# supplier (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover supplier. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Four Buying Decisions That Decide Whether Supply Chain AI Pays](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/the-four-buying-decisions-that-decide) _2026-08-19 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ Most AI failures start in the contract, not the code. ## [Tackling child labour in cocoa supply chains](https://cips.podbean.com/e/cips-foundation-tackles-child-labour-cocoa-supply-chains-actionaid/) _2026-08-17 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ How does procurement tackle child labour in supply chains? It's estimated that 1.56 million children are in forced labour in cocoa-growing regions of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, with significant implications for children’s health, education and wellbeing. In the first of a two-part series, CIPS Foundation lead Emma Scott speaks with ActionAid programme officer, Afram Kwame, about the work being done… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e3epj9awza8wghmn/CIPS-ActionAid-podcast-2026.mp3) ## [The Savings Procurement Never Gets Paid For](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/the-savings-procurement-never-gets) _2026-08-12 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ Cost avoidance protects more value than cost reduction ever will. It also fails the one test that matters: Finance has to believe it. ## [The Indirect Procurement Autopsy: What Actually Died, and What Didn’t](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/the-indirect-procurement-autopsy) _2026-08-05 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ A blunt obituary for the function triggered an industry argument. Almost nobody defended the status quo. Plenty disputed the body count. ## [Procurement Is Not a Cost Centre. It’s a Decision Engine.](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/procurement-is-not-a-cost-centre) _2026-07-29 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ Measuring the function through savings alone misses where its real value now lives: the quality of the decisions it enables. ## [Dr Elouise Epstein on why AI changes everything - but won't take your job](https://cips.podbean.com/e/elouise-epstein-ai-changes-everything-but-wont-take-your-job/) _2026-07-27 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ In this episode, we talk to one of procurement's great thinkers, Dr Elouise Epstein, futurist, author and partner at Kearney. In a fascinating conversation with CIPS global CEO Ben Farrell and governance director Kate Tomlinson, she discusses: why AI will change everything but won't take your job; why we should watch how private equity deploys procurement; supply chains as national security… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/aw56brtup2g56tdk/Elouise_Epstein_podcast_v38fuh6.mp3) ## [Why Fashion Sourcing Just Became a Boardroom Priority](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/why-fashion-sourcing-just-became) _2026-07-22 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ A veteran sourcing executive explains why partnerships, demand planning, and domain knowledge now decide which apparel brands survive the next decade. ## [Ten Forks in the Road: How Procurement Careers Are Really Built](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/ten-forks-in-the-road-how-procurement) _2026-07-15 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ Procurement is a fantastic place to forge a career. The decisions you make along the way shape it more than any single promotion. ## [When the Slide Deck Lies: How to Tell If Your Category Strategy Actually Changes Anything](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/when-the-slide-deck-lies-how-to-tell) _2026-07-08 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ A polished category strategy that crumbles the moment pressure rises was never a strategy. It was decoration. ## [The Procurement Talent Shortage Is a Myth. The Real Problem Is Worse.](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/the-procurement-talent-shortage-is) _2026-07-01 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ Companies keep labeling a design failure as a hiring problem while the gap between job and reality widens. ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6MqJ0GCjcWuj) _2026-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [Who Owns Contract Management? The Answer Nobody Wants to Hear](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/who-owns-contract-management-the) _2026-06-25 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ The ownership fight is usually a power struggle dressed as governance. Clarity matters more than the org chart. ## [Mike Soutar on "three storms of change" reshaping procurement (and everything else)](https://cips.podbean.com/e/mike-soutar-three-storms-of-change-reshaping-procurement-leadership/) _2026-06-22 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ The AI revolution, shifting geopolitical alliances, and a new generation in the workforce. Mike Soutar, author of Next Gen CEO and star from the BBC’s The Apprentice describes these as "the three storms". What does this mean for the next generation of leaders? Mike has 60 lessons, but here are just two: it's a leader's job to maintain momentum; and people don't follow pessimists. Plus, why… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/t3zbc229wai22b9f/Mike_Soutar_podcast_v362g42.mp3) ## [AI Procurement’s Pricing