Art of Procurement

Most procurement professionals are tired of explaining why the corporate buying experience isn’t more like shopping online from home.  🎧 https://lnkd.in/e5HvZNGx Walmart took that conversation in the other direction, starting with their consumer capabilities and expanding into the institutional buying space. In this Art of Supply, I sat down with Ashley Hubka, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Walmart Business, to learn why Walmart decided to offer a distinct experience for organizational and commercial customers and what she sees as the top areas of strategic B2B focus for the next 12-24 months. Art of Procurement Buyers Meeting Point #supplychain #walmartbusiness #retail

Walmart Business is fostering a cycle of continuous improvement from consumer to business and back to consumer. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/g_NgvuKF Listen to the most recent episode of Art of Supply to hear Kelly Barner and Ashley Hubka from #WalmartBusiness discuss the strategy and purpose behind Walmart's push into the institutional space. Art of Procurement Buyers Meeting Point #supplychain #retail #experience

Digital transformation isn’t a fixed destination point for procurement. It’s an ongoing journey. Procurement has to consider whether they have the skills, talent, and operating model necessary to set their team – and the business – up for success. Philip Ideson recently sat down with Andrew Daley, Managing Director, Digital Procurement & Supply Chain at Edbury Daley, for an in-person conversation at SAP Spend Connect Live in Las Vegas. Andrew shared his thoughts, as well as some recent research findings, on the skills and strategies procurement needs to prioritize now to prepare for an increasingly digitized future. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gBwWdbyA #artofprocurement #procurement #digitaltransformation #supplychain

Friday means a new episode of Procurement 6 is now available! In this week’s Procurement 6, Philip Ideson discusses: - How user communities are a key part of the digitization process - The strategic importance of services to the business tactics for establishing risk versus reward mechanisms for service providers - How orchestration enables stakeholders to quickly request various products and services - And more! 🎧 https://lnkd.in/giZDvFWW #artofprocurement #procurement #procurement6 Art of Supply Kelly Barner Joël Collin-Demers Pure Procurement ORO Labs

I was honored to be featured in the first edition of the new The Procurement Ledger magazine. I was interviewed about the Art of Procurement journey, our continued evolution and some of the challenges procurement teams are confronting today. The entire magazine can be read here: https://lnkd.in/e6FvQMQq

If you ask 100 people what business strategy is, you will probably get 105 answers because 5 of the people would have more than one idea. In this week’s episode of Art of Supply, I had the opportunity to interview Ashley Hubka, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Walmart Business. Her background is full of positions in consulting and with strategy in the job title - and she has a degree in Philosophy from Harvard University to boot. I took the opportunity to ask Ashley how strategic thinking shapes her work as well as what B2B trends she is watching over the next 12 to 24 months. #supplychain #strategy #consumers Art of Procurement Buyers Meeting Point Walmart

“Most fundamentally, strategy is about asking good questions, creating alternatives, and then making decisions about how to allocate scarce resources. [...] It's a place where you have a 360-degree view of a business.” - Ashley Hubka, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Walmart Business In this week’s episode of Art of Supply, Kelly Barner interviews Ashley Hubka, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Walmart Business. They discuss why Walmart decided to offer a distinct experience for organizational and commercial customers and what she sees as the top areas of strategic B2B focus for the next 12-24 months. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/g_NgvuKF #artofsupply #supplychain #spendmanagement #inventorymanagement

On September 26th, Hurricane Helene hit Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Hurricane Milton hit Florida less than two weeks later. The stories coming from these states are shocking, devastating, and inspiring - all at the same time. In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Vice President and Senior Director at Una, for a monthly conversation about current news stories. Kris has experience in multiple industries and has his finger on the pulse of the trends and topics that procurement, sourcing, and supply chain professionals need to be aware of. In this month’s discussion, Kris and Kelly talk about the lessons we can learn from Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton: - Preparation: Could other steps have helped people or businesses stay safe and whole? - Response: What did we see from the days immediately following the hurricanes’ landfalls? - Aftermath: What long term systemic changes will result from the handling of these two massive weather events? 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gRsBYU98 #sourcinghero #procurement #supplychain #sourcing #HurricaneHelene #HurricaneMilton