Boston Consulting Group found AI leaders doubling revenue on specific projects and cutting costs 40 to 50%. McKinsey found under 1% of adopters seeing enterprise-wide impact. Part 1 of our 3-part mini-series with Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business goes after that gap. It's a working guide to AI supply chain strategy, one function at a time, and it starts with procurement.
Professor Brett Duarte teaches in the NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management at W. P. Carey, where the supply chain program is ranked #2 in the country. He joins Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden to break down agentic AI in procurement: what a procurement agent pulls from structured and unstructured data, how it reads tariffs and news sentiment into a pricing view, and what a contract agent does with expiring terms, delivery misses, and supplier scorecards.
We also cover ASU's AI lab and its supply chain digital twin, the maturity curve from AI assistant to automated workflows to a frontier firm, and how executives with no coding background build their own agent in three days. Whether you're starting an AI supply chain strategy from zero or tuning one that stalled after the pilot, agentic AI in procurement is where the money starts.
This is agentic AI in procurement as taught to executives who build the agents themselves. Part 2 covers operations, forecasting and inventory. Part 3 covers logistics. Three parts, one AI supply chain strategy. Subscribe so you catch all three.
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*The Retail Razor: Data Blades S2:E13*
*Released on September 4, 2026*
*Guest info*
*Brett Duarte, Ph.D.* https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettduarte/
*Arizona State University | W. P. Carey School of Business*
*NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management*
_Clinical Associate Professor_
_Senior Faculty Co-Director – MSBA_
wpcarey.asu.edu | research.wpcarey.asu.edu
Brett Duarte is a Clinical Associate Professor in the NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business, the largest business school in the United States with more than 25,000 students. He is senior faculty co-director of the school's Master of Science in Business Analytics program and assistant chair for graduate programs in supply chain. ASU's supply chain management program is ranked #2 in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Brett is on the faculty teaching the AI-Enabled Supply Chain Strategy Executive Program this October
*Chapters*
00:00 Teaser
00:29 Show Intro
04:18 Welcome & Introductions
04:59 AI Adoption Challenges
07:21 ASU's Three-Part Mission
09:15 AI Enablement Program Overview
12:14 Understanding Agentic AI
14:08 Building Agents Hands-On
15:22 Procurement & Sourcing Use Cases
17:12 Contract Management & Supplier Risk
19:57 Wrapping Up Part One
20:44 Show Close
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