CPO Rising’s ProcureTech Pulse series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider and you are continually innovating the way that procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners drive value, we’d love to hear from you. Please drop us a note at info at cporising dot com. Thanks, and enjoy!
Joule Work, Joule Assistants, and SAP Business AI Platform Provide Assistance Across Procurement, Accounts Payable, and Supply Chain
LAS VEGAS — During SAP Connect 2026 (October 5-7), SAP SE showcased the Autonomous Enterprise in action, demonstrating how Joule Work and Joule Assistants generate value for customers across every line of business.
“This is a breakthrough moment for business AI,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “The Autonomous Enterprise has arrived. With Joule and SAP Autonomous Suite, built on SAP Business AI Platform, we’re helping organizations connect intelligence across every function to deliver trusted business outcomes.”
SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise Scales Up
The company stated that Joule Work is beginning its customer rollout as a new AI user interface that lets employees interact with SAP solutions in their own language and complete work across SAP and third-party data. Grounded in business context from SAP Knowledge Graph, which maps more than 7 million data fields, Joule provides information users can rely on. At SAP, Joule Work is already live with 110,000 employees, with the company seeing 20% productivity gains across finance, HR and procurement.
When a query is not enough, Joule Assistants execute operational work directly within business workflows, using established data, authorizations and audit trails. Customers control the level of autonomy. SAP’s approach is also open: through the Agent2Agent protocol, Joule can connect with third-party AI and agents, bringing governed business context into broader AI workflows.
At SAP Connect, SAP showcased how these capabilities generate outcomes across SAP Autonomous Suite:
- In supply chain, planners can turn multi-hour disruptions into one-click resolutions across planning, manufacturing and logistics.
- In procurement, decision-makers can identify savings opportunities against peer benchmarks and manage the full contingent workforce life cycle.
SAP Brings Embedded Payments to Cloud ERP
SAP also announced that it is entering the payments market with SAP Pay, powered by Tereina, an SAP company. Embedded directly in SAP Cloud ERP, SAP Pay executes and reconciles payments within the same workflow when an invoice is due, reducing manual file handling and external processing dependencies, while giving customers greater control.
Partners Expand the Reach of Autonomous Business
SAP is extending the Autonomous Enterprise beyond SAP’s own application portfolio through new partnerships that bring specialized intelligence directly into SAP workflows.
An expanded partnership with ORO Labs brings procurement orchestration to SAP customers as a solution extension. SAP Ariba Procurement Orchestration by ORO Labs is a purpose-built orchestration layer that connects procurement workflows end to end across heterogeneous enterprise environments, giving business users a seamless experience for intake, actions and visibility.
See the news brief below for more information about the partnership between SAP and ORO Labs.
Read the full SAP Connect 2026 announcements here.
ORO Labs Partners with SAP to Deliver Procurement Orchestration as a Solution Extension
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — ORO Labs, a leading agentic orchestration platform for enterprise procurement, announced it has entered into an agreement with SAP for its procurement orchestration solution to be sold as a solution extension under the name SAP Ariba Procurement Orchestration by ORO Labs. The offering will give SAP customers a purpose-built orchestration layer that connects procurement experiences, workflows, and systems across complex enterprise environments.
The company stated that the solution extension will enable organizations to span multi-application, heterogeneous landscapes, encompassing both SAP and third-party systems, including orchestration across current-generation and next-generation SAP Ariba solutions environments.
The solution will also work in coordination with Joule Work to orchestrate procurement processes across an organization’s broader technology landscape, including deployments where Joule Work serves as the primary user engagement layer.
According to Sudhir Bhojwani, CEO and Co-founder of ORO Labs, “Enterprises want to realize value from agentic AI immediately, while building on the technology investments they already trust,” he said.
“This partnership brings agentic orchestration to SAP customers by combining SAP Ariba solutions with ORO’s procurement orchestration capabilities. Together, we can make procurement work for every employee and help global enterprises modernize without disrupting the continuity and control their operations require.”
Read the full announcement here.
Levelpath Launches Ranger, the First AI Platform Built for Autonomous Procurement
SAN FRANCISCO — Levelpath, a leader in autonomous procurement, announced the launch of Ranger, the first AI platform that can run entire procurement processes autonomously, from a natural language or voice prompt. Ranger represents a new category of autonomous intake-to-pay software, built from the ground-up to perform the day-to-day work rather than just record it.
According to Alex Yakubovich, Co-founder and CEO of Levelpath, “The future of procurement is autonomous. Procurement professionals are experts in structuring complex deals, navigating sensitive decisions, and maximizing supplier value,” he said.
“We’ve talked to dozens of procurement leaders who know that autonomous intake-to-pay can free them up to do more of that high-impact work, but they haven’t found a platform that makes it a reality. That’s why we made the decision to build Ranger.”
The company stated that with Ranger, agents run complete processes proactively and continuously. Procurement teams can launch custom agents with a single prompt, and confidently delegate workflows knowing the agents have the full context, governance controls, and auditability to act as their trusted representatives.
Read the full announcement here.
Workday Brings Sana Everywhere Employees Work
LAS VEGAS — During its Workday Rising 2026 conference, Workday, Inc., a trusted agentic platform for HR, finance, and IT, announced that Sana, Workday’s agentic experience and orchestration engine, will work inside the AI tools and platforms employees already use, including Claude, Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot and Teams, and Slack, building on the self-service capabilities already available today.
Employees can ask for what they need in plain language, then Sana checks the company’s policies, permissions, and approvals, and brings in the right Workday agents to get the work done.
According to Joel Hellermark, Chief AI Officer for Workday, “People shouldn’t have to leave a conversation to access HR or finance domain AI agents, or to get the work done,” he said.
“Wherever that conversation happens, Sana brings the same understanding of a company’s people, money, and rules that it has inside Workday, and the same team of agents to act on it.”
Read the full announcement here.
Visorway Raises $3.4M to Scale AI-native Sourcing and Procurement Services
ZURICH — Visorway, an AI-native service firm for sourcing and procurement, has closed its pre-seed financing round at a CHF 3 million (USD$3.6 million) valuation. The Zurich-based company was backed entirely by angel investors, several with operating backgrounds in the industries it serves.
The company stated that the funding will expand services customers run on Visorway and grow its network of domain experts. The company delivers work traditionally requiring consulting engagements — such as scoping, drafting, and evaluating tenders — end to end, with experienced practitioners validating AI-generated output.
Visorway’s initial services cover IT tender documentation for private and public procurement, built on methodology from advisors with decades of Swiss sourcing experience. Proof-of-value engagements are running with Swiss enterprises, a federal research institution, and sourcing advisory firms.
Read the full announcement here.
