Iowa
Technology
Summit
TRANSFORMATION TRACK
The Maturity Gap: From Siloed Procurement Data to Resilient, Adaptive Supply Chains
APR. 7 / 10:25 AM - 10:55 AM / MINI KEYNOTE
About
The primary obstacle to supply chain resilience in 2026 is no longer a lack of technology; it is the maturity gap created when procurement, risk, and execution data remain siloed across the enterprise. Many organizations continue to pay a hidden “silo tax,” limiting their ability to anticipate disruption, respond quickly, and translate insight into action.
While the industry is moving toward more autonomous and adaptive operating models enabled by analytics and AI, the reality for most organizations is far more fragmented. Despite years of digital procurement investment, many remain stalled in manual workarounds, reactive firefighting, and disconnected decision-making.
This session deconstructs the global procurement maturity curve to explain why progress often stalls and what differentiates organizations that successfully enable resilience. Framed through an implementation-led lens, the discussion highlights procurement’s role as the connective function between strategy and execution, i.e., linking sourcing decisions, supplier risk, and operational outcomes.
The session also explores how disciplined adoption of digital platforms and AI, supported by strong data and governance foundations, can help organizations close the maturity gap without over-reliance on hype-driven claims of full autonomy. Interactive audience moments will invite participants to reflect on their own maturity gaps and identify the boundaries that hold back their procurement organizations.
Takeaways
- Recognize how siloed procurement and supply chain data creates a maturity gap that limits resilience, decision speed, and enterprise value.
- Understand why autonomy and resilience are outcomes of procurement maturity, not starting points, and how AI and digital platforms accelerate progress when foundations are in place.
- Identify practical priorities to move procurement from reactive execution toward an integrated, insight-driven enabler of resilient operations.
Speaker
Anshul Bansal
Senior Manager - Sourcing and Procurement
Accenture
Anshul Bansal is a technology consulting leader at Accenture LLP with 18+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale procurement, finance, and supply chain transformation programs. He specializes in implementing Source-to-Pay (S2P) and spend management transformations, helping organizations translate strategy into executed outcomes.
Throughout his career at leading consulting firms, including Accenture and Deloitte Consulting, he has served as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, guiding complex enterprise transformations spanning sourcing, supplier risk management, procurement operations, and financial systems integration. He works closely with executive sponsors and functional leaders to modernize operating models, integrate digital platforms, and embed new capabilities into day-to-day execution.
His recent work focuses on technology reinvention through analytics, automation, and AI, with a pragmatic emphasis on breaking down data silos, reducing manual workarounds, and enabling more resilient and adaptive supply chain operations.
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