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 CPO membership?

Expert guidance

We support the CPO’s strategic initiatives. Tap into the expertise of our global researchers and advisors with one-on-one conversations, the on-demand client portal and procurement team strategy meetings.

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 Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™

Peer connections

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

View sample engagement plans

Get a preview of an engagement plan to see how Gartner can help address your procurement initiatives.

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.