Japan, April 9 -- NEC Corporation's automated negotiation AI initiative has been named as a use case in "Deploy AI Agents in Procurement: A Roadmap to Success", a research report published by Gartner."This note gives CIOs and other executive leaders a roadmap for deploying machine buyers" "- machine customers that buy on behalf of organizations are an agentic AI capability set to transform internal supply chains and procurement, reducing procurement cycles from months to seconds."Under NEC's "Client Zero" approach, where it positions itself as the first user of its own solutions, NEC is driving internal digital transformation (DX). As part of these efforts, NEC conducted pilot tests of its automated negotiation AI on the procurement systems...