In today’s complex enterprise environment, procurement professionals often find themselves navigating a labyrinth of systems, departments, and compliance requirements. What should be a streamlined process becomes a frustrating journey through disconnected tools and manual workflows. However, as demonstrated in a recent webinar with the German Association for Materials Management, Purchasing, and Logistics (BME), there’s a better way forward with AI-powered orchestration.
For most large organizations, procurement isn’t the linear, well-organized process that it appears to be on paper. Instead, business users encounter what Emily Rakowski, CMO at ORO Labs, describes as a “Franken-stack,” a cobbled-together collection of multiple ERP systems, source-to-pay tools, contract management solutions, and risk assessment platforms that don’t communicate effectively.
This disjointed environment creates significant challenges:
The result? Frustrated stakeholders, delayed business outcomes, and increased operational costs.
Rather than ripping and replacing existing systems – an expensive and highly disruptive approach – procurement orchestration offers a more elegant solution. ORO Labs has developed an AI-powered platform that creates a single “front door” for all procurement-related activities.
This orchestration approach:
The ORO procurement orchestration platform addresses common procurement pain points through the intelligent orchestration of intake management, supplier management, and risk management processes – all without requiring organizations to abandon their existing technology investments.
During the recent webinar, Rita Santos, Digital Procurement Transformation Manager at Grünenthal, shared her team’s remarkable journey implementing ORO’s procurement orchestration platform.
Grünenthal’s supplier onboarding and third-party due diligence process was highly complex and manual:
Through implementing ORO’s AI-driven orchestration platform, Grünenthal achieved remarkable results:
“At Grünenthal we believe that digital transformation is not about technology, it’s about people. So, we put people at the center of our digital projects,” Santos explained during the webinar. “I think what we’ve been feeling since the beginning is that our project team from ORO has wanted us to succeed as much as we wanted to succeed, and that’s been the key to keeping the project going in the right direction.”
What makes this orchestration approach particularly powerful is its AI capabilities. The ORO platform leverages advanced artificial intelligence to:
Future developments will expand these capabilities even further, allowing users to make natural language queries like “What were the last three Pos from this department?” or “Show me performance reviews from top suppliers in this category.”
Based on Grünenthal’s experience, Santos shared several valuable lessons for organizations considering a similar transformation.
Through following these principles, organizations can achieve significant improvements in efficiency, transparency, and user satisfaction while maintaining compliance and reducing risk.
The journey to AI-driven procurement orchestration doesn’t require abandoning your existing systems or disrupting established processes. As Grünenthal’s experience demonstrates, the right orchestration platform can deliver remarkable results by working with your current technology stack.
Watch the Full Webinar – Hear directly from Emily Rakowski and Rita Santos as they dive deeper into Grünenthal’s transformation journey and answer audience questions about procurement orchestration.
Schedule a Personalized Demo – See the ORO procurement orchestration platform in action with a customized demonstration focused on your organization’s specific challenges and requirements.
Don’t let your procurement process remain a frustrating spaghetti maze! Discover how AI-driven orchestration can create a seamless experience for your team and stakeholders.