Love Procurement: The Podcast

Welcome to the #loveprocurement podcast, where we bring you a fresh and lighthearted take on all things procurement. Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of Procurement with a twist of humor and a sprinkle of fun. We'll explore a different topic in each episode, inviting industry experts and special guests to share their insights, experiences, and stories. Whether you're a seasoned procurement professional or just curious about the field, this podcast is for you. Get ready to laugh, learn, and deepen your appreciation for procurement!

Love Procurement: The Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Ivalua, with 66 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ivalua hosts Love Procurement: The Podcast, a business show with 66 episodes published.

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  Episode #15

  Ep 15: Why the Best Communicators Say Less feat Neil Perry

  Sep 29, 202630 minS3

  Rapid advances in technology, geopolitical volatility, and constant business disruption make it impossible for procurement to have every answer, and pretending otherwise can undermine credibility. The strongest communicators take a different approach, combining humility and authenticity with the ability to make complex ideas human, memorable, and relevant to their audience. Effective communication isn't about commanding the room; it's about listening closely, knowing when to say less, and helping people understand why the work matters. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Kelly Barner welcomes Neil Perry to the show. Neil is Content Director at Outlook Publishing, as well as an experienced moderator, voice coach, journalist and broadcaster. Neil shares what he has learned from many years of public speaking, interviews, and facilitation: Why communication skills are so critical for procurement leaders The role that active listening plans in effective communication How to project influence through communication style as well as substance Links: Neil Perry on LinkedIn

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  Episode #14

  Ep 14: Should Procurement Be Looking for Savings? feat Roberto Fabris

  Sep 15, 202629 minS3

  Savings will never be unimportant to procurement, but procurement can easily damage their credibility if they selectively report savings without accounting for the full movement of costs, including increases, market conditions, and the baseline against which their performance is being judged. In other words, procurement should stop defining their value in terms of savings and start building credibility through the transparent measurement of costs, business outcomes, and supplier performance. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Kelly Barner welcomes Roberto Fabris to the show. Roberto is the Founder and Managing Director of We Procure International, a procurement advisory firm focused on industrial companies across Italy, the UK, and France. Roberto shares a number of well-considered perspectives on the role that savings play in procurement's priorities and performance: What can go wrong when procurement claims savings without establishing a clear market or price baseline The larger conversations (and agreements) that procurement and finance need to have in order to validate savings delivery at the project level What procurement credibility looks like at the C-suite level, and how it enters into conversations with suppliers Links: Roberto Fabris on LinkedIn

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  Episode #13

  Ep 13: Building a Human Advantage in Modern Procurement ft Hiten Parmar

  Sep 2, 202628 minS3

  Modern procurement calls for a team that can combine world-class functional expertise with judgment, curiosity, communication skills, and the ability to build trust across the business. As a result, CPOs should spend less time directing transactions and more time understanding business priorities, bringing the outside world in, and empowering talented teams to turn data and insight into confident decisions. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Kelly Barner welcomes Hiten Parmar to the show. Hiten is the Chief Procurement Officer at Beazley, a global specialty insurance company. He has held leadership roles across banking, pharmaceuticals, consulting, and technology, and has worked in legacy procurement environments as well as 'blank page' ones. Hiten shares his perspective on leadership and cultivating procurement talent: The skills and capabilities he prioritized when building his current team from scratch How connecting procurement with overall business objectives allows the team to contribute far beyond cost and efficiency How building a 'sophisticated-skills-first' procurement team changed what is required of him as the CPO Links: Hiten Parmar on LinkedIn

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  Episode #12

  Ep 12: Placing Governance Before Generative AI feat Callum Jolly

  Aug 18, 202631 minS3

  Despite the hype about AI, procurement must still take a pragmatic approach to transformation that includes a focus on governance, processes, and day-to-day execution. Rather than treating AI as a destination, it is the next step in a longer maturity journey, one where technology must earn its place by delivering clear, measurable value and making procurement professionals more effective. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Stephen Carter welcomes Callum Jolly to the show. Callum is the Head of Strategic Supplier and Commercial Management at Smart DCC, a company that runs a secure network to allow smart meters across Great Britain to communicate with energy companies. Callum shares his perspective on the operational foundations that make procurement transformation and AI adoption sustainable: His 'earn the right' philosophy and how it has shaped his procurement journey The approach he has taken to evaluating, adopting, and scaling AI How the challenge of working in a regulated industry plays out in his priorities Links: Callum Jolly on LinkedIn Stephen Carter on LinkedIn

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  Episode #11

  Ep 11: IVA: AI Rewrites the Procurement Playbook feat Paul Zammit

  Aug 4, 202636 minS3

  Agentic AI is rapidly moving beyond the narrow, task-specific agent model to become a single, dynamic capability that can specialize on the fly rather than requiring a new agent for every new problem. In order to take advantage of this new agentic framework, procurement will need to consider "governed autonomy," human accountability, data privacy, and the role expertise will play in making agentic operating models smarter over time. In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast host Kelly Barner welcomes Paul Zammit to the show. Paul is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for AI and Platform at Ivalua, which includes the newly announced IVA and IVA Studio, the agentic operating model for procurement. Paul explains the process of creating and using IVA: How IVA and IVA Studio are different from other procuretech approaches to leveraging agentic AI? IVA's ability to 'understand' the context of the user (role, permissions, business unit, and responsibility) and factors that into the work it does? How IVA works in environments where data lives across multiple systems Ensuring IVA meets enterprise safety and information security requirements to balance autonomy with accountability in an enterprise setting Links: Paul Zammit on LinkedIn Introducing IVA Powered by IVA Studio: The Agentic Operating System for Procurement

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