February 17, 2021
Connecting Procurement Performance with Company Growth
At AOP Mastermind LIVE in October, we asked CPOs about their top objectives heading into 2021. The number two objective…
February 10, 2021
Making Procurement’s Impact More Visible
One of the questions we frequently get is: How do I make sure the value that procurement provides to the…
February 3, 2021
How to Outsource Services in a Changing Economy
About five years ago, procurement outsourcing was all the rage. Companies would outsource sourcing and category management ‘en masse.’ It…
January 27, 2021
Advice for Building Procurement From Scratch
Congratulations! Your company has embraced the value of formal procurement enough to invest in it. Now that we’ve basked in…
January 20, 2021
The Top 5 CPO Priorities at the Start of 2021
We did some research as part of the Mastermind LIVE event we held back in October. We asked all of…
January 13, 2021
Handling ‘the Present Situation’
We’ve all had so much to deal with over the last year. In most cases, people just refer to ‘the…
January 6, 2021
Getting and Keeping the A-team
Anyone that has ever sourced professional services knows that one of the top concerns is having a firm bid –…
December 7, 2020
Heroes in Our Midst: Pivoting to the Potential of 2021
For all the stories of stress and struggle we heard in 2020, there have also been some amazing examples of…
September 23, 2020
Caution! Category Dynamics Subject to Change
A couple of months ago on the pod we chatted with Arthur Piszczor, a Consultant at Corcentric, about the changes…
September 16, 2020
Will Automation Replace Procurement?
The idea of automating professional activities is nothing new. You only need to look at marketing over the last 10…
