Tacto has been honored with the EY AI Award 2026 in the category “Next-Level Strategic Procurement: AI-Enabled Market & Demand Intelligence.” The jury — including representatives from SIXT, Continental, and Bayer — recognized the use of artificial intelligence to advance strategic procurement.

The award comes at a time when many procurement organizations face a fundamental challenge: data is available in vast quantities today, yet its systematic use often remains limited. Rising market volatility, increasingly complex supply chains, and growing cost pressure heighten the need for new approaches to data-driven decision-making.

From Data to Procurement Intelligence

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With Tacto Intelligence, Tacto pursues a new approach to procurement excellence. The platform connects internal procurement data with billions of external market and supply chain signals. On this basis, AI agents continuously analyze a company’s entire spend and identify developments relevant to procurement decisions.

This creates a new form of procurement intelligence: information is not merely aggregated and visualized, but automatically interpreted and prioritized.

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From Insight to Action

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Value is created not by analysis alone, but by consistently translating insights into concrete action. Among other things, Tacto Intelligence identifies:

• Savings potential based on historical price developments
• Optimization opportunities in existing supplier contracts
• The impact of current market movements on sourcing strategies
• Risks within global supply chains
• Areas for action across categories and locations

Instead of procurement teams having to search for this potential manually, relevant measures are automatically suggested and prioritized.

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Making Procurement Excellence Scalable

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Beyond analysis, Tacto Intelligence supports the standardization of core procurement processes. These include, among others:

• Supplier management
• Supplier evaluations
• Compliance processes
• Risk management
• Strategic sourcing governance

Best practices are systematically embedded into day-to-day procurement. This results in consistent processes, higher data quality, and a robust foundation for sustainable efficiency gains.

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A Look at the Future of Procurement

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The EY AI Award underscores the growing importance of artificial intelligence in strategic procurement. The next stage in the evolution of procurement is not about tapping into more data sources. It is about continuously deriving better decisions from existing information. This is precisely what Tacto Intelligence was built for.

The award confirms the conviction that the future of procurement lies in intelligent systems that detect potential, prioritize it, and translate it into concrete recommendations for action. In this way, procurement becomes an even stronger lever for competitiveness, resilience, and value creation.

Tacto has won the EY AI Award 2026 in the category “Next-Level Strategic Procurement: AI-Enabled Market & Demand Intelligence.” A jury featuring representatives from SIXT, Continental, and Bayer recognized Tacto Intelligence, which connects internal procurement data with billions of external market signals and uses AI agents to detect savings potential, market movements, and risks — translating them into concrete action.