The Procurement Software Podcast
Episodes
Single Master Data Source of Truth – Costas Xyloyiannis from HICX
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're going to be talking again about that little devil that keeps cropping up - data. I'm speaking to Costas Xyloyiannis, CEO of HICX...
Procuretech Pub: S2P Tips with Joël Collin-Demers from Pure Procurement
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Procuretech podcast, I’m joined by Source-to-Pay (S2P) and implementation specialist Joël Collin-Demers, all the way from Montreal...
10 Key Criteria to Consider when Buying Procurement Tech
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re doing something a little bit different: A quick solo episode, bringing you ten key criteria to consider when sourcing a digital proc...
All-round Supply Chain optimisation – Tobias Larsson of Altana.ai
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about supply chains. More specifically, where does the line lie between procurement and supply chain? Should we be concentrati...
Making the Case for the Suites – Jim Bureau of Jaggaer
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week our guest is Jim Bureau, CEO of Jaggaer. He’s carving out a niche for an all-in-one solution, at a time when best of breeds are gaining ma...
Solving Tail Spend in a Legacy S2P Ecosystem – Henning Hatje from Lhotse
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ve got a sponsored episode, welcoming back a guest we last spoke to in September 2021, Henning Hatje from Lhotse. Lhotse has a tacti...
Using a Bot for Spot Ocean Freight – Alan Holland from Keelvar
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're taking on a very relevant topic in today's marketplace. Given the current supply chain crisis and geopolitical instability, what bette...
Source-to-Pay in the Mid-Market – Frank Schmidt from Onventis
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Digital transformation doesn't necessarily have to be complex. Sometimes, an end-to-end source-to-pay (S2P) solution that joins up the dots, and autom...
Procuretech: Past, Present and Future – Dr. Elouise Epstein from Kearney
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week on The Procuretech Pub requires no introduction to anyone who is familiar with the digital procurement space. Dr. Elouise Epstein i...
Guided Contract Authoring and Routing – Giles Thompson from Avvoka
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The relationship between Procurement and Legal can often be somewhat strained. Procurement's hands are tied because they have to seek legal support. L...
AI-Powered Contract Redline – Dan Broderick from BlackBoiler
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're diving in again to the ever-expanding contract management space this week, looking at a piece of software that straddles the murky waters betwee...
Managing a Contingent Workforce – Igor Putrenko and Tobi Schmidt from Eqip
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Managing a situation where an increasing percentage of any company's workforce is composed of external, contingent workers is a challenge that many co...
Know Your Supplier: Full Stack SRM – Sam Jenks from Kodiak Hub
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As procurement pros, we're feeling the heat a lot right now dealing with problems of a reactive nature. We're having to fight to secure supply and dea...
ProcurementSoftware.site – The FREE resource for digital procurement
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today is a very proud and special day for me as I launch our new venture: Procurement Software. The ProcurementSoftware.site website sets out to de...
Strategic Supplier Innovation – Matt Zaleski from Procurence Meercat
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the backdrop of inflation, supply chain shortages and now as I currently write this, a war being fought on European soil, supplier collaboration ...
Blockchain and Contract Management – Dr. Elena Mechik from Inhubber
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off this week with the first of a number of interviews we'll be doing over the next couple of months with contract management platforms. This ...
Better Visibility for Direct Spend – Anne-Sophie Le Bloas from Ravacan
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's show we're digging into the world of direct materials sourcing. It's a part of the digital procurement landscape that's been a bit negl...
Acquisition, and Evolution of Spend Analytics – Arvid Fredin from Spendency
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spend analytics is a pretty mature (and competitive) market. So, what does this hold for the future?No better person to ask than the former CEO of Spe...
Spinning a Startup out of Corporate – Michael Pleuger from akirolabs
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are many great stories about how startups are created, but this one is particularly interesting. Take a procurement organisation that is often c...
A Network of Procuretech Startups – Andreas Zimmermann from Supplytechs
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We look at something a little bit different on this week’s show and examine how one startup Founder decided to start his own community of procuremen...
The People Factor in Digital Transformation: The Procuretech Pub with Florian Kleemann
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with another Pub episode, where we dive a little bit deeper into a topic than we do in our normal podcasts and really break down a hot topi...
AI in Procurement: Opportunities and Watch-outs – Melissa Drew from IBM
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode I get to talk to a well-known industry expert and dive into a subject many of you may be confused and excited about in equal ...
