Overview
AI can make procurement faster and more consistent—but only when it is used safely, fairly and transparently.
AI in Procurement: Practical Applications, Risk and Governance helps government procurement teams across Australia and New Zealand apply AI confidently while maintaining probity, privacy, human oversight and supplier fairness.
Explore practical, low-risk uses of AI across procurement drafting, quality assurance and internal guidance. You’ll also learn how to manage bias, cyber risk and confidentiality, evaluate suppliers’ use of AI, and establish clear governance guardrails.
Register now and gain practical templates and tools you can apply immediately—without compromising accountability or procurement integrity.
Who Should Attend?
Relevant to roles across procurement, supplier management, contract oversight and delivery performance:
Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Procurement Officers, Advisors, Specialists and Managers; Strategic Sourcing, Category and Procurement Policy Managers.
Contracts, Commercial and Supplier Management Contract and Commercial Managers, Tender and Evaluation Leads, and Supplier Relationship Managers.
Governance, Risk and Procurement Leadership Probity, Governance, Risk and Compliance Officers; Procurement Directors, Commercial Services Directors and Heads of Procurement.
Supply Chain, Logistics and Planning Supply Chain, Logistics, Supplier Risk, Demand, Inventory and Supply Planning Managers.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Understand AI in Procurement Explain AI in practical terms and identify where it adds value—or creates unacceptable risk—across the procurement lifecycle.
Apply AI Safely Use AI to draft and quality-check procurement documents, supported by human review and clear standards.
Establish Governance Guardrails Manage accuracy, bias, transparency, privacy, confidentiality, probity and cyber risks—and recognise where AI should not be used.
Strengthen Supplier and Team Oversight Assess suppliers’ use of AI and improve internal consistency through practical prompts, checklists and governance workflows.
Online Training
AI in Procurement: Practical Applications, Risk and Governance
Session details
- Get clear guidance on what procurement teams can safely use AI for, and what should be avoided
- Build a working understanding of AI and governance fundamentals, including what human-in-the-loop means in practice
- Use practical prompts and checklists to speed up drafting and QA of procurement documents
- Strengthen probity, privacy and supplier fairness through fit-for-purpose governance guardrails
- Learn how to sense-check a supplier’s or the market’s use of AI, and what to do with that information during assessment
- Understand how AI changes supplier and contracting risk (including clauses, approvals and banned uses)
- Leave with templates: review checklists, red/amber/green rules and implementation steps for your team
Some familiarity with topic is recommended
Meet Your Facilitator
Amanda Branley FCIPS
Procurement Consultant and Coach | The Procurement Coach
Amanda Branley FCIPS is the founder and principal of The Procurement Coach, working with procurement leaders and teams across the public and private sectors to build capability, shift culture, and deliver outcomes that matter.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, Amanda led the procurement function and a transformation at the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia through a pandemic and the organisation’s $2 billion infrastructure investment program.
Amanda is an active member of World Commerce and Contracting (WorldCC) and CIPS, presenting at WorldCC and CIPS conferences and delivering webinars to State and Federal government procurement leaders and practitioners. She is also a tutor delivering CIPS skills training and accredited training. She brings deep contextual knowledge of WA State Government alongside broad experience across commercial environments, and a practical, no-nonsense approach to the hard problems procurement teams face.
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