Guest: Aaron Horn – Senior Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Host: Sarah Nelson – Senior Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Strategic Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Solution Advisory, SAP Americas, Finance & Spend
What happens with the priorities of maintenance engineers in asset intensive industries don’t align with the polices and compliance goals of procurement? Friction…barriers…transformation roadblocks to name a few. Our guest today would even go so far as to say he “hated” the procurement processes he was asked to follow.
But what if there was a better way for these teams to collaborate?
Although he’s a Solution Advisor at SAP today, helping customers drive procurement excellence, in a prior life our guest Aaron Horn worked as a Maintenance Reliability Engineer in the Oil Refining industry. Aaron draws on this background to give a unique perspective on the challenges of managing the conflicting priorities of maintenance managers and procurement teams and the importance of collaboration and feedback in bridging the gap.
As more companies look to technology to enable business and procurement transformation initiatives, Aaron emphasizes the importance of maintenance professionals being involved in procurement decisions and conversations to better align priorities and embrace continuous improvement to adapt to changing business needs. The surprising conclusion – fostering empathy might be just as important as the underlying technology and AI.
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Guest: Mike Jasper – Director of Transformation Product & Client Success, Extropy Advisors
Host: Sarah Nelson – Senior Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Strategic Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Solution Advisory, SAP Americas, Finance & Spend
One of the most common misconceptions of major procurement transformation projects where new technologies are implemented to drive automation and efficiency across the source-to-pay cycle is that a headcount reduction is inevitable. If a company can process more transactions faster and with fewer Users, then some people will lose their jobs.
But what if that isn’t the best way to maximize value from these investments?
Our guest today is Mike Jasper, Director of Transformation Product & Client Success for Extropy Advisors. Having spent over two decades leading organizations through complex change, Mike brings a forward-thinking approach and commitment to align businesses at every level in embracing digital transformation and driving a strategic vision for the future.
Mike reflects on these experiences to showcase how best run companies look at digital transformations as an opportunity to drive value by shifting resources from manual, tactical activities towards more strategic initiatives. He specifically focuses on the area of Accounts Payable and describes how automating the invoice process (ingestion, coding, matching, exception routing, etc.) can free up AP resources to focus on more complex and value-add priorities such as tax optimization, tariff impacts, DPO terms extension and early payment discount opportunities.
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Guest: Klaus Fischer – Board Advisor, Nitor Partners and ConvergentIS
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Strategic Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Solution Advisory, SAP Americas, Finance & Spend
Host: Sarah Nelson – Senior Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Is your organization still operating in silos? In the lack of transparency and collaboration between the offices of the CFO and CPO preventing the business from achieving the types of value outcomes that executives and shareholders expect? What roles can technology, data and AI play in driving impactful business transformations?
Our guest today is Klaus Fischer, a former long-time leader at SAP and current board advisor for two valued SAP partners – ConvergentIS and Nitor Partners.
Klaus has been an avid and passionate champion for helping customers transform and achieve positive business results in procurement, supply chain and finance. Having joined SAP 35 years ago in Waldorf, Germany near his hometown, Klaus has filled many roles from Engineering to Consulting, Solution Advisory to Strategic Sales and most recently as the Head of North American Center of Excellence helping customers drive real value outcomes across all SAP solutions. Klaus even played a significant role in SAP’s decision to acquire Ariba in 2012 and combine SAP ERP with the Ariba Network and Ariba’s strong cloud-based source-to-pay capabilities.
Today, Klaus continues to be an advocate for helping companies drive impactful business outcomes as a growth and board advisor to two excellent SAP partners that specialize in the finance and procurement solutions at SAP.
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Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Strategic Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Solution Advisory, SAP Americas, Finance & Spend
Host: Sarah Nelson – Senior Solution Advisory, SAP Finance & Spend
Justin and Erik celebrate the one-year milestone of The Future of Procurement by reflecting on the first 20 episodes. Looking back on the growth and learning, some of their favorite and most memorable guests, and recalling some of the interesting things they learned along the way. Not to be forgotten, they also show special love to the Flex and the City segment that ran several times throughout the year with a unique focus on services procurement and the flexible workforce.
Next, Erik and Justin welcome a new voice to the podcast, Sarah Nelson, a fellow Finance & Spend Solution consultant. Sarah joins the podcast for year two as a third co-host who brings a fresh voice, great new ideas and a desire to keep the podcast fun and accessible to all listeners.
Sarah shares her procurement origin story with us, gives us a sneak peek at some of the fresh ideas she’s bringing to the podcast, and dives in headfirst with her perspective on what the future of procurement will look like…and it’s not the obvious answer.
