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Why Stakeholders Call Someone Else First
Procurement’s access problem is rarely a policy problem. It is usually a question of whether anyone knows what you are useful for.
3 hrs ago
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Diana gavin
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What Coupa’s Leadership Change Really Exposed About Procurement Technology
Orchestration hype, dormant data, and vendor dependency.
Sep 11
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Matthew Lehman
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The Capacity Question: What Procurement Does With the Time AI Gives Back
Freeing up hours is the easy part. Deciding what fills them is the leadership decision almost nobody has made.
Sep 5
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Global Supply Chain Council
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August 2026
Attendance Management Dressed as Strategy
Companies enforcing office days while cutting supplier visits are optimising the one form of presence that creates the least value.
Aug 28
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Brittney Jones
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The Sourcing Playbook Nobody Teaches: 35 Years of Lessons From Carrefour to Gymshark
Laurent Madelaine has built supply chains for Carrefour, Tesco, Lacoste, and Gymshark. His advice starts with a warning: if you have a big ego, stay out…
Aug 21
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Diana gavin
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The Four Buying Decisions That Decide Whether Supply Chain AI Pays
Most AI failures start in the contract, not the code.
Aug 19
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Brittney Jones
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The Savings Procurement Never Gets Paid For
Cost avoidance protects more value than cost reduction ever will. It also fails the one test that matters: Finance has to believe it.
Aug 12
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Therese Hanawan
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The Indirect Procurement Autopsy: What Actually Died, and What Didn’t
A blunt obituary for the function triggered an industry argument. Almost nobody defended the status quo. Plenty disputed the body count.
Aug 5
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Therese Hanawan
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July 2026
Procurement Is Not a Cost Centre. It’s a Decision Engine.
Measuring the function through savings alone misses where its real value now lives: the quality of the decisions it enables.
Jul 29
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Matthew Lehman
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Why Fashion Sourcing Just Became a Boardroom Priority
A veteran sourcing executive explains why partnerships, demand planning, and domain knowledge now decide which apparel brands survive the next decade.
Jul 22
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Jess Williams
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Ten Forks in the Road: How Procurement Careers Are Really Built
Procurement is a fantastic place to forge a career. The decisions you make along the way shape it more than any single promotion.
Jul 15
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Matthew Lehman
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When the Slide Deck Lies: How to Tell If Your Category Strategy Actually Changes Anything
A polished category strategy that crumbles the moment pressure rises was never a strategy. It was decoration.
Jul 8
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Global Supply Chain Council
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Brittney Jones
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