The 798 studies range from very small to very large. Proxima's 2026 CPO Report interviewed 10 CPOs. SAP Taulia surveyed 10,804 professionals worldwide. Forrester's buyer study covered 18,000.
Meta‑Survey of Procurement Professionals · August 2026
Factbook · Chapter 0
Preface and
methodology
This book pools one year of procurement survey research, 798 professional studies and about 704,000 respondents, into a single comparable evidence base. This chapter explains what went in, how it was combined, and how to read the results.
Ali Soomro · Founder and CEO, Holmes AI
Former Director at Google · Former Senior Manager at McKinsey & Company · MPhil Economics, University of Cambridge
The corpus in brief
704,109 respondents across the professional corpus
798 professional studies published 2025 to 2026, kept from 1,775 candidates
5,722 questions asked, converted into 141 meta questions
4,116 validated answers, every one weighted by its sample
Every figure traces to its original source, with the URL attributed