The CPOstrategy Podcast B2e Media Ltd

Sanja Cancar-Todorovic, Head of Enterprise Procurement, Outsourcing and Third-Party Risk Management Leader, discusses the gender imbalance in procurement and the benefits of organisations reaching parity in the industry.

Simon Whatson, Vice President of Efficio Consulting, speaks to us about the changing digital procurement function and how leadership styles are changing as the pace of technology adoption accelerates.

We discuss how procurement can act as an enabler of real change, and true value, through these challenging times with Paul Farrow, Vice President Supply Management, Hilton Worldwide

We speak to Nirav Patel, CEO of Bristlecone (a supply chain company of the $19bn Mahindra group), who discusses how businesses can cope with persistent, global supply chain issues – and outlines the concerns looming on the horizon.

This week, we speak to CEO Jody Rowe who launched Rowe Advisory seven years ago after spying an opportunity to develop a service that provided good procurement advice from expert consultants. After establishing Rowe Advisory, Jody soon realised that the contracts and procurement function was also highly undervalued in many organisations and that there was a gap in the market for good procurement documentation and procedures. This is why Jody created Promitheia Procurement…

The Digital Insight discusses the road to procurement transformation at a rapidly growing enterprise with Chris Shaffer, Senior Director of Procurement, Facilities & Biomedical Support at EyeCare Partners…

EyeCare Partners works in partnership with clinicians and healthcare leaders to achieve the best patient and business outcomes and this has had dramatic results, such as a 1,500% revenue growth since 2015. EyeCare Partners is growing through acquisitions, by providing strategic capital and operational support to its network of partner practices in 680 locations across 18 states. In February 2020, this growth was boosted when Swiss private equity firm Partners Group acquired a controlling stake in EyeCare Partners. “They’re a very interesting group,” he says. “They're very heavy on investment, plus they have a very, very impenetrable and robust sustainability platform too, which is very near and dear to my heart through my time at Unilever,”
 This level of growth is fueled significantly by an increasing demand for eye care over the longer term, driven by an aging US population and an increased incidence rate of eye diseases. But this level of growth requires an agile and resilient operational enterprise.