EP 45 - Keurig Dr Pepper's Juliana Saretta on Post-merger Integration through Listening, Not Leverage
Procurement's biggest misconception isn't about the work itself; it's about believing your role stops at cost savings. Juliana Saretta, Former VP of US Sourcing at Keurig Dr Pepper, spent 30 years pro...
24 Mar 34min
EP 44 - Stanford Medicine's Amanda Chawla on the People-First Framework behind a 10-Year Transformation
Amanda Chawla, SVP - Chief Supply Chain & Post Acute Care Officer at Stanford Health Care, inherited a supply chain where half the organization was outsourced, basic functions like category management...
17 Mar 28min
EP 43 - Utz Brands' Ron Schnur on Outpacing Competitors with Risk-Taking and Supplier Partnerships
Utz Brands’ Senior VP/CPO Ron Schnur's M&A integration framework strategy challenges the standard playbook: across six acquisitions, his team at his previous company, White Wave, diagnosed each deal s...
10 Mar 36min
EP 42 - St. Luke's Adrian Wengert on Embedding Medical Directors to Find Cost Savings Buyers Miss
St. Luke’s Health System built a 330,000 square foot consolidated service center with an ASRS featuring 28 automated pickers and nearly 20,000 bins. Adrian Wengert, CSCO & VP of Supply Chain, spent 3 ...
3 Mar 27min
EP 41 – EBIT Intelligent Procurement's Joanne McCourt on Measuring Procurement Success beyond Savings
EBIT Intelligent Procurement ditched their 50% gain-share model for fixed-fee managed services after recognizing how gain-share creates operational friction: departments paying fees from their budgets...
24 Feb 33min
EP 40 – Bon Secours' Daniel Hurry on Industry Elevation over Retention in Leadership Development
Daniel Hurry, President at Advantus Health Partners & CSCO at Bon Secours Mercy Health, helped justify building Advantus Health Partners to their board by calculating the admin fee equation, then pro...
17 Feb 31min
EP 39 – Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Matthew Laud on Diversity in Team & Supplier Selection
Procurement at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center requires abandoning traditional sourcing language when working with physicians whose primary concern is patient outcomes, not optimization metrics...
11 Feb 30min
EP 38 – Northwestern Medicine’s Gary Fennessy on the Shift to Partnership-Based Healthcare Procurement
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Smarter Sourcing: Healthcare, with host Eric O’Daffer. Gary Fennessy, VP & Chief Supply Chain Executive at Northwestern Medicine, has been NM's Chief Supply Chain O...
3 Feb 27min