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Guest: Stuart Van Houten – Chief Commercial Officer, Blackline
Guest: Riyaz Samnani – SVP of Presales & Value Engineering, Blackline
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Solution Advisory, SAP Americas, Finance & Spend
Have you ever noticed that the functions of procurement and finance are often siloed and disjointed at companies? That often their goals and initiatives are not always in sync with each other, and that time-consuming, manual processes are required to reconcile spend and finance data at the end of the month, quarter, or year? As procurement and finance are evolving to become more strategic, how can technology help break down these silos?
Our guests today are Stuart Van Houten, Chief Commercial Officer of Blackline, and Riyaz Samnani, SVP of Presales & Value Engineering at Blackline.
Stuart is passionate about driving sustainable growth and long-term success and brings over 30 years of experience leading high-growth technology organizations, most recently having led North American sales and business development initiatives at SAP. Riyaz, brings his enthusiasm for building best run solution demonstrations and value-based business cases to his customers with over a decade leading procurement and finance teams at SAP, Coupa and Basware prior to joining Blackline.
An SAP Partner and a leading AI-enabled financial operations engine, Blackline helps customers accelerate their record-to-report and invoice-to-cash activities which eliminates delays, strengthens controls, and delivers trusted data throughout the organization. Stuart and Riyaz bring their procurement acumen to their new roles at Blackline to uncover how smart businesses are joining their financial operations and data with procurement data and initiatives to drive the next generation of technological transformation…with AI and data and the center.
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Guest: Baptiste Collot – CEO and co-Founder, Trustpair
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Solution Advisory, SAP Americas, Finance & Spend
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Finance & Spend
If you’ve ever fallen victim to payment fraud in your personal life life, you know that it can be expensive, time-consuming and leaves you feeling very vulnerable. Unfortunately, fraud is not simply limited to the consumer. It also impacts thousands of companies each year to the tune of millions of dollars in losses. So, what can be done to protect your business and prevent fraudulent activity?
Our guest today is Baptiste Collot, CEO and co-Founder of Trustpair, a best-in-class fraud prevention platform. Baptiste began his career working in the treasury department of a multinational company, when he had an epiphany about why they were losing money on vendor payments. All signs pointed to the data journey from vendor onboarding across the entire procure-to-pay chain and through various systems in finance, AP and procurement.
Enter Trustpair, a platform that uses technology to help companies better trust their data by securing the entire procure-to-pay process. Baptiste explains the evolution of fraud in the vendor payment space, why it is such a growing concern, and how solutions from companies like Trustpair and SAP can help prevent fraud at the ultimate source…the data.
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Guest: Gordon Donovan – Global VP of Research, SAP – Procurement & External Workforce
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Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Finance & Spend
Once thought of as simply a cost management function, procurement today is tasked with juggling a plethora of competing priorities…quality, sustainability, diversity, security, compliance, and AI just to name a few. So how does a CPO determine which of the latest procurement trends deserve the most attention?
Or guest today is Gordon Donovan, the Global VP of Research for Procurement and External Workforce at SAP. In this role, Gordon tracks the latest trends happening in procurement and carries out extensive research on these trends to form insights that allows SAP to plan their strategy accordingly.
A 30-year veteran to the procurement function, Gordon has let procurement teams in health, rail, finance and the public sector in the UK as well as in Asia. A recognized thought leader, speaker and writer in procurement, Gordon brings extensive experience leading transformations and establishing functions to deliver enterprise-wide value and ensure world class procurement outcomes.
Gordon digs into the latest research from Art of Procurement and Economist Impact studies to give us his insights on the top 4 procurement priorities and explains why technology plays such a crucial role in helping procurement professionals cope with the increasing complexities companies are required to manage.
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Guest: Japen Hollist – Head of Sustainability go-to-market, SAP North America
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Finance & Spend
***This is the second part of a two-part conversation***
ESG and Sustainability are topics at the forefront of business these days with C-suite executives setting guidance and maneuvering organizations to comply with ever-changing global regulations while also meeting the expectations of their customers and shareholders.
Or guest today is Japen Hollist, the Head of Sustainability go-to-market for North America at SAP, where he and his team is tasked with supporting and enabling the field to help customers understand and utilize SAP’s portfolio of sustainability solutions. A graduate from the Harvard University Extension School, Japen received his master’s degree in Sustainability.
Prior to SAP, Japen served as a Procurement Officer at a Fortune 500 insurance company where he also served on their CSR Committee and helped guide the company to a ranking on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and an ISO 14001 certification.
