Love Procurement: The Podcast
Welcome to the loveprocurement podcast, where we bring you a fresh and lighthearted take on all things procurement. Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of Procurement with a twist of humor and a sprinkle of fun.
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Ep 14: Should Procurement Be Looking for Savings? feat Roberto Fabris (opens the original)
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Savings will never be unimportant to procurement, but procurement can easily damage their credibility if they selectively report savings without accounting for the full movement of costs, including increases, market conditions, and the baseline against which their performance is being judged. In other words, procurement should stop defining their value in terms of savings and start building credibility through the transparent measurement of costs, business outcomes, and supplier performance. In
Ep 13: Building a Human Advantage in Modern Procurement ft Hiten Parmar (opens the original)
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Modern procurement calls for a team that can combine world-class functional expertise with judgment, curiosity, communication skills, and the ability to build trust across the business. As a result, CPOs should spend less time directing transactions and more time understanding business priorities, bringing the outside world in, and empowering talented teams to turn data and insight into confident decisions. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Kelly Barner welcomes Hiten Parmar t
Ep 12: Placing Governance Before Generative AI feat Callum Jolly (opens the original)
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Despite the hype about AI, procurement must still take a pragmatic approach to transformation that includes a focus on governance, processes, and day-to-day execution. Rather than treating AI as a destination, it is the next step in a longer maturity journey, one where technology must earn its place by delivering clear, measurable value and making procurement professionals more effective. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Stephen Carter welcomes Callum Jolly to the show. Callu
Ep 11: IVA: AI Rewrites the Procurement Playbook feat Paul Zammit (opens the original)
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Agentic AI is rapidly moving beyond the narrow, task-specific agent model to become a single, dynamic capability that can specialize on the fly rather than requiring a new agent for every new problem. In order to take advantage of this new agentic framework, procurement will need to consider "governed autonomy," human accountability, data privacy, and the role expertise will play in making agentic operating models smarter over time. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Kelly Barn
Ep 10: A World Cup Special feat Philip Ideson and Vishal Patel (opens the original)
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The World Cup is more than the biggest sporting event in the world. It is also a rare global experience that brings together nations, cultures, and millions of fans around a shared passion. Beyond the action on the pitch, the tournament is a fascinating case study in logistics, commercialization, technology, and the economics of modern sport. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Vishal Patel welcomes Philip Ideson back to the show. Both are well-known for their love of football (
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