Art of Procurement

BTW EP 09: Status Quo Harms Through the GPO Lens with David McCarty

Twenty-five years after co-founding Corporate United, the first indirect GPO in the United States, David McCarty points out an inconvenient truth: the very tools procurement once developed to leverage...

14 Touko 202539min

802: A Journey of Continuous Transformation at IKEA W/ Joel Andersson

"In a transformation, make your good examples in the beginning, where you think you will make a difference." - Joel Andersson, Process development and digitalization project leader - indirect procurem...

12 Touko 202536min

801: Procurement 6 | May 9th, 2025

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team...

9 Touko 20259min

800: Procurement's Communication Superpower W/ David Yarkin

"If you can't understand how procurement affects the ultimate end users in your organization, whether it's a state prison, or whether it's a manufacturing facility in Germany, then you're abdicating y...

5 Touko 202535min

799: Procurement 6 | May 2nd, 2025

2 Touko 202510min

BTW EP 08: The Phil-Ins: In Search of Equilibrium with Phil, Kelly, and Rich

More than one hundred years after John C. Dinsmore wrote in Purchasing Principles and Practices that "there should be no great chasm between the board of directors who represent the stockholders whose...

30 Huhti 202531min

798: Bridging the Gap Between Procurement and Legal W/ Paul Bagley

"I understand that tension between procurement and legal could happen, but it really is a disservice to each other. It's like two brothers fighting. It doesn't make any sense." - Paul Bagley, Director...

28 Huhti 202539min