The Procurement Software Podcast

In this week's episode of The Procuretech Podcast, Clive Heal, CEO of LavenirAI is my guest. Clive is here to introduce a cool new startup idea he's been working on, as well as sharing his thoughts on the current digital procurement landscape. Procurement and the Metaverse – Clive Heal from LavenirAI Timestamps: 2:36 How did Clive get started in the industry? From R&D to sales and marketing La...

In this episode of The Procuretech Podcast, host James Meads is joined again by Ward Karson, Chief Operating Officer of Raindrop – an enterprise spend management suite based in California. Today they discuss the different considerations you should take when sourcing procurement technology, and what sort of questions you should be asking of your technology providers. Sourcing Procurement Technology...

In this episode of the show, host James Meads is joined by LinkedIn "royalty" Tom Mills. Tom is Head of Procurement at Bibby Financial Services and runs his own Substack newsletter called Procurement Bites. Personal Branding in Digital Procurement – Tom Mills He's built a great personal brand online and has over 30,000 followers on LinkedIn. He's here to share some advice on personal branding, the...

In this episode of the Procuretech Podcast, host James Meads is joined by Ruth Cremer. Ruth is a former investment manager for IT startups at Europe's most active seed investor. She's also an adviser to the German version of the famous TV series Dragon's Den (or Shark Tank, for US listeners). She joins James for a conversation about how startups should behave when applying for funding, her new boo...

In this episode of the ProcureTech Podcast, host James Meads is joined by Joël Collin-Demers, Principal Consultant at Pure Procurement. The two discuss readiness for digital change in procurement versus the capacity for change. Joel explains that he works with various customers on their digital initiatives and helps them optimise their processes and applications. He notes that while many companies...

Today on The Procuretech Podcast, we welcome Sarah Scudder, Chief Marketing Officer of SourceDay. They're a Texas-based supply chain software company. Sarah previously appeared on the show way back in Series 1. SourceDay's mission is to ensure that manufacturing companies always get their parts on time. I can relate to this mission, having been a direct materials buyer in the automotive industry b...

In this episode of the Procuretech Podcast, host James Meads is joined by Ward Karson, Chief Operating Officer of Raindrop – an enterprise spend management suite based in California. They discuss the current trend for consolidation in the procurement tech space, what this means for the future, and how Raindrop plans to make some big waves. Disrupting with Accessible Solutions – Ward Karson from Ra...

Welcome back to series 4 of The Procuretech Podcast! Join procurement content creator and consultant James Meads as he hosts weekly conversations with experts in the digital procurement space. With insights from thought leaders and news on the latest tech, we aim to excite and inspire you about the future of the industry. Introduction to Series 4 – Solo Episode with James Meads This episode is som...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! This is sadly the last episode in our mini series, where we ask industry experts and influencers about everything happening in the digital procurement world.   Talent, Skills and Tech in Emerging Markets - Nolan Menachemson from Nolan School   For this episode, we’re going all the way to Australia, where my guest today actually has his own procure...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our mini series where we ask industry experts and influencers about everything happening in the digital procurement world.   Risk Management, Tech and Resilience  - David Loseby from Leeds Uni Business School   Today we're tackling a big Elephant in the room that everyone's got their eye on right now: The world of third party risk...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our mini series where we ask industry experts and influencers about everything happening in the digital procurement world.   Procuretech Driving Procurement Excellence - Graham Crawshaw from CASME   Today’s guest is Graham Crawshaw, Director of Procurement Content for CASME - a sponsor-free membership organisation for procurement...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our mini series where we ask influencers and industry experts for their thoughts on everything that's happening in the digital procurement world. Evolution from All-In-One Suites to Hybrid – Melissa Drew from IBM Back in episode 20, Melissa Drew from IBM gave us a masterclass in AI and machine learning. So we were really pleased when she ag...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our mini series where we ask influencers and industry experts for their thoughts on everything that's happening in the digital procurement world. This episode we're talking about negotiation. And there's no one more influential in the negotiation space than the host of the Negotiations Ninja Podcast himself, Mr. Mark Raffan.   Will Neg...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our mini series where we ask influencers and industry experts for their thoughts on everything that's happening in the digital procurement world. Our guest today is a real stalwart in this space, and has had her own website and blog since 2009. She's seen many changes in her career, both as a Procurement Consultant with a procurement tech c...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our mini series where we ask influencers and industry experts for their thoughts on everything that's happening in the digital procurement world. Today's guest is a former CEO, CPO and published author. She's also an advisory board member to two very rapidly growing startups. From CPO to Advising Startups - Joanna Martinez from Supply Chain...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing with our mini series where we ask influencers and industry experts for their thoughts and nuggets of advice on everything that's happening in the digital procurement world. This episode we're talking about agility, and we're joined by an expert on all things agile procurement: President of the Lean Agile Procurement Association, Mirko Klein...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing with our mini series where we ask influencers and industry experts for their thoughts and nuggets of advice on everything that's happening in the digital procurement world. Today we're talking about E-Auctions and E-Sourcing. Depending on how the technology's been deployed, some people might be sceptical about this topic. But our guest toda...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our series of interviews with industry experts and thought leaders to get their take on digital procurement. In this episode, we're going to extend that a little bit and talk about supply chain. Democratising Supply Chain Training - Dr. Muddassir Ahmed from SCMDOJO  Today's guest is a big personality in the supply chain space: Dr. Muddassir...

Welcome back to The Procuretech Podcast!   We're continuing with our mini series where we ask influencers and industry experts for their thoughts and nuggets of advice on everything that's happening in the digital procurement world.   Content and Community for Procurement - Daniel Barnes from Gatekeeper Today we've got a returning guest who was on the first series of the podcast way back...

Welcome to another episode of The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our third series of conversations with industry leaders, which now releases twice a week. Tech and Remote Workforce Management – Lilia Stoyanov from Transformify Today's guest is Lilia Stoyanov, someone who truly wears many hats.  She's a professor at Ziggurat Business School. She's an independent contributor to Entrepreneur M...

Welcome to another episode of The Procuretech Podcast! We're continuing our third series of conversations with industry leaders, which now releases twice a week. Procurement Media through the Years - Jon Hansen from Procurement Insights   This episode, we've got a guest who's been talking about procurement for decades. With a long-standing blog and a podcast that goes all the way back to 2009...

Welcome back to the Procuretech podcast! We're continuing our  third series of interviews with industry experts and thought leaders.  Today we're talking to someone with a unique niche perspective, to hear their thoughts on all things digital procurement.   Why Data is the Bedrock of Digital - Susan Walsh is The Classification Guru My guest needs absolutely no introduction to most of you: Sus...

Welcome back to series 3 of the Procuretech Podcast! We bring you the hottest startups, thought leadership and conversation from visionary industry experts, and definitely no stiff corporate content. We’re switching things up a bit for the new series.  We’ll now be releasing episodes twice weekly, and expanding our scope on guests. In the past we’d typically speak to startup founders, CEOs or CMOs...

It's the final episode of our second series. So to finish up, we're going to be doing something a little bit different. This week we're bringing you 10 new startups for the price of one! 10 cool early stage European startups from Procurement Summit I recently attended Procurement Summit in Hamburg. It's a fun, pleasingly non-corporate showcase for new companies in the digital procurement space. Wh...

This week we're looking at something we rarely talk about on the podcast - the public sector. Insights on Source-to-Pay technology in the Public Sector My guest this week is Grant Smith, COO of Elcom. He's here to lend his expertise, which is handy because the public sector is a topic I know relatively little about. Grant hails from the UK, but his experience should be applicable to public procure...