363: How Procurement Can Build Supply Chain Resilience w/ Tom Kieley and Go Kamiyama

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To meet today’s challenges in supply chain spend management, we must embrace automation. Gone are the days of being able to throw bodies at a problem. Systemic inefficiency not only creates unsustainable processes, it creates enormous waste and revenue risk. Now is the time for procurement to lead through change.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Procurement teams are uniquely positioned to lead supply chain resilience initiatives. That’s because procurement brings together the right suppliers, products, and materials needed to fulfill customer demand. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this podcast based on an AOP Live session, Tom Kieley, CEO and Co-Founder of SourceDay, and Go Kamiyama, Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives from NetSuite, answer audience questions about:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How we can better understand supply chain-related spend management challenges</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What resilience and responsiveness to demand signals look like in practice, and how procurement can incorporate them in their existing processes and frameworks</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Opportunities for procurement to embrace automation for the purpose of increasing supply chain visibility and resilience</span></li> </ul>