What you need to know: CBRE is using Levelpath to build modern sourcing by replacing slow, manual RFx processes with AI-native workflows. Instead of spending weeks building events, formatting spreadsheets, and chasing suppliers through disconnected tools, the procurement team can now create RFx packages in minutes, evaluate proposals in any format, and make award decisions faster with more confidence. The result is a sourcing process that is simpler, faster, and more strategic, for procurement teams, suppliers, and stakeholders.

The Growing Complexity of Modern Sourcing

Enterprise sourcing becomes more demanding every year. Procurement teams are expected to move faster, support more stakeholders, and run more competitive events, while still managing the same operational friction that slows everything down.

For years, teams across the industry have voiced the same frustrations: sourcing takes too long, tools are too complex, and too much time disappears into formatting instead of decisions. When RFx creation, supplier communication, evaluations, and award decisions live across spreadsheets, inboxes, and disconnected systems, procurement becomes reactive. Even when teams are working well together, the process itself becomes the bottleneck.

Meet CBRE 

CBRE is one of the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firms, operating in more than 100 countries with over 140,000 employees. Supporting an organization of that scale requires procurement operations that are consistent, collaborative, and built for speed.

CBRE’s procurement technology leadership focused on one clear goal: create a modern sourcing experience that helps teams execute faster while freeing procurement professionals to spend more time on strategic work. In other words, sourcing needed to become easier to run, easier to participate in, and easier to evaluate, without sacrificing process or control.

The Challenge: Slow Cycles and Disconnected Work

Before Levelpath, CBRE’s sourcing workflows reflected a reality many procurement teams know well. RFx events could take weeks to launch, not because the strategy was unclear, but because the process required too much manual effort. Creating an RFx package meant starting from scratch, coordinating across tools, and managing versions across spreadsheets and documents.

Supplier participation also suffered under the weight of complexity. When requirements aren’t clear, and timelines feel inconsistent, suppliers struggle to respond quickly, and response quality can decline. Meanwhile, stakeholder collaboration becomes harder when feedback and decisions are scattered across email threads and offline files. Over time, sourcing cycles slow down, confidence drops, and teams lose the visibility they need to move decisively.

The Turning Point: AI Sourcing With Levelpath

CBRE adopted Levelpath to flip the sourcing model on its head.

As Jessica Ruiz, Senior Director of Procurement Technology, shared: “Levelpath is changing the way we work. Fast.”

With Levelpath, creating an RFx no longer requires hours of setup. Teams simply describe what they are buying, and the system generates the RFx package instantly, complete with supplier invitations, questions, and pricing templates. Suppliers can respond without friction, and procurement teams no longer have to waste time converting every proposal into a standard format.

Instead, Levelpath’s AI reviews proposals in any format, compares responses side-by-side, and helps teams reach decisions faster. What used to be a manual analysis process becomes an accelerated workflow built around clarity and speed.

Most importantly, this modern sourcing experience changes how procurement teams spend their time. Instead of cleaning spreadsheets and formatting responses, teams can focus on what actually drives outcomes: evaluating options, advising stakeholders, and making smarter decisions.

AI Sourcing Across 42 Locations

One of the clearest examples of impact came from a large facilities sourcing event. A client needed janitorial sourcing across 42 locations. This process historically took six to eight weeks.

With Levelpath, the RFx event was built in 15 minutes. The AI analyzed every bid in under a minute. The award decision was reached in a single meeting. The client launched a month early and captured 9% in additional savings.

Their feedback was simple: “Using Levelpath made the process faster.”

Why AI-Native Sourcing Matters

CBRE’s experience reflects a broader shift happening across procurement. AI-native sourcing is not about replacing expertise, it is about removing friction so expertise can matter more.

When sourcing workflows become faster and easier to run, procurement stops being an operational bottleneck and becomes a strategic driver. Teams move with more speed and confidence. Suppliers engage more easily. Stakeholders get answers faster. And the organization benefits from better outcomes delivered in less time.

Your Next Step

Levelpath is not just a new tool. It is a new way of working, making procurement simpler, faster, and more strategic.

If you want to see how AI-powered, modern sourcing can accelerate RFx workflows, improve supplier participation, and help teams make better decisions faster, request a demo or explore the AI Masterclass series.

— Gemma

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