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The Big Interview with James Ball

Procurement Heads

For Procurement Heads ‘ latest Big Interview, James spoke with James Dobbin about all things procurement – including his own procurement career, insights into Portland, current hot procurement topics and what he looks for when hiring into his team. the whole array of procurement subjects. How did you get into procurement?

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CPO Spotlight: Nick Priest

Procurement Heads

When I’ve spoken to my peers about this I haven’t met many people who said they were going to go into procurement from day one. I have a management consultancy background, I went into consultancy straight out of university, specialising in transformation projects. Then we also have vendor management. How big is the function?

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Commodity Trading — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

To better understand what Commodity Trading is, we must first know the subject of the trading: the Commodities. Commodity Trading is also a vital aspect of the Global Economy; Providing price discovery, risk management, and efficient resource allocation. CERTIFICATE COURSES Related courses about this subject 1.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

Well, like a lot of people, I fell into procurement really. We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. How did you get into procurement?

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CPO Spotlight: Sebastien Bals 

Procurement Heads

It is great to be listed on there, but it also casts a shadow on all the people who are facilitating that for me. This is a topic that is very close to my heart, I understand that we won’t change overnight but we should not put the bar too low either. Today I am truly grateful to the people who made that choice.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW WITH LAURA DANIEL

Procurement Heads

So, like most people, I didn’t choose procurement. In the early days of my career, a wise manager encouraged me to ‘go and cut my teeth’ in an indirect team, which was absolutely the right thing to do. Working from home five days a week, not meeting my team or my line manager for a number of months was hard!

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AI and the practice of Procurement – Contracting and Legal

Spend Matters

We recently spoke with Stuart Brock , founder and President of startup iKinetiq Innovation Solutions which helps procurement functions design the right strategy to optimize processes, gain deeper insights, and enable data-driven risk management with a focus on using AI technologies responsibly.