Episode 27: Evolution of Procurement Pros

The Evolution of Procurement Professionals

Ed Cross is the Executive Director of Odesma, a Procurement Consultancy. Ed has 30+ years of experience in Procurement across a wide range of industries and sectors.

In this Episode of the World of Procurement Podcast, we cover:

• A Brief History of his wonderful career

• Insights into Odesma, Ed’s Procurement Consultancy formed out of the Gig Economy Approach

• Starting in Procurement out of want rather than falling into it

• How Procurement Teams are responding to COVID19

• Amazing stories from the Procurement Teams dealing with COVID 

• Tales from the Black Death - this was awesome!!!

• How can Procurement ready themselves for different/new disruptions in the future

• Customer of First Choice and why this is going to be important moving forwards

• Why back to basics Procurement is vital

• Understanding your Supply Chain 

• What does a Procurement Professional look like over the next few years

• Single Source vs Multi Source/Competitive Procurement