888: Remove Friction, Build Trust: Prioritizing the Partnerships Behind the Data
Procurement teams are under steady pressure to do more with less, and AI has made boards impatient for faster, smarter answers. Most teams can't build every capability they need in-house, so the CPOs ...
19 Okt 48min
Ep 03: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Boring Enough and Safe Enough: When AI Gets the Keys
Dear Diary… "I was watching a lot of smart people, day in and day out, looking across documents, opening folders." Most procurement teams pick AI use cases by asking what the technology can do. Liza T...
14 Okt 25min
887: Sustainable Procurement: Where Policy Meets Practice W/ Nicole Darnall
"If you're not thinking about what you inherit through your procurement decisions, then you're not truly serious about managing your climate impacts." - Nicole Darnall, Professor, Arlene R. & Robert P...
12 Okt 34min
EP 018: Provider of the Week: Candex
"Everybody's trying to simplify. Everybody's trying to make the process better and the end-user experience for buying better." - Jeremy Lappin, Co-founder and CEO, Candex Are you frustrated by the end...
7 Okt 28min
886: The AI Performance Gap: What Procurement Leaders Are Doing Differently W/ Christopher Sawchuk
"It has to start with the business outcomes that we want. This becomes an operating model decision. Technology has to support the operating model that we're designing." - Christopher Sawchuk, Principa...
5 Okt 33min
Ep 02: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: The Work-Work Balance: Building an Agentic Supply Chain at SLB W/ Jeffrey Ostrander
Dear Diary… "I use AI a lot to help scout out things or pose challenges and see where solutions are being marketed along those lines." Jeffrey Ostrander runs a nearly $5 billion business in one of the...
30 Sep 38min
885: Procurement Should Be a Safe Pair of Hands in a Complex World W/ Frank Mckay
"Do we have a supply chain that we are building that is going to allow us to navigate and be agile enough, no matter what the world continues to throw at us?" - Frank Mckay, Chief Supply Chain & Procu...
28 Sep 34min
EP 017: Stop Buying Technology. Start Changing the Operating Model W/ Mason Morgan
"AI makes the answers cheaper, so the good questions and good judgment really become the coin of the realm." - Mason Morgan, Managing Director, Managing Director at CrossCountry Consulting focusing on...
23 Sep 37min
