Parallelism or Concession? Concurrency-Aware Procurement Negotiation for Agentic Commerce

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arXiv:2610.06017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic buyers can cheaply fork a procurement task into many parallel negotiations, but concurrency is not free: every thread consumes resources, and simultaneous agreements create cancellation and commitment risk. We study a one-unit post-order sourcing problem with a single hard-deadline negotiation window, in which a planner jointly chooses the number of seller-facing negotiators and a common procurement price cap. The model combines a product