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ProcureTech Unpacked
by Pure Procurement
Procurement technology moves fast, and the hype moves faster.Most teams are drowning in vendor pitches and conflicting advice, with no clean way to tell what a tool actually does from what it does in a demo. ProcureTech Unpacked digs into both sides of the "art of the possible": what today's technology can truly deliver, and where current capabilities hit their limits.Host Joël Collin-Demers brings 15+ years of hands-on procurement technology implementation to every episode, across three formats:Monthly Deep Dives (~35 min) are the show's Market News Review. Joël and co-host Anders Lillevik, a serial chief procurement officer with 25 years running enterprise procurement and now founder and CEO of software vendor Focal Point, work through what's actually happening in procurement technology and test it against frameworks that outlast any product cycle. Expect real implementation stories and honest disagreement.Guest Interviews (~35 min) bring in the people building, operating
Episodes
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Building a ProcureTech Stack for the Complex Enterprise
If your procurement runs across a dozen ERPs, constant M&A, and demand from every function, a single Source-to-Pay suite was never going to cover it. In the first episode of "Building a ProcureTech Stack for the Complex Enterprise", a series sponsored ...
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How to choose procurement software when every pitch sounds the same
You're evaluating procurement software, and every vendor sounds identical. AI-powered, agentic, end-to-end, one platform for all your spend. Four demos in, you still can't say what makes any of them different. James Meads has spent years on both sides ...
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What Is Procurement Intake and Orchestration, Really?
Your stakeholders route around procurement because following the process is harder than getting around it. Procurement intake and orchestration is the software category built to fix that, and almost every vendor now claims it. Joël breaks down what pro...
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The 2026 State of Autonomous Sourcing
Your autonomous sourcing pilot worked in the sandbox. Getting it into production is a different problem, and the technology is the smaller part of it. In this episode, Joël sits down with Tiago Melo, VP of Solutions Consulting at Fairmarkit, for a prac...
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The 5 Foundations of Agentic Procurement Teams
You can buy the most advanced agentic AI on the market and still crash it into a wall if your procurement function isn't built for autonomy. This minisode is a readiness check to run before you sign a contract or hand your team a build mandate. It walk...
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Do You Want a ProcureTech Software Provider or a Partner?
You're not just licensing software. You're deciding what kind of relationship you'll have with the company behind it, and most procurement teams find that out too late. This deep dive lays out seven dimensions that separate a real ProcureTech partner f...
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Inside IDC's 2026 Spend Orchestration MarketScape
Spend orchestration and source-to-pay started as separate purchases. They're converging, and that shift changes the technology decision sitting in front of you. IDC's Patrick Reymann, Research Director for Procurement Applications and Agents, joins the...
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No, Your Colleagues Are Not The Problem 🤝
Your best procurement technology idea keeps stalling, and by now you've probably decided your colleagues are the problem. They're not. You are. This episode makes the case that the people who follow ProcureTech closely are, almost by definition, the on...
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A ProcureTech Business Case Trick 🌀
It's business case season, which means most procurement teams are about to build next year's case from a blank page... That's the slowest way to do it, and rarely the most convincing. This episode tells the story of an experienced procurement team that...
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Waiting for S/4HANA Leaves Procurement Exposed
Waiting for your S/4HANA migration before you touch procurement technology feels like the responsible call. But, it's quietly the most destructive thing on your roadmap. In this minisode, Joël Collin-Demers lays out three reasons the waiting posture ba...
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Build vs. Buy : The AI Edition
Most build-vs-buy decisions in procurement technology get evaluated on sticker price... And by the time the integration bill shows up, you're already in production. This week, Joël and Matt break down why the real question isn't build vs. buy, it's how...
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What Is an AI Agent Studio? 🎨
In June 2026, the last of the top-eight Source-to-Pay suites on Gartner's Magic Quadrant quietly shipped its "AI Agent Studio". Now, every serious procurement platform has one. But before you take any "Studio" label at face value, it's worth knowing wh...
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Why "Bring-Your-Own-LLM" is Coming 🍔
Every agentic procurement platform you're evaluating runs on a large language model it rents from a provider you've never assessed... And most vendors won't tell you which one unless you ask. This minisode makes the case that the model behind your plat...
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Your Supplier Portal Is Already Obsolete 🌀
Your sourcing platform doesn't save a dollar until suppliers bid. Your risk tool doesn't flag anything until suppliers submit their information. Your P2P doesn't touch a transaction until suppliers transact. For most procurement technology, supplier en...
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AI Software Invoices Are About to Get Spicy 🌶️
If you're relying on a flat fee monthly AI subscription to keep costs predictable, you're one usage spike away from a renewal conversation you didn't see coming. This week, Joël Collin-Demers breaks down the four-step pricing playbook every major LLM p...
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AI Agents in Procurement : Hype vs. Reality
Everyone at every procurement conference this spring said the same thing: "AI agents are the answer to procurement's problems..." Almost nobody could tell you the question. This week Matt and Joël cut through the noise with a working definition of what...
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Your ProcureTech Implementation Timeline Is a Wish, Not a Forecast
That 6-month implementation timeline in your business case? It's not a forecast. It's a wish. In this episode, Joël Collin-Demers breaks down why ProcureTech projects almost never hit their original timeline... It's not because people are incompetent. ...
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Why 'It's AI Powered' Tells You Almost Nothing
"AI will transform procurement." Sure. But which kind of AI? Doing what, exactly? That question is at the heart of this episode. We cover three AI subdomains procurement professionals should actually understand — Natural Language Processing, Computer V...
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ERP or S2P Suite for Procurement? The Only Factor That Actually Matters
Most procurement platform decisions get made for the wrong reasons — and by the time you realize it, you're already in implementation. In this episode, Joël Collin-Demers breaks down the only factor that actually matters for your ERP vs. S2P decision: ...
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The 2026 State of ProcureTech
The procurement technology landscape is evolving faster than ever, and separating signal from noise has never been harder. In our debut episode, hosts Joël Collin-Demers and Matthew Buckingham dig into what's actually shaping the ProcureTech market rig...
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Intro to ProcureTech Unpacked
Meet Joël Collin-Demers and Matthew Buckingham. One brings 15 years of procurement technology deployment. The other brings 20 years in the enterprise procurement space in global organizations. Together, they're launching ProcureTech Unpacked—a podcast ...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Procurement technology moves fast, and the hype moves faster.Most teams are drowning in vendor pitches and conflicting advice, with no clean way to tell what a tool actually does from what it does in a demo. ProcureTech Unpacked digs into both sides of the "art of the possible": what today's technology can truly deliver, and where current capabilities hit their limits.Host Joël Collin-Demers brings 15+ years of hands-on procurement technology implementation to every episode, across three formats:Monthly Deep Dives (~35 min) are the show's Market News Review. Joël and co-host Anders Lillevik, a serial chief procurement officer with 25 years running enterprise procurement and now founder and CEO of software vendor Focal Point, work through what's actually happening in procurement technology and test it against frameworks that outlast any product cycle. Expect real implementation stories and honest disagreement.Guest Interviews (~35 min) bring in the people building, operating
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Procurement technology moves fast, and the hype moves faster.Most teams are drowning in vendor pitches and conflicting advice, with no clean way to tell what a tool actually does from what it does in a demo. ProcureTech Unpacked digs into both sides of the "art of the possible": what today's...
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