2026 State of AI in Procurement

We’ll dive into:

• Real usage data: How 800+ procurement professionals are actually using AI day to day across 14+ use cases and how leading teams decide where to focus
• Where the payoff lands: Which specific benefits (spend efficiency, faster daily work, supplier visibility, risk analysis) are showing up and why a third of users spend more time reviewing AI output than it saves them
• The policy effect: Why companies with clear, specific AI guidelines see meaningfully higher confidence, career optimism, and time savings than those with vague or no policy
• The post-signature gap: Why AI already works well inside a single contract but still falls short on portfolio-level work like approvals, amendments, and compliance monitoring
• What to do next: Practical steps for sorting your team’s AI use cases by risk, scoring which ones are actually worth going deep on, and closing the confidence gap before your next rollout