374: Driving a Growth Agenda - The Role of Suppliers in Restoring Growth w/ Vishal Patel
As organizations look beyond Covid-19, restoring growth is top of mind for many. Specific strategies vary by industry and company, but suppliers often play an integral role. This is especially true as...
23 Feb 202115min
373: Driving a Growth Agenda - How Procurement Can Help Restore Growth through Cross-Functional Collaboration w/ Sylvie Noel
Procurement's stature has grown during the COVID-19 crisis as costs, cash flow and supply continuity quickly became top priorities and homepage news. To maintain its slot on the boardroom agenda going...
22 Feb 202122min
372: Procurement's Role in Managing Risk & Driving Resilience w/ Canda Rozier
Risk management may not always be a formal part of procurement's scope, but it is a natural extension of our current work. As a result, the difference between procurement's ability to effectively mana...
15 Feb 202136min
371: Using Qualifications-based Selection (QBS) for Sourcing Creative Services w/ Leah Power
Marketing is just one of the functions that procurement has a somewhat 'rocky' history of past relationships with. When you extend that existing internal friction into the relationship with creative a...
8 Feb 202146min
370: Getting a Grip on Your Long Tail Spend w/ Tom Cicale and Sameer Sharma
Despite the fact that the need to manage tail spend is hardly a new idea in procurement, it continues to be one of the greatest challenges we face. Tail spend is messy, risky, hard to analyze, and - i...
2 Feb 202157min
369: How Procurement Can Impact the Health of our Local Communities w/ Mary Beth Lang
All companies have been affected by the pandemic over the last year, but companies in the healthcare industry - like Kaiser Permanente - have felt the pressure and the change to their operating proced...
25 Jan 202132min
368: Leadership, Engagement, and Burnout in a Virtual Workforce w/ Tom Graham
In the spring and summer of 2020, there were plenty of stories about professionals and teams rallying to get their jobs done while working remotely, in some cases even going above and beyond to achiev...
18 Jan 202129min
367: Building World Class Procurement From Scratch w/ Jaime Robles
Casey's General Stores is the 5th largest convenience store chain in the United States and owns one of the largest pizza brands in the nation. With 2,200 locations in 16 midwestern states, they have $...
11 Jan 202137min
