{"id":196601,"date":"2026-03-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-in-procurement-needs-more-than-tech-it-needs-human-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:35:16","slug":"ai-in-procurement-needs-more-than-tech-it-needs-human-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-in-procurement-needs-more-than-tech-it-needs-human-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"AI in procurement needs more than tech: It needs human intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spendmatters.com\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-in-procurement-needs-more-than-tech-it-needs-human-intelligence\/\">AI in procurement needs more than tech: It needs human intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spendmatters.com\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-in-procurement-needs-more-than-tech-it-needs-human-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/spendmatters.com\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-in-procurement-needs-more-than-tech-it-needs-human-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"spendmatters.com\">spendmatters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI in procurement processes requires human intelligence (HI) and artificial intelligence (AI) to work together effectively.<\/li>\n<li>The human-AI skill gap exists, and both AI systems and human operatives need training to enhance their integration and performance.<\/li>\n<li>While AI excels in data analysis, human judgment remains critical in areas requiring comprehensive context understanding and commercial judgment.<\/li>\n<li>AI augments up to 40% of procurement tasks but many leaders feel only somewhat confident in their AI strategies, indicating a need for better training.<\/li>\n<li>Limited budgets for AI training contribute to the current skill gaps, emphasizing the necessity of training as companies adopt AI tools at a larger scale.<\/li>\n<li>Training aims to future-proof skills and knowledge, ensuring people can leverage AI effectively while maintaining the human touch in strategic procurement tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Only 10% of teams feel prepared to scale AI adoption, which stresses the importance of targeted and nuanced training tailored to individual skill gaps, especially related to AI.<\/li>\n<li>Training programs aim to spread skills uniformly across organizations, emphasizing the need for both deep understanding of systems and the strategic use of AI alongside human judgment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI in procurement needs more than tech: It needs human intelligence https:\/\/spendmatters.com\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-in-procurement-needs-more-than-tech-it-needs-human-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/spendmatters-site.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AdobeStock_1867200930.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-196601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196603,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196601\/revisions\/196603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}