Vodafone puts AI-powered procurement engine on the road to autonomous buying

Joe Purnell2026-05-07T13:21:00

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In-depth: Vodafone Procure & Connect updates on its two-year GenAI-led procurement overhaul, with a partner-powered platform adopted at scale and delivering tangible results. More to come, including a potential platform export, as telco buying settles into its ‘third wave’…

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Themes: Application programming interfaces (APIs); Autonomous procurement; Digital transformation; Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI); Procurement automation; Procurement efficiency; Supplier management; Zero-touch operations.
People: Cyril Pourrat; Hilmi Harinkoç; Mabel Pous-Fenollar; Ninian Wilson; Reinhard Stefan Plaza Bartsch; Scott Petty; Tolga Tomruk.
Geographic: Europe; Germany; Luxembourg.
Organisations: Accenture; Akirolabs; BuyIn; Deutsche Telekom; Docusign; Exiger; Gartner; Google Cloud; Nomia; Orange; Pega; Procure & Connect; SAP; Sirion; Telenor; Tomorrow Street; VOIS; Vodafone.

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