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Procurement Says No

Procurement Says No

By: Richard Beattie & Edward Cross
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 The thoughts of two CIPS award winning procurement gods who want to share our love of procurement with newbies, oldies and the procurious. Generally we'll be talking nonsense about all things procurement, with the occasional nugget of priceless insight.

All views are our own - we're not affiliated in any way to anybody or anything!

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Episodes
  • Ask Rich & Ed Ep13 - A trip down the Amazon

    Ask Rich & Ed Ep13 - A trip down the Amazon
    Sep 10 2025
    Lots more questions from Procurement Says No - the world's best procurement podcast.

    Now in a series of mini bite-sized podcast chunks. Like dog food.

    In episode 13 you ask for our thoughts on Amazon Business; how many suppliers is optimum; should you use an interim or a Big4 consultant and which consultancy is best - and should you work for one???

    All of the procurement questions, all of the time.

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    10 mins
  • Procurement Says No Ep33 The Way We Source

    Procurement Says No Ep33 The Way We Source
    Aug 25 2025
    Rich and Ed star on episode 56 of internationally renowned podcast "The Way We Source" - hosted by Sam Jenks and sponsored (them, not us) by Kodiac Hub - your end-to-end Supplier Relationship Management platform for strategic, sustainable and smart procurement blah, blah.

    We answer the important questions: Why does procurement say no? Why do procurement people sometimes take themselves tooooo seriously? Are we aligning or hindering?

    And some stuff about AI.

    And we talk about agile for procurement (or lean or continuous improvement); how easy it is to repatriate off-shore manufacturing (including some non-fact-checked spurious data); our 5 point plan for dealing with tariffs; the call to action for procurement folk ("go out and do something") and whether indeed, history will teach us anything at all.

    It's also got the fabulous "TWWS" theme tune as an added bonus.

    It's lovely and someone else did all the work. So that's super.



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    43 mins
  • Procurement Says No Vids Ep6 Last jokes we promise

    Procurement Says No Vids Ep6 Last jokes we promise
    Aug 15 2025
    We've launched into the world of short videos on TikTok. It's another thing we said we wouldn't do.

    Anyway, here's the audio-only version, for those of you who really, really don't want to look at us.

    We promise this is the last of our run of terrible procurement jokes. Until the next one.

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    1 min
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