Procurement Innovation
By GoProcure
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Procurement InnovationSep 23, 2021
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Lisa S Jones
Welcome back to the procurement innovation podcast with Raj Verma. Today, we are honored to have Lisa S Jones, Founder and Chief EyeMail Officer (CEO) of EyeMail Inc., join us to talk about her journey building the company and everything in between.
About Eyemail
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Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Elba Pareja-Gallagher, CSCP
On this weeks episode of the procurement innovation podcast, Raj Verma is joined by Elba Pareja-Gallagher, CSCP, the sustainability director of stakeholder engagement at UPS to further discuss women in the workforce during the pandemic and beyond. They deep dive into current trends and explore what the future looks like for women in business.
As the sustainability director of stakeholder engagement, Elba is responsible for engaging, collaborating, and innovating with all UPS stakeholders to create long-term business value and deliver what matters most to employees, customers, suppliers, and shareholders. This means communicating with investors about UPS’s ESG commitments, challenges, initiatives, and progress; inspiring employees to advance UPS’s ESG priorities and goals; partnering with sales and marketing teams to share UPS’s sustainability leadership and portfolio of sustainability solutions to drive new revenue; working with UPS suppliers to build awareness of sustainability; and increasing the likelihood of employees to recommend UPS as a great place to work.
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Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Sue Ann Hong
Welcome back to the Procurement Innovation show! Today, we are honored to have Sue Ann Hong, CEO and President at The Center for Asian Pacific American Women. In this episode with our distinguished host, Raj Verma, Sue goes into detail about the challenges women have faced since the pandemic highlighting more specifically as it relates to the Center for Asian Pacific American Women. For a monthly recap of all episodes, subscribe to the GoProcure podcast here
About Sue Ann Hong
Sue Ann Hong joined the Center for Asian Pacific American Women (CAPAW) May 2018 as the interim Executive Director. As of January 2020, she is the President & CEO. Her career was with State Farm Insurance Companies for over 28 years, including Data Processing, Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate Business & Technology Portfolio Management and P&C Auto Claims. She’s led up to 600 employees in multiple locations, managed 1000 contract employees and supported customers and State Farm agents in 23 states. She’s worked in various locations, including MI, IL, NY and GA.
She infuses the philosophy of building trusting relationships, collaborating and bringing people together to achieve common goals. A 2002 Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute (APAWLI) Fellow, she continues her journey as a Whole Person Leader in her belief it’s the journey versus the destination. Her goal is to support CAPAW’s vision to build Whole Person Leaders one person at a time. Sue Ann graduated from the University of Kansas with a BSB in Business Management and earned a MBA from Western Michigan University. She is also a certified Life Coach (CLC). She currently resides in Atlanta, GA.
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Kris Oswold
Welcome back to another episode of the Procurement Innovation show. Today, we are honored to have Kris Oswold, the Vice President of Global Supplier Diversity at UPS join our host Raj Verma as they deep dive into the world of supplier diversity at UPS amongst other interesting and insightful topics. On this episode, Kris talks about her journey so far in UPS which is currently over 30 years and counting, she touches on the many great things they have been able to achieve over the years and also how they have continued their commitment to diversity in spite of the ongoing but hopefully ending COVID-19 pandemic.
Kris Oswold is a leader in global business process design and organizational transformation with skills and experience in strategic planning, program development, business process improvement, global project management, team building, vendor management, and operational excellence. A results-oriented executive with successes in large business process operations and emerging corporate functions, Kris has built a career at UPS designing and executing global organizational change through formal programs and via personal leadership.
As the Vice President of Global Supplier Diversity at UPS, Kris brings a unique perspective to the role. In addition to being passionate about expanding opportunities for diverse suppliers to transact with UPS, Kris brings experience from across the UPS enterprise identifying where results fall short of desires and redesigning metrics, processes and systems to better achieve goals.
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Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Christina Morrow
On todays episode of Procurement Innovation we are delighted to have Christina Morrow join our host, Raj Verma as she shares her journey in Procurement over the last 20 years. She discusses the importance of technology, supplier relationships and embracing change in a world of procurement that is no longer just about transactions.
Christina Morrow is an experienced global procurement leader and supplier diversity professional with 20 years of procurement experience and over 10 years of experience leading and developing a supplier diversity program and strategy. She is currently the Director of Supplier Relationship Management at Ricoh, USA championing supplier diversity, ensuring inclusion of diverse suppliers in competition for the company’s business as aligned with overall values and business strategy. She also developed and instituted enterprise-wide procurement policy to drive both compliance and cost savings.
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Ingrid Watkins
Welcome to a new episode of the Procurement Innovation podcast series on the GoProcure Radio. Today, we are thrilled to have Ingrid Watkins, Principal at IW Consulting Group join our host and VP of Procurement Services at GoProcure, Raj Verma. On this episode, Raj and Ingrid discuss supplier diversity, the influence our current social climate has on it and so much more!
