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As a procurement leader, how involved are you in your company's strategic planning? Join this live discussion with insights from Freya Hurwitz, hosted by Rose Punkunus, on how to get procurement more involved. We will discuss real examples on the ways to increase procurement engagement before decisions are made, the value procurement can bring during the process, and the positive impact on execution when procurement is involved. No matter when you do your planning, Procurement teams have a lot to contribute to company strategy. Join us for a lively discussion and share your experiences with your procurement peers. Virtual seating is limited so be sure to register early. https://lnkd.in/eYVTcA9E

Such a fun Boston evening with Procurement Foundry and NPI last night. Discussions ranged from adventurous Halloweens past, to new purple rounded logos, to Procurement’s priorities headed into the end of the year: 1) Involvement with overall 2025 company strategy planning 2) Partnering with stakeholders for their supplier budgets 3) Figuring out Procurment department’s own P&L What else are you focused on this time of year? 🍂🍁

As a leader in finance, procurement, or really any function, when you have the opportunity to expand your team, it’s both a privilege and a daunting task. Especially with such a strong existing team at Sudozi, the bar is high. -Can the candidate understand the value procurement brings to businesses? -Procurement workflows can be complex. Can the candidate tackle complexity to partner with our customers? -Procurement is highly cross functional. Can this candidate build trust and collaborate with all of our customer’s stakeholders? While I’m not expecting Diana Hines to understand cash vs accruals on day 1 (okay… maybe day 10 😆), I have total confidence in her ability to not just check the boxes, but really thrive in the role in her unique way. Welcome Diana to the Sudozi team! Thank you to our customers, investors, existing employees, and all the Sudozi fans out there to help us get to this point of growth. Diana is based in Austin, and with our growing team, I’m excited to take advantage of our Oracle office space as part of the NetSuite Accelerator Program! Thank you to Lauren McLaughlin, Ana Leyva, Kathleen Estreich, Mar Hershenson, Keith Bender, Kalyn Wright, Aaron Perman, Rachel Maddux and everyone else who helped in the process. To all of my accounting, finance, security, and procurement friends reading this post, please feel free to add Diana Hines on LinkedIn and share with her your favorite fun fact about your profession.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠?! Well, actually it’s 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. Your request has been sitting with [𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱] for the last 8️⃣ days. Without real data, it’s hard to quantify and make measurable improvements to a process which can take up 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. I’m excited to share that Sudozi is starting to roll out our enhanced analytics feature to select customers which will enable you to do things like: 📊 Visualize outstanding requests and where they are in the process 📊 Understand total request volume and assignee for any time period 📊 Monitor workload across teams and individuals 📊 Drill down to individual requests so you can understand what is driving patterns and trends  📊 Understand time to completion by request category 📊 Show all historical tasks associated with one vendor Always excited to help our teams extract more insights from the platform!

We’re excited to host this discussion with Michelle Vita and Omar Ghani in two weeks. Join us to hear what top procurement leaders have to say about trends in 2024 to review survey results. https://lnkd.in/gEd8WZCU

Inspirational founders - aren't they great? Mostly you get to see videos of them, listen to their thoughts or read their ideas. I'm so lucky because I get to interview them. And my fortune knew no bounds when I connected with the marvellous Rose Punkunus for this episode AOP Introducing... Who knew someone who started in finance could end up on a mission to transform procurement! Watch: https://lnkd.in/dwtX78wT Follow: Art of Procurement | Art of Supply | Sudozi #procurement #technology

Art of Procurement and Art of Supply produce the best procurement and supply chain content. Hands down. Some of my favorite recent episodes and topics include: -Coca-Cola becoming a part of the Africa's healthcare supply chain solution https://lnkd.in/gRKZMqfd -Supplier Preferencing Model https://lnkd.in/gCeD3f_j -Art of Giving RFP Response Feedback https://lnkd.in/gJaTQJDT So when I had the opportunity to chat with the one and only Helen Mackenzie, it was a no-brainer. As a former CFO, I started Sudozi because I realized how critical procurement processes and data were to making smarter company decisions and accelerating growth. I couldn't be more proud of what the Sudozi team has built and the impact we help drive for procurement and finance teams around the world 🌎. Excited to share more in this episode with AOP!

Last night we hosted a fabulous omakase meal for some of the best finance and procurement leaders in Austin. Thank you for the fun conversations and for coming out to make new connections. Samarra Davis, where to next time? :)

It's official! Partnering with Meghan Curtin McKenna 🔥 and FIF Collective Let's go! 🚀

Congratulations Isabelle Winkles!! Thank you for your CFO leadership and being an amazing person! There's a lot we can all learn from you.