Don't Automate Bad Supplier Data: 3 Controls to Fix Before You Scale AI

The Hackett Group's research puts a 75% performance gap between organizations that redesign work around AI and those that simply automate the process they already have. In procurement and finance, the fastest way into the second group is to point an agent at a supplier master nobody has verified. This session walks the three controls that make supplier data safe enough to automate: verify supplier identity and bank account ownership at the source, protect the data you collect against a decryption timeline that starts in 2029, and anticipate supplier failure with scenario modeling rather than alerts. You'll see real-world data on what verification actually finds, questions to add to supplier onboarding, and the evidence an agentic workflow has to produce before it scales past pilot.