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10% -- projected procurement workload growth vs budget growth for Procurement functions (2025)
Procurement workloads are projected to increase by 10% while budgets grow by 1%.
- Budgets are projected to grow by just 1%
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10%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Hackett Group
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Tier C
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Hackett Group
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Hackett Group 2025 Key Issues Study
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