This report identifies key demand-side trends in the procurement business process transformation (BPT) space, helping enterprises fine-tune their operations. It provides an overview of key observations and business challenges that Avasant considers important to highlight in the procurement outsourcing space.
Why read this Market Insights?
This report highlights how procurement is evolving as enterprises channel greater investment into technology, analytics, and AI, driving shifts in both budgets and operating models. These changes enable smarter automation, enhanced workforce capabilities, and innovative partnership approaches tied to measurable business outcomes. As enterprises adopt digital platforms and new governance frameworks, they achieve deeper spend visibility, ongoing savings, and greater agility. Upskilling talent and leveraging data-driven decision-making are setting the stage for sustained performance, ensuring procurement delivers increased value, competitiveness, and resilience amid rapid market changes and rising stakeholder expectations.
The Procurement Business Process Transformation 2025 Market Insights™ provides a view into important market trends and developments, helping build a granular understanding of the procurement services transformation ecosystem.
Methodology
The market insights presented in this report are based on our ongoing interactions with enterprise CXOs and other key executives, targeted discussions with service providers, subject matter experts, and Avasant fellows, analyst insights derived from primary and secondary research, and lessons learned from consulting engagements.
Table of contents
About the report (Page 3)
Executive summary (Pages 6–9)
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- Definition and scope of procurement business process transformation
- Key enterprise procurement business process transformation trends shaping the market
- Avasant recognizes 18 top-tier service providers offering procurement business process transformation services
Demand-side trends (Pages 10–15)
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- Procurement transformation accelerates as digitalization and AI adoption reshape budgets and workforce.
- Procurement operating models and workforce skills evolve as digital adoption and AI reshape value creation.
- Outcome-based commercial models drive a new era of procurement partnership and performance.
- Enhanced supplier collaboration accelerates procurement transformation, fostering innovation, cost savings, and resilient partnerships.
Key contacts (Page 16)
Read the Research Byte based on this report. Please refer to Avasant’s Procurement Business Process Transformation 2025 RadarView™ for detailed insights on service providers and supply-side trends.