Procurement Says No

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Ask Rich & Ed Ep5 - Savings and the Big 4 Mar 20, 2025

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All of the procurement questions, all of the time.
Procurement Says No is probably the world's best procurement podcast - and we get lots of questions from our listeners all around the world, asking for our advice on a whole range of procurementy topics.
So we thought, let's put all of those questions into a series of mini bite-sized podcasts so you can listen and learn!
In episode 5 we answer the best ways to define savings; if we'd recommend a career in procurement; what to do after 21 years as head of procurement in a council; and which of the Big4 is best!
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Ask Rich & Ed Ep4 - Functional or Usable? Mar 12, 2025

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All of the procurement questions, all of the time.
Procurement Says No is probably the world's best procurement podcast - and we get lots of questions from our listeners all around the world, asking for our advice on a whole range of procurementy topics.
So we thought, let's put all of those questions into a series of mini bite-sized podcasts so you can listen and learn!
In episode 4 we find out which is most important in procurement software - functionality or usability; is negotiation something you are born with or can it be developed; and whether we have any book recommendations in the world of procurement.
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Procurement Says No Ep27 Leaving Las Vegas Mar 05, 2025

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Rich and Ed are in their final day at ProcureCon Las Vegas - and have now put everything on red and lost it all. But luckily we ran in Subu Rao from Discover Dollar who not only gave a great explanation of how AI can help procurement find those missing dollars, but he also subbed us 10 bucks to put on black.
And we talk to Cheron Lessmeister from CIPS Americas who is tasked with developing the CIPS offering for the American market - from Canada through the US, the Caribbean and right down to Chile and Argentina! And it turns out that all British Procurement people have NOT had personal training from the Royal Family, despite their MCIPS Chartered status.
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Procurement Says No Ep26 Vegas Nights Mar 05, 2025

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Rich and Ed continue to be bamboozled by intake to procure and orchestration - so much so that they've found more guest stars to try to explain it all. And this time....well....
We speak to Michael (never Mike) Shields from Tropic and Sean Warren from Opstream. Michael tells us how a procurement person turns sales person (Prosalesment) to further the cause of intelligent spend management, and Sean suggests R2D2 was soooo much better than C3PO as an agent of AI.
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Procurement Says No Ep25 Waking up in Vegas Mar 04, 2025

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Rich and Ed literally woke up in Vegas to the excitement of ProcureCon West Indirect! In the first of three sort-of-mini episodes, they get to grips with agentic AI and Orchestration Schmorchestration...we have no idea what this means, but luckily our guests Mike Pierson from Tonkean and Niyata Chhaya from Hyperbots do!!
So listen up and learn. Are you going to put the dollars on red or black????
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Ask Rich & Ed Ep3 - Any good jokes? Mar 02, 2025

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All of the procurement questions, all of the time.
Procurement Says No is probably the world's best procurement podcast - and we get lots of questions from our listeners all around the world, asking for our advice on a whole range of procurementy topics.
So we thought, let's put all of those questions into a series of mini bite-sized podcasts so you can listen and learn!
In episode 3 we find out how much time you should spend with stakeholders and suppliers, and how much your travel budget should be; are there any procurement gurus out there; is it ok to accept gifts from suppliers; will AI eliminate everyone's career path in the next 5 years; are there any good procurement jokes?
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Procurement Says No Ep24 Viva Las Vegas Feb 24, 2025

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Rich and Ed have an assortment of exciting news - including Procurecon in Las Vegas, "Procurement Says No" Merch (available in all of the colours and sizes almost) and our new spin-off podcast "Ask Rich & Ed" (available on all good pod places).
Plus a survey from the Cheetah Research Institute all about the uptake of AI in procurement - it's happening - slowly; priorities for Supply Chain leaders in '25 from CAPS; and a whole range of tech vendors splurging with webinars! We do love a webinar.
This is a short but perfectly formed mini episode - so you've plenty of time to listen to it - down load it now!
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Ask Rich & Ed Ep2 -Dealing with annoying salespeople Feb 18, 2025

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All of the procurement questions, all of the time.
Procurement Says No is probably the world's best procurement podcast - and we get lots of questions from our listeners all around the world, asking for our advice on a whole range of procurementy topics.
So we thought, let's put all of those questions into a series of mini bite-sized podcasts so you can listen and learn!
In episode 2 we find out how to introduce procurement to new stakeholder groups; what to do when one supplier's price is sooooo much lower than others in a tender; which is best - keeping an annoying salesperson or a tricky transition to a new supplier; and whether you need CIPS qualifications to progress in procurement.
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Ask Rich & Ed Ep1 - Does Procurement ever say yes? Feb 17, 2025

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All of the procurement questions, all of the time.
Procurement Says No is probably the world's best procurement podcast - and we get lots of questions from our listeners all around the world, asking for our advice on a whole range of procurementy topics.
So we thought, let's put all of those questions into a series of mini bite-sized podcasts so you can listen and learn!
In episode 1 we learn how to negotiate an evergreen contract with annual RPI; whether it's ever right to punch a stakeholder; who is procurement's closest business ally; what advice would we give our graduate selves; and does procurement ever say yes?
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Procurement Says No Ep23 ProcureCon - Events, dear boy Feb 02, 2025

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Rich and Ed discover all there is to know about hosting your very own Procurement Event - with special guest stars Frank Musero and Michael Dunlap of ProcureCon; which only happens to be one of the biggest organisers of global procurement events!
We ask Frank and Mike - what is ProcureCon all about; how many events do they hold; how long these things take to organise; how do they deal with terrible speakers and drop outs; what's in it for sponsors; and most importantly, what's in it for you, dear listener; and whether Taylor Swift or Guns 'n' Roses are playing ? And how crazy does it get when things go wrong (and right!).
Plus we've got news about Trump's tariffs from Columbia and Ericsson (who managed to predict this at least 2 years ago); no news as usual from CIPS (and a plan to fix it)...and a whole new world of agentic AI which is coming soon. All this and DeepSeek - or is that SkyNet - and setting fire to the sky (again).
And where exactly is Eswatini and where else has the world's top Procurement podcast been downloaded this month?
Wherever you are, you know what to do - click the link!
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