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Now displaying: May, 2022
May 30, 2022

There has been an explosion of startups and investment interest in the digital procurement space over the last few years. As companies with new and diverse perspectives tackle shared problems in unique ways, the type and variety of ‘best of breed’ options available in the ecosystem broadens as well.

In this week’s episode, we bring you a session from our recent AOP Digital Outcomes 2022 virtual event. Philip Ideson was joined by Jack Freeman, a Partner at PeakSpan Capital, to talk about the tech trends he is seeing - and how lasting he thinks they will be.

Key takeaways from the interview include:

  • The pace of change within procurement, and how well that matches the pace of change in enterprises and markets
  • How he sees the battle to be the ‘single source of truth’ playing out
  • Ways that today’s technology is pushing processes to adapt, and improving the user and supplier experience in the process
May 27, 2022
Procurement 6 is a new short podcast from Art of Procurement that will be published in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team, each episode will have 6 short segments that summarize this week in procurement.

Segments will range from procurement tips to podcast summaries, from details of events to news or overviews of blog posts that have captured our attention this week.

May 23, 2022

Procurement has a troubled relationship with the notion of ‘best in class’ practices. On the one hand, all teams want to be considered best in class. On the other hand, how procurement teams align with their organization as a whole is very nuanced, and should vary company by company. What should procurement strive to be?

Rendi Miller is the Vice President of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement at Zendesk and a passionate supporter of the procurement community as a whole. Rendi and host Philip Ideson recently connected in person at the ProcureCon Indirect West event in Phoenix, AZ. 

They took that opportunity to discuss

  • Her experience working to build a procurement group in a high-growth tech environment 
  • What the procurement experience should look and feel like and how she and her team make that vision a reality
  • How she is working to future-proof procurement’s strategic role in times of significant change and disruption 
May 20, 2022
Procurement 6 is a new short podcast from Art of Procurement that will be published in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team, each episode will have 6 short segments that summarize this week in procurement.

Segments will range from procurement tips to podcast summaries, from details of events to news or overviews of blog posts that have captured our attention this week.

May 16, 2022

Contingent workforce spend is often seen as a risky, cost-based category. While lowering cost and risk is important, there is a whole range of strategic benefits available to companies that take a broader approach. 

Procurement needs to think bigger and take the category to the next level so they can deliver value beyond savings. 

In this episode, Philip Ideson is joined by Morten Petersen, the co-founder and CEO of Worksome, as well as James Nicholls, Worksome’s Head of Enterprise, about contingent workforce trends and best practices.

They discuss a number of audience-driven topics, including: 

  • How contingent workforce is changing, 
  • Procurement’s role in helping organizations think about talent more broadly, 
  • How contingent workforce spend can deliver a lot of value and innovation, 
  • And finally, how to avoid doing more harm than good!
May 13, 2022

Procurement 6 is a new short podcast from Art of Procurement that will be published in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team, each episode will have 6 short segments that summarize this week in procurement.

Segments will range from procurement tips to podcast summaries, from details of events to news or overviews of blog posts that have captured our attention this week.

May 9, 2022

Far more teams talk about category management than successfully carry it out, but is the challenge one of talent or scale? It is certainly one of the more creative processes procurement engages in, which opens the door to more value creation - as long as procurement has the right metrics and KPIs guiding their work.

In this week’s episode, we bring you a session from our recent AOP Digital Outcomes 2022 virtual event. Kelly Barner was joined by Gary Levitan from WeWork and Remko Van Hoek from the University of Arkansas to discuss whether or not category management initiatives can be executed at scale.

Key takeaways from the interview include:

  • Category management can facilitate stakeholder collaboration when products, services, and/or suppliers overlap
  • How the automation of rote and even ‘boring’ procurement tasks can make it possible for procurement to invest more time and effort in strategy 
  • Why it is important to consider automation part of a process or a subset of spend categories instead of waiting to include 100% at the same time
May 6, 2022

Procurement 6 is a new short podcast from Art of Procurement that will be published in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team, each episode will have 6 short segments that summarize this week in procurement.

Segments will range from procurement tips to podcast summaries, from details of events to news or overviews of blog posts that have captured our attention this week.

May 3, 2022

We all know what digital transformation is, right? The two words together sound simple enough, but it has become an increasingly complicated process that might start with the intention to improve the business but ends up as a band-aid for problems that never see the light of change. So where have we gone wrong?

Don’t worry, it’s not all on you! Dr. Epstein reveals from a consultant’s point of view the many missteps she’s seen at the executive level that have perpetuated a cycle of inept transformations. But there is hope – in the data flowing through the enterprise and the people working together to use it.

But, Dr. Epstein reminds us – there is no magic button. It takes work. There’s a new skill set that requires a general digital literacy, but it also requires working with people that perhaps have been the roadblock for a long time.

Show host Katherine McCleery takes listeners on a journey through Dr. Epstein’s comprehensive view of where procurement’s gone wrong and a closer look at the path she sees ahead: 

  • How procurement leaders can build a business case for better data and what it takes to close the gap with CIOs 
  • Why open-sourcing data analysis and business strategy is one way to move procurement and supply chain forward
  • Predictions on the state of the supplier experience and where we can expect to see new investment in 2022
May 2, 2022

Procurement’s time, energy, and attention are being pulled in a million directions today - but the ‘loudest’ issues are not always the most important ones. Despite constant disruption and economic uncertainty, we still need to maintain our investment in sustainability, an effort that provides an opportunity for procurement to show what we are truly capable of in terms of organizational impact. 

In this week’s episode, Philip Ideson is joined by one of the giants of the procurement industry, Thomas Udesen, Chief Procurement Officer at Bayer and the Co-Founder of the Sustainable Procurement Pledge. They took this opportunity to discuss his unique procurement philosophy.

Of particular interest are Thomas’ comments on:

  • What sustainability means to him and the role procurement can play in addressing this important challenge 
  • The key ideas he heard at the recent World Sustainable Procurement Day event
  • How procurement can ensure that ideation about sustainability leads to associated actions
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