IDC Spotlight: Spend orchestration as enterprise infrastructure

Nearly a quarter of orchestrations say they’ll replace enterprise applications that don’t ship generative AI in their next release. Procurement is at the leading edge of this shift.

In this IDC Spotlight, Patrick Reymann lays out why spend orchestration has graduated from a procurement UX upgrade to strategic enterprise infrastructure, and what the hybrid human-agent operating model looks like in practice.

What you’ll learn

• Why the C-suite is reopening platform decisions now, with the IDC survey data driving the conversation
• The four AI capability layers reshaping procurement, from guided intake to autonomous execution
• The "overlay then unwind" strategy organizations use to reduce dependence on legacy S2P without ripping anything out
• Why orchestration is the governance layer AI agents require to operate in production
• How to evaluate spend orchestration platforms on architecture and adoption, not feature checklists‍
• A vendor profile of Zip, including the data model distinction that determines what AI agents can execute