Staffing benchmark · Sourcing & procurement

Inventory planning as a share of sourcing & procurement staff

Across 4 named companies in 1 industry, the median is 5.7% % of sourcing & procurement, from 1.9% at US Foods to 13.1% at Sysco. Quartiles are published at 8 or more companies; this cut has 4.

named companies with a value

5.7%

median, % of sourcing & procurement

Foodservice distribution

Quartiles. Lean and heavy quartiles for this metric are in the $150 cut.

Definition

The question. What share of sourcing & procurement staff work in inventory planning?

How it is computed. Inventory planning headcount ÷ sourcing & procurement headcount × 100.

Counts people whose title places them in the function: an exact count for the org and a floor for the process, since someone in another function may perform part of it.

Also called: it procurement, sourcing / procurement, supply chain.

Foodservice distribution distributors

Across 4 foodservice distribution distributors, the median is 5.7% % of sourcing & procurement, from 1.9% at US Foods to 13.1% at Sysco. Quartiles are published at 8 or more companies; this cut has 4.

Measured: named-profile census of every person in the function, grossed up for coverage, as of May 2026. The foodservice distribution benchmark.

Company	Ticker	Inventory planning headcount	Sourcing & procurement headcount	Employees	Revenue, $B	% of sourcing & procurement	Provenance
Chefs' Warehouse	CHEF	paid	paid	5,156	4.15	paid	measured
Performance Food Group	PFGC	paid	paid	43,000	63.30	paid	measured
Sysco	SYY	paid	paid	76,000	81.40	paid	measured
US Foods	USFD	paid	paid	30,000	39.42	paid	measured

Company values and headcounts are in the $150 cut.

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