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Art of Procurement
by Philip Ideson · English
Learn from procurement experts. Host Philip Ideson talks with thought leaders who share the trends, strategies and tactics that you can lever to elevate the role of procurement - and your career.
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Ep 05: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Fifty Agents and a Stale SharePoint: How DXC Built Its Own Procurement AI
DXC Technology’s Chief Procurement Officer, Anders Lange, explains how DXC moved beyond pilots into agentic AI for procurement—building and governing 50+ internal “agents,” fixing stale…
11 Nov 2026 · 42m · 16 chapters891: AI in Your Contracts: You Still Own the Risk W/ David Tollen
How procurement teams should contract for AI-enabled SaaS, including what changes in risk, what clauses to add, how to handle vendor “AI add-ons,” and how to use AI tools for contract work.
9 Nov 2026 · 40m · 13 chaptersEP 20: ProcureTech Insider: Why Procurement Tech Still Draws Investor Interest
Investor perspective on why procurement tech remains attractive, what’s changed in ProcureTech, and how AI/data and consolidation are shaping deals.
4 Nov 2026 · 31m · 13 chapters890: AI Meets Manufacturing Reality: Lessons From Catalyst Detroit W/ Jim Cahalan
Recap of Art of Procurement’s Catalyst Detroit event (“AI Meets Manufacturing Reality”) and lessons for upcoming Catalyst New York and 2027, focused on direct materials/manufacturing procurement and…
2 Nov 2026 · 33m · 19 chaptersEp 04: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Teach the Agent Before You Trust It: Messer Americas' Guided Buying Story
Messer Americas’ implementation of agentic AI for guided buying in procurement, emphasizing that agents must be taught company-specific processes and that autonomy should be case-by-case.
28 Oct 2026 · 30m · 16 chapters889: Why Standing Still Is Procurement's Biggest Tech Risk W/ Cyril Wasem
Procurement technology and operating model speed; why “standing still” is the biggest tech risk.
26 Oct 2026 · 38m · 14 chaptersEP 019: Startup of the Week: Mandel AI
Art of Procurement “Startup of the Week” episode on Mandel AI, an AI supply chain coordinator for direct procurement.
21 Oct 2026 · 27m · 14 chapters888: Remove Friction, Build Trust: Prioritizing the Partnerships Behind the Data
How procurement leaders can remove friction and build stakeholder trust by partnering with external ecosystems to turn “data assets” into decision-grade insights, using an operating model built on…
19 Oct 2026 · 49m · 22 chaptersEp 03: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Boring Enough and Safe Enough: When AI Gets the Keys
Transalta’s early exploration of agentic AI in procurement—making high-volume workflows “boring enough and safe enough” via automation, while keeping humans for high-risk decisions.
14 Oct 2026 · 25m · 12 chapters887: Sustainable Procurement: Where Policy Meets Practice W/ Nicole Darnall
Sustainable procurement as the “underused lever” for environmental and social impact, focusing on how policy fails without implementation, how supply-chain emissions dominate (up to 96%), and how to…
12 Oct 2026 · 34m · 15 chaptersEP 018: Provider of the Week: Candex
Provider of the Week episode featuring Candex, a tailspend payments provider that removes complexity from onboarding small/one-time vendors and handling compliant invoicing and payments across…
7 Oct 2026 · 29m · 13 chapters886: The AI Performance Gap: What Procurement Leaders Are Doing Differently W/ Christopher Sawchuk
Hackett Group research on the “AI performance gap” in procurement—leaders redesign procurement operating models with AI, while followers mainly automate existing workflows.
5 Oct 2026 · 34m · 13 chaptersEp 02: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: The Work-Work Balance: Building an Agentic Supply Chain at SLB W/ Jeffrey Ostrander
Jeffrey Ostrander (SLB) discusses building an “agentic supply chain” and where agentic AI fits into procurement and supply chain work, emphasizing human-in-the-loop governance, change management, and…
30 Sep 2026 · 39m · 15 chapters885: Procurement Should Be a Safe Pair of Hands in a Complex World W/ Frank Mckay
Jabil’s approach to procurement and supply chain as “safe pair of hands” for risk/resilience in a complex geopolitical world, including how procurement earns executive influence, unifies functions,…
28 Sep 2026 · 34m · 14 chaptersEP 017: Stop Buying Technology. Start Changing the Operating Model W/ Mason Morgan
Procurement technology ROI and AI adoption as operating model change, not just software; shifting procurement from transactional efficiency to strategic value via business and supplier integration.
23 Sep 2026 · 38m · 22 chapters884: Beyond On-Time Delivery: Measuring Supplier Stability W/ Shayan Farshid
How to measure supplier stability beyond on-time delivery using an open-source Supplier Stability Index that highlights commitment drift and unresolved delivery exposure, especially for…
21 Sep 2026 · 25m · 12 chaptersEp 01: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Why This Is a Once-in-a-Few-Centuries Revolution
Kickoff episode of “The Agentic Procurement Diaries” on how agentic AI could revolutionize procurement, shifting from digitization/automation to outcome-driven autonomous agent workflows, with…
16 Sep 2026 · 35m · 17 chapters883: The CPO Agenda: Scaling AI Beyond the Pilot W/ Darshan Deshmukh
How procurement leaders can scale AI beyond pilot generative AI to higher-value, decision-focused use cases—especially risk management—by separating signal from noise, accelerating synthesis/action,…
14 Sep 2026 · 50m · 23 chaptersEP 016: Startup of the Week: FlockScore W/ Matthew Spencer
FlockScore (called “Floxcore” in the transcript) is a procurement startup building a collective intelligence layer for supplier decisions.
9 Sep 2026 · 26m · 11 chapters882: Reengineering Procurement for Greater Impact W/ Polly DeSouza
Reengineering procurement to increase business impact—aligning procurement with finance, building stakeholder relationships, strengthening policy, treating procurement as “guardians of resilience,”…
7 Sep 2026 · 36m · 12 chaptersEP 015: Provider of the Week: Tradeverifyd
Art of Procurement “Provider of the Week” episode featuring Trade Verified, an AI-agent platform for supply chain procurement and compliance.
2 Sep 2026 · 30m · 13 chapters881: Owning Transformation: How to Successfully Lead Procurement Through Change W/ Gretchen Vance
Gretchen Vance, VP Procurement at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, discusses leading procurement through organizational change—digitization, AI adoption, and end-to-end procure-to-pay—while…
31 Aug 2026 · 35m · 14 chaptersEP 014: Provider of the Week: Sievo W/ Sammeli Sammalkorpi
Art of Procurement “Provider of the Week” with Siavo (Cievo) on procurement analytics—turning “dirty” spend data into actionable insights for cost savings, risk, sustainability/ESG, and…
26 Aug 2026 · 25m · 11 chapters880: The State of AI in Procurement: Who's Getting the ROI? W/ Nick Heinzmann
Zip’s 2026 “State of Spend” report on AI in procurement—who is getting ROI, how procurement should govern enterprise AI, and what operating-model and skills changes are required.
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