327: Making the Business Case for Retaining or Adding Procurement Headcount w/ Alexis Ryan
It is never easy to request additional headcount, so making sure the timing is right and having a solid business case are critical to protecting your internal reputation and hopefully getting an affir...
29 Jun 202033min
326: How to Build a Simple Sourcing Governance Process to Align Procurement Impact with Business Needs
When it comes to governance during the sourcing process, your experience probably matches one of the following two scenarios: You have a strict 7 or 8 step process, and at the end of each step you ha...
22 Jun 202011min
325: How to Identify & Mitigate Risk with a Category Continuity Plan
For many procurement teams, risk management is now priority #1. If that sounds like your situation, how can you make sense of all the unknowns and ensure that each one of your category strategies is p...
15 Jun 202019min
324: Leadership & Planning in a Time of Disruption w/ Tom Graham
A lot of things have changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, not the least of which has been procurement and supply chain teams being thrust into the spotlight in very challenging conditions....
8 Jun 202038min
323: The Current State of Logistics W/ Joe Lazzerini
Logistics has never been an easy category of spend to manage. Whether your company is multimodal, focused on less-than truckload (LTL), or depends upon small parcel, carriers and third-party logistics...
1 Jun 202044min
322: How to Navigate Zero-Based Budgeting & Apply its Principles to Your Category Strategy w/ David Ward
According to Harvard Business Review, under Zero-based budgeting (ZBB), "Expenses must be justified for each new budget period based on demonstrable needs and costs, as opposed to the more common met...
25 Mai 202044min
321: Misused and Misunderstood: Reclaim the Power of the RFP W/ Dave Hulsen
The scope of responsibilities associated with enterprise procurement has grown significantly over the last decade, and yet we keep coming back to the 'good old' RFP. This one enabling tool often defin...
18 Mai 202044min
320: How to Hire and Be Hired in the Headwinds of the New Economy w/ Mark Holyoake
There are a lot of very talented people today that suddenly find themselves un- or under- employed by no fault of their own and companies lift with critical vacancies. How can professionals and hiring...
11 Mai 202034min
