Artificial intelligence is a key technology for procurement and its usage is still in its infancy.This work builds upon literature reviews on big data analytics in supply chain management(Min, 2010, Waller and Fawcett, 2013, Souza, 2014, Gunasekaran et al., 2017, Nguyen et al.,2017) focusing on...

Purpose: Sales and procurement are the main boundary spanning functions of an organization – each with a specific focus and partly different views and objectives. They are often considered as two sides of a coin that struggle with one another for relative competitive advantage. The...