← Wholesale sourcing and supplier coordination
Request quotations negotiate and manage purchase orders
As of 2026-10-09, AI does this work at L2 Partial automation. 1 updates bear on it. Strongest evidence: From the publisher only.
- Level
- L2Partial automation
- Updates
- 1
- Companies
- 1Alibaba
- Strongest evidence
- T3From the publisher only
L0ManualL1AssistedL2Partial automationL3Conditional automationL4High automationL5Full automation
Held by a non-technical condition: Payment authority. The level above is what the evidence supports. Whether the work may be handed over is a separate question.
What moved it
Every update that bears on this work, newest first.
- 2026-09-01AlibabaQwen3.8-Max tops CommerceAgentBench among open-weight models
Alibaba reports that Qwen3.8-Max delivers the strongest overall performance among open-weight models on CommerceAgentBench, a benchmark built from real commercial demand.