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The Smarter Sourcing podcast is dedicated to helping sourcing, procurement, and finance leaders elevate their influence and get their seat at the table. Each episode features conversations with innovative leaders, sharing best practices, lessons learned, and actionable insights you can apply immediately. Whether you’re focused on procurement strategies, supply chain optimization, or aligning financial goals with operational excellence, this podcast will leave you with actionable insights that you can immediately put to work.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Smarter Sourcing podcast is dedicated to helping sourcing, procurement, and finance leaders elevate their influence and get their seat at the table. Each episode features conversations with innovative leaders, sharing best practices, lessons learned, and actionable insights you can apply immediately.
Recent episodes include "EP 63 - Bayer's Melissa Saw On Speaking The Stakeholder’s Language In Marketing Procurement" (20 October 2026, 37 minutes), "EP 62 - Parkland Hospital's Pamela Bryant on Consolidating Purchased Services Volume and Deciding What Goes Out to Bid" (6 October 2026, 40 minutes), and "EP 61 - Herbalife's Douglas Krieger On Why Keeping The Seat At The Table Is The Real Work" (22 September 2026, 43 minutes).
Smarter Sourcing publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 63 episodes.
Booking probability for Smarter Sourcing is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Smarter Sourcing requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Smarter Sourcing's contact route on record: verified email.
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Smarter Sourcing is a technology podcast with 63 episodes published.
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Marketing procurement earns its seat when it speaks the stakeholder's language. Melissa Saw , Consumer Health Marketing & Sales Procurement North America Lead at Bayer , came to procurement from a career in sales and...
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Does every purchased service need to go out to bid? At Parkland Hospital , Pamela Bryant , SVP, Supply Chain Management and an incoming Bellwether League Hall of Fame inductee, uses evaluation committees on certain...
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Douglas Krieger , Sr. Director Global Strategic Sourcing at Herbalife , sees procurement's seat at the table differently than most. Getting it is the easy part. Keeping it requires showing up with value that goes beyond...
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Mark Welch has led Novant Health's supply chain for 21 years, helping scale the system to $12 billion in revenue. Working without a dedicated medical director in supply chain, he built a model where sourcing managers...
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Kristen Coar , Vice President of Global Procurement at Ferrara , stopped measuring savings on the direct side. Her procurement organization targets on-time delivery, supply chain flexibility, and market-beating pricing...
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Cleveland Clinic performs 300,000 surgeries a year and processes 80,000 instrument sets. Stephen Downey manages the supply chain behind all of it through three words: centralize, standardize, automate. That means...
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Eric O'Daffer speaks with Burton Fuller , Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine . Burton's team is connecting case schedule data from the EHR to their demand planning forecast, what...
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When over 250,000 patients are mortally injured by medical error annually, supply chain has a direct stake that most organizations underestimate. Charlie Miceli , Former VP Network Chief Supply Chain Officer at...
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<p>Ben Haygood built his healthcare supply chain career from the ground up, starting on third shift stocking an ER at 19. Now, as Director of Strategic Sourcing at Piedmont Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in...
<p>Regine Honoré Villain spent 30 years inside complex enterprise environments watching brilliant strategies get handed off and quietly die. Not because the strategy was wrong, but because nothing was built to catch it...
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<p>Jason Moulding, Chief Supply Chain Officer at MultiCare Health System, has spent 25 years building toward a supply chain function that leads M&A integrations, runs enterprise performance analytics, and holds its...
<p>Yisa Wong, VP of Strategic Sourcing at Fossil Group, has spent over 20 years building sourcing operations across fashion and accessories, with stops at Liz Claiborne, Gap, Coach, and now Fossil Group, where she's...
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<p>Teresa Dail, Chief Supply Chain Officer Emeritus - President at Vanderbilt Health Purchasing Collaborative, spent 17 years as an ICU nurse and nursing leader before being hired back to Orlando Health to close what...
<p>CPOs are navigating two pressures at once right now: figuring out where AI actually fits in their operations, and keeping their teams motivated through what feels like unending disruption. Michael Dunlap, Head of...
<p>Chair of Supply Chain Management Jim Francis, has led Mayo Clinic's supply chain for 27 years and built something almost no health system has: a commercial operation with eight revenue-generating businesses that now...
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<p>During COVID, Stamford Health built inventory dashboards that updated multiple times per day to track supplies arriving in bulk quantities at unpredictable intervals from new vendors. This real-time visibility...
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<p>Procurement's biggest misconception isn't about the work itself; it's about believing your role stops at cost savings. Juliana Saretta, Former VP of US Sourcing at Keurig Dr Pepper, spent 30 years proving that...
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<p>Amanda Chawla, SVP - Chief Supply Chain & Post Acute Care Officer at Stanford Health Care, inherited a supply chain where half the organization was outsourced, basic functions like category management and master data...
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<p>Utz Brands’ Senior VP/CPO Ron Schnur's M&A integration framework strategy challenges the standard playbook: across six acquisitions, his team at his previous company, White Wave, diagnosed each deal separately. Some...
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<p>St. Luke’s Health System built a 330,000 square foot consolidated service center with an ASRS featuring 28 automated pickers and nearly 20,000 bins. Adrian Wengert, CSCO & VP of Supply Chain, spent 3 years visiting a...
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