The Procurement Leader’s Guide to AI Prompting

I need to deliver $10M in savings next year. Rank my top 20 savings opportunities by category, estimated savings, implementation effort, sourcing complexity, and confidence level.

Show me unmanaged spend over the last fiscal year. Group by category and identify where preferred suppliers already exist.

Analyze vendor concentration. Find categories where we have more than eight suppliers but no supplier controls more than 50% of spend. Rank consolidation opportunities.

Identify suppliers on Net 30 terms and estimate the working capital impact of moving to Net 45 or Net 60 payment terms.

Identify suppliers used across multiple plants, divisions, or business units. Show opportunities to leverage enterprise-wide purchasing power.

Build a tail spend report and recommend the quickest actions to eliminate low-value suppliers.

Identify categories over $500K annual spend where diverse supplier participation is below 10%. Recommend opportunities to improve supplier diversity.

Rank all active procurement projects by expected savings, implementation risk, strategic importance, and target completion date. Recommend which projects should receive executive attention first and explain why.

Compare realized savings against forecasted savings across all sourcing projects this quarter. Highlight projects missing targets by more than 10%, explain the primary drivers where available, and recommend corrective actions for each project.

I have a quarterly executive review tomorrow. Create a five-slide executive briefing summarizing procurement performance across spend, savings, sourcing projects, supplier risk, contract coverage, and working capital. Highlight key wins, emerging risks, projects that require executive intervention, and provide the top five recommendations for the next quarter.

Show me all procurement projects that are behind schedule, including the project owner, supplier, category, target savings, expected completion date, and the impact each delay could have on annual savings. Recommend which projects should be escalated this week.

Create a three-year category strategy for [Category]. Include market outlook, sourcing strategy, supplier risks, savings opportunities, and implementation roadmap.

I need quick wins while developing a long-term strategy. Build a 90-Day Action Plan for this category.

Where does this category sit within the Kraljic Matrix, and what sourcing posture should we adopt?

Summarize this category strategy into a one-page executive briefing suitable for my CFO.

Update this category strategy to support our supplier diversity and sustainability goals.

Create a sourcing strategy for this category including supplier landscape, sourcing approach, evaluation criteria, and negotiation priorities.

We’re entering negotiations with [Supplier]. Analyze our spend, supplier leverage, market conditions, and create a negotiation playbook.

Assess supplier risk across financial, operational, geopolitical, and concentration dimensions. Recommend mitigation strategies.

Create a weighted supplier scorecard comparing quality, cost, delivery, innovation, ESG, and financial stability.

Create an RFI workbook for this sourcing event including evaluation criteria and pricing templates.

Identify sourcing opportunities in Latin America and evaluate supplier risk, logistics, and regulatory considerations.

What does our procurement policy require for sole-source approvals?

Compare this supplier contract against our standard agreement and identify legal, commercial, and compliance risks.

List contracts expiring within the next six months and recommend renewal priorities.