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What we write about supplier spend control
The Zylio blog covers five subjects: supplier spend control, agentic AI applied to procurement, the compliance of invoices with negotiated agreements, the daily work of accounts payable teams, and Zylio news. This page lists publications as they are released. You decide: Zylio commits to nothing without your approval.
Five subjects, and nothing else
- Procurement control
- What escapes control, and why: the real coverage of framework agreements, price variability from one entity to another, spend committed outside the negotiated framework.
- Agentic AI
- What an agent can do, what it cannot do, and where the boundary with human decision runs. No black box: the mechanisms are described.
- Compliance
- The invoice set against the agreement: unit price schedule (BPU), price list (the catalogue of prices agreed with a supplier), amendment, indexation clause, discount tier. And the evidence to produce in the event of a claim.
- The accounts payable job
- The daily reality of the department: queues of blocked invoices, disputes, chasing, closing. What teams do by hand, and what can stop coming back to them.
- Zylio news
- What changes at Zylio: awards, partnerships, marketplace availability, company milestones. Dated and sourced, never announced ahead of time.
Publications
Zylio newsTrophées des achats 2026: Zylio wins silver in the innovative suppliers category
On 22 June 2026, at the Théâtre Mogador, a jury of practising buyers ranked Zylio second among twelve finalists in the innovative suppliers category. What the jury assessed, and what it says about the procurement function.Bertrand Dumast ·
Purchasing newsThe 7 most common ROI calculation mistakes, and how to fix the performance model
Finance teams validate everyone else’s business cases with rigour, then underestimate the value of their own tools. Seven modelling biases keep coming back; here is how to correct them, without a figure your own data would not confirm.Tarik Aitakkaouali ·
Purchasing newsContract leakage in procurement: how to verify that your negotiated terms are actually applied
A forgotten rebate, a price never updated, a unit price slightly above the purchase order: contract leakage is invisible in the ERP. Where it comes from, where to check for it, and how to sustain the check over time.Tarik Aitakkaouali ·
Zylio newsDAF Night 2026: Zylio wins first place in the Cash, Capital & Efficiency category
On 4 May 2026, at the Théâtre de la Madeleine, the DAF Night organised by Républik Finance and DFCG Île-de-France awarded Zylio the Cash, Capital & Efficiency trophy. A look at what the jury of 25 CFOs evaluated.Bertrand Dumast ·
AI newsSupplier data: the silent complexity that costs you dearly
Quotes, unit price schedules, priced bills of quantities, invoices, framework contracts, price lists: the mass of supplier documents has become the first blind spot of procurement performance. What it costs, why current tools cannot cope, and what agentic AI changes.Younes Samir ·
Purchasing newsDigitising procurement, finance and accounting: why traditional tools are no longer enough
Procurement has earned a strategic role, but its tools have stayed descriptive. Faced with scattered, heterogeneous supplier data, agentic AI becomes the missing link.Younes Samir ·
AI newsFrom generative AI to agentic AI: why this transition has become unavoidable for businesses
Having an LLM is no longer an advantage, it is a minimum. Agentic AI goes further: it acts on defined tasks instead of waiting for a prompt. Definitions, differences, and five steps to deploy it.Younes Samir ·
Purchasing newsProcurement: the return to performance runs through the balance between quick wins and a long-term course
On 17 February, 21 procurement directors debated with Olivier Philippot (Vallourec) at the Club Planète Sourcing. Three ideas emerged, and an architecture of performance in which AI agents have their place.Tarik Aitakkaouali ·
Purchasing newsCost reduction: how AI turns a successful negotiation into margin actually recovered
Negotiating a good rate is not enough: you have to check that it is applied on every invoice. Here is how AI compares quotes and invoices, line by line, and traces the gap back to its origin.Tarik Aitakkaouali ·
Purchasing newsPrice catalogue and AI: how artificial intelligence empowers procurement teams
A price catalogue fixes the negotiated prices of a list of items. On paper it is the ideal control tool; in practice nobody checks it against every invoice. Here is what AI changes about that.Tarik Aitakkaouali ·
Zylio newsZylio on AWS Marketplace: buy the procurement control platform through your AWS account
Zylio is available in transactional mode on AWS Marketplace. What it changes for your procurement or finance department: a purchase carried by your existing AWS agreement, consolidated billing, and the same platform.Bertrand Dumast ·
Purchasing newsAI and procurement management: reading BPU, DPGF and invoices without retyping a single line
AI does not shine through creativity but through speed of detection: reading heterogeneous documents, extracting the data that matters, showing the gaps between what was negotiated and what was invoiced.Younes Samir ·
Zylio newsZylio joins L’Escalator: what this step changes for our customers
In May 2025, Zylio was admitted to L’Escalator, the incubator backed by JCDecaux. Why we applied, what the programme brings, and what we intend to do with it for our customers.Bertrand Dumast ·
AI newsArtificial intelligence in 2025: what the Wavestone and French Tech Grand Paris report tells large enterprises
The “AI in 2025” report by Wavestone and French Tech Grand Paris takes stock of AI in large organisations: governance, security, ethics, talent, strategic autonomy. An annotated reading.Younes Samir ·
Purchasing newsThe digital transformation of procurement in 2024: AI, CSRD and data, according to the DPS barometer
The 4th edition of the Digital Procurement Success barometer from the Conseil National des Achats describes a pivotal year: less budget, more regulation, and a generative AI that everyone is watching without yet knowing how to put it to work.Tarik Aitakkaouali ·
Purchasing newsDigitalisation and AI for procurement: trends, benefits and challenges of an accelerating transformation
In 2024, procurement digitalisation and artificial intelligence are shifting gear. What AI really brings to procurement processes, what it demands, and where to start.Younes Samir ·
Zylio newsHello Zylio: why we founded a startup to control procurement spend
Zylio was born in August 2024 from a simple observation: nobody rereads every supplier invoice against the contract. Here is what we decided to do about it.Bertrand Dumast ·
What you will not read here
AI in the service of people. Not the other way round.
- Zylio never decides in your place. It investigates, you decide.
- Zylio never touches a payment or a supplier relationship without your approval.
- Zylio does not promise “automatic” margin. It shows what has already been paid in error and provides the evidence to decide how to act.
- Zylio hides no calculation. No black box: every discrepancy is traced back to its source.
- Zylio does not ask you to change tools or processes. It fits around them.
Nothing is lost. Everything can be checked, everything can be proven.
- The contract clause and the invoice line, highlighted side by side.
- Every extracted value stays linked to the exact place in the document where it was read.
- The same case produces the same decision, today as in six months: the rules are applied deterministically.
- No discrepancy is set aside in silence. Anything that matches no rule is raised, with its reason.
- The agent records what it did, in the order it did it: who, what, how much, when.
Measurable impact in every environment
More than 5 million procurement documents analysed
Between 1 and 7% of margin recovered
on the scope analysed
From 15 to 45% of time given back to teams, per FTE
depending on the scope and on data maturity
Zylio fits into your existing ecosystem.
The ERP runs the process. Zylio handles the exception and recovers the value that escapes it: invoices without a purchase order, line-by-line price discrepancies, duplicates and overbilling, off-contract spend.
Your data under high security.
Zylio meets the most demanding standards, and nothing is committed without your approval.
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See what this looks like on your own data
Twenty minutes, on a spend category of your choosing. We show you what the agents detect, with the evidence behind it.
- No commitment, on your own data
- Result in 3 weeks
- 20 minutes, no sales pitch
- Your data stays hosted in France
- No change of tool or process