Why Agentic AI Is the Future of Procurement Orchestration— And What We're Launching to Help

There's a growing buzz around AI agents — but at ORO, we believe this shift isn't just an AI challenge. It's a procurement orchestration challenge.

Procurement has always relied on human agents — people assigned to specific roles and tasks across intake, compliance, sourcing, and supplier management. As AI agents become more powerful and accessible, they're not replacing people — they're joining them.

The future of procurement processes will be built on human-AI collaboration, where agents (of both kinds) execute tasks, make recommendations, and move work forward — all within the same workflows.

But orchestrating that shift isn't easy. Building an AI agent is simple — in the LLM world, it's just a prompt. The hard part is everything else:

• Giving those agents secure access to procurement systems
• Ensuring they use the right data, at the right time
• Designing workflows where AI and humans work together seamlessly
• Maintaining visibility, control, and governance

That's where ORO comes in.

What We're Launching

AI Agent Builder

Today, many enterprise software vendors appear to be engaged in a race to see who has the most agents. But the ability to count pre-built agents — no matter how many there are — represents a limit to innovation, and a limit to the autonomy that procurement has in defining its own agentic future. That's why we've introduced a new AI Agent Builder — staying true to the flexibility we promise and giving teams the power to:

• Build agents that adapt to the workflows and processes specific to their business
• Give agents secure access to critical data and essential business systems
• Drag and drop agents into any part of live workflows
• Chain multiple agents together to handle complex, multi-step processes

With our new AI Agent builder, procurement organizations can take their agentic future into their own hands, building secure agents to meet their specific needs, remaining agile in response to change, and charting unique paths to transformation. 

Pre-Built Risk & Compliance Agents

Of course, we have pre-built agents too. Adding to our existing portfolio of agents for intake management and supplier onboarding, we've introduced a new set of intelligent agents focused on high-impact areas like:

• Risk reviews
• Fraud detection
• Global tax and sustainability compliance
• Anti-bribery checks
• Legal risk reviews

ORO's agents review data and transactions, assessing risk factors and recommending next steps to help teams act faster with greater confidence and less manual effort. We've also introduced a new intake management agent that helps users determine opportunities for autonomous negotiations.

Why It Matters

With ORO's Orchestration Platform, customers get more than AI features and rigid AI Agents. They get an extension of their team and agentic orchestration done right:

• Easy-to-use and flexible tools
• Secure, system-aware infrastructure
• AI agents that work with people, not instead of them

We’re proud to help shape the future of procurement orchestration, where intelligent agents work alongside people to deliver faster, more secure, and smarter outcomes. 

Read the full announcement here: https://www.orolabs.ai/press/agentic-ai