €600M+ of spend in mid-market and at Amazon.
On what matters, what changes, what creates real value on your indirect spend. No hype, no evangelism, no buzzwords. A read that lasts 30 days and serves all year.
What you get every month.
Top 3 articles of the prior month, each summarized in 2 lines. The long pieces worth your commute.
2–3 digital, SaaS, M&A moves that actually change practice. Filter: if it changes nothing, it doesn’t make the cut.
Models, tools, studies. With sourced numbers and an operator’s angle, not the product sheet.
A real workflow. Method, prompt, measurable result. The "before / after" of augmentation, ready to replicate.
300–500 words, newsletter-only, never published on LinkedIn. The piece that justifies the subscription.
What you won't find.
- No AI evangelism. If a topic doesn't suit AI, I'll say so.
- No SaaS pitch. If I talk about a tool, it's because I use it.
- No hot takes. The value is in depth, not speed.
Built for CFOs and procurement leaders of mid-market firms.
Written for CFOs, finance directors and procurement leaders of European mid-market firms (€50–500M revenue) who want to transform their indirect procurement function, without buying one more SaaS license. Looking for direct procurement or general strategy content? Not here.
Who I am.
Alex Lio. 10+ years in indirect procurement, including category manager roles at Amazon on international mandates. Today: Procurementor, advisory, audit and training for European mid-market firms.
I spent the last six months experimenting in Sofia, figuring out where AI can really transform procurement and where the human stays central. I'm now bringing the clarity those six months gave me, and helping you read the changes as they land.
Experiment with AI; everyday.
The transformation is underway.
Don't watch it pass by.
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