Problem: Why “Market Rate” Means Nothing Anymore](https://www.theprocurist.co/p/ai-procurements-pricing-problem-why-d8a) _2026-06-19 · Global Supply Chain Council · The Procurist_ When AI runs the sourcing event, supplier onboarding, and tail spend autonomously, paying per seat for an army of analysts who no longer exist is the renewal math no one wanted to run. ## [Confronting nature loss and climate change: why it’s a procurement problem](https://cips.podbean.com/e/nature-loss-climate-change-a-procurement-problem/) _2026-05-26 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ At a point where biodiversity loss is higher now than at any other time in human history, the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) New Zealand CEO Kayla Kingdon-Bebb has an urgent message for procurement: every sourcing decision you make is a chance to shift the needle. The picture is stark. Wildlife populations are in sharp decline, while nature loss and climate change are amplifying each other.… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/g7ugakus9avq4393/Kayla_Kingdon_Bebb_podcast_v263lsb.mp3) ## [Chokepoints, supply webs and risk concentration: is your organisation resilient enough?](https://cips.podbean.com/e/chokepoints-supply-webs-risk-concentration-david-shillingford/) _2026-04-29 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ As CIPS launches The Great Conversation – a world-wide dialogue about the future of the profession – we talk to David Shillingford, a leading investor in supply chain innovation. His message to procurement and supply chain professionals: extreme complexity is here to stay. Also on the agenda: why procurement professionals must learn cross-functional scenario planning; where your hidden… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/6x6mwvuptvefdaq4/David_Shillingford_Podcast_v276yzi.mp3) ## [Managing supply chain challenges: insights from NHS Supply Chain](https://cips.podbean.com/e/supply-chain-resilience-nhs/) _2026-03-31 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ A critical supplier goes into administration. There are only eight weeks of stock left, yet it will take nine months to switch to a new supplier. What would you do? In this episode, we hear how the NHS Supply Chain's head of supply chain resilience, Tom Brailsford, and his team responded to ensure hospitals and healthcare providers never ran out of the stock they needed after an essential hand… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wj3q5mrzuija3unt/Tom_Brailsford_podcast_v3_1_bdjpr.mp3) ## [From back office to boardroom: why supply chain leadership is now business critical](https://cips.podbean.com/e/supply-chain-leadership-business-critical/) _2026-03-02 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ We're joined by Nick Nanos, chief supply chain officer and SVP of wholesale at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), an organisation on the frontline of navigating tariffs, labour disruption and complex global logistics. Hear how his team is spearheading change and innovation in practice to become the strategic lever the crown agency now relies on to respond to challenges and consistently… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/u6ifqnhmhxbuwe6c/Nick_Nanos_Podcast_v2952hm.mp3) ## ["Play the game in front of you": steering through trade and commodity price turbulence – without a rulebook](https://cips.podbean.com/e/procurement-steering-through-trade-turbulence/) _2026-02-09 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ Are we witnessing a "rupture" of the rules-based international order? How have tariffs and geopolitical events played out on the ground? And what does this all mean for procurement and supply chain professionals? CIPS global economist Dr John Glen and Fastmarkets commodities expert Ross Yeo make sense of all the noise. Related links CIPS Pulse results Q4 2025: Procurement professionals sound the… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xmey9ej3nzphq2mt/John_Glen_and_Fastmarkets_podcast_v28unmt.mp3) ## [Modern slavery: a survivor's story](https://cips.podbean.com/e/modern-slavery-survivor-moe-turaga/) _2025-12-18 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ Modern slavery survivor Moe Turaga shares his personal story of forced labour in the Australian horticulture sector. Moe offers a rare and vital insight into this complex crime as part of his mission to place people with lived experience at the centre of the global response to modern slavery. His message for procurement and supply professionals is clear: you hold the leverage to make a real… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/scgycxdtwj33be7r/Moe_Turaga_Podcast_v36v7tb.mp3) ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VnO7kep1J62b) _2025-12-18 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [A time of change: why co-innovation and resilience will define procurement success](https://cips.podbean.com/e/why-innovation-resilience-define-procurement/) _2025-10-27 · CIPS Futures | The Procurement and Supply Chain Podcast_ Departing CIPS Chair Alison Barto on horizon scanning, co-innovation with suppliers and why procurement's role is now about bringing the outside world in. Plus, the remarkable sense of belonging that CIPS members enjoy as part of a global community. Alison also shares her proudest achievement as CIPS' Chair and the biggest changes she's made during her tenure. Related links Find out more about… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/brg92w5g42afvjn5/CIPS_Alison_Barto_v4b1dxz.mp3)