Spend Analytics: Expanding a Mature Solution – Sammeli Sammalkorpi from Sievo
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m joined today on the Procuretech Podcast by Sammeli Sammalkorpi, CEO of Sievo, one of the stalwarts of the spend analytics space. The well-known ...
Case Study – Børge Langedal from Ignite Procurement & Arndt Romer from SEG Automotive
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I’m joined by two guests, because we’re actually going to be talking about a customer success story on the show. Børg...
Simple, Affordable Purchasing Software for SMEs – Adam Thomas from oboloo
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How big does a business need to be before they can afford procurement software? And how many features does the software need to have to still enable i...
Easy Vendor Onboarding and Management – Nick Verkroost from OCG Software
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the irritations that procurement professionals face in their daily work are very easily avoidable. With a bit of thought and the right soft...
Best-of-Breed vs. Enterprise Suites: The Procuretech Pub with Nico Bac
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise suites vs. Best-of-Breed is a long-standing and hotly debated topic. This week's episode is an edit of a LinkedIn Live session that I di...
Leveraging E-Auction Data for Customer Success – Henrik Balslev from Scanmarket
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our final episode in our mini-series of e-Sourcing platforms brings us to a well-estalished provider who has been in the space for over 20 years. S...
Affordable, easy to use E-Sourcing and Auctions – Nicholas Martin from Market Dojo
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A tool that's easy to use and affordable, but also very versatile in terms of what it can do and the add-ons that go with it. We continue our mini-...
E-Sourcing plus Vendor Relationship Management – David Wadler from Vendorful
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with the third in our 5-part series on e-sourcing platforms, and this week we're looking at how e-sourcing can fit into a wider scope cover...
User Experience at the Heart of E-Sourcing – Jack MacFarlane from DeepStream
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, we explore a topic that is becoming ever more important when it comes to selecting a piece of software in the B2B space. Ad...
Leveraging E-Sourcing for Non-Price Factors – Lukas Wawrla & Tim Grunow from Archlet
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we kick off a mini-series of 5 podcasts on e-sourcing software. On the one hand, this is a mature market, with lots of established player...
The Lowdown on Spend Matters 50 To Know, 50 To Watch and ProcureTech 100
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Lowdown on Spend Matters 50 To Know / 50 To Watch and the ProcureTech100 This week is a solo episode. I rarely do them, and I thought long and ha...
Procurement Summit Live Sessions: Part 3 – Services Procurement Startups
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back with the final part of our 3-part series of live episodes recorded at Procurement Summit in Berlin on 29 and 30 September 2021. Each p...
Procurement Summit Live Sessions: Part 2 – AI and Game Theory Startups
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back with part 2 of a 3 part series of live episodes recorded at Procurement Summit in Berlin on 29 and 30 September 2021. Each podcast fea...
Procurement Summit Live Sessions: Part 1 – ESG and Risk Management Startups
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we bring you the first in a 3 part series of live episodes recorded at Procurement Summit in Berlin on 29 and 30 September 2021. We’ll...
Simplifying Tactical and Tail Spend – Henning Hatje from Lhotse
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tactical, non-strategic spend is a time suck to pretty much every organisation, regardless of their size. Managing this through traditional channel...
AI-driven Master Data Cleansing – Adriano Garibotto from Creactives
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AI is a term that often scares anyone who is not familiar with the technology and the application. In this episode, we're going to cover some of th...
Real Time Supplier Collaboration w/o Emails – Sheldon Mydat from Suppeco
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Business relationships at their heart are all about people, when you put the commercials, the products or services, and the mechanism or process used ...
Managing Services: Both Strategic and Tail Spend – Fabian Heinrich from Mercanis
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Historically, there wasn't much technology out there to deal with indirect services spend, both from a sourcing and supplier contract lifecycle manage...
Importance of Subjective KPIs in SRM – Lars Kuch from LeanLinking
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're BACK! We kick off series 2 of The Procuretech Podcast with with a mini-series examining three different Supplier Relationship Management plat...
E-Sourcing, AI and Game Theory – Edmund Zagorin from Bid Ops
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation never stops. Alongside the tools that are making manual processes digital, there are also a new breed of tools which are fundamentally chan...
Increasing Day-to-Day Productivity – Richard Sains from Acada
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are lots of options out there for software to facilitate and digitise our P2P processes, perform e-sourcing or manage our contracts more effecti...
Importance of a Data Strategy – Scott Taylor is The Data Whisperer
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The topic of data is like a boomerang. It always seems to come back into every discussion when we get into the nuts and bolts of implementing a digita...