Japen shares a number of compelling anecdotes of his experiences in procurement and sustainability and offers his perspective on the trends he’s seeing in corporate procurement today and how an adherence to ESG and sustainability principles can lead to significant competitive advantages.
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Guest: Japen Hollist – Head of Sustainability go-to-market, SAP North America
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Finance & Spend
***This is the first part of a two-part conversation***
ESG and Sustainability are topics at the forefront of business these days with C-suite executives setting guidance and maneuvering organizations to comply with ever-changing global regulations while also meeting the expectations of their customers and shareholders.
Or guest today is Japen Hollist, the Head of Sustainability go-to-market for North America at SAP, where he and his team is tasked with supporting and enabling the field to help customers understand and utilize SAP’s portfolio of sustainability solutions. A graduate from the Harvard University Extension School, Japen received his master’s degree in Sustainability.
Prior to SAP, Japen served as a Procurement Officer at a Fortune 500 insurance company where he also served on their CSR Committee and helped guide the company to a ranking on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and an ISO 14001 certification.
Japen shares a number of compelling anecdotes of his experiences in procurement and sustainability and offers his perspective on the trends he’s seeing in corporate procurement today and how an adherence to ESG and sustainability principles can lead to significant competitive advantages.
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Co-Host: Amanda Slevar – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Finance & Spend Management
Co-Host: Lindsey Freedman – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Finance & Spend Management
Special Guest: Maritza Morris – VP, Business Development – Monument Consulting
In this episode of Flex and The City, hosts Amanda and Lindsey welcome Maritza Morris, VP of Business Development at Monument Consulting. Maritza shares her journey into the flexible workforce industry, from landing her first job with Insight Global to finding her dream role at Monument. She dives into what makes Monument Consulting a leader in contingent workforce solutions, MSP services, and advisory support, helping companies navigate the complexities of external talent management and services procurement.
The conversation covers key industry insights, including what an MSP is, when to engage advisory services, and how Monument supports total talent management through SAP Fieldglass and SuccessFactors.
Tune in for an insightful discussion on the evolving workforce landscape and how companies can better manage contingent labor programs!
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Guest: EJ Kosec – General Manager, Convergent Labs
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Finance & Spend
In a world where disparate technology landscapes and high employee turnover is commonplace, how are people supposed to know where to go and which processes to follow to request goods and services required for them to do their jobs? Further, how can these same users get crucial visibility into the status of these requests so they can plan accordingly?
Our guest today is EJ Kosec, General Manager at Convergent Labs. EJ has a passion for procurement and innovation, having spent over a decade at SAP with a focus on procurement and business network solutions. While at SAP, EJ co-founded a remanufacturing platform called Encore to increase the exposure of the circular economy market. Encore was funded and incubated within SAP.io before graduating to the SAP Business Network in only 7 months!
Today, EJ applies his procurement innovations to helping companies overcome the hurdles of intake and orchestration in those disparate technology landscapes. Using emerging new technologies and AI capabilities, EJ explains how companies are better able to guide users to request the goods and services they need while providing feedback and visibility into the status of their requests while simultaneously orchestrating complex procurement processes in the background that may touch many different systems.
Add in a touch of AI agents to drive automation and you’ve got a recipe for what the future of procurement can look like.
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Co-Host: Amanda Slevar – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
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Special Guest: Penny Queller – CEO, The Mom Project
In Episode 5 of Flex and the City, Lindsey and Amanda spotlight the critical role moms play in the workforce with special guest Penny Queller, CEO from The Mom Project. They dive into the organization’s mission to empower working parents, its innovative approach to connecting talent with opportunities, and the evolving vision behind its success. Penny shares insights on addressing challenges faced by working parents, promoting diversity in hiring, and leveraging technology to create impactful career paths. Tune in to learn how The Mom Project is reshaping the future of work for moms and organizations alike.
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Guest: Justin Morse – Vice President, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Guest: Andy Eagle – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Spend Connect Live is SAPs flagship annual conference dedicated to all things Intelligent Spend Management and Business Network and this year’s event in Las Vegas, Nevada included 3 full days of innovation announcements, demonstrations, exhibitions, roundtables, customer stories and of course…lots of networking.
If you couldn’t make it this year and are wondering what all the excitement was about from this year’s event…or if you were there but just couldn’t find the time to catch all the sessions you hoped for, you’re in luck. I sat down with two of my esteemed colleagues, Justin Morse and Andy Eagle from the North America Center of Excellence, to discuss the highlights from this year’s Spend Connect Live event and dig into the most important themes and announcements.
What is Intake Management and why is it generating buzz throughout the procurement community? What was announced about the all-new Spend Control Tower and how does it fit into SAP’s “Triple Crown” of strategic procurement? And did AI, Generative AI and SAP’s new Joule co-pilot steal the show? We hit on all these questions and more!!
