Do you have any idea how lucky you are to work in procurement? Who else can understand a business by…
Kelly BarnerJune 16, 2021
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Do you have any idea how lucky you are to work in procurement? Who else can understand a business by…
Kelly BarnerJune 16, 2021
Automating professional activities is nothing new. You only need to look at the marketing function to see the impact that automation…
Philip IdesonJune 9, 2021
Let’s start by exploring that feeling… why do you hate the supplier? Or, for that matter, why do you love…
Kelly BarnerJune 2, 2021
What is the one thing that unites procurement teams right now, regardless of industry, size, or maturity level? It is…
Philip IdesonMay 26, 2021
Category management has been one of the foundational pillars in the growth of procurement over the past 20 years. I…
Philip IdesonMay 5, 2021
The people part, that’s always the wrinkle. Procurement can talk about transformation and evolution all we want, but if we…
Kelly BarnerApril 28, 2021
Everyone in a leadership position today is in the process of getting their organization up to speed after a year…
Philip IdesonApril 20, 2021
Everything we do at Art of Procurement is based on our own philosophy about what procurement can and should be.…
Kelly BarnerApril 7, 2021
Do you sign up for virtual events with the very best of intentions - and even block huge windows of…
Philip IdesonMarch 26, 2021
One of my favorite things to talk about is how we can inspire each other with the ‘art of the…
Philip IdesonMarch 15, 2021
Sustainability is a value lever we've been talking about for a long time as procurement professionals, and it is becoming…
Philip IdesonMarch 10, 2021
Governance and compliance have always presented a challenge for procurement - not because we can’t establish and enforce them, but…
Kelly BarnerMarch 3, 2021
At AOP Mastermind LIVE in October, we asked CPOs about their top objectives heading into 2021. The number two objective…
Philip IdesonFebruary 17, 2021
One of the questions we frequently get is: How do I make sure the value that procurement provides to the…
Kelly BarnerFebruary 10, 2021
About five years ago, procurement outsourcing was all the rage. Companies would outsource sourcing and category management ‘en masse.’ It…
Philip IdesonFebruary 3, 2021
Congratulations! Your company has embraced the value of formal procurement enough to invest in it. Now that we’ve basked in…
Kelly BarnerJanuary 27, 2021
We did some research as part of the Mastermind LIVE event we held back in October. We asked all of…
Philip IdesonJanuary 20, 2021
We’ve all had so much to deal with over the last year. In most cases, people just refer to ‘the…
Kelly BarnerJanuary 13, 2021
Anyone that has ever sourced professional services knows that one of the top concerns is having a firm bid –…
Philip IdesonJanuary 6, 2021
For all the stories of stress and struggle we heard in 2020, there have also been some amazing examples of…
Philip IdesonDecember 7, 2020
A couple of months ago on the pod we chatted with Arthur Piszczor, a Consultant at Corcentric, about the changes…
Philip IdesonSeptember 23, 2020
