We're live on Discord with our new Community Server on Discord. Click here to join right now as we start growing the Community in a place of our own, away from social media algorithms and the endless scroll. In this episode, I talk about my vision for the World of Procurement Community, why I set it up and why it's going o be an awesome place for you to be.  See the show notes here.  For more awesome content in Procurement, Supply Chain and Contract Management, visit...

WE'VE GOT A SLIGHT GLITCH BETWEEN 10:00 - 11:30 MINS OF THE PODCAST. IT WILL COME BACK ON :D  We had Tom Mills on the World of Procurement Podcast to talk about his views and ideas around what Procurement truly is. At one point in the episode, Tom referred to The Heart of Procurement and I instantly knew that would be the title for this episode. We cover an incredible amount of conversation pieces as summarised below.  Show Notes: Introduction into Tom’s career Procurement versus...

BECOME A FREE MEMBER HERE TODAY AT GET YOUR DISCORD INVITE NEXT MONTH. Martin Smith is the Founder of Talent Drive, a recruitment company that specialises in Procurement and Supply Chain roles. Martin is perfectly placed to understand what is going on in the Procurement jobs market right now, what skillsets are required and what issues we face in this space as Procurement Professionals. Martin is also the founder of the Talent Talks Podcast, where he talks with Senior Procurement Pros -...

Building supplier relationships has grown in significant importance over the last two years. COVID19 disrupted Supply Chains all across the world. Businesses scrambled to ensure they still had certainty of supply. What they didn’t realise was that they were not necessarily the Customer of Choice for that Supplier any longer. I came across Suppeco a few months ago and I wanted to bring them onto the Podcast to find out, from a tech perspective, how they can help us Supply Chain and...

Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform and they automate sourcing events for enterprise clients so they can work on more interesting things. I caught up with Erin McFarlane, VP of Services at Fairmarkit to talk to her about her reason for being in the Procurement space and what Fairmarkit offers as a service to people like you and me as Procurement and Supply Chain pros. Check out the Full Show Notes here. Subscribe to World of Procurement Here.

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If you’ve ever tried to run an event, to get your Suppliers in a room to share a vision, a requirement and to breed innovation and collaboration - it can be a nightmare. It requires not just a logistical masterclass but you need to be clear on why you want the Suppliers there, why it’s a good use of their time and what outcomes you want from the event. Supplier Day is a Service Provider that enables you to create virtual supplier events, or Supplier Days, to enable meaningful collaborations...

Doug Johnson-Poensgen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Circulor. We covered a lot of ground in this 25-minute podcast and this podcast is going to be exceptionally beneficial to you if you are currently looking at your supply chain and wondering how can we improve visibility, how can we reach our sustainability goals using our supply chains and how do we know what is in this product?  I think all of us, regardless of sector, are starting to have more conversations around...

If you want to learn how to become a Contract Management Pro in the World of Procurement, start here. I've got one ask of you whilst your listening to this Podcast. Go leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Those 5 star reviews and feedback really help me in the rankings and give me a rush of enthusiasm to keep this going. I appreciate you for listening to this episode. In this Podcast Episode of the World of Procurement Podcast, we are talking to a Marketing Procurement...

How to Hire the Best Procurement Pros has got to be high on your agenda especially as the recruitment market hots up and, based on what we are seeing currently post-covid, shifts to a candidate market. But what I'm currently seeing are some of the most generic, bland and awful job descriptions that isn't telling me anything other than the hiring manager wants someone who knows a bit of everything or is an expert in everything.  Make sure you leave a 5 STAR review wherever it is you listen...

Hey World of Procurement Legends, I'm back with a very different type of 5 minute podcast today and I do hope you are enjoying the experimentation I'm undertaking with this Procurement Podcast at present. I'd almost suggest that before you listen to this Podcast, you head over to Art of Procurement and you read this article - https://artofprocurement.com/is-procurement-moving-away-from-category-management/. I share my views on why I think there's more value to a Service Provider view of...

Hey Procurement Legends, I thought that this five minute format of the podcast might be a good way to share some questions and some ideas around topics that are out there that we need to do more on as a profession. I thought I'd start off with Sustainability within the Supply Chain in this episode. I've seen it in my LinkedIn feed, I've had conversations about it recently and those two things combined mean we as a profession are getting more serious on this. Check out this episode I recorded...

Hey Procurement Legends, continuing on with the new non-guest 5 min short form podcast episodes, I wanted to talk about Procurement Tech. There are a crazy number of solutions out there right now and you can check a whole bunch of them out over on Digital Procurement World here - https://conference.dpw.ai/demo/demo-application/. What's my message in this episode: We have options These companies aren't always good at marketing themselves to Procurement Pros Sweep the marketplace when...

