Most procurement frameworks tell you to build your category plan around your top spend. Chase the big dollars first, work down the list, and you have covered the ground that matters.

That works fine in a lot of industries. It falls over in property and facilities management. Understanding why is where the conversation begins.

When 600 facility managers all use AI to write their own procurement scope, you do not get best practice. You get 600 different quality standards, 600 different briefs, and suppliers who cannot be compared. AI did not solve the problem. It scaled it.