Procurement Magazine February 2025 | Page 161

» As procurement orchestration gathers more data on the processes it unifies , it will have the foundation to create predictive recommendations on how to make the process faster , what steps in the process could be automated and where to find new savings opportunities . The role will be instrumental in the future . In order to prevent procurement orchestration from being just another “ empty app ” layer on top of other applications , it needs to become more intelligent and insightful about what happens across your tech stack . Orchestration will then become more than an “ experience ” layer and instead a true operating system for procurement .

» 2025 already is the year of procurement orchestration , because this entire decade is the orchestration decade . We are seeing a shift entirely from procuretech 2.0 to procuretech 3.0 . This is not an isolated annual trend ; it ’ s a movement and an evolution from legacy technologies .