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Procurement systems and market intelligence

Reporting on the platforms, specialists, standards, data, operating models, and material changes behind enterprise and public procurement.

SAP outlines an autonomous spend-management product direction

SAP's May 2026 account of assistants and connected spend workflows raises a more exact buyer question: which decisions are proposed, prepared, executed, reviewed, and retained by which accountable role?

CEWA goes live on Zycus source-to-pay applications

The customer announcement offers a dated implementation record while leaving configuration, adoption, baseline, and outcome evidence for direct verification.

Keelvar publishes its 2026 procurement survey

The provider reports a relationship between recent AI or automation adoption and resilience outcomes, creating a useful hypothesis and an immediate need to inspect the sample, measures, and causal limits.

EU Council adopts the VAT in the Digital Age package

The March 2025 adoption starts a multi-year implementation path for digital reporting and e-invoicing that procurement and finance systems must treat as staged jurisdictional change.

The UK Procurement Act enters into force

The February 2025 commencement moves reform from preparation into live public-commercial workflows across planning, tendering, award, contract management, notices, and transparency.

Workday signs an agreement to acquire Evisort

The September 2024 transaction announcement links contract intelligence to Workday's finance and spend strategy and creates roadmap, data, packaging, and integration questions for buyers.