Inside the New Gartner® Research About the Next Wave of Procurement Orchestration Platforms

A procurement orchestration platform is a system that connects intake, workflows, and supplier management to help organizations manage complex processes across multiple systems. Levelpath believes this major shift in digital procurement is the central insight in Gartner’s latest research, Innovation Insight: Procurement Orchestration Platforms. 

According to the Gartner report, 93% of procurement organizations say efficiency is their top digital goal, yet 85% still rely on disconnected systems that slow progress and frustrate users. Procurement orchestration provides the connective tissue needed to simplify those experiences and deliver consistent, measurable results.

Procurement has become increasingly complex. Processes often span across functions like finance, IT, and legal, with each one using disparate technologies and datasets. This fragmentation limits visibility and creates delays for everything, even routine decisions.

A procurement orchestration platform creates a bridge between those systems. It understands a stakeholder’s request, identifies the right workflow, and coordinates the data and tools required to complete the process. Rather than replacing existing technology, orchestration brings order to the tools already in place.

The orchestration layer improves efficiency, reduces manual data entry, and enables a unified experience across the organization. It also creates the foundation for more advanced automation and AI capabilities.

Gartner identifies procurement orchestration as an emerging but transformative category. The market is advancing rapidly.

The research describes three stages of orchestration maturity:

• Integrate: Synchronizing data between systems to ensure information alignment.
• Execute: Coordinating workflows and automating static processes, which reflects the current state of most providers.
• Orchestrate: Dynamically creating workflows and integrations based on policies, data, and context to achieve optimal business outcomes.

Most organizations today operate in the Execute phase, where orchestration aligns static workflows across tools. Gartner expects the next evolution to reach the Orchestrate phase, where systems dynamically decide how to fulfill requests using AI-driven logic, policy data, and external insights.

The report also connects orchestration to the rise of agentic AI, suggesting that orchestration will become the operational backbone for intelligent systems capable of not only executing tasks but determining how best to complete them.

Gartner views orchestration as the foundation for intelligent, AI-enabled procurement. Levelpath believes that we bring that vision to life. At Levelpath, orchestration is the foundation of AI-native procurement.

The Levelpath platform connects intake, workflows, and decision logic into one intelligent system. Powered by Hyperbridge, our proprietary AI reasoning engine, Levelpath interprets natural language requests, automates coordination between systems, and learns from user behavior to improve outcomes continuously. Levelpath also reaches out to other systems based on client preferences to synchronize and share master data as well as support broader enterprise finance, supply chain, and legal processes.

This approach transforms procurement from a series of disconnected tools into a cohesive, user-friendly experience. Leaders gain visibility across sourcing, contracts, and suppliers. Stakeholders experience faster turnaround times, fewer manual steps, and greater transparency. As a result, organizations operate with greater speed, smarter spend, and stronger control. Procurement shifts from enforcing compliance to enabling innovation and delivering measurable impact on revenue acceleration, margin expansion, and enterprise resilience.

Learn how procurement orchestration platforms are shaping the next wave of transformation and automation. Access the complimentary Gartner® report here.

Gartner® Innovation Insight: Procurement Orchestration Platforms, 2025, By Magnus Bergfors, Chaithanya Paradarami, 10 September 2025

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