137: Finding Your Procurement Mojo: This Month in Procurement
This Month in Procurement returns, and this week Mark and I welcome a special guest, Sigi Osagie. Sigi is the charismatic author of the popular procurement book, Procurement Mojo, and a has an extensi...
29 Touko 201742min
136: How CPO's and Academia Combined to Set the Indirect Procurement Standard w/ Sime Curkovic
At the Art of Procurement, we get many press releases - usually detailing client wins, technology updates, or company acquisitions. However, there was one that came across my desk recently announcing...
22 Touko 201750min
135: The Art of Software Licensing and the Move to the Cloud w/ Randy Roth
There was a time, not long ago, when the only procurement professionals who bought software had responsibility for IT sourcing. Today, with the explosion of SaaS, and the use to SaaS technology to del...
15 Touko 201743min
134: How Google is Moving the Procurement Sphere of Influence w/ David Natoff & Bernd Huber
As a procurement leader, how do you balance the needs of your stakeholders with your responsibility to be guardians of third party spend? That is the challenge being addressed head on by today's guest...
8 Touko 201754min
133: Self-Service Sourcing: An Opportunity or Threat for Procurement? w/ Shaz Khan
I am joined today by Shaz Khan, the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Vroozi, a leading cloud-based business purchasing platform. Shaz has a deep background in procurement technology, with a pa...
1 Touko 201741min
132: Building a Procurement Function from the Ground Up, w/ Dave Quillin
Joining me on the show today is Dave Quillin, the manager of procurement for Alliant Credit Union, the seventh largest credit union in the United States. Dave has specialized in technology procurement...
24 Huhti 201750min
131: How Best Buy Procurement Delivers Value Beyond Savings through CSR, w/ Tim Meester
Today, I'm joined by Tim Meester. Tim is the Senior Director of Procurement and Sustainability for Best Buy, an almost forty billion dollar revenue provider of technology products, services, and solut...
17 Huhti 201738min
130: Innovation Broker: Procurement's Next Frontier, w/ Jon Washington
Back in my days in the automotive industry, supplier led innovation played - and still plays - a key role in the development of new innovative products. Procurement organizations have been set up for ...
10 Huhti 201744min
