April was a big one. Four new AI agents launched in Ignite, each designed to take a different piece of manual work off your team's plate. May brought two more updates focused on making day-to-day supplier management clearer and easier.
Here's everything that's new.
Ask your procurement data anything Your spend is classified, your suppliers are enriched, your contracts are extracted, and it's all connected in Ignite. Ask Ignite puts a conversational layer on top of that foundation.
Type a question about your procurement data in plain language and get an answer instantly. Build and save a dashboard if you want to monitor something over time, or switch into Excel without leaving the platform.
What makes Ask Ignite different from a generic AI chat is the semantic layer underneath it. We've trained it specifically on procurement concepts, so it understands the relationships between your spend, suppliers, contracts, and categories. That means the answers you get are relevant to your actual business, not generic outputs that could apply to anyone.
What this means: Questions that used to take hours to pull together get answered in seconds, with context that actually makes sense for procurement.
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Supplier compliance documents, found automatically The compliance document agent finds and pulls publicly available supplier documents, ISO certifications, GDPR, and more, directly to the supplier profile. It searches public sources so your team doesn't have to, and the documents land where they're needed without anyone chasing them down.
We've spoken to companies spending around 250 hours a year collecting this kind of information manually. The information is already out there. Your team shouldn't have to be the ones finding it.
What this means: Less time on document collection, and fewer gaps in your supplier intelligence.
Clearer visibility into your geographical exposure The geographical exposure agent reads ESG reports, annual statements, and Transparency Act filings to find where your suppliers operate and flag potential geographical risk. Drawing from publicly available reporting rather than relying solely on what suppliers share, it gives you enough visibility to prioritize which suppliers need attention and decide where to act.
What this means: A clearer view of where risk sits in your supply base, without the manual research.
Consolidation opportunities, ready to act on Finding consolidation opportunities used to mean doing the analysis yourself: pulling spend, comparing suppliers, and building the case from scratch. The supplier bundling agent does that work for you, identifying candidates, the reasoning behind each one, and the estimated value, on top of existing renegotiation opportunities.
Each opportunity comes with enough context to make a decision, not just a flag that something might be worth looking at.
What this means: Opportunities that would have taken hours to find, or gone unnoticed entirely, are now identified for you.
Supplier performance that works the way you do You can now tie evaluations to a business unit or category, making it easy to filter and audit reviews across your supplier base. A new performance trend chart on a supplier's profile lets you track how a supplier is developing over time, turning each evaluation into part of an ongoing picture rather than a one-off snapshot.
An Excel export makes it easy to share results with stakeholders outside Ignite.
What this means: Performance reviews that are easier to run, easier to analyze, and easier to act on.
Smarter document management on the supplier profile Documents of the same type are now grouped together, with the newest shown first and previous versions accessible. When you upload a document, Ignite's AI analyzes it and suggests the document type and expiry date. Files are easier to open, edit, and annotate, so your supplier documents stay organized without the extra effort.
What this means: Less friction managing supplier documents, and a cleaner profile to work from.
As always, this is just the latest step. More is on the way!
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