# Japan's IT promotion agency surveyed 1,799 companies and reported generative AI in use in 31.3% of procurement departments against 71.9% of IT departments

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20260716-procurement-specialist-2
Date: 2026-07-30 · Stage: Worker adoption
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## Scope

A national agency's firm survey, and the reason it is recorded under worker adoption rather than deployment is written into the same report. Asked how generative AI is used inside the organisation, 63.3% of companies answered that individuals use it for their work and 44.8% that individuals or departments are trialling it, while only 11.9% said it is built into a department's work process and 18.6% into a company-wide service. That is the distinction this stage exists for: people are using the tool, and employers have largely not rebuilt anything around it. IPA is an incorporated administrative agency under Japan's METI and sells none of the tools it counts, which is what makes this a better instrument than vendor telemetry. Two limits matter for this page. The figure resolves to a department, not a task — it establishes that this function is among the least-served, not which of its duties are touched; the report's separate question on purposes puts summarising, translating and proofreading documents at 82.5% and information search, gathering, analysis and reporting at 77.0%, among companies that have adopted, are trialling or are considering AI. And the survey ran from mid-April to mid-June 2026 in Japan, among companies that answered; only 41.6% of firms with 100 or fewer employees report any DX activity, against 98.7% of firms with more than 1,000, so an average across companies hides a sharp split by size.

## Source

- IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan) — DX動向2026 (DX Trends 2026), full report PDF — https://www.ipa.go.jp/digital/chousa/dx-trend/rcu1hd0000017uk8-att/dx-trend-2026.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

Someone with no tool to sell counted, and the answer for this function is low. Fewer than a third of procurement departments use generative AI at all, while nearly three quarters of IT departments do. The wider number is the more useful one: across all functions, individual use runs at 63.3% while only 11.9% of companies have it built into a department's work process. People have picked the tool up; organisations have mostly not changed how the work runs.

## What it does not show yet

Low use is not proof that this work resists the tool. A department can be last because the work is genuinely hard to hand over, or because nobody bought it a licence, and this survey cannot tell those apart. It also resolves to a department rather than a task, so it says nothing about which of the four duties on this page are affected. It counts Japanese companies that responded between mid-April and mid-June 2026, and DX activity among them splits sharply by company size. Nothing here counts a job, an hour or a headcount.

## How to verify it yourself

Ask your own procurement team two separate questions, because the survey shows they have different answers: how many of them use one of these tools in a given week, and how many steps of the purchasing process officially run through one. If the first number is much larger than the second, your organisation looks like the average one in this report, and the gap is where the unmanaged risk sits.


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