Procurement Magazine July 2021 | Page 93

TECHNOLOGY document capturing to the AAA trifecta into the solutions .”
“ I think where we are headed now is to make S2P more intelligent , having almost a human plus machine kind of a model wherein humans do the hard stuff , leveraging machines to do the mundane stuff . I think that ' s where the industry is headed . It ' s been a very long , drawnout journey , but with these emerging technologies , I think P2P can become pretty much invisible and should run autonomously . As a result , the focus should be on the upstream sourcing process , and I think more and more intelligent solutions will emerge , releasing this human plus machine paradigm .
“ S2P is also converging more and more with the broader supply chain , so I think we will start to see more conversations around end-to-end supply chain optimisation happening . And I think the more organisations start to look at S2P through the supply chain lens , there will be more value that hasn ’ t been unearthed yet , and more of an overlap with these supply chain , sourcing and procurement solutions .” procurementmag . com 93