Podcasts

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Designing an End-to-End Ecosystem Approach to Procurement

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The Vanishing Tail: Getting a Grip on the Long Tail Spend by…

Tail spend is time-consuming and complex to manage and it is full of stakeholder satisfaction landmines. One wrong move and your attempts to make tail spend vanish are disrupted. Most companies rely on automation or full outsourcing to tame their tail, but Merck took a unique approach that included a more expansive and value-oriented path leading to tangible business results and a positive ROI.

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How to Build a Unique, Ecosystem-centric Digital Procurement…

You don’t want to overestimate what you’re going to need from a digitization standpoint, but you don’t want to underestimate it either. The first step in the process is to take a really clear look at all of your capabilities and all of your objectives and create a strategy around them into which you can assimilate technology.” – David Clevenger

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Advanced Category Management: Organizational Building Blocks

This episode is the first in a two-part series considering Category Management: what we can do not only to implement Category Management but also do so in a way that is sustainable over the long term.

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Advanced Category Management: Category Manager Imperatives

This episode is the second in a two-part series considering Category Management: what we can do not only to implement Category Management but also do so in a way that is sustainable over the long term.