Ed Cross is the Executive Director of Odesma, a Procurement Consultancy. Ed has 30+ years of experience in Procurement across a wide range of industries and sectors. In this Episode of the World of Procurement Podcast, we cover: A Brief History of his wonderful career Insights into Odesma, Ed’s Procurement Consultancy based out of the Gig Economy Approach Starting in Procurement out of want rather than falling into it How Procurement are responding to COVID19 Amazing stories from the Procurement Teams dealing with COVID Tales from the Black Death - this was awesome!!! How can Procurement ready themselves for different/new disruptions in the future Customer of First Choice and why this is going to be important moving forwards Why back to basics Procurement is vital Understanding your Supply Chain What does a Procurement Professional look like over the next few years Single Source vs Multi Source/Competitive Procurement Connect with Ed here: Ed Cross - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-cross-919b0a5/ Odesma - http://www.odesma.co.uk/