Meet Alex: A Procurement manager and busy dad who excels with AI. Using Microsoft 365 Chat, Copilot, and BDO IVA, Alex can review emails, summarize meetings and action items, and identify trends within the categories he manages. AI tools empower him to stay up to date with suppliers and internal business partners while building innovative strategies to drive measurable savings for his company. Discover how AI transforms Alex’s workday.
This transcript was generated using AI and reviewed by an editor. Meet Alex, category manager, devoted father, strategic thinker, and AI advocate. Alex starts his day by preparing breakfast for his kids Yummy. Before heading to the office. At eight AM, Alex has a supplier call scheduled. He uses Microsoft three sixty five chat to summarize all emails and Teams chats from the past month related to the supplier, refreshing himself on any known issues. Alex is prepared to address any concerns during the call. After the supplier call ends, Alex turns to Microsoft Copilot in Teams to summarize the meeting and draft an action items email to share with the supplier and internal teams. This efficiency allows him to keep everyone aligned and informed. By ten AM, Alex focuses on updating a category strategy. Using BDO intelligent virtual assistant, Microsoft three sixty five chat to list five disruptors to the specialty gases market, ensuring his strategy is comprehensive and forward thinking. At eleven thirty AM, Alex returns to his category strategy. Next on his list is analyzing historic spend across suppliers in the category. He uses BDO AIVA to summarize trends and spend by supplier by month and builds a line graph to visualize these trends. This analysis helps him build his understanding of how demand is changing and make informed decisions about which suppliers to prioritize in his strategy. At twelve thirty PM, Alex heads to lunch catching up with a key stakeholder visiting from another site. When he returns from lunch, he leverages Copilot and Teams to quickly assess anything that needs immediate attention. At two PM, he returns to the category strategy. He is able to use the record feature in PowerPoint to explain his strategy. After generating a transcript in stream, Alex uses Copilot to transform that transcript into a set of bullets to brief his manager and stakeholders. By three PM, Alex reviews responses to a recent RFP waiting in his inbox. He blinds the responses and summarizes the data from each responding supplier, drafting an email to the review team with directions on where to find the summaries. Thanks to AI, Alex efficiently manages his workload, leaving him more time to focus on strategic initiatives. At five PM, Alex wraps up his day, grateful for the AI tools that have streamlined his work processes. He heads home, ready to spend quality time with his family, knowing that AI has helped him stay on top of his professional responsibilities. Pickleball power.
AI in Your Day – Procurement Video Transcript
This transcript was generated using AI and reviewed by an editor.
Introduction to Alex's Day
Meet Alex, category manager, devoted father, strategic thinker, and AI advocate. Alex starts his day by preparing breakfast for his kids Yummy.
Before heading to the office.
At eight AM, Alex has a supplier call scheduled.
He uses Microsoft three sixty five chat to summarize all emails and Teams chats from the past month related to the supplier, refreshing himself on any known issues.
Alex is prepared to address any concerns during the call. After the supplier call ends, Alex turns to Microsoft Copilot in Teams to summarize the meeting and draft an action items email to share with the supplier and internal teams. This efficiency allows him to keep everyone aligned and informed.
Strategic Planning and Analysis
By ten AM, Alex focuses on updating a category strategy. Using BDO intelligent virtual assistant, Microsoft three sixty five chat to list five disruptors to the specialty gases market, ensuring his strategy is comprehensive and forward thinking.
At eleven thirty AM, Alex returns to his category strategy.
Next on his list is analyzing historic spend across suppliers in the category. He uses BDO AIVA to summarize trends and spend by supplier by month and builds a line graph to visualize these trends.
This analysis helps him build his understanding of how demand is changing and make informed decisions about which suppliers to prioritize in his strategy.
Lunch Break and Stakeholder Engagement
At twelve thirty PM, Alex heads to lunch catching up with a key stakeholder visiting from another site.
When he returns from lunch, he leverages Copilot and Teams to quickly assess anything that needs immediate attention.
Utilizing AI for Presentation and Briefing
At two PM, he returns to the category strategy. He is able to use the record feature in PowerPoint to explain his strategy. After generating a transcript in stream, Alex uses Copilot to transform that transcript into a set of bullets to brief his manager and stakeholders.
RFP Review and Data Management
By three PM, Alex reviews responses to a recent RFP waiting in his inbox. He blinds the responses and summarizes the data from each responding supplier, drafting an email to the review team with directions on where to find the summaries.
Thanks to AI, Alex efficiently manages his workload, leaving him more time to focus on strategic initiatives.
End of Day Reflections
At five PM, Alex wraps up his day, grateful for the AI tools that have streamlined his work processes.
He heads home, ready to spend quality time with his family, knowing that AI has helped him stay on top of his professional responsibilities.
Personal Time and Hobbies
Pickleball power.
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