Procurement, what's in your long tail?: Recent Episodes
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‘What’s in your Long tail?’ is not just another podcast about procurement, it's a show with interesting and quirky conversations about procurement and everything relating to the long tail. Join hosts Natasha Foster COO at Paid and Christina Patrick as they chat with with leading CPOs, CFOs, heads of procurement, other business unit heads of departments (after all procurement is not just a support function), share the latest procurement news and trends affecting the long tail, and more. You name it, no procurement topic is off limits!
In one of our best episodes to date, Natasha and podcast regular Paul discuss 5 key things you miss if you ignore the long tail. This episode was streamed live on linkedIn, and is the first episode of our live Q&A style sessions.
This week your hosts are joined by Nina Bomberg, Head of Indirect Procurement at SEG Automotive. She shares with us her views on the changing opportunities within indirect procurement and how her team have gone about using technology to make the lives of procurement and their stakeholders easier.
In the first episode of series 2, Christina Patrick and Paul Smith are joined by The classification guru and fixer of dirty data Susan Walsh. Susan shares tips on where to start with cleansing data, how to put good data management processes in place, and some horror stories she has seen along the way, and how to use the insights in your tail spend data to make good business decisions.
After a short break your hosts Natasha Foster and Christina Patrick are back, letting you know what they have been up to and giving a preview of what to expect on this series of What's in your long tail. Spoiler alert, they are switching things up and we can't wait.
This week the tables are turned on AOP podcast host Phil Ideson, as he joins Natasha and Christina to talk about some of the challenges small suppliers face in working with large organisations, and ways this can be changed.
This week Christina and guest co-host Paul Smith are joined by Alexei Burns, head of procurement at Castle Trust Bank. Alexei shares his views on the opportunities for procurement teams to make the most of procure-tech, and what this looks like in a small business with ambitions to scale.
Claire Costello, CPO of the co-op group joins Natasha and Christina to talk about the importance of working collaboratively with stakeholders and suppliers for the good of all.
In this Episode your host are joined by Patrick Foelck, Head of Strategy & Transformation Procurement and Head of Professional Services Procurement at Roche. Patrick is well known the digital transformation he and his team have implemented at Roche, pushing the boundaries of what can be done to enhance procurement with technology, but also changing the way procurement is seen within the business. He shares what's next for procurement at Roche and how they see the tail as part of the strategy.
In this week's episode, your hosts Natasha and Christina are joined by Derren Chamberlain, Director of Supply Chain Operations at FirstPort. He shares how he and the team are using digital transformation and technology to improve their stakeholder and supplier relationships.
In this week's episode, your hosts Natasha Foster, and Christina Patrick are joined by Paul Smith, procurement pro and all round good guy. Join them as they discuss five major trends to watch in the procurement long tail in 2022. You'll want to take notes for this one!
Join your hosts Natasha Foster and Christina Patrick in this trailer episode as they talk about what you can expect from 'What's in your long tail?', the importance and opportunities within the long tail, and how they start their day.