Ingrid Watkins is a passionate and accomplished leader in supplier diversity and business development. During her 20-year career at The Coca-Cola Company, she worked diligently advocating for the inclusion and utilization of diverse suppliers in procurement opportunities. She began her career at the Global Brand in 1996 and joined Supplier Diversity in 2002 as Communications Manager where she was responsible for creating internal and external communications and change management strategies, and training programs to promote and support program initiatives.
Ingrid is an award winning and well respected industry thought leader with proven track record building diversity programs from conception to best-in-class. She currently leads the IW Consulting Group, providing supplier diversity program solutions to corporate clients, and business development consulting to scalable emerging businesses.
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring J.P. Keating
The Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma this week features a distinguished corporate business leader, J.P. Keating. On this episode, J.P. Keating talks about supply chain innovation, how it impacts cost saving initiatives, his involvement in corporate venture capital, the importance of supplier diversity and more.
J.P. Keating is an infinitely curious, multi-industry jack-of-all-trades with a vast network drawn from a career operating with global Fortune 500 companies and startups. Currently, he is leading Allstate enterprise inclusive innovation, supplier diversity, corporate venture, diverse startup collaboration, early stage ecosystem engagement, and ESG efforts.
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Jonathan Townsley
This week we are pleased to have Jonathan Townsley, Procurement Strategy & Supplier Optimization Executive Consultant at MasterCard join us on the GoProcure Radio.
Jonathan is a leader across a wide variety of industries and has been fortunate enough to gain insight that influence strategies and deliver high-performance results in not only Supply Management, but also Risk Mitigation, Product Development, Technology Deployment, Revenue Enhancement, Inclusion, and Team Member Engagement. Most of all, he enjoys connecting people and ideas while helping people to be better than they were yesterday.
In this episode on the Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma, we discuss innovative trends in procurement and explore ways businesses can navigate through the pandemic as we slowly but surely get closer to normalcy.
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma Featuring Jamie Martino
Welcome back to the GoProcure Radio Show - Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma, VP Procurement Services at GoProcure. This season, Raj discusses procurement innovation and deep dives into insights on strategic cost savings initiatives and best practices with senior business leaders across the nation.
In this first episode, we are honored to have Jamie Martino, a Global Leader of IT Sourcing, a digital transformation expert and the "Squad Up" thought leader in technology at Procurement Foundry. Jamie Martino is also the Senior Vice President at IT Diversity, a Woman and Minority Owned Business Enterprise (WBE, MBE) focused on enhancing IT Diversity Spend within corporations. IT Diversity integrates infrastructure and services from over 200 IT and Broadband providers to solve complex network and IT challenges. Jamie serves as the firm’s strategic sourcing and operations leader, cultivating relationships with over 200 suppliers, designing integrated technological solutions and ensuring customer.
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma - Featuring Global Business Leaders
GoProcure features some of the top global business leaders in procurement (Crystal Khalil, Karla Morera, Suzana Keller, Sean Auerbach and John Campi) as they share their thoughts on leadership, organizational growth, the next generation of procurement and procurement automation.
Gregory Michel, Associate VP, National Basketball Association (NBA) on the GoProcure Radio
Veronica Maldonado-Torres, Founder & CEO, VMT Consulting on the GoProcure Radio
Kimberly Marcus, Director - Supplier Diversity, AARP on the GoProcure Radio
Keith Browning, Managing Director- Supply Chain Management, Delta Airlines on the GoProcure Radio
Jalal Slade, Assistant General Manager, Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport on the GoProcure Radio
J.P. Keating, Manager - Supplier Inclusion and Innovation on the GoProcure Radio
Corey Smith, Diversity & Inclusion Leader, Major League Baseball on the GoProcure Radio
Lissa Miller, Director - Supplier Diversity, SunTrust Bank on the GoProcure Radio
Christina Morrow, Director - Global Procurement, Ricoh USA on the GoProcure Radio
Raj Verma with GoProcure and Russ Holland with Trez Forman
Do You Fit the Profile of the Next Generation Procurement Executive?
In the last decade procurement operations have primarily focused on purchasing effectiveness: improving the skill sets of their staff, developing good negotiators, driving strategic sourcing activity, utilizing e-procurement tools to get deeper penetration and more control of spend (a center-led solution). In this Podcast, Roy Anderson, a GoProcure Investor shares insight and profile characteristics of the next generation procurement executive. Read the article here
Comparing the CPO to the Conductor of an Orchestra
Imagine your SCM team as an orchestra, where the chief procurement officer is the conductor. As in any good orchestra, the conductor needs to bring in the right instruments, the right technologies and the right music, to create the optimal sound. It is a significant effort to bring in all the right players at the right time, to make that work. A CPO, running SCM, is responsible for elements of success such as the budget, head count, and the appropriate skill sets to exceed the corporate expectations, and drive the value proposition.
Podcast by Roy Anderson
Measure Procurement Value
Roy Anderson discusses his experience in the procurement environment and how one should measure procurement value. Visit our website at www.goprocure.com and contact us today!