Membership Overview

How Gartner Works With Chief Procurement Officers

Gartner for Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) provides insight, guidance and tools to help CPOs achieve cost efficiency, maximum value and more effective partnership across the organization.

How we support your priorities

Assess your current state

Leverage tools to diagnose performance, align stakeholders and focus your efforts.

Develop Your Strategic Plan

Use objective research and feedback from procurement experts to accelerate projects and key initiatives.

Execute and Drive Change

Learn how world-class organizations solve their most pressing challenges with best practices and case studies.

Stay Ahead of the Curve

Elevate your perspective through peer interactions and understand emerging trends from the latest data.

What’s included in a Gartner for CPOs membership

Expert guidance to help you tackle your most critical priorities

Gartner for CPOs helps you prioritize time and resources on what matters most. Our insights, guidance, and tools focus on Mission-Critical Priorities (MCPs)—the imperatives that drive results for your business and stakeholders.

We focus on the highest impact priorities for senior procurement leaders—from unlocking value with AI to optimizing costs and leading change— decisions that drive impact. With step-by-step guidance and clear Journey Steps, Gartner helps you move confidently from strategy to execution.

Actionable insights for your everyday organizational needs

Gartner for CPOs also equips you to tackle Perennial Priorities by connecting enterprise strategy to the functional decisions that drive performance.

Backed by over 510,000 client discussions and 23,000 vendor conversations and 200,000 AI queries, Gartner gives you access to more C level strategies, tools, and best practices than any other source.

  • AskGartner AI for instant, contextual answers and summaries
  • Case studies showcasing peer-tested strategies and measurable outcomes
  • Magic Quadrants and Market Guides for smarter tech decisions
  • Enterprise leadership insights to enhance C-suite collaboration

Decision tools

Get benchmarks, assessments and guides to drive stronger performance.

Must-attend events

Gartner conferences and events cover today’s top procurement issues and emerging trends. Learn from experts, get inspired by thought leaders, discover procurement technology solutions and connect with peers to share ideas, lessons learned and best practices.

Gartner Procurement Conference 2026

Peer connections

Access your CPO community for strategic insights, lessons learned, cutting-edge innovations and practical experience with emerging procurement issues.

How you benefit

Drive procurement value and efficiency

Incorporate risk and sustainability requirements into category strategies and strategic sourcing processes, while also optimizing cost.

Increase supplier resilience amid disruption

Get insights on managing supplier risk and building resilience to minimize operational disruption, financial loss and reputational damage.

Optimize procurement organizational design

Strengthen talent development to tackle an expanded set of priorities including risk mitigation, innovation and sustainability.

Ensure sustainable procurement

Learn how to increase supplier diversity and demonstrate procurement’s impact on the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.

Leverage technology to transform capabilities

Justify upgrades and investment in core systems and digital technologies that will enhance efficiency, automation and strategic decision making.

Simplify the procurement process

Learn simpler procurement processes to enhance growth, drive staff engagement and increase transformation success.

How Gartner clients have achieved success

Client

NSG Group
Glass and glazing product manufacturing
25K+ employees
John Wilgar
Chief Procurement Officer

  • Guided procurement transformation efforts
  • Stayed up-to-date on new AI technologies and applications

  • Aligned procurement functional strategy with digital advancements

Client

MiMedx
Biotechnology
500+ employees
Sunaya Bailey
Manager

  • Demonstrated the value of procurement to the business

  • Improved contract negotiation outcomes

  • Defined use cases for new investments

Client

Danone
Consumer Product Goods
90,000 employees
Apurva Gupta
Vice President Procurement

  • Demonstrated the value of an antifragile supply chain

  • Managed uncertainties strategically

  • Leveraged peers and experts to improve operations

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.