AOP PodcastCurrent EventsDial P for ProcurementExpense ManagementSourcing & ContractingSupplier Management May 25, 2023 A GAAP in Judgement at Kraft Heinz Procurement is used to being under pressure to deliver savings, but is that pressure enough to make procurement break the… Kelly Barner Love0
AOP BlogExpense ManagementLeadershipRisk Management July 26, 2022 Can procurement improve the M&A success rate? According to a Harvard Business Review article, The New M&A Playbook, multiple studies put the failure rate for mergers and… Kelly Barner Love0
AOP BlogBusiness AlignmentExpense ManagementTrends June 2, 2022 Climbing Back Into the Hamster Wheel I was recently interviewing Philip Ideson for an episode of The Sourcing Hero, and he brought up part of our… Kelly Barner Love0
AOP PodcastExpense ManagementRisk ManagementSourcing & Contracting February 7, 2022 [Pod] Health Insurance Category Briefing w/ Eric Krieg “For a successful engagement, we have to have the right people at the table. That means that we have to… Philip Ideson Love0
AOP BlogCategory ManagementData & AnalyticsExpense Management January 11, 2022 Partnership, Pricing, and Patience – The Three Advantages of Partnering with a SME Do you have any idea how lucky you are to work in procurement? Who else can understand a business by… Kelly Barner Love0
AOP PodcastDigitizationExpense ManagementSourcing & Contracting November 4, 2021 [Pod] Creating Tail Spend ROI Through an Improved Buyer Experience w/ Jean-Baptiste Anne and Vishal Patel The high number of low-cost transactions is just the beginning of the challenges with tail spend management. Spend often finds… Philip Ideson Love0
AOP PodcastExpense ManagementSupplier ManagementTrends October 11, 2021 [Pod] Responding to Supplier Price Increase Requests w/ Philip Ideson “If you receive a form letter from a supplier that says, ‘Our prices are going up by X%’ you may… Philip Ideson Love0
AOP PodcastCategory ManagementData & AnalyticsExpense Management July 12, 2021 [Pod] Getting Control of Your Telecom Spend “50% of the people we talk to don’t know how much annual telecom spend they have. If you don’t know… Philip Ideson Love0
AOP PodcastCategory ManagementExpense Management May 25, 2020 How to Navigate Zero-Based Budgeting & Apply its Principles to Your Category Strategy w/ David Ward “ZBB is not a cost reduction tool or a weapon to beat suppliers with, It's a framework by which companies… Philip Ideson Love0
AOP PodcastExpense Management May 4, 2020 Seizing the Opportunity for Quick Wins w/ Brian Seipel “The real benefit of quick wins is to get the ball rolling. Procurement can take a small set of spend… Philip Ideson Love0