EP 29 - Procurement & Supply Chain Leader Mark Vierling on the Three P's of Supply Chain Science
Mark Vierling, Procurement & Supply Chain Leader, makes a simple observation: while fractional COOs, CEOs, and CFOs are common, virtually no one was providing fractional Chief Procurement Officer serv...
23 Syys 202521min
EP 28 - UF Health's Dawn Watkins on Building Mutual Incentive Partnerships With Suppliers
How do you centralize procurement across a $1+ billion health system while maintaining 24/7 operations that literally keep people alive? Dawn Watkins, Director of Strategic Sourcing at UF Health, give...
11 Syys 202530min
EP 27 - Aramark's Autumn Bayles on Global Procurement and Spend Harmonization
When Aramark acquired Avenger International—the GPO consortium built by Marriott, Hilton, and other major hotel chains—they weren't just buying a customer list. They were executing a 15-year strategic...
13 Elo 202534min
EP 26 - Michaels' Arvind Nathan on Why Private Brands Carry Retailer Reputation Risk
Arvind Nathan, SVP of Private Brands & Sourcing at The Michaels Companies, Inc., didn't plan to revolutionize how global teams think about private brand sourcing, but his mathematical approach to proc...
31 Heinä 202543min
EP 25 - LogicSource's David Pennino on Finding Gold in Indirect Procurement
David Pennino, CEO & Founder, built LogicSource by recognizing that indirect procurement represents the largest untapped opportunity for most enterprises. His conversation with John highlights how a c...
16 Heinä 202558min
EP 24 - Arm's Sean Park on Making Transformation a SPORT
Sean Park, VP of Procurement and Transformation at Arm, didn't set out to revolutionize procurement at Arm, but when you're scaling a $4 billion semiconductor company at 20% year-over-year growth with...
1 Heinä 202537min
EP 23 - BIC's Steeve Yammine on Their Regionalization Strategy for Global Resilience
Managing 8+ billion products annually across 180+ countries while reducing logistics footprint by 27% requires more than traditional supply chain thinking. Steeve Yammine, Global SVP of Supply Chain a...
18 Kesä 202533min
EP 22 - Komar’s Yelena Mogelefsky on Redefining Sourcing Success Metrics Beyond Just Lowest Cost
"I'm a fireman," is how Yelena Mogelefsky, SVP of Production and Sourcing at Komar describes her role to her children — a perfect metaphor for the daily crisis management that defines sourcing leaders...
25 Maalis 202531min
