The Idea
What it's about
Procurement teams in industrial companies spend up to 80% of their working time on manual, repetitive tasks: comparing quotes, checking order confirmations, writing reminder emails, and maintaining master data. This leaves little capacity for strategic work such as building strong supplier relationships, reducing costs, and driving innovation.
Zalion solves this problem with a platform of AI agents for procurement. The agents automate manual processes throughout the entire source-to-pay cycle — from demand planning and tenders to supplier negotiations and the verification of order confirmations and invoices. The agents can be set up in just a few clicks and integrate seamlessly into existing systems such as SAP, Oracle, or Coupa.
Customers including Reifenhäuser, Motherson, and Interroll already use Zalion and have collectively saved more than 10,000 working hours. The platform is ISO 27001 certified, fully hosted in Germany, and officially recognized by SAP as a Build Partner.
The team
Who is behind it
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use case
The quotation negotiation agent analyzes and compares incoming supplier quotations, identifies negotiation levers, and automatically drafts suitable negotiation emails. As a result, procurement teams achieve average savings of 8–12% per negotiation while reducing the required time effort significantly.
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