Spend Analytics with Process Mining – Samir Kharkan from SCALUE
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Understanding what you spend is the most important part of strategic procurement. Without this, you can't do much else. You're shooting in the wind, n...
Automating Tail Spend Sourcing – Kevin Frechette from Fairmarkit
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tail spend is a huge, untapped opportunity that you're probably not exploiting to its full potential. If you're following the 80/20 rule, then mana...
Collaboration with Startups – Dr. Gisela Linge from Strategy Meets Reality
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Buying smart, and measuring total value rather than just price, is a popular concept right now. And for good reason, given the supply chain fragilitie...
Saving on Employee Expenses – Anthony Devine from Finfo
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Expenses for items such as individual company mobile phone usage, printing and copaying is typically billed centrally against a centrally negotiated c...
Utilising P2P Software to Drive Spend Culture – Aman Mann from Procurify
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Larger organisations tend to use enterprise level ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle, neither of which are particularly user-friendly. In fact, the av...
AI-Powered Spend Intelligence – Sreeram Venkitakrishnan from Simfoni
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While many solutions providers in the procuretech space have focused their efforts on automating or simplifying operational procurement, my guest this...
Cognitive Market and Supplier Intel – Kent Ledgerwood from LevaData
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Preparation for negotiations has long been something that we as procurement professionals know is vitally important, but all too often we're stuck in ...
Automating Accounts Payable – Veekshith C. Rai from Finly
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Accounts payable issues are something that we as procurement professionals shouldn't really need to get involved in but inevitably we do. In these ins...
Procurement’s Skills Needed for the Digital Age – Martin Smith from Talent Drive
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although it may not seem that way as we emerge from Covid-19, the war for talent is just about to get real. The thing is, it's the war for the right t...
Measuring Procurement’s Value Delivery – Pierre Laprée from Per Angusta
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Procurement has an image problem. We're often seen as the department our stakeholders and business partners run to when they have a problem that re...
Ensuring Digital Transformation Succeeds – Karthik Rama is the Procurement Doctor
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We've often spoken about different software solutions and certain, specific areas of the Procurement flight deck which can be automated or digitised. ...
Game Changing AI – Benoit Larrieu from Silex
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Technological capabilities are changing fast. While it can sometimes sound like a cliché, there are tasks which can be aided by robots now that can m...
Marketing & Promotional Spend – Sarah Scudder from Real Sourcing Network
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marketing spend is one of those areas which often goes untouched. While many larger companies don't have a policy of having procurement manage this sp...
Contract Management – Daniel Barnes from Ikaros Consultancy
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Managing contracts can be a massive time suck but also an often under-utilised way of mining for gold when it comes to discovering savings opportuniti...
Source-to-Contract Tech 101 – Joël Collin-Demers from Pure Procurement
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before you can go out there and run a tender and select a provider for all of your digital transformation and procuretech requirements, you need to ha...
Using Tech in Group Purchasing Orgs – Anthony Clervi from Una
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony is the CEO of Una, a US-based group purchasing organisation from Kansas City. He joins me on this episode of the podcast to explain how digita...
Supply Chain Digitisation – Sarah Barnes-Humphrey from Let’s Talk Supply Chain
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah from Let's Talk Supply Chain and Shipz joined me for a great chat about how digital trends are shaping the wider supply chain industry, and how ...
Fixing Dirty Data – Susan Walsh is The Classification Guru
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Walsh is The Classification Guru, bringing you affordable solutions to clean up your data before undertaking any digital transformation project....
Smart Vendor Data – Stephany Lapierre from Tealbook
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephany Lapierre from rapidly-growing supplier data startup Tealbook joins me on this week's episode of The Procuretech Podcast. We talk about all...
Deep Diving into Analytics – Eddie McGeachie from Seaforth Analytics
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eddie McGeachie from Seaforth Analytics and Accelerated Insight joins me on The Procuretech Podcast today to discuss how data and supply chain analyti...
Managing Project Spend – Tarmo Saidla from Procurement Flow
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tarmo Saidla joins me from Procurement Flow, an Estonian startup focusing on: Making workflows more visible for procurement and requisitioners ...
Freight Sourcing – Pieter Kinds from Freightender
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joining me on this week's podcast is Pieter Kinds from TenderTool. TenderTool is a freight sourcing platform with a difference. Pieter claims that ...
Welcome To The Procuretech Podcast
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you've just found us and want to learn more about what The Procuretech Podcast is all about, our inaugural episode does just that. It's a solo e...