Source One Podcast Network

Source One Consultant and ISM Supply Chain Rising Star Kaitlyn Krigbaum joins the Source One Podcast to discuss her professional journey and offer advice to the next generation of Procurement professionals.

ExecIn Moderator and Gravitas Detroit Founder Jan Griffiths returns to the Source One Podcast for the conclusion of last week's discussion. This time around, she focuses on the value of so-called soft skills. A better name, she suggests, would be human skills. After all, qualities like empathy, vulnerability, and emotional intelligence are the ones machines can't replace.

Jan Griffiths, the Founder and President of Gravitas Detroit, joins the Source One Podcast to discuss her professional journey and advocate for a new, more empathetic style of leadership. The two-part conversation provides a preview of the discussions she'll lead as the moderator for this April's ExecIn Forum.

Procurement is eager to realize a digital transformation. So eager, in fact, that the function often sinks time and resources into chasing down needlessly complex solutions. In many instances, this chase starts because the organization got an idea from a Gartner Magic Quadrant. In this episode, Senior Analyst Benjamin Duffy describes the trouble that can come with putting too much trust in the GMQ.

Recent years have seen Procurement grow increasingly enthusiastic about data analytics. Unfortunately, getting bogged down in analysis often means presenting stakeholders with ineffective reports. In the first episode of our new series, Spend Analysis Lead Brian Seipel offers suggestions for organizations looking to get the most out of their data and deliver impactful reports.

In anticipation of this weekend's Big Game, Andrew Jones joins the Source One Podcast to discuss the similarities between recruiting and coaching. An avid sports fan, he suggests he's learned a great deal about recruiting from watching great coaches and front office executives at work.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced the nominees for this year's Oscars. To get in the seasonal spirit, Marketing Associate Bennett Glace takes a look at how life in Supply Management is sometimes like a horror movie. If his descriptions sound familiar, it might be time to find a new opportunity.

Digging into historical spend is often hard work. As Source One's Spend Analysis Lead, Brian Seipel has seen this hard work pay off for clients in a big way. Unfortunately, he's also seen organizations waste time and effort to collect data and run reports they'll never actually use. When is an analysis worth the effort? Listen to find out.

Spend Analysis Lead Brian Seipel joins the Source One Podcast once again to outline his five-step plan for tackling tail spend. Check it out.

Organizations often let their tail spend slip through the cracks. While the area can look low-value, Spend Analysis Lead Brian Seipel suggests its often a source of hidden value. Why should you care about tail spend? Listen to the first installment of this two-part series to find out.

Andrew Jones joins the Source One podcast once again to discuss his work as a Procurement and Supply Chain recruiter. This time around, he focuses on the importance of honesty and transparency throughout the hiring process. Like Santa Claus, he suggests, a good recruiter knows everything.

With everything on Procurement's plate, the hard work of classifying and analyzing spend often looks like one task too many. In this episode of the Source One Podcast, Brian Seipel joins the podcast to outline the considerable, tangible beneifts of spend analysis. The results, he suggests, could prove life-changing.

Nobody like a sales pitch. Sales pitches from recruiters and staffing firms are often especially distasteful to organizations who believe they've got hiring under control. This week, Supply Chain Recruiter Andy Jones joins the Source One Podcast to discuss some of the methods he employs to sell his services without resorting to a canned sales pitch.

Sourcing initiatives drag on and even totally fall apart all the time. More often than not, these disappointments are the result of poorly planned timelines. Moving backwards through the sourcing process, Consultant Brian Seipel offers tips for optimizing timelines at each stage.

Brian Seipel joins us once to again to offer some spend analysis best practices. Too many organizations, he suggests, get paralyzed by obsessive data analysis. He offers tips to ensure Procurement professionals leverage their spend data effectively to drive cost reduction initiatives.

Conducted effectively, reference checks are the perfect way to cut through the spin that often accompanies pitch presentations and RFP responses. In this episode of the Source One Podcast, Brian Seipel offers best practices for ensuring these conversations offer valuable insights and provide for more strategic supplier relationships.

Just about every Procurement group likes to believe its spend under control. Unfortunately, many are mistaken. So-called 'spend under management' is often simply spend that's been ignored for an extended period. It doesn't help that spend under management is just a vague term. On this episode of the Source One Podcast, Brian Seipel proposes a new definition for the term and offers best practices for approaching spend more strategically.

On this Halloween edition of the Source One Podcast, supply chain staffing and recruiting expert Andrew Jones shares a few horror stories. Though his career has seen dozes of successful placements, he's also lived through his fair share of hair-raising interviews and on-boarding processes. Listen today . . . if you dare.

Clients often ask Brian Seipel, "how do I know if I have enough spend detail? On this episode of the Source One Podcast, he suggests a better question might be, "How do I know if I have to much?"

Procurement can't act on an RFP if it can't interpret the responses. In his year's as a consultant, Brian Seipel has seen countless organizations spend time and resources putting together RFPs only to see things fall apart as they review responses. Listen to this week's podcast to learn more about some of the most common (and most dangerous) RFP scoring mistakes.