Every boardroom is talking about AI, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. But these ambitions only become real once someone translates them into decisions about what to buy, from whom, and on what terms. That someone is procurement: the boundary-spanning function where corporate strategy meets the supply chain.
So how much of the talk is actually happening on the ground? Drawing on eight years of our global State of the Procurement Profession Survey, run with the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), this session benchmarks where procurement and supply chain organizations really stand on cost, resilience, sustainability, and digitalization.
Participants will leave with a clear-eyed, evidence based view of the execution gap between ambition and reality, and a framework for what separates the organizations pulling ahead from the rest.
In 60 minutes, participants will discover:
- A clear benchmark of where procurement and supply chains stand in 2026: the mood, the priorities, and the operating model, drawn from eight years of global CPO data.
- How the cost-resilience sustainability pendulum is swinging: cost is dominant again, even as supply bases grow more complex and firms shift toward dual and multi-sourcing.
- Digitalization and AI: progress, pause, or reset? What the maturity and AI-adoption evidence really shows, why most organizations are still piloting, and where AI pays off first.
- The execution gap on sustainability and resilience: why ambition at the top so often fails to translate into action on the ground.
- What separates the organizations pulling ahead: the role of entrepreneurial orientation, capabilities, and mindset, with takeaways that apply well beyond procurement.
Who is this session for?
This session is designed for leaders and professionals who want evidence on where modern supply chains and procurement organizations really stand on resilience, sustainability, and AI:
- Procurement, sourcing, and supply chain managers who want a data-based benchmark for their own organization against eight years of global trends.
- Managers who are accountable for resilience, sustainability, or digital transformation, in or beyond procurement.
- Consultants and strategy professionals advising on supply chain, sourcing, and operating-model change.
- Anyone interested in how the digital transformation is reshaping how companies buy, negotiate, and manage suppliers, beyond the hype.
Please note that this session will be held in English.
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