EP 33 - AMD's Abhijit Kulkarni on Selecting 5-Year Growth Partners
Transactional supplier relationships weren’t working out, so Abhijit Kulkarni, Director of Manufacturing Strategy and Procurement at AMD, and his team shifted to identifying "growth partners" who can ...
18 Nov 202539min
EP 32 - New Balance's Duncan Scott on How Marketing Decisions Reshape Supply Chains
Duncan Scott, Sr VP of Strategic Sourcing & Quality at New Balance, manages sourcing and quality for a company that introduces thousands of new footwear and apparel products annually, each requiring s...
6 Nov 202533min
EP 31 - TripAdvisor's Freya Hurwitz on Cross-Functional Experience vs Category Expertise
Freya Hurwitz, Director of Procurement at TripAdvisor, manages procurement for TripAdvisor's 3,500 employees across four global brands with just one and half people on her team. Rather than trying to ...
23 Okt 202534min
EP 30 - JLL's Brent Kellett on Elevating Procurement Through Trust and Early Engagement
Cost avoidance delivers the same strategic value as cost savings, but CFOs often miss this reality when evaluating procurement performance. At JLL, Sr. Director, Group Sourcing Lead Brent Kellett has ...
9 Okt 202532min
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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Aug 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 Jul 202543min
