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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2024/2025: Chapter 7: Healthcare Provider
Chapter 7 provides benchmarks for healthcare providers, including hospitals, group of hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare services providers. The 26 organizations in this sample range from $400 million to over $12 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2024
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 11: Process Manufacturing Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 11 provides comprehensive benchmarks for procurement staffing and spending within the process manufacturing industry. This sector encompasses a wide array of organizations, including chemical producers, food and beverage manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and oil and gas refineries. The 29 respondents from this sector vary in size, with annual sales ranging from approximately $600 million to over $20 billion.
November, 2025
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2024/2025: Chapter 8: Life Sciences
Chapter 8 provides benchmarks for life sciences companies. The 24 organizations in this sample range from $400 million to over $25 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2024
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 12: Media and Information Services Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 12 provides comprehensive benchmarks for procurement staffing and spending within the media and information services industry. This sector includes a diverse set of organizations such as publishing houses, broadcasting companies, digital media platforms, advertising agencies, market research firms, and information service providers. The 15 respondents from this sector vary in size, ranging from companies with annual sales of approximately $600 million to those exceeding $29 billion.
November, 2025
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2024/2025: Chapter 9: Discrete Manufacturing
Chapter 9 provides benchmarks for discrete manufacturing organizations. Discrete manufacturers are defined as those where the production process adds value by fabricating or assembling individual (discrete) unit production. The category includes manufacturers of consumer products, athletic equipment, industrial equipment, telecommunications equipment, aerospace products, furniture, auto parts, electrical parts, medical devices, and electronic devices, among other products. The 15 organizations in this sample range from $600 million to over $85 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2024
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 13: Professional/Tech Services (Other than IT) Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 13 provides comprehensive benchmarks for procurement staffing and spending within the professional/tech services industry (other than IT). This sector covers consulting firms, engaging services, accounting and audit firms, architectural services, and other specialized professional practices. The 15 respondents from this sector vary in size, ranging from companies with annual sales of approximately $750 million to those exceeding $65 billion.
November, 2025
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2024/2025: Chapter 10: Process Manufacturing
Chapter 10 provides benchmarks for process manufacturers. Process manufacturers are defined as those where the production process adds value by mixing, separating, forming, or chemical reaction. The sector includes manufacturers of chemicals, petrochemicals, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, food and beverage products, cosmetics, building materials, packaging materials, steel, glass, paper products, and other process-manufactured goods. The 18 organizations in this sample range from $600 million to over $31 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2024
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 14: Retail Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 14 provides comprehensive benchmarks for procurement of staffing and spending within the retail industry. This sector includes grocery chains, department stores, specialty retailers, e-commerce platforms, and mass merchandise companies. The 15 respondents from this sector vary in size, ranging from companies with annual sales of approximately $300 million to those exceeding $95 billion.
November, 2025
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Avasant Research Releases its First Annual Benchmarks for Procurement Budget, Spending, and Staffing
A modern procurement function is about more than just securing goods and services at the lowest price. Procurement has become a multidimensional discipline encompassing strategic sourcing, supplier management, risk mitigation, and process optimization, all of which are critical to staying competitive in today's fast-paced business environment. This Research Byte is a brief description of some of the findings in our Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2024/2025 study.
September, 2024
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 15: Transportation and Logistics Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 15 provides comprehensive benchmarks for procurement staffing and spending within the transportation and logistics industry. This sector includes freight and shipping companies, airlines, rail operators, trucking firms, warehouse providers, and third-party logistics (3PL) service providers. The 15 respondents from this sector vary in size, ranging from companies with annual sales of approximately $500 million to those exceeding $20 billion.
November, 2025
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 1: Executive Summary
This chapter provides an overview of the key findings from the full study and describes the contents of the subsequent chapters. It also includes information on the study participants and the survey methodology.
November, 2025
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 2: Composite Metrics
This chapter provides composite metrics for all survey respondents across all sectors and organization sizes. The sample includes 303 organizations and is stratified by size and sector as described in the section on survey methodology. Respondents must have at least $500 million in annual revenue. There is no upper limit on the revenue of survey respondents.
November, 2025
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Procurement Budgets, Staffing, and Process Metrics 2025/2026: Chapter 3A: Mid-Large Size Organizations
In this chapter, we provide a complete set of benchmarks for organizations within the specified size classification. Benchmarks for midsize and large organizations are in Chapter 3A. There are 155 respondents in the midsize and large organization sample.
November, 2025
