Sourcing and Supplier Management
Autonomous Long-Tail Sourcing and Supplier Management at Enterprise Scale
Kovant aAgents run tenders, monitor compliance, and manage supplier performance across your entire supply base — continuously, without manual overhead.
Bidding and Tender Management
Automated Tender Creation in Minutes Agents generate complete RFP/RFQ documents — with scoring criteria, technical and compliance requirements; from your intake requirements in under 10 minutes.
Intelligent Bid Evaluation at Scale Agents simultaneously score technical compliance, benchmark pricing, and flag risk across every proposal simultaneously. Your team reviews ranked shortlists, not stacks of PDFs.
Hands-Free Supplier Communication Agents distribute tenders, manage Q&A, track deadlines, and collect responses automatically; so sourcing teams focus on negotiation, not inbox management.
Supplier Compliance Management
Continuous Compliance Monitoring, Not Annual Reviews Agents track certifications, regulatory changes, and ESG obligations across your entire supplier base in real time — flagging expirations, policy gaps, and risk signals the moment they appear.
Automated Document Collection and Validation Agents request, collect, and verify supplier compliance documents — certifications, insurance, regulatory filings — against your requirements matrix automatically, eliminating weeks of manual follow-up per review cycle.
Pre-Built Audit Readiness at All Times Every compliance check, supplier communication, and document submission is logged with timestamps and decision trails — giving your team audit-ready evidence packages on demand, not assembled under deadline pressure.
Supplier Review and Negotiation
Live Supplier Scorecards, Not Quarterly Snapshots Agents continuously aggregate delivery, quality, cost, and compliance data across ERP, SRM, and contract systems — producing real-time supplier performance
Negotiation-Ready Intelligence on Demand When a renewal or price increase hits, agents instantly surface spend history, market benchmarks, contract terms, and supplier risk signals — giving your team a data-backed negotiation position in minutes, not weeks.
Proactive Underperformance Detection Agents flag SLA breaches, cost drift, and quality degradation the moment patterns emerge — triggering corrective workflows before underperformance compounds into supply disruption or margin erosion.
Key Capabilities
Automated Tender Creation and Bid Evaluation
Agents generate complete RFP/RFQ documents from intake requirements, then score every submission against weighted technical, commercial, risk, and compliance criteria simultaneously, flagging certification and regulatory gaps before human review.
Supplier Communication and Outreach Orchestration
Agents manage the full communication lifecycle across tendering and compliance: distributing tenders, handling Q&A, collecting bid responses, sending compliance document requests, and following up with suppliers to completion.
Continuous Compliance Monitoring and Certification Tracking
Agents scan regulatory databases across jurisdictions, map changes to affected suppliers, and monitor certification expiration dates and accreditation status, evaluating each supplier against regulatory, ESG, and internal policy frameworks in a single risk view.
Live Supplier Scorecarding, Benchmarking, and Negotiation Preparation
Agents aggregate delivery, quality, cost, and compliance metrics into real-time scorecards, benchmark contracted rates against market indices, parse contracts for auto-renewal risks, and assemble complete negotiation briefs with full audit trails on demand.
Yes, Kovant is built for enterprise grade security and is ISO 27001 certified.
Kovant customers have the option to fully deploy our technology in their own cloud tenant and have fully control on their own data. Alternatively Kovant, create dedicated environments in the customers region of choice to protect their data.
Traditional automation tools automate individual tasks; they follow scripted rules and break when something unexpected happens. Kovant automates entire operations by deploying AI agents as digital employees with defined roles, policies, and performance targets who handle variation, communicate through your existing tools, and escalate only true exceptions to humans; delivering a fully running operation in 8 weeks, not months of scripting.