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You've bought the analytics. Now, how do you get people to actually use them? Isabelle de Figueiredo - Chanton VP Procurement Excellence at dsm-firmenich, focused her SievoFriends 2026 talk in Helsinki on exactly that problem. Adoption is a journey you keep managing long after go-live. The hard part, in her words, is "changing how people think, decide and act." So you stay consistent and persistent, lead by example, and keep tweaking the solution, the process, and your approach to change as the organization learns. Chances are, your first attempt won't be perfect, and that's the point. SievoFriends heads to Chicago on September 22, with more practical keynotes and workshops from top procurement leaders. Registration link in the comments. 👇

Fresenius Medical Care supplies what more than 2 million dialysis treatments rely on each month. At SievoFriends Helsinki, Sajin Sivan, VP Platforms & Processes, shared how his team got a grip on one of the trickiest numbers in the business: the cost of their raw materials next year. For years, the process relied on spend cubes and numerous Excel feeder files that often produced inaccurate data. Forecasting used to take months of back-and-forth between procurement and finance. Now, both teams work from one shared view and budget discussions wrap in a couple of weeks. As Sajin put it, "the zeros started to align." More powerful talks like this are coming to SievoFriends Chicago on September 22. Pull up a chair and join! https://hubs.ly/Q04p00GV0

🚀 How much do you really trust your savings numbers? At SievoFriends 2026 Chicago, Stephan Regius is taking on one of procurement's hardest questions: how do you make savings and financial impact truly transparent, end to end? Stephan is Head of Procurement & Supply Chain Management for Zurich Insurance, leading a team of around 20 professionals. With nearly two decades of experience across insurance, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals, and luxury goods - including senior roles at Zurich Insurance, Swarovski, UBS, and Borealis - he has built and transformed procurement organizations and the digital platforms that power them. In his keynote, Stephan will show how to bring transparency to the savings pipeline and financial impact through one integrated, end-to-end process: → Connecting the full savings pipeline in a single, integrated process → Making financial impact visible and credible across the organization → Turning end-to-end transparency into stronger strategic decisions This is one of the conversations that makes SievoFriends Chicago worth the trip. Join us on September 22, 2026 👉https://lnkd.in/dQhGEGup

We're happy to be listed among the Sample Vendors in three categories in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions, 2026: 🔹Predictive Analytics for Procurement 🔹Prescriptive Analytics for Procurement 🔹 Operations & Savings Management In our view, this year, the spotlight in procurement moved to AI agents. But an agent is only as good as the data it runs on. As AI starts making more of the decisions, clean, enriched, trusted data stops being a nice-to-have and becomes the foundation on which everything else stands. We feel as Sievo turns tangled data across your business into a single source of truth, helping procurement teams to drive savings, make smarter decisions, and track real impact. The smarter the AI gets, the more the data underneath it matters. That's where you'll shine with Sievo. -- Source: Gartner Report, Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions 2026, by Lynne Phelan, Martin Shreffler, http://etc., June 2026. GARTNER and Hype Cycle are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

"Everyone's opening their wallets for AI right now. The value hasn't followed, at least not yet." Alexander Franz Götte of Deloitte skipped the AI confetti cannon in his SievoFriends Helsinki keynote and brought the conversation back to where it belongs: value. If the operating model stays the same, are we truly changing the work, or just making the old work happen faster? Only 6% of CPOs have genuinely built AI into the way their teams operate, and 40% point to skills and ways of working as the missing piece. Powerful tools are the starting point, but the challenge is putting them to use. As Alex put it, the real opportunity is to rethink the work itself: what should stay human, what should be automated, and what should cease to exist altogether. Transformation happens when the right technology and the right ways of working come together. We're proud to partner with Deloitte to keep procurement focused on what AI really delivers. Does this ring true, or does your experience point elsewhere? Share your thoughts in the comments!

Early start, tropical temperatures, and a room full of procurement leaders ready to talk shop! We had a great time hosting a breakfast panel at Procurement Summit alongside akirolabs, H&Z Management Consulting and Axpo Group. AI and agents may have owned the spotlight, but the practical takeaway was simple: build the data foundation first, and intelligent procurement gets a proper runway for takeoff. Thank you to everyone who joined us!

We could try to explain what made SievoFriends Helsinki 2026 so special — but the aftermovie does it better!⚡ The most brilliant crowd in procurement and energy you had to feel to believe. This is a community like no other. 💙 And we're not done yet: Chicago, SievoFriends is coming for you in September! Join us: https://hubs.ly/Q04mqDDt0 😉

Before we all head off to enjoy the Finnish summer and the most anticipated holiday, Juhannus (Mid-summer), we have an exciting news to share! 🎊 We're thrilled to welcome Ville Kivi to Sievo as our new Senior Vice President, Customer Operations! Ville brings a wealth of experience in IT transformation, program management, and leading complex global initiatives. He's the kind of leader who gets things done, which is a perfect fit for the Sievo way 💪 We'll let Ville take it from here: "I'm very excited to join Sievo. We're five months into the year, and our customers have already unlocked €9 billion in savings. That level of real impact is inspiring. Data is the foundation of every great procurement decision, and together with the team, I'm here to make sure our customers have the best data in the world to be used with AI.". Welcome aboard, Ville 🙌

A SievoFriends first: we handed out the very first Sievo Procurement Awards! ✨ We took a moment to celebrate the people and partners who push procurement forward and recognized three standouts with our inaugural awards. 🏆 Procurement Impact Award: Mondelēz International for exceptional digital ambition and pioneering GenAI to enable smarter, faster decision-making. 💡 Procurement Innovation Award: dsm-firmenich for a consistent hunger and curiosity to improve the status quo through technology. 🌟 Procurement Champion Award: Emmi Group For outstanding commitment to positioning procurement as a strategic function within their organization. Congratulations to all three winners and thank you again to everyone who joined us at SievoFriends Helsinki 2026! 👏

Most AI tools in procurement are only working with part of the picture: the structured data. The clean spend figures. The organised datasets. But procurement data is also contracts, supplier emails, category strategies, and internal documents. The messy, unstructured part that doesn't fit neatly into a dashboard. Next week in Hamburg, we're getting into that question over breakfast. On June 25, before the Hamburg Procurement Summit kicks off, join Sievo, akirolabs, H&Z Management Consulting and Axpo Group for a keynote and panel discussion on what it really takes to make AI work across your full procurement data landscape. 📍 Sueno Café, Hamburg 🕗 08:00–10:00 🎤 Keynote from Samuel Maier, Head of Corporate Category Management at Axpo Group 💬 Panel with Sammeli Sammalkorpi, Michael Pleuger, Oliver Fleck and Samuel Maier, facilitated by Sven C. Schumacher Register via the link in the comments.