IBM and S&P Global partner to integrate AI into supply chain management

NEW YORK - IBM (NYSE:IBM) and S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) announced Wednesday a strategic partnership to integrate IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate AI framework into S&P Global’s offerings, beginning with supply chain management solutions.

The collaboration will combine IBM’s AI technology with S&P Global’s data to provide clients with enhanced visibility into supply chain operations and vendor selection tools. The integration will leverage AI agents and combine data across procurement, trade, country and supplier risk domains.

As part of the agreement, S&P Global will develop new agents for IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog using its proprietary data, research, and analytics. The company plans to extend the integration of IBM’s AI technology to additional risk intelligence services within its Market Intelligence division.

"Combining IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate AI capabilities with S&P Global’s supply chain data allows agents to connect data to action, streamlining processes and quickly adapting to help optimize performance," said Rob Thomas, Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Vice President of IBM.

The supply chain offering will be part of S&P Global’s Market Intelligence division’s Risk & Valuation Services portfolio, which provides data, valuations, and analytics to help market participants identify risk exposures and price assets.

IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate is designed to coordinate AI agents, assistants, and workflows across businesses. The company’s Agent Catalog, introduced in May, currently features over 500 pre-built agents and tools.

The announcement indicates the companies aim to expand their collaboration beyond supply chain to improve other business functions including finance, procurement, and insurance.

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In other recent news, IBM announced that its Spyre Accelerator, aimed at enhancing AI inferencing workloads, will be generally available on October 28 for IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems, with Power11 servers following in early December. At its TechXchange 2025 event, IBM also unveiled new capabilities to boost AI adoption and productivity across various business workflows, including enhancements to its watsonx Orchestrate framework. The company has also formed a strategic partnership with Anthropic to integrate the Claude large language model into select IBM software, showing productivity gains of 45 percent during internal testing.

Additionally, IBM has committed significant resources to support Datavault AI Inc., aiding in the development of its AI data platform with IBM’s expertise in engineering, technical sales, and quantum computing. In another collaboration, IBM and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced a partnership to develop quantum-centric supercomputing architectures, combining IBM’s quantum computers with AMD’s high-performance computing and AI accelerators. These developments reflect IBM’s ongoing efforts to advance AI and quantum computing technologies across various sectors.

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