865: Confidence, Cost, and Compliance: Insights from the Economist Impact Report W/ Gordon Donovan
"Right now, procurement needs to define their future role in the business. Procurement needs to drive that for themselves, because if we don't, then someone is going to drive it for us, and that could...
11 Touko 49min
EP 06: Startup of the Week: Zinit W/ Stan Moskovtsev
It's no secret: procurement teams are under increasing pressure to deliver savings, handle more work with leaner teams, and modernize outdated processes… all at once. While software solutions have flo...
6 Touko 25min
864: Benchmarking Procurement: Lessons from $1.4 Trillion in Spend W/ Sammeli Sammalkorpi
"Don't speak about category savings because that's procurement lingo. We need to speak about gross margin expansion at the end-product level." - Sammeli Sammalkorpi, Co-Founder and CEO, Sievo Spend an...
4 Touko 44min
BTW EP 30: The Talent Shift No One in Procurement Is Ready For W/ Friddy Hoegener
AI is already changing procurement, but, for many, the bigger and more difficult question is what will happen to people in the process. Procurement has long been constrained by capacity: too much data...
29 Huhti 39min
863: The Agentic Shift in Procurement: The Rise of Autonomous Processes
"Procurement now gets to decide where to play, who does the work, and how much of that work is done by humans versus agents." - Viji Doraiswamy, VP Product Marketing, Coupa Senior procurement leaders ...
27 Huhti 38min
EP 05: Provider of the Week: Prewave W/ Harald Nitschinger
In a world defined by volatility, procurement leaders need more than gut instinct to navigate supply chain risks. From regulatory pressure to sudden trade disruptions, organizations can't afford blind...
22 Huhti 26min
862: AI, Talent, and the New Shape of Procurement in India W/ Dr. Swapnil Dubey
"In the AI regime, things are going to be disrupted. So be ready to be disrupted." - Dr. Swapnil Dubey In a market as complex and fast-changing as India, procurement's role has transformed from tactic...
20 Huhti 34min
BTW EP 29: The Phil-Ins: Confront the Data Delusion
"What you think of as the data isn't the right data." This observation from FineTune COO Brian Gamble shines an (uncomfortable) spotlight on one of procurement's biggest challenges: AI has the potent...
15 Huhti 29min
