"My Data Sucks!": The Hard Reality Check Most Procurement Teams Need Right Now
Everyone wants to talk about AI, but no one wants to talk about the mess in their data lake. In this episode of Proc & Roll, hosts Conrad Smith, Zachary Bachir, and Natasha Gurevich debate the unsexy ...
21 Jan 32min
"You're Only as Good as Your Last Failure" : Former Meta S2P Leader Talks Credibility
Why do business stakeholders roll their eyes when you talk about "cost savings"? And why does the next generation of talent treat their career path like a video game?In this episode, hosts Zachary Bac...
16 Jan 47min
AI vs. The Experts: Who Actually Predicted the Future of Procurement?
Will Procurement Teams Shrink in 2026?It is time for our retrospective! In this episode of Proc & Roll, hosts Conrad Smith, Natasha Gurevich, and Zachary Bachir look back at their 2025 forecasts and l...
8 Jan 1h 15min
Backstage Pass to M&A: Surviving the 5-Deal-a-Month World Tour
In this Jam Session, host Conrad Smith sits down with Jay Sklar from Hub International for a masterclass in high-velocity procurement.With Hub International acquiring an average of five companies ever...
30 Dec 202553min
I Love Proc 'n' Roll: The First Anniversary Special
Happy 1st Birthday to Proc & Roll! 🎂🎸Can you believe it has been a whole year? In this special anniversary episode, hosts Conrad Smith, Natasha Gurevich, and Zach Bachir put aside the interview scri...
22 Dec 202551min
The Industrial Mindset: How to Engineer Better Indirect Procurement
"We jumped off a cliff and built the plane on the way down." ✈️That is how Arnaud, Head of Indirect Procurement at BIC, describes the massive challenge of building a non-GMO supply chain from scratch ...
17 Dec 202542min
Start Me Up: MVK’s Guide to "Start Small, Fail Fast" with AI
"Don't let IT select the technology." 🛑That is just one of the hard-hitting pieces of advice from Michael Van Keulen (MVK), Chief Customer Officer at Green Cabbage and former CPO at Coupa, Lululemon,...
11 Dec 202547min
Better, Faster, Stronger: The Power of Agentic Workflows
Can you build a fully functional AI procurement agent in just 50 hours?In this special "Show and Tell" episode, host Zachary Bachir rolls up his sleeves to demonstrate an AI intake agent he built from...
3 Dec 202559min
