890: AI Meets Manufacturing Reality: Lessons From Catalyst Detroit W/ Jim Cahalan
Most AI conversations in procurement still stall at the use case. Direct materials teams can't afford that luxury when a botched implementat...
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The Art of Procurement
Learn from Procurement Experts. Host Philip Ideson talks with thought leaders who share the trends, strategies and tactics that you can lever to elevate the role of procurement - and your ca...
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20 of 943 episodesEp 04: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Teach the Agent Before You Trust It: Messer Americas' Guided Buying Story
Dear Diary… I think my advice would be: start sooner rather than later. Most procurement teams expect the hard part of agentic AI to be the...
889: Why Standing Still Is Procurement's Biggest Tech Risk W/ Cyril Wasem
Procurement technology is changing so fast that the tool you buy today will look different in two months. Many CPOs are tempted to wait for...
EP 019: Startup of the Week: Mandel AI
"Supply chains are going to get more complex. As we adopt more agents, there's going to be more coordination, not just between humans but be...
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 c...
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 pi...
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...
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 Lapp...
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...
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." Jeffr...
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 continue...
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 Direct...
884: Beyond On-Time Delivery: Measuring Supplier Stability W/ Shayan Farshid
"You don't need an advanced platform to begin. You just need consistent definitions, discipline, to look at the data, and a willingness to m...
Ep 01: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Why This Is a Once-in-a-Few-Centuries Revolution
Dear Diary… "I believe we are in the midst of a revolution — and I think in a revolution, we as a vendor also want to invest a lot in educat...
883: The CPO Agenda: Scaling AI Beyond the Pilot W/ Darshan Deshmukh
" It's all about building that momentum, creating the value, testing the hypothesis, and then continuing to challenge us to take it to that...
EP 016: Startup of the Week: FlockScore W/ Matthew Spencer
"The earlier you can catch risk, the cheaper it is to solve." - Matthew Spencer, Founder of FlockScore Procurement teams have access to plen...
882: Reengineering Procurement for Greater Impact W/ Polly DeSouza
"If you want a seat at the table, you've got to pull up the chair." - Polly DeSouza, APAC Transformation Leader Procurement teams have spent...
EP 015: Provider of the Week: Tradeverifyd
"It's more the translation of visibility. It's not so much visibility. Visibility is there, but it's what do you do with that?" - Mike Proro...
881: Owning Transformation: How to Successfully Lead Procurement Through Change W/ Gretchen Vance
"Don't ask AI to do something that you don't know how to do yourself." - Gretchen Vance, Vice President Procurement at Forest Lawn Parks and...
EP 014: Provider of the Week: Sievo W/ Sammeli Sammalkorpi
"The expectation level of procurement is rising. Today's stuff that was not possible a year ago, that felt like science fiction three years...