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  • Procurement Says No Ep28 Zipped Up

    Procurement Says No Ep28 Zipped Up
    2025/04/01
    Rich and Ed said they'd never do politics but have a load of political news about the possible impact of US tariffs and looming recession (d'oh); a lack of news on the UK Public Procurement Act (which we'll take as good news); dull news about UK National Procurement Policy Statement; and finally some news from CIPS (yippee).

    And we have a special guest star from Zip - who we've been stalking for over a year and finally got to meet at ProcureCon in Vegas - Joe Piazza - who explains intake and orchestration, the lowest common denominator and how to make it easy to buy stuff!

    Plus a load of questions for Ask Rich & Ed - including what to do when you interview a candidate who is clearly better than you; whether rebates are ever a good thing; what to do if your procurement department is being taken over; the old centralisation vs decentralisation thing again; and what exactly is the span of responsibility for procurement folk?

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    41 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep27 Leaving Las Vegas

    Procurement Says No Ep27 Leaving Las Vegas
    2025/03/05
    Rich and Ed are in their final day at ProcureCon Las Vegas - and have now put everything on red and lost it all. But luckily we ran in Subu Rao from Discover Dollar who not only gave a great explanation of how AI can help procurement find those missing dollars, but he also subbed us 10 bucks to put on black.

    And we talk to Cheron Lessmeister from CIPS Americas who is tasked with developing the CIPS offering for the American market - from Canada through the US, the Caribbean and right down to Chile and Argentina! And it turns out that all British Procurement people have NOT had personal training from the Royal Family, despite their MCIPS Chartered status.


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    23 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep26 Vegas Nights

    Procurement Says No Ep26 Vegas Nights
    2025/03/05
    Rich and Ed continue to be bamboozled by intake to procure and orchestration - so much so that they've found more guest stars to try to explain it all. And this time....well....

    We speak to Michael (never Mike) Shields from Tropic and Sean Warren from Opstream. Michael tells us how a procurement person turns sales person (Prosalesment) to further the cause of intelligent spend management, and Sean suggests R2D2 was soooo much better than C3PO as an agent of AI.



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    28 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep25 Waking up in Vegas

    Procurement Says No Ep25 Waking up in Vegas
    2025/03/04
    Rich and Ed literally woke up in Vegas to the excitement of ProcureCon West Indirect! In the first of three sort-of-mini episodes, they get to grips with agentic AI and Orchestration Schmorchestration...we have no idea what this means, but luckily our guests Mike Pierson from Tonkean and Niyata Chhaya from Hyperbots do!!

    So listen up and learn. Are you going to put the dollars on red or black????

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    20 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep24 Viva Las Vegas

    Procurement Says No Ep24 Viva Las Vegas
    2025/02/24
    Rich and Ed have an assortment of exciting news - including Procurecon in Las Vegas, "Procurement Says No" Merch (available in all of the colours and sizes almost) and our new spin-off podcast "Ask Rich & Ed" (available on all good pod places).

    Plus a survey from the Cheetah Research Institute all about the uptake of AI in procurement - it's happening - slowly; priorities for Supply Chain leaders in '25 from CAPS; and a whole range of tech vendors splurging with webinars! We do love a webinar.

    This is a short but perfectly formed mini episode - so you've plenty of time to listen to it - down load it now!

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    21 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep23 ProcureCon - Events, dear boy

    Procurement Says No Ep23 ProcureCon - Events, dear boy
    2025/02/02
    Rich and Ed discover all there is to know about hosting your very own Procurement Event - with special guest stars Frank Musero and Michael Dunlap of ProcureCon; which only happens to be one of the biggest organisers of global procurement events!

    We ask Frank and Mike - what is ProcureCon all about; how many events do they hold; how long these things take to organise; how do they deal with terrible speakers and drop outs; what's in it for sponsors; and most importantly, what's in it for you, dear listener; and whether Taylor Swift or Guns 'n' Roses are playing ? And how crazy does it get when things go wrong (and right!).

    Plus we've got news about Trump's tariffs from Columbia and Ericsson (who managed to predict this at least 2 years ago); no news as usual from CIPS (and a plan to fix it)...and a whole new world of agentic AI which is coming soon. All this and DeepSeek - or is that SkyNet - and setting fire to the sky (again).

    And where exactly is Eswatini and where else has the world's top Procurement podcast been downloaded this month?

    Wherever you are, you know what to do - click the link!

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    44 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep22 Alchemie - Pestilence, Plague and Other Predictions.

    Procurement Says No Ep22 Alchemie - Pestilence, Plague and Other Predictions.
    2025/01/20
    Your favorite procurement podcast is hosted by Alex Jennings on the Alchemie Network's livestream event.

    Ed and Rich muse on what we should expect in the world of procurement in 2025, as well as also looking back at what we said this time last year.

    Were we right about near shoring, the continuing focus on risk and cost reduction, the slow march of AI, procurement tech continuing to lag, and a lack of available talent beginning to hit recruitment???

    And what are our predictions for 2025 – more AI, more tech, more risk, war, flood, famine, recession and tariffs - and that’s just the positive stuff.

    What would Nostradamus think?? Perhaps, a new mysterious leader will come from the sea and form an aquatic empire. Oh, and a massive asteroid is going to come close to hitting the Earth. Yep.

    We also talk about ProcureCon, PSN merch and some amazing thought leadership coming soon.

    And you can even see video of us recording this one on the Alchemie Network - join up, it's as cheap as crisps...

    https://www.alchemienetwork.com/spaces/13204286/content


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    55 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep21 The 12 Days of Procurement - Christmas Special

    Procurement Says No Ep21 The 12 Days of Procurement - Christmas Special
    2024/12/16
    Rich and Ed bring you Christmas cheer with their 12 Days of Procurement - as they count the days and suggest things you should be doing - like sorting 12 unpaid invoices, approving 10 requistions, unsticking 9 contracts stuck in legal, reading 6 Linked-In lists, defining 3 definitions of ESG and a releasing tender on Christmas eve...you get the picture. Listen to find out the whole 12 days! And will Ed uncover what exactly the Apostles' Creed is all about?

    Plus news from VW and L'Oreal on batteries and decarbonisation, more news on our collabs with ProcureCon and Alchemie and we celebrate new listeners in the Czech Republic, Lesotho, Armenia, Papua New Guinea and, er, Russia.

    And shocking news that AI will wipe out 80% of Procurement people. Possibly.




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    27 分