Procurement trends 2026: 5 shifts that reshaped the function and what to fix first
If you run procurement, 2025 quietly rewrote what “good” looks like. Annual supplier reviews stopped being enough. AI pilots stalled the moment they hit untidy spend. Big-bang software rollouts lost the room to faster, smaller wins. And the board stopped asking only about savings. None of these were isolated trends. Underneath each one sits the...

