Purpose: The goal of this study is to systematically examine research reference trends related to procurement outsourcing in the supply chain management from 2000 to 2022. This research will focus on the development trend of procurement outsourcing research in the financial services industry on Scopus data-based scholar.

Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method approach was used in this study, combining bibliometric methods and a literature review. From 2000 to 2022, 33 international publications with the keyword procurement outsourcing in the financial services industry were sourced from the Scopus scholar database via web scraping.

Findings: According to the findings of this study, studies on procurement outsourcing in supply chain are dominated by several fields of study such as competitive procurement process, procurement function, behavior intervention product, simulation, complex equipment outsourcing, strategic procurement outsourcing, comparing, award outsourcing. According to the findings of this study, there are at least three major perspectives that are commonly used when discussing procurement outsourcing in the supply chain management. However, this does not imply that no other perspectives are used in addition to these findings.

Research limitations/implications: The research's limitation is the scope of the articles used, which were sourced from the Scopus database. The recommendations in this study can be used as hypotheses in the future, in addition to research with broader literature sources, and comprehensive and in-depth follow-up research can be conducted. The study's findings are expected to be useful to academics researching outsourcing procurement in the supply chain management.