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Ep 03: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Boring Enough and Safe Enough: When AI Gets the Keys

Podcast: Art of Procurement · Philip Ideson

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

Dear Diary… "I was watching a lot of smart people, day in and day out, looking across documents, opening folders." Most procurement teams pick AI use cases by asking what the technology can do. Liza Tsimbal started somewhere else. On a random Tuesday, an OEM technical issue had a room full of smart people hunting through old drawings, contracts, and email chains for one piece of information. Her conclusion: information you cannot retrieve fast enough might as well not exist. Liza is the Director of Supply Chain Management at TransAlta, one of Canada's biggest power ge...