Gloopro, Africa’s premier enterprise eProcurement and Procurement-as-a-Service (PaaS) supplier, is about to host the Digital Procurement Africa (DPA) Summit 2026 on the Lagos Eko Resort and Suites on Might 26.
The summit will deliver collectively C-suite executives, policymakers, procurement heads, and provide chain leaders from throughout the continent for a high-level dialog on the way forward for enterprise procurement in Africa.
Themed: ‘Accelerating Procurement Transformation for Massive Enterprises within the Digital Period’, the summit seeks to handle the unstructured provide chain system throughout African international locations, with a view to offering alternatives and entry to a structured provide chain system. The summit can be designed as a targeted government discussion board to handle the challenges in African enterprises and to seize the total worth of digital procurement.
Talking at a press convention in Lagos to announce the summit, the CEO of Gloopro, Dr. Olumide Olusanya, stated Africa’s procurement ecosystem was getting into a defining second, including that digital transformation is on the centre of all of it. “The DPA Summit 2026 is a name to the leaders shaping the way forward for procurement throughout private and non-private sectors to return collectively, share what’s genuinely engaged on the bottom, and decide to the sensible shifts that our continent now requires,” Olusanya stated.
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In keeping with Olusanya, the worldwide and native consultants in procurement that can converse on the summit will clarify what digital procurement means, and the potential affect of procurement to organisations which might be alleged to be leveraging digital procurement as a method of strategic lever to realize their very own enterprise goals.
Talking about the advantages of the summit to organisations, Olusanya stated audio system will share their experiences that can develop into eye-opener to others that aren’t conscious of the impactful issues which might be taking place within the procurement sector and to those that assume Nigeria remains to be far behind by way of procurement.
In keeping with him, the summit will current a platform the place Nigeria and the remainder of Africa will start emigrate from the unstructured procurement provide chain system, to a structured procurement provide chain system.
Strategic Occasion Planner for the Digital Procurement Africa Summit (DPA) 2026, Remi Ibitoye, stated: “The DPA summit is coming at a time the place synergy and collaboration is one thing that everybody who needs to achieve enterprise or something now realizes is kind of vital. So the imaginative and prescient for the summit is to make sure that we now have procurement executives in a room, to have a curated dialog the place they will see and talk about about procurement in Africa and the place it ought to be at this level. There may be want for Nigerians and Africans to start to maneuver in that route to make sure that procurement now turns into actually the strategic lever for enterprise profitability.”
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Confirmed individuals embrace executives from main multinationals, giant enterprises, and public establishments.
Sub themes and targeted case session on the agenda embrace: The hidden prices of guide procurement programs and plugging enterprise leakage; From Gatekeeper to Worth Creator: Reclaiming government time by automation; and Leveraging digital procurement as a governance device for tail-spend and decentralised buying.
