What is making the CPO’s job harder in 2026
Rising prices, changing market conditions, supplier pressures, and limited cost visibility make procurement savings harder to identify. Teams often struggle to understand cost drivers, benchmark prices, evaluate suppliers, and spot opportunities early. Beroe brings trusted procurement intelligence, market insights, and expert analysis together to help teams understand what is driving costs, identify savings opportunities, and make more informed procurement decisions.
74%
of procurement leaders say their data is not AI-ready – so the AI mandate lands on a foundation that cannot carry it.
The savings plateau
The easy wins are gone and the next dollar is harder to find. Procurement workloads rose 9.8% while operating budgets stayed flat (Hackett, 2025). Squeezing the same suppliers harder is no longer a credible plan, and the baseline gets rebased every January.
Brought into commercial decisions too late
Scope, specification and supplier are often chosen before procurement is in the room. That leaves the function policing cost instead of shaping it, and reinforces the internal view of procurement as a gate rather than a strategic partner.
Shocks eat the savings
Tariffs, sanctions, supplier failure and commodity or freight spikes erase hard-won run rate before it reaches the P&L. Exposure needs to be visible in hours, not in the quarterly review after the impact has already landed.
AI hype, thin evidence
49% of procurement teams are piloting generative AI and only 4% have achieved large-scale deployment (Gartner Hype Cycle 2025; Hackett). Meanwhile tooling sprawls across the source-to-pay stack, data stays fragmented and adoption stays weak.
How does Beroe help the CPO?
Four things a procurement leader is measured on, and what Beroe puts behind each one.
Go into every renewal knowing the cost structure, the market direction and what good looks like elsewhere. Beroe covers 1,200+ categories with should-cost models, price benchmarks, supplier landscapes and negotiation levers, so your team argues from evidence rather than from last cycle’s price.
Go into every renewal knowing the cost structure, the market direction and what good looks like elsewhere. Beroe covers 1,200+ categories with should-cost models, price benchmarks, supplier landscapes and negotiation levers, so your team argues from evidence rather than from last cycle’s price.
Go into every renewal knowing the cost structure, the market direction and what good looks like elsewhere. Beroe covers 1,200+ categories with should-cost models, price benchmarks, supplier landscapes and negotiation levers, so your team argues from evidence rather than from last cycle’s price.
Go into every renewal knowing the cost structure, the market direction and what good looks like elsewhere. Beroe covers 1,200+ categories with should-cost models, price benchmarks, supplier landscapes and negotiation levers, so your team argues from evidence rather than from last cycle’s price.
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Our Partners
Partnerships in Practice
What changes for a procurement team when Beroe’s intelligence meets a partner’s capability.
Consulting Partner
Kearney
With Beroe MAX powered by Kearney, category managers apply Kearney’s methodology, benchmarks, and decision frameworks against their own spend, contracts, and suppliers – continuously, and without needing a consultant in the room.
Technology Partner
Coupa
With Coupa, sourcing teams see category, supplier, and cost intelligence inside the requisition and sourcing event they are already working in, removing the gap between researching a decision and making it.
Data partner
Dow Jones
With Dow Jones, risk and category teams screen suppliers against global news, sanctions, and adverse media coverage, surfacing exposure that financial data alone does not reveal.
Become a Partner
Partner with Beroe
Beroe partners with organizations that share a conviction that procurement decisions should rest on evidence.
Partnership conversations start with a shared client outcome. Beroe’s partnerships team can be reached below.
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Partnership conversations start with a shared client outcome. Beroe’s partnerships team can be reached below.
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Data providers whose sources sharpen what procurement teams see.
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Platforms where intelligence belongs in the workflow.
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Advisory firms whose recommendations carry more weight with market intelligence behind them.
Our Solutions for Decision-Grade Intelligence
Category Intelligence
An always-current view of any category: market trends, cost drivers, and the forces shaping supply and demand. The starting point for any sourcing or category decision.
Supplier Intelligence
Know who’s in the market, what they can do, and how they’re performing, to help you find, compare, and qualify suppliers.
Commodity Intelligence
Track the raw materials and commodities behind your spend, with price movements, forecasts, and the demand-supply dynamics that drive them.
Cost Structure and Price Trends
See what a product or service is really built from: cost breakdowns and price trends that give you the upper hand in budgeting and negotiation.
Macro Intelligence
The bigger picture around your spend: economic, geopolitical, and trade signals that move markets before they reach your categories.
Risk Intelligence
Continuous visibility into supplier and supply-chain risk, with early warning on the disruptions that could hit your business.
400 analysts turning a billion raw signals into 30M+ proprietary, validated data points
2,500
Industry experts via Beroe Vox, our Voice of Experts network
2,5000+
Supplier network
425+
Category-specific licensed subscriptions and data partners
10,000+
Practitioner community: polls, surveys and discussions
Web
Public and open-web signals, contextualised
beroe datahub
Access Beroe’s decision-grade intelligence inside your own systems, workflows, or AI agents, via API or MCP server. Bring Beroe to where your team already works.
beroe max
Gives you visibility into where value is being lost and where it can be gained, and tells you exactly what to do to maximize margins while optimizing risk and ESG.
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inflation watch
From volatility to visibility. Budgeting and cost-management guidance that turns price movement into a plan.
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beroe bespoke
Spend Analytics
Understand where your money goes, uncover hidden savings, and turn spending data into smarter procurement decisions.
Benchmarking
Benchmark prices and supplier performance against the market to uncover gaps, improve negotiations, and drive better procurement outcomes.
Risk Analytics
Go beyond standard monitoring with deeper risk assessments that uncover hidden threats, vulnerabilities, and potential business impact.
Tariff Impact Modelling
Quantify tariff and trade-cost exposure to understand financial impact, assess scenarios, and plan smarter sourcing strategies.
Sourcing-analyst-as-a-service
Get an expert sourcing analyst on demand to manage sourcing events, uncover opportunities, and support better procurement decisions.
Category-analyst-as-a-service
Get ongoing category analyst support on demand to uncover market insights, identify opportunities, and strengthen category strategies.
Layer 3 · Not more information, a clearer answer
Advisory
The advisory layer moves Beroe up the value chain, from telling you what’s happening to helping you decide what to do.
beroe negotiations
For the negotiations that matter. Game theory and market intelligence applied to your highest-stakes negotiations.
Competitive Negotiations
Game-theory-driven, multi-supplier negotiation events.
Bilateral
One-on-one negotiation support for single-source and incumbent deals.
Suitability Advisor
Assesses which deals are the right fit for autonomous negotiation before you launch.
beroe live.ai
Intelligence to analysis to advice, all in one place: Beroe Live. The ultimate platform for unifying your procurement universe – including Suppliers, Supply Chains, and Categories – into one powerful, holistic view.
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Insights and Resources
Resources for procurement leaders
Explore market intelligence, research, reports, and expert perspectives that help procurement teams navigate change, uncover opportunities, and make confident decisions.
