Brazilian companies may have never had more procurement data at their fingertips, yet many still spend hours assembling dashboards before they can answer questions that ought to take seconds, according to Nimbi.
The Brazilian e-procurement and B2B marketplace company says the real bottleneck in corporate purchasing is no longer access to information, but the gap between collecting data and turning it into action. Requisitions, quotations, orders, contracts and supplier records ...
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are increasingly digitised across large organisations, but procurement teams still often need to sift through filters, charts and multiple systems before they can judge basic issues such as which supplier performed best in the previous quarter.
Carolina Cabral, Nimbi’s chief executive, argues that this leaves buyers trapped in repetitive analysis when their time would be better spent on negotiation, supplier management and category planning. In remarks cited by the company, she said digitalisation has already solved access to data, but not access to answers.
Nimbi’s diagnosis reflects a wider shift in procurement technology. Across the market, vendors are increasingly promoting artificial intelligence not as a separate analytics layer, but as a way to embed contextual decision-making directly into procurement workflows. Companies including Beroe, Terbit and Penny have all positioned AI as a means of delivering faster, more actionable responses to sourcing questions, supplier discovery, spend analysis and negotiation.
Nimbi says the most effective model is conversational procurement, where users ask a direct question and receive a structured response without manually navigating dashboards. That, the company argues, only works properly when the underlying data is connected across the full procurement cycle. Fragmented systems and partially digitised processes still limit what AI can do, meaning the foundations have to be in place before automation can deliver meaningful gains.
The company’s own platform brings together requests, quotations, purchase orders, contracts and supplier information in a single environment. On top of that base, it says it is building automation and intelligence tools that can recommend suppliers using historical performance and risk signals, while also enabling real-time conversational queries on operational data.
For Nimbi, the broader competitive advantage will not come from collecting more information, but from reducing the time it takes to transform that information into a decision.
Source: Noah Wire Services
