The Procurement Game Changers

Alpha Women in Procurement - A Lone Road to Leadership -- Episode 1

As we have finally arrived at the inaugural episode of our Women's Day Special series,"Alpha Women in Procurement - A Lone Road to Leadership." we're thrilled to have the fabulous Susan Spence as our guest. If you're ready to get inspired and maybe even pick up a few career strategies, be sure to join us for this exciting conversation.

Building A Resilient Supply Chain Network

Soumava Laha discusses supply chain resilience on Procurement Game Changers Podcast. Learn how to invest strategically for competitive advantage and disruption protection. Tune in.

How to set up a procurement organization?

A best-in-class procurement can be a key differentiator for a company’s success. And one of the ways to determine whether it is best-in-class is by looking at its ability to save money for the organization.
According to Ricardo Gaxiola, a procurement veteran with 25 years of experience, the mark of an outstanding procurement is its ability to be recognized as a valuable brand that external suppliers prefer to work with. "Procurement needs to be a facilitator of a data-driven decision-making process in an organization,” he maintains. Ricardo adds that heightened collaboration between procurement and internal stakeholders can be the key to such procurement excellence.
Tune in to learn about his perspective on several other aspects, including how to use technology and how to deal with internal resistance while setting up a procurement organization. Tune in.

How to find the right people for your procurement group?

When the finance, marketing, IT, or HR departments get huge attention and patronage from the top management, procurement is seldom invited to share the limelight.
But best-in-class procurement can contribute to an organization's success in multiple ways, and companies must not fail to use that potential. They should start by building up an efficient procurement team.
Notwithstanding its potential, few business leaders are interested in discovering what procurement does.
This nonchalance is reflected in the recruitment process, with companies often ending up hiring the wrong people for their procurement groups.
In this episode of our PGC podcast, our guest, Aslan Akyol, explains what companies can do to hire the right profiles for procurement. Tune in.

How to convince your business lines that procurement done right can create value?

It is an open secret that procurement is widely underestimated and seldom given the opportunity to prove its potential. No wonder you rarely will find a procurement expert who started his career in this field.
Most people join procurement later in their careers from other fields. This has its advantage; procurement becomes a melting pot of different skills and mindsets.
Fred Leeds, an accomplished procurement expert, reiterates just that when he describes procurement as “a kind of a conglomeration in a cornucopia of different skill sets and mindsets.” Not only that, but procurement also has immense untapped potential to create value for organizations.
Professionals who have worked in this field can vouch for that, but it’s not easy to convince stakeholders. In this episode, Fred discusses a few ways in which procurement can prove its mettle as a trusted partner of organizations.
Fred, who came into this field from an R&D background, currently works for Pernod Ricard, a global premium spirit brand. According to him, earning stakeholders’ trust has to happen organically.  “It's a long way. It's not something that you do overnight,” he pointed out.
Tune in for more insights.

How HR and Procurement can team up to attract talent?

Attracting top talents in the procurement space has always been a challenge. And in this post-covid world, where things like work-life balance or the flexibility to work from home have become more important to candidates than a hefty paycheck or a steep rise in the corporate ladder, filling up positions in the procurement space has become even more critical than ever. Against this backdrop,
HR departments are embracing new tools to address recruitment needs for procurement professionals. But HR's efforts need to be complemented by a change in the leadership mindset to foster an environment of empathy and connection in the workplace.
So, how to attract top talents to the procurement space amid all these? What can be better than hearing it from an Indirect procurement leader who has known this space for 17 years and is a keen observer of the recruitment trends in this sector? Join Nina Bomberg, Global Indirect procurement Director at Dormakaba as she shares her perspective on how HR and procurement can team up to attract the right talent. 

Supplier Relationship Management in Procurement

Supply relationship management (SRM) and its contributions to a company's long-term growth is perhaps the most discussed topic in the sourcing and procurement circles today. We do not exaggerate when we say that without a proper SRM plan in place, you may even face business continuity risk.
In this episode of our #PGC podcast, join Kevin Giblin, the head of strategic sourcing at Fitch Group, for an enriching conversation on today's Supplier Relationship Management landscape, its promises, and challenges.

How to leverage Cooperative Procurement?

Cooperation is empowering and the concept of cooperative procurement is premised on cooperation.  By leveraging cooperative purchasing (where it makes sense) you can enjoy the benefits of economies of scale and greater efficiency in obtaining goods and services. The idea behind such a program is to combine the requirements of several entities to obtain conditions on pricing, volumes, terms, and conditions that you would not obtain otherwise.
In this episode of the PGC podcast, procurement veteran Bob Perkins explains how it is helping enhance public agencies' bargaining power and buying efficiencies. Private and public sectors alike can avail of this purchasing method to their advantage but there are certain situations where your gain can be maximum.
Catch up with these two procurement experts to get a deep understanding of the benefits of this approach, under what circumstances you should leverage it, and what challenges you may have to encounter on the way.

ROI of digital transformation: What to expect in procurement?

Digital Transformation in Procurement can create unexpected and intangible value. Tune in to this episode and explore the path to that value creation with the procurement thought leader, Tomas Wiemer.
 

What is sustainable procurement ?

Today's procurement decisions are going to make a difference tomorrow. Sustainability has become the central theme of the procurement decision-making game. In this episode of our PGC podcast, we are excited to have Thomas Udesen. The CPO at Pharma giant Bayer, and the co-founder of the Sustainable Procurement Pledge, a not-for-profit community.
Join the thought leader to know about what is happening in the sustainable procurement space.