Art of Procurement

Mar 07 2025 785 ep. 29 mins 302
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Learn from procurement experts. Host Philip Ideson talks with thought leaders who share the trends, strategies and tactics that you can lever to elevate the role of procurement - and your career.

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783: Procurement 6 | March 7th, 2025

Mar 07 2025 9 mins  
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team, each episode has 6 short segments that summarize the week in procurement. Segments range from procurement tips to podcast summaries, from details of events to news or overviews of bl

BTW EP 04: Mission Possible: Unburdened Procurement with Brian Kyle

Mar 05 2025 28 mins  
The stakes are always high for procurement, but at mission-driven non-profits like the American Cancer Society, procurement is working to – quite literally – help save lives. In this powerful fourth episode of “Buy: The Way…To Purposeful Procurement,” co-hosts Philip Ideson, Founder of Art of Procurement, and Rich Ham, CEO of Fine Tune, speak with Brian Kyle, Vice Presid

782: Measuring What Matters: Transforming Services Spend Management W/ Gordon Donovan

Mar 03 2025 42 mins  
“When we start thinking about and putting the end customer at the center of everything we do, it changes our perception of what’s important and therefore what we measure in the outputs from our contracts.” Gordon Donovan, Vice President Research - Procurement & External Workforce, SAP Services spend makes up a large, strategic part of the value procurement provides to the bus

781: Procurement 6 | February 28th, 2025

Feb 28 2025 9 mins  
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team, each episode has 6 short segments that summarize the week in procurement. Segments range from procurement tips to podcast summaries, from details of events to news or overviews of bl

780: The Art of Trust Building: Inside Unilever’s Procurement Success Story W/ Ashish Dhongde

Feb 24 2025 28 mins  
“It’s still on us, as procurement professionals, to invest the right amount of time in building relationships and building our narrative.” - Ashish Dhongde, Associate Director Procurement Beauty and Wellbeing North America, Unilever Unilever has built a notoriously well-integrated procurement program, and they are widely recognized for the strong partnership between procureme

779: Procurement 6 | February 21st, 2025

Feb 21 2025 10 mins  
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday morning at 6am US Eastern Time. Presented by a member of the Art of Procurement team, each episode has 6 short segments that summarize the week in procurement. Segments range from procurement tips to podcast summaries, from details of events to news or overviews of bl

BTW EP 01: Buy: The Way... To Purposeful Procurement

Feb 19 2025 22 mins  
“Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome.” Warren Buffet’s vice chairman Charlie Munger’s succinct and insightful take reminds us of the power of incentives—and provides a backdrop for this project. In this first episode of the “Buy: The Way…To Purposeful Procurement” podcast, produced collaboratively by the teams at Art of Procurement and Fine Tune,

BTW EP 02: Tales of Dysfunction (a.k.a. “Procurgatory”)

Feb 19 2025 37 mins  
Building off the previous discussion about “purposeful procurement,” Philip Ideson, Kelly Barner, and Fine Tune CEO Rich Ham are back to take a bold, honest look at the systemic flaws that have all too often shaped procurement’s behaviors and limited their impact. In this candid conversation, we share and discuss real-world examples about how current incentive structures ele

BTW EP 03: Oliver’s List: Inspiring Tales of Purposeful Procurement with Oliver Hurrey

Feb 19 2025 42 mins  
As Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” After taking an honest look at some of procurement’s most pressing challenges and flaws in episodes 1 and 2, Philip Ideson and Fine Tune CEO Rich Ham shift their focus from problem-spotting to solution-seeking with special guest, Oliver Hurrey, one of the world’s fo

778: Business Waste - The Silent Value Killer W/ Pratik Patel

Feb 17 2025 42 mins  
“I look at building a business case in terms of storytelling, and the story that you have to be able to tell in procurement is around better, faster, and cheaper.” – Pratik Patel, Director - Category Management - Labor/North America Technology Spend, Mastercard Understanding how to address skeptics, overcome objections, and communicate procurement’s value will ultimately de