Ever wondered how you can better use LinkedIn to find Procurement Roles without having to hit apply now on roles? You need to work with a few trusted Recruitment Agencies and more importantly, work with a specific recruiter from that Agency.  This is the best and most impactful way to find work when the economy is good and bad. I dive into this in a new 5 min format on the podcast. 

If you want to learn Contract Management make sure you've checked out this Course - https://www.udemy.com/course/contract-management-for-beginners/?referralCode=F658394D58FA7DD0515A  If you’ve worked in and around Procurement you know there are a few types of Procurement Professionals. You’ve got the I don’t care Professional. Calling these people Professional is a stretch of the imagination and an insult to the true procurement Professional. These are the type of Procurement people that...

Hey Procurement Pros, are you struggling with the speed of your Contract Reviews as Legal is holding you up? If so, you might find some insights here that are going to help you out. You need to simplify the entire process, empower your staff and get a position agreed upon within the Business as to what the Contracts you sign up to entail. Let's talk about the role that is best described as a "Commercial Contracts Management" that can provide a lot of commercial, procurement and legal...

In this series, I talk with Procurement Tech providers to find out about their product. I want this series to help procurement pros like you and I to know what solutions are out there to better enable our procurement activities. In this episode of Procurement Tech, I speak with Edmund Zagorin, the founder of Procurement Tech Company Bid Ops. Bid Ops software gives Procurement teams Supplier Management, Sourcing, Supplier Collaboration and much more. We talk about the following: The...

Procurement Personal Branding! Procurement Communities! These are the things that the Procurement Pros who go the extra mile deliver. In this episode, I wanted to share the views and viewpoints of three previous guests on the Podcast: Dana Small, Karthik Rama, and Mike Cadieux. These are three people who I look up to and have the utmost respect for. They have views and perspectives on how to stand out from the crowd and how to build up a network of procurement pros that you can call up on at...

What a Year it has been in 2020...in a good way. This episode is a solo episode with Daniel Barnes, as he reflects back on 2020 and the impact of World of Procurement. His kids also make a sneaky appearance with the odd cry of anguish. World of Procurement was establish in April 2020. Since then, it has gone on to release a Podcast that has hit 9k+ listens, had over 250k views of content on LinkedIn and thousands of views of its written content at www.worldofprocurement.co.uk. In this...

Ashleigh Turner is the winner of the CIPS Young Talent of the Year 2019 award, domestic violence survivor, mother and a podcast host in her own rights with Empower with Ash. This was my favourite podcast of the Year and I’d encourage you all to go connect with Ashleigh on LinkedIn. In this episode, we cover: What Ashleigh does in Procurement (Caterpillar Dealership) How Ashleigh got into Procurement and why she loves it Why working in a Greenfield/new procurement team can be...

Dave Jones is an MCIPS Qualified Procurement Professional working in the retail sector in the UK. We dived into so much in a short space of time with this episode, including the effect that COVID has had on the retail sector. The main focus of this episode was to discuss what was Procmeet which has now transformed into the bigger and better Proctopus (ProcMeet is the Procurement Meet up). Dave had a thought one night whilst sat on the sofa. This thought was about having a cuppa with some...

Karthik Rama, the Procurement Doctor is a Procurement Professional and knows a thing or two about Contract Management. We dived into so much in this episode. This episode was originally released as a video over on the World of Procurement YouTube Channel but I needed to release it via audio too. We cover: How Contract Management Activities could be improved by Blockchain Technology Why Procurement and Contract Management needs to be easier for people to understand Pre-Signature Contract...

Susan Walsh is the fixer of dirty data, an expert in spend data classification, taxonomies, and data accuracy. In addition to all of this, Susan improves your Procurement Data to create savings both financially and in time. Susan is the Founder of The Classification Guru, an Organisation that takes the pain out of data issues to make your life easier. In this episode we cover: How COVID has affected Corporate Culture Changes in behaviours with Managers and Staff Why Meeting Culture...

Steve Wills is one of the most incredible and easy to talk to guys I’ve ever come across. He did not disappoint in this episode. We cover a wide range of Procurement topics in this World of Procurement episode. Steve has worked in Procurement his entire life and has a love for it. That is clear from the passion he has in all he does for our Procurement Profession. Steve has held several high profile Procurement roles in the Insurance Sector and is the Founder of Procurement Central, who...

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...