Season 2 Ep 12: AI Mythbusting: Fact v. Fiction feat. Pascal Bensoussan

RELEASED August 5, 2025

AI is progressing and changing at a rate unlike anything we’ve seen before – and with this pace can easily come confusion. When are claims about AI as good as they sound, and when are they just well-placed smoke and mirrors? Procurement must be able to tell the difference, both for their own platforms and for the other technology spending they support on behalf of the company.

In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast, host Vishal Patel welcomes Pascal Bensoussan, Chief Product Officer at Ivalua, back to the show. He has seen firsthand how AI has not just been embedded into the Ivalua platform, but also embraced organization-wide.

Pascal returns to bring the audience up to date on 12 months of AI innovation and evolution:

• Why incorporating AI in software will quickly go from cutting edge ‘nice to have’ to a prerequisite for operational viability
• The added capability enabled by agentic AI, both in terms of contextual processing and also for its ability to reference additional sources of data
• Real world procurement applications of AI that are driving meaningful business impact, such as responding to tariffs and onboarding suppliers