Podcast

Data Dilemma: Privacy, Quality, and Security in the Age of AI Procurement’s future runs on data—but is your AI fueled by clean intelligence or ethical landmines? In this episode, we dive into how leading organizations safeguard data privacy, ensure quality, and embed governance right at the source—because one bad dataset can crash a thousand good […]

War Room Procurement: Inside CPO’s 90-Day Turnaround Plan The 90-day tariff pause is your one shot to rebuild. This episode gives CPOs a step-by-step playbook to assess exposure, redesign sourcing, and hardwire agility into procurement—before the next disruption hits. Here’s what you’ll explore: Month-by-month plan to stabilize, diversify, and futureproof procurement. Scenario-based sourcing and regional

Compliance Lag in Procurement: The Silent Threat to Tariff Agility While sourcing teams move fast, compliance workflows are stuck in 2022. In this episode, we explore how misaligned legal reviews and outdated classification checks are quietly derailing tariff strategies—and what you must fix in the next 90 days. Here’s what you’ll explore: Compliance delays are

Procurement Tariff Strategy: What CPOs Must Do Before the Next Shock Hits The Liberation Day tariffs may be paused, but the underlying weaknesses in global sourcing are still wide open. This episode unpacks the unseen damage—tier-2 and tier-3 exposure—and explains why CPOs must act fast before the pause ends. Here’s what you’ll explore: Liberation Day

The Frankenstein Stack: How Humans & Half-Baked Bots Break Procurement Procurement stacks are looking more like Frankenstein’s lab—disjointed bots, partial automations, and human patchwork. This episode dissects how fragmented tech ecosystems are breaking procurement and what it takes to move from ‘stuck’ to streamlined. Here’s what you’ll explore: Fragmented AI tools create disconnected, inefficient workflows.

Automating a Mess Just Makes a Faster Mess: 4 Common Pitfalls to Avoid AI won’t solve chaos—it accelerates it. In this brutally honest episode, we explore the top four mistakes teams make when rushing into procurement automation. From skipping orchestration to misreading readiness, learn how to avoid making a faster mess. Here’s what you’ll explore:

Why ‘Smart Procurement’ Is Still Dumb Without Context Smart procurement tech is all the rage. But intelligence without context leads to bad decisions—fast. In this episode, we explore how Agentic AI can bring contextual intelligence to your systems so your ‘smart’ tools don’t act dumb in real-world scenarios. Here’s what you’ll explore: Smart tools need

AI in Procurement’s Dirty Little Secret: Is it Really Saving You Money Or Just Shifting the Workload? Is AI actually helping procurement teams—or just adding another layer of complexity? This episode uncovers procurement’s biggest AI myth: that it saves time and effort. We reveal the hidden costs, false efficiencies, and what leaders must do to

Stop Automating, Start Orchestrating: AI Isn’t Your Savior Yet Everyone’s automating. But what if automation isn’t the answer? In this episode, we break down why AI can’t fix broken procurement systems—and why orchestration, not automation, is the real game changer. Discover how to shift from fragmented fixes to intelligent coordination. Here’s what you’ll explore: Orchestration