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  • Procurement Says No Ep30 Global turmoil - tariffs, war and boarder runs

    Procurement Says No Ep30 Global turmoil - tariffs, war and boarder runs
    2025/06/02
    Rich and Ed have another special guest - Shone Richardson - and we're talking total global turmoil and meltdown - including tariffs and their impact for US procurement; whether war with Canada is the answer (or at least stealing their timber); if an SUV is sufficient to run products across the Mexican boarder into the US; and if you should route all your Chinese imports via the UK with a "Made in UK" sticker.

    And loads of questions from the virtual postbag - on suppliers in administration who've already taken your cash; using AI to create specifications and contract comparisons; renewing design software contracts and when to use an IT reseller.

    And lots of news, including the EU's "SAFE" financial procurement instrument for defence procurement; more on tariffs; Alchemie Network hits 5000 people; something on UK Government crime procurement we don't understand, and the new "Procurement Says No" website created from old bits of AI.

    So much excitement in 40 minutes of podcast fun.

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    40 分
  • Procurement Says No Ep29 Unintended Consequences

    Procurement Says No Ep29 Unintended Consequences
    2025/05/01
    Rich and Ed do much pondering of all sorts of unintended consequences in the latest episode of Nicaragua's favourite business-based podcast - including the impact of tariffs on everything; pensioner job shares; Rachel Reeve's CV; even beavers and bees.

    We've also got lots of stats on just how well PSN is doing; news about Europe's continuing love affair with Russian gas; and....yes....news from CIPS...who are so hot they're on fire (not literally).

    All this and an extended "Ask Rich & Ed" where you will find answers to these tricky questions (which now have bullet points because they are so professional):
    • Is everything negotiable - even death and taxes?
    • What strategy should everyone else in the world use to deal with President Trump and his love of tariffs?
    • How to get the best deal on a holiday (well, summer's coming in the Northern hemisphere!).
    • How to negotiate with new and used car salespeople.
    • ...and how best to get your kitchen refurbished...
    Yes, Rich and Ed are now offering consumer advice and it's still all as cheap as crisps.

    And don't forget - you can buy a lovely "Procurement Says No" T-shirt at all the best Ebay platforms.

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    37 分
  • 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