Your procurement tech stack is probably holding you back. Here's how to fix it — without starting from scratch.
86% of B2B purchases stall before completion. 81% of buyers end up dissatisfied with their chosen providers. And CPOs have ranked digital transformation as the number one strategy for delivering strategic value. Yet most procurement functions are still running on fragmented tools, manual approvals, and data that nobody fully trusts.
This guide — built from conversations with CPOs and CFOs at 20+ community events across the US and Europe, and from working with hundreds of teams on real transformation projects — gives you a practical, vendor-neutral framework for modernizing procurement without disruption.
Inside the full report:
- Why traditional approaches keep failing — the three reasons generalist software, monolithic S2P suites, and disconnected point solutions all create the same problems: poor adoption, incomplete data, and procurement stuck as the manual integration layer
- What intake and orchestration actually means — and why it's become the backbone of the modern procurement stack, addressing the top three obstacles facing CPOs according to Deloitte's 2025 Global Survey
- What good looks like in practice — five areas where businesses drive measurable value, with real customer results across adoption, process efficiency, spend control, compliance, and data visibility
- A buyer's guide for evaluating solutions — the specific capabilities to look for and the exact questions to ask vendors to separate genuine functionality from slideware
- A five-stage change and adoption framework — from objective setting and process mapping through to rollout strategy and continuous optimization, built around principles that work across procurement functions of every size and maturity
