Where Does Your Procurement Organization Truly Stand on the Path to Autonomy?

Everyone is “doing AI”,  yet very few know whether they’re actually advancing.

Modern enterprises insist they’ve adopted AI, but beneath the surface lies a harder truth: adoption is not maturity. Many organizations are stuck in silent plateaus — running pilots, automating tasks, introducing tools, but not moving any closer to enterprise-wide intelligence or autonomous procurement.

The AI Adoption Index 2025–26 cuts through that illusion.

Built on global benchmarks, cross-industry analysis, and Zycus’ deep procurement intelligence, this Index reveals the hidden patterns behind AI progress — and the barriers leaders don’t see until it’s too late. It exposes the gap between “using AI” and “benefiting from AI,” and gives procurement leaders a clear, structured way to evaluate their true position on the autonomy curve.

What’s Inside the Index?

A Reality Check on Enterprise AI Progress
Why so many organizations move fast at first — then stall.
The Six Dimensions That Define True AI Maturity
A complete framework to evaluate readiness across data, orchestration, intelligence and autonomy.
Procurement’s Hidden Maturity Gap
Where AI accelerates easily — and where it consistently collapses.
The Nine AI Use Cases Every Leader Must Prioritize
Ranked not by hype, but by proven value pathways.
The Five Barriers Blocking AI Scale
The underlying structural factors that slow AI programs more than technology ever does.
The Autonomy Roadmap
A staged progression model showing how organizations evolve from scattered automation to coordinated, intelligent, self-driving procurement.

See where you stand. See where the industry is heading. And see what it takes to get ahead.