adsAfrican large enterprises have been urged to adopt digital procurement platforms to combat hidden spending leakages, supplier risk blind spots, and governance failures.
This is as procurement experts push for deeper technology integration across supply chains at the Digital Procurement Africa Summit 2026, themed ‘Accelerating Procurement Transformation for Large Enterprises in the Digital Era’.
According to them, procurement software is evolving from a back-office efficiency tool into a core enterprise intelligence system capable of tracking supplier behavior, monitoring compliance, and identifying financial risk across complex vendor networks.
Gloopro was highlighted as the procurement technology used to manage tail spend which is the thousands of low-value purchases that often escape oversight inside large organisations.
Adenrele Thompson, indirect procurement manager for supply chain at Coca-Cola HBC, said many businesses historically treated small procurement transactions as too insignificant to monitor closely, creating major governance gaps over time.adsads
