Army Contracting Command is piloting Army MAX, a cloud platform whose AI validates unit requirements, flags missing documentation, helps build compliant solicitation packages and posts them to SAM.gov after contracting-office review; the May–June 2026 pilot drafted a latrine-services solicitation at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, and ACC has not disclosed time savings (reported by DVIDS / Federal News Network)
Services contracting relied on manual data entry across disconnected systems, inconsistent requirement packages and back-and-forth between units and contracting offices (reported by DVIDS)
The system’s Artificial Intelligence validates the requirement, flags missing documentation, assists in building the solicitation package and posts to SAM.gov.
AB InBev (Anheuser-Busch) ran a 45-day A/B pilot starting January 2021 of Transporeon Autonomous Procurement vs sequential e-auction for spot truckload, then scaled. 2021–era results: sustained double-digit spot-rate savings (>10% direct reduction), ~24 hours more lead time to capacity, and spot desk effort from 3–5 FTEs / 2+ hours daily to ~1 FTE exception management (reported by Transporeon case study)
Ahold Delhaize USA's Indirect Center of Excellence is piloting Pactum AI agents to autonomously negotiate with select suppliers inside commercial guardrails, with Pactum reporting ROI within weeks and named executives describing encouraged early results (reported by Pactum / CPOstrategy / Ahold Delhaize USA)
Bel Brands USA used Bid Ops (now Arkestro) AI sourcing for RFP automation and supplier pricing feedback, reporting ~10% savings and ~25% faster sourcing (RFP cycles ~1 month vs 2–3) (reported by Bel Brands via CGT)
Boeing used Fairmarkit's AI sourcing platform across dozens of procurement teams and categories, eliminating 115,000 hours of sourcing cycle time annually; Fairmarkit cites Boeing among production customers graduating toward Total Agentic Sourcing (reported by Fairmarkit)
Pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) soft-launched Globality's AI sourcing platform in November 2024 and scaled it organisation-wide in February 2025 to automate key parts of finding and selecting suppliers, as part of a procurement transformation that began in June 2024 (reported by CFO Dive). Rhonda Griscti, BMS's executive director of digital strategy and global process lead, said the average RFP process fell from six to nine months to less than 30 days, more than $1 billion flowed through the platform in the first year, and the team ran roughly 10 times more RFPs while bringing outsourced work in-house with about 50% fewer resources (reported by CFO Dive from Griscti's interview; gains overlap with a wider process redesign, so not all are attributable to the AI).
BT Sourced (BT Group procurement company) uses nnamu (acquired by Beroe) game-theory AI negotiation agents across categories/regions, reporting average ~15% savings with many events >20%, compressing negotiations from weeks/months to minutes ('hero in 20 minutes') (reported by Beroe / BT Sourced Head of Digital Procurement Garage)