Procurement Leadership Series Mastering AI Economics: Executive Education for IT Procurement AI is creating a new generation of procurement challenges. Our expert-led webinars and research help you understand the economics behind enterprise AI and make better buying decisions. AI is changing enterprise spending. Procurement needs to lead. The organizations that realize the greatest value from AI won’t simply deploy the best technology. They’ll make the smartest commercial decisions. Through webinars, white papers, and expert insights, NPI’s Mastering AI Economics series helps procurement leaders understand AI cost models, strengthen vendor negotiations, and build governance strategies that scale with the business. Webinar Series Mastering AI Economics July 7th, 2:00 pm EST AI token prices have fallen sharply over the past year, yet enterprise AI spending continues to climb. The reason is a growing focus on “inference economics”, or the cost of running AI workloads at scale. As usage accelerates, leading enterprises are discovering that model selection, workload routing, and infrastructure strategy often have a greater impact on total AI cost than token pricing alone. Register July 21st, 2:00 pm EST As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are discovering that traditional financial controls weren’t designed for consumption-based models, token usage, and rapidly expanding AI ecosystems. Join NPI as we explore why procurement is uniquely positioned to lead the AI FinOps conversation, the risks of delaying governance, and the practical frameworks enterprises are adopting to bring visibility, accountability, and cost control to AI investments before spending outpaces oversight. Register August 5th, 1:00 pm EST AI is spreading across the enterprise faster than most organizations can govern it, creating a new wave of unapproved tools, unmanaged spend, and hidden risk. Join NPI to learn why Shadow AI has become a procurement challenge, where organizations are losing visibility, and the practical steps procurement leaders can take to regain control without slowing innovation. Register Whitepapers AI is changing. Don’t get caught off guard. Governing AI Token Spend: A Five-Layer Defense Framework AI spending is rapidly shifting from predictable licensing to consumption-based pricing, creating new cost and governance challenges for enterprise procurement teams. This whitepaper introduces a practical five-layer framework for improving AI cost visibility, strengthening governance, and building leverage before AI spending outpaces oversight. Download How AI Tokenization Works: Models, Costs, and the Hidden Economics of Token Consumption Understanding AI tokenization is the foundation of effective enterprise AI cost management. This whitepaper explains how AI models process and bill tokens, why the cheapest model isn’t always the lowest-cost option, and how procurement teams can make smarter decisions about AI consumption before costs spiral. Download Backed by the data that powers thousands of negotiations. 160+Fortune 500 Clients4,650Vendors in Our Intelligence96%Client Renewal Rate Keep building your edge More AI insight you can put to work. Webinars AI Token Economics and the Enterprise Cost Gap: What Procurement Needs to Know Before the Next Invoice Arrives Enterprise AI spend jumped 108% year-over-year in 2026, and more than 85% of organizations are missing their AI… Webinars The SaaSpocalypse Debate: What’s Hype, What’s Real, and Where Leverage Is Won Over the past two months, the SaaS market has reached a clear inflection point: growth is cooling, AI… Your Next Step Facing a major AI deal? Let’s tackle it together. Contact Us