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James Meads discusses the impact of AI on procurement with apadua co-founders Gregory Vider and Markus Sinz.

In this episode of The Procurement Software Podcast, James Meads is joined by Gregory Vider and Markus Sinz, co-founders of apadua, recorded live at their Indirect Procurement Days event near Frankfurt, Germany. Drawing on their backgrounds as procurement practitioners and founders, Gregory and Markus share a grounded, thoughtful perspective on what AI really means for procurement. Rather than hype or job-replacement narratives, the discussion focuses on AI as an enabler that amplifies human capability, improves decision-making, and removes low-value administrative work. AI, People, Mindset, and Skills: Why they all matter The conversation explores apadua’s journey from a conventional sourcing platform to rebuilding an AI-native product from scratch, driven by deep user research rather than surface-level feature injection. James and the apadua team unpack why “human in the loop” remains critical, how procurement roles may shift towards more generalist and strategic profiles, and why differentiation in an AI-first world will come from people, not models. Also discussed in this episode: How to tell real AI capability from marketing noise Why procurement adoption of AI will be…

People in this episode

Host: James Meads

Guests: Gregory Vider, Markus Sinz

Topics covered

• AI in procurement
• human capability
• decision-making
• administrative work
• procurement roles
• cybersecurity
• future of procurement

Keywords

• AI
• procurement
• human in the loop
• ISO 27001
• decision-making
• administrative work
• cybersecurity
• strategic profiles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: apadua

Places: Frankfurt, Germany

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