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EP 61 - Herbalife's Douglas Krieger On Why Keeping The Seat At The Table Is The Real Work (opens the original)
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Douglas Krieger , Sr. Director Global Strategic Sourcing at Herbalife , sees procurement's seat at the table differently than most. Getting it is the easy part. Keeping it requires showing up with value that goes beyond running the next RFP, and his team is investing in sales training over sourcing courses to make sure that happens. Douglas walks John through running a global center of excellence, how he pushes decision-making down to build strategic thinkers, and why law school logic reshaped h
EP 60 - Novant Health's Mark Welch On Preparing His Supply Chain Team To Operate At $20 Billion Scale (opens the original)
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Mark Welch has led Novant Health's supply chain for 21 years, helping scale the system to $12 billion in revenue. Working without a dedicated medical director in supply chain, he built a model where sourcing managers facilitate clinical conversations directly with physicians across orthopedics and heart and vascular. Mark tells Eric how his distribution center runs its own price index, why he trains his team to think like a $20 billion operation, and how an AI chatbot called Aubrey generates var
EP 59 - Ferrara's Kristen Coar On Aligning Procurement To What Your CEO Actually Wants (opens the original)
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Kristen Coar , Vice President of Global Procurement at Ferrara , stopped measuring savings on the direct side. Her procurement organization targets on-time delivery, supply chain flexibility, and market-beating pricing, aligned to what her CEO and CFO actually prioritize. Kristen tells John why most procurement organizations rush to digitize before their foundational data is ready, how a Navy career shaped her servant-leadership approach, and why she applies a "snake oil" filter to AI procuremen
EP 58 - Emory Healthcare's Noah Dunlap On Building A Three-Tier Supply Chain Transformation Framework (opens the original)
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Noah Dunlap , Chief Supply Chain Officer at Emory Healthcare , walked into a federated, fragmented supply chain and built a three-tier transformation framework: foundation, optimization, innovation. Eighteen months in, the results are backed by a strategic plan he presented during the hiring process itself. Noah breaks down his approach to data infrastructure across multiple ERPs and GPOs, why he calls GPOs "a tool in the box, not the box," and how a new capital equipment program is unlocking lo
EP 57 - Cleveland Clinic's Stephen Downey On Centralizing, Standardizing, And Automating Supply Chain (opens the original)
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Cleveland Clinic performs 300,000 surgeries a year and processes 80,000 instrument sets. Stephen Downey manages the supply chain behind all of it through three words: centralize, standardize, automate. That means enterprise-wide procedure cards, one knee tray, and off-site sterile processing modeled on facilities in Denmark and at Walmart. Stephen also breaks down how a monthly CEO review of indirect spend changed supply chain's standing, why healthcare capital utilization lags behind hotels, an
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