Art of Procurement

January 2017 marks the first month of a new collaboration that I am very excited about. I am co-hosting a new monthly show, imaginatively titled The Month in Procurement, with Mark Perera. Mark is t...

19 Jan 201746min

My guest on today's show is Mark Webb. Mark is the Managing Director of UK based procurement consultancy firm, Future Purchasing. Following experience as a practitioner and then in consulting with PwC...

17 Jan 201741min

Today's guest on the Art of Procurement is Mark Trowbridge, the co-founder and Principal for Strategic Procurement Solutions, and the former Director of Sourcing and Contracts at Bank of America. Mark...

10 Jan 201757min

Welcome to 2017!  In this first show of the year, I share details of Art of Procurement's publishing schedule in 2017, invite applications to a new AOP Circle of Experts, and share thoughts on facilit...

3 Jan 201712min

So here we are: The Best of 2016 List. As the year comes to a close, I sat down to consider which episodes have been the most powerful and impactful in 2016.  Some of these have been my personal favor...

16 Dec 20164min

Pierre Mitchell was the first supply chain practitioner to become a procurement "industry analyst" with roles at AMR Research (now Gartner) followed by The Hackett Group, and now Spend Matters. There ...

13 Dec 201629min

On today's Art of Procurement, I answer a listener question. The question was: how do you make a supplier happy. Now, I'm going to assume that the right answer isn't to give them riches for providing ...

9 Dec 20167min

6 Dec 201636min