Procurement software
Technology category · O*NET
Procurement software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 19 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 61st percentile of AI task-exposure ( moderate) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.
A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.
Example software & tools
Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.
| Software / tool | Occupations | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Purchasing software | 6 | In demand |
| Order management software | 4 | In demand |
| Aestiva Purchase Order | 3 | |
| Oracle Advanced Procurement | 2 | |
| 1ST Pricing Window & Door Toolkit | 1 | |
| Automated purchase order software | 1 | |
| Bottomline Technologies Bottomline Sprinter Purchasing Manager | 1 | |
| Brokerage software | 1 | |
| Ordering and purchasing software | 1 | |
| PurchasingNet eProcurement | 1 | |
| SAP Ariba | 1 | |
| Sourcing Simulator | 1 | |
| Supply ordering software | 1 | |
| Vision Software | 1 | |
| eBuy | 1 |
Occupations that use Procurement software
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
- Cargo and Freight Agents
- Construction and Building Inspectors
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
- Farm and Home Management Educators
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
- Floral Designers
- Freight Forwarders
- Logisticians
- Order Clerks
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Purchasing Managers
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
- Supply Chain Managers
- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
How AI is used by roles that use Procurement software
A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Procurement software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 78.9% of the 19 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (15 roles).
Across those roles, 47.2% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 39.8% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.34 / 5.
| Collaboration pattern | Share | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| directive | 38.3% | AI does it; you give the instruction |
| task iteration | 38.2% | you and AI go back and forth |
| learning | 5.8% | you ask AI to explain or teach |
| validation | 3.2% | you do it; AI checks your work |
| feedback loop | 1.5% | AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback |
Roles behind this signal
The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.
| Occupation | Works with AI | Autonomy |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants | 52.8% | 3.0/5 |
| Architects, Except Landscape and Naval | 53.8% | 4.0/5 |
| Purchasing Managers | 38.0% | 3.0/5 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 50.0% | 4.0/5 |
| Farm and Home Management Advisors | 30.1% | 4.0/5 |
| Logisticians | 46.6% | 4.0/5 |
| Freight Forwarders | 23.5% | 3.5/5 |
| Order Clerks | 45.4% | 3.5/5 |
| Construction and Building Inspectors | 40.0% | 3.0/5 |
| Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products | — | — |
| Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks | 17.1% | 3.5/5 |
| Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks | 50.8% | 4.0/5 |
Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Procurement software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.
Industries that concentrate this
Where Procurement software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Procurement software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.
Nationally, about 2.6% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Procurement software (measured across 65 industries).
Sectors with the most such workers
| Sector | Workers | Employment reach |
|---|---|---|
| Accommodation and Food Services | 1,025,820 | 7.2% |
| Manufacturing | 523,000 | 4.1% |
| Transportation and Warehousing | 386,840 | 5.2% |
| Retail Trade | 323,670 | 2.1% |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | 313,680 | 2.9% |
| Wholesale Trade | 275,890 | 4.6% |
| Health Care and Social Assistance | 154,410 | 0.7% |
| Educational Services | 137,260 | 1.0% |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 123,940 | 4.4% |
| Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | 123,400 | 1.4% |
| Construction | 80,660 | 1.0% |
| Finance and Insurance | 67,190 | 1.1% |
Industries where it is most concentrated
| Industry | Level | Concentration | Employment reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Sector | 3.23× | 8.4% |
| Accommodation and Food Services | Sector | 2.77× | 7.2% |
| Full-Service Restaurants | National industry | 2.12× | 5.5% |
| Transportation and Warehousing | Sector | 2× | 5.2% |
| Engineering Services | National industry | 1.96× | 5.1% |
| Wholesale Trade | Sector | 1.77× | 4.6% |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | Sector | 1.69× | 4.4% |
| Manufacturing | Sector | 1.58× | 4.1% |
| Sporting Goods Retailers | National industry | 1.23× | 3.2% |
| Machine Shops | National industry | 1.23× | 3.2% |
| Testing Laboratories and Services | National industry | 1.19× | 3.1% |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Sector | 1.12× | 2.9% |
Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.
Sources for this page
Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.
- O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Census NAICS 2022 U.S. Census Bureau
- Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
- “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
- AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic
Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.
Cite this page
Singulariki. "Procurement software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/procurement-software
Singulariki. (2026). Procurement software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/procurement-software
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