WEBINAR – From Intake to Tail Spend: How autonomous procurement drives saving and efficiency, presented by Zycus
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Most procurement teams have automated the easy parts. The hard parts are still manual: requests arriving by email, Teams, or hallway conversations, sourcing strategies built from scratch for every category, and tail spend that nobody has time to negotiate. Isolated point agents do not fix this. They do a task and hand the rest back to a person.
Zycus takes a different approach: governed, multi-agent flows that take a request from intake to outcome, built on an organically developed Source-to-Pay foundation. AI decides. Suite governs. Enterprise stays in control.
This solution deep dive is built around live product, not slides. The session will open with a short overview of the Merlin Agentic Platform, then move into an extended demo:
- Merlin Intake, the AI control tower for every request, capturing need, routing, and compliance in one guided front door
- Merlin Agentic Sourcing, turning a vague business question into an RFP-ready sourcing strategy in minutes
- Autonomous Negotiation Agent (ANA), negotiating tail spend end to end and unlocking savings without human intervention
You will leave with a clear view of where autonomous procurement delivers measurable value today: faster cycle times, lower cost of processing, savings on spend that was previously untouched, and full auditability across every agent action.
Zycus is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites, holds 32+ patents, and has processed over $1 trillion in spend globally.
Who should attend: CPOs, heads of procurement operations, sourcing and category leaders, and procurement transformation owners evaluating agentic AI.
Speakers:
Saquib Jawed, Director, Product Management at Zycus
Director of Product Management at Zycus, driving AI-first product strategy and execution across the portfolio. With 15+ years building enterprise AI products, he focusses on translating complex technology into scalable, high-impact outcomes – partnering closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver measurable value.
Braden Robinson, Senior Solutions Consultant, Zycus
Braden Robinson specializes in solutions consulting and presales at Zycus, a provider of source-to-pay procurement technology and the Merlin Agentic Platform. He partners with global enterprise organizations to architect AI-driven procurement solutions, translating complex business requirements into scalable implementation roadmaps. He has more than a decade of experience across solution engineering, customer success and presales leadership. He brings a practical view of what it takes to turn technology investment into measurable business outcomes.
