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Study 2026 · 4th annual survey · n = 74

Your supply chain ends where your data does.

24% of the surveyed companies have full visibility of their direct suppliers. One tier further down, it is 2%. "State of Procurement & Supply Chain Management 2026" measures how large this gap is.

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Full transparency along the chain

Direct suppliers (tier 1)24 %
One tier further (tier 2)2 %
Direct customers18 %
Customers' customers6 %

Bar length relative to the highest value (24 %). n = 74. Source: State of Procurement 2026 study.

Key findings 2026

Three of five findings.

242 %

Full visibility of direct suppliers, one tier further down. Downstream: from 18% to 6%.

Source: n = 74

57 %

cite missing supply chain transparency as the biggest ESG hurdle, ahead of negative price impacts (54%) and missing resources (51%).

Source: n = 74

50 %

use no AI at all in supply chain planning, despite high strategic expectations.

Source: n = 74

This is where we step in.

Large companies cannot steer their supply chains end to end, because their mid-sized suppliers cannot deliver the data in a structured form.

For procurementFor SMEs

The study series

Surveyed annually since 2023.

"State of Procurement" has been run since 2023 at FH Graubünden, as a student application project of the Digital Supply Chain Management bachelor's programme, commissioned by Zerovia GmbH (formerly Impact Procurement).

The 2026 survey ran from 20 April to 10 May 2026 as an online questionnaire, distributed through the CSCMP Roundtable Switzerland network, LinkedIn and personal contacts. For the first time in 2026, questions on supply chain visibility, resilience and risk management were added.

Year n Focus
2023 48 Sustainability in procurement
2024 52 Expansion to include AI and regulation
2025 45 Costs and ESG strategy
2026 74 Visibility, resilience, risk

What this study is not: The sample is non-probabilistic and not representative. In 2026, 30% of responses came from companies with more than 5,000 employees. The results are indications of trends, not a fully comparable time series.

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