AI agents for supply chain

AI procurement agents that chase, check and flag. Your buyers decide.

Three agents work the order book alongside your team. They read supplier emails, draft the chase, spot risk and check the forecast. Every action waits for a buyer.

Email Chaser turning a supplier email into a proposed order update

Illustrative examples with fictional suppliers.

The agents run on the Valuechain platform, used by organisations including:

Gardner AerospaceNasmythP&A GroupDennis Eagle
8+

hours lost by a buyer every week to manual data entry and chasing.

Re-keying

Supplier replies arrive as free text and PDFs, and someone types them in.

Chasing

Buyers work out which lines need a move today, then chase each thread by hand.

Finding out too late

Risk and capacity problems only show up as a missed delivery or a failed audit.

How it works

Every agent works the same way

1

Read

A supplier email, a forecast or a risk signal.

2

Check

The order line, the supplier and the history.

3

Ask

Drafts questions to fill any gaps.

4

Propose

An update, with its source.

✓

Buyer approves

Approve, edit or reject.

Human in the loop

Nothing happens without a buyer.

The agents do the reading and the checking. Your people make the decisions.

Approval on every write

Nothing is written without a buyer’s approval, and a buyer sees every message before it reaches a supplier.

Every action logged

What happened, why, from which email, and who approved it.

Your AI models or ours

Run on your own AI model subscription, such as Azure OpenAI, or on models provided by Valuechain.

Measured, not assumed

What could your team get back?

Track the impact against your own baseline, with three measures:

  • Hours re-keying, per buyer per week
  • Days chasing, per order change
  • Days to spot a risk, from first signal
64
hours a week, at most
Illustrative estimate, not a customer result. It assumes agents take on all of the 8+ hours a week a buyer loses to manual work.
“Valuechain gives us group-wide visibility, allowing us to make informed decisions without interrogating individual site data.”
Nasmyth, on the Valuechain platform
FAQ

AI procurement agents: your questions

Can AI read supplier emails?

Yes. Email Chaser reads supplier emails and proposes purchase order updates for a buyer to approve.

How do you automate supplier chasing?

Email Chaser drafts the follow-up from the facts on the order line, and a buyer sees it first.

How can AI spot supplier risk early?

Risk Radar combines order data with news, filings and credit signals, then scores them on your own risk matrix.

Do the agents work with my ERP?

Yes. They work alongside ERPs such as SAP, SYSPRO and Infor, with no ERP replacement.

Can they run on my own AI models?

Yes. The agents can run on your own AI model subscription, such as Azure OpenAI, or on models provided by Valuechain.

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