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
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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jun 202533min
