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2026 Procurement Benchmarks: AI Readiness, KPIs & Adoption Data from 121 Teams

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How to Do Corporate Spend Analysis

Spend analysis saves 5-15% in year one through better negotiations and purchase consolidation. The four-step process: collect, cleanse, categorize, and analyze spend data.

What is Procurement Compliance?

Procurement compliance is the systematic adherence to internal policies, external regulations, and supplier contracts, ensuring purchases are ethical, transparent, and legally sound to mitigate risk.

What is Supplier Performance Management?

Learn how supplier performance management (SPM) drives cost control, risk mitigation, and supplier collaboration. Discover KPIs, scorecards, corrective action plans, and AI-powered strategies from Suplari

Supplier Risk Management: A Complete Guide to Protecting Your Supply Chain

This guide covers everything procurement leaders need to know about supplier risk management: the types of risk you need to monitor, a proven process for identifying and mitigating threats, how to build a supplier risk assessment framework, and the tools that make it possible to manage risk across thousands of suppliers at scale.

Working Capital Optimization - a Procurement Perspective

Learn how to improve working capital by optimizing payables, accelerating receivables, and managing inventory. Discover strategies, metrics, and AI-powered tools from Suplari that deliver 10-30% improvement.

How to Increase Spend Under Management (SUM)?

Spend Under Management (SUM) measures the percentage of total spend controlled by procurement. Learn how to calculate SUM, benchmark performance, and increase managed spend with AI-powered analytics from Suplari.

Procurement Market Intelligence: What It Is and Why It Matters

Internal data shows current reality; market data shows future pressure. How procurement market intelligence tracks supplier health, price trends, and regulatory shifts.

How to Create a Winning Procurement Category Strategy

Learn how to develop a procurement category strategy that drives savings, reduces risk, and aligns sourcing with business goals. Includes an 8-step framework and real-world examples.

Key Procurement Cost Analysis and Reduction Strategies

Spreadsheet-based cost analysis can't handle global supply chain complexity. Practical examples of TCO analysis, spend visibility, and AI-powered cost reduction strategies.

Procurement Automation: How to Go from Manual to AI-Driven Processes

Manual procurement workloads lead to burnout. How to standardize, orchestrate, and iterate procurement automation—from RPA basics to AI-driven autonomous workflows.

Press Releases

Suplari Named to The Hackett Group's "50 to Know" Procurement Provider List for 2025-2026

Suplari has been named to The Hackett Group's prestigious "50 to Know" procurement provider list for 2025-2026, recognizing the company as an established industry leader every chief procurement officer should know.

Suplari Launches AI-Ready Procurement Intelligence Platform, Introducing a New Category Beyond Spend Analytics

Suplari launches the Procurement Intelligence Platform, the first solution combining an AI-ready data foundation, procurement-specific AI agents, and closed-loop execution to replace backward-looking spend analytics with real-time intelligence tied to P&L outcomes.

Suplari Recognized in the ProcureTech100 for 2025/26

Suplari selected to the 2025/26 ProcureTech100 after re-entering as an independent company. Recognition follows expansion into AI-driven decision intelligence and agentic AI.

Announcing Suplari Tariff Insights Overview

New tariffs reshape sourcing strategies across Canada, China, EU, and Mexico. Suplari's Tariff Insights quantifies exposure by category, supplier, and origin.

SpendMatters Recognizes Suplari for Customer Service Excellence as a 2024 Customer Favorite

SpendMatters recently published its “SolutionMap Insider” and Suplari was recognized as a “2024 Customer Favorite.” The survey of over 90 solution providers concluded that Suplari offers among the industry’s most exceptional “customer service,” demonstrated by its “ability to adapt to changing business needs” and matched by an innovative “ever-evolving product.”

Founders complete divestiture of Suplari from Microsoft

Suplari divested from Microsoft 12 December, 2023 to accelerate its generative AI-powered procurement vision. Original founders return as CEO, CTO, and CRO to lead the next chapter.

Suplari Named Winner of DPW’s DEMO Cost Reduction & Savings Category

Suplari Named Winner of DPW’s DEMO Cost Reduction & Savings Category

Suplari Launches Agile Performance Management, the New Procurement and Finance Solution for Planning, Tracking, and Optimizing Spend

CPOs, CFOs, and business leaders can now plan, execute, and measure savings using normalized data and AI-generated insights with Suplari Agile Performance Management.

Suplari Raises Additional Financing to Support the Launch of AI-Driven Enterprise Insights System

Suplari raised financing from Amplify, Madrona, Shasta, Two Sigma, and Workday Ventures to launch the first AI-driven enterprise insights system for procurement and finance.

Suplari Named a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor in Sourcing and Procurement Applications

Gartner named Suplari a 2019 Cool Vendor for AI-enabled procurement that increases efficiency, improves automation, and delivers actionable insights beyond sporadic reporting.

Suplari Welcomes New Customer: New York Public Library (NYPL)

NYPL chose Suplari for advanced spend management with Workday. The nation's largest public library gains AI-powered visibility into spend and purchasing compliance.

Suplari Named a 2026 Top Tech for Spend Analytics by The Hackett Group

Suplari has been recognized as a 2026 Top Tech for Spend Analytics by The Hackett Group, earning top marks for its AI-powered Procurement Intelligence Platform and exceptional customer value.