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Co-Host: Amanda Slevar – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
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Special Guest: Sarah Karstens, HR Business Partner – Talent Acquisition, Hallmark Cards
In this special live episode of Flex and the City, Amanda and Lindsey connect with Hallmark’s Sarah Karstens at the CWS Summit in Dallas to dive into the latest in contingent workforce strategies. Sarah shares her journey into the flexible workforce space, explaining how Hallmark’s external workforce program has evolved, including the value of direct sourcing and their recent transition from a Managed Service Provider (MSP) model to an in-house program. They discuss top trends from the conference, including insights from events like the SAP Fieldglass Speakeasy. The episode also dives into Sarah’s career background and discusses Hallmark’s iconic brand and company culture.
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Guest: Sammy Lakshmanan – Principal, ESG, PwC
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
New ESG regulations seem to be popping up every day – locally, nationally and even globally. How are businesses supposed to keep up while still delivering value to their customers? How does this impact the procurement and supply chain processes within an organization as well as collaborations with their suppliers, customers, logistics carriers, and others?
Our guest today is Sammy Lakshmanan, Principal for ESG at PwC. Sammy has spent over 20 years helping companies shape and implement their Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and sustainability strategy. He’s also co-chair of the Open Footprint
Forum to support companies to share their Greenhouse Gas and sustainability data.
Sammy shares many valuable insights on what some of the latest ESG regulations mean for procurement and supply chain as well as strategies for how technology can help provide the necessary traceability required to be compliant and transparent about where goods are sourced, produced, manufactured, and shipped to and from. Sammy also explains how companies that embrace this change can also drive significant value through optimizing their supply chain, providing product genealogy transparency to their customers, and enhancing their overall brand reputation in the market.
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Guest: Joern Keller – Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, SAP Business Network
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving world of innovation and disruption, how are organizations able to ensure process collaboration both within and beyond their four walls? How can they ensure visibility and transparency of information across their customers, suppliers, logistics carriers, asset managers, and financial institutions? What about keeping up with the local rules and regulations for ESG and e-Invoicing across the globe?
Our guest today, Joern Keller, is Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Business Network. Joern explains how SAP is solving for these very complex requirements through a convergence of many business processes using a collaborative business network in the cloud. He describes how it is possible to coordinate activities from procurement, supply chain orchestration, logistics coordination, asset maintenance, and finance to provide resiliency as well as compliance to your organization.
Joern also shares many recent and future upcoming capabilities that SAP is bringing to the Business Network to drive even better value and more opportunities to all stakeholders in these business processes, such as helping Suppliers better promote themselves, their products and their certifications to existing and potential customers.
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Co-Host: Amanda Slevar – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Co-Host: Lindsey Freedman – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Special Guest: Sarah Di Tosto – Head of Program Success, SAP
In the third episode of the special Flex and the City segment, co-hosts Amanda Slevar and Lindsey Freedman, introduce Sarah Di Tosto, head of the North American and Latin American Program Success team at SAP.
Amanda and Lindsey kick off this episode speaking with Sarah to explore her background in the flexible workforce industry. They dive into global best practices, highlighting how the program success team at SAP provides value for customers, and discuss what’s top of mind for customers in managing their external workforce programs. During the “no dumb questions” segment of the show, they discuss what direct sourcing is and the reasons customers look to adopt direct sourcing in their programs.
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Guest: Lisa Smith – Executive Advisory & Speaker
Host: Justin Morse – Vice President, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Deciding to embrace technology to transform a procurement organization is no easy feat, especially when dealing with large, global organizations in a complex industry such as automotive, where procurement leaders need to balance cost savings, process efficiency, supply chain reliability and vendor relationships.
So, how do companies manage successful transformation programs while mitigating operational disruption? Why is it so important to embrace technology and change in the quest to remain competitive? What else, besides the technology matters for a successful transformation?
Our guest today, Lisa Smith, draws from her over 30 years of global automotive procurement experience at Toyota North America and Ford Motor Company to showcase how she’s been able to lead several successful procurement transformations using SAP technologies. Lisa shares several insightful secrets to her success that transcend technology, such as change management, executive alignment and building relationships.
Today, Lisa uses her platform as a trusted global procurement leader as an executive advisory and speaker in the procurement and supply chain space, helping other organizations on their transformation journeys by providing influence, leadership and advisory expertise.
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Guest: James Gellert – Executive Chairman, RapidRatings
Host: Erik Derenne – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
The macroeconomic conditions of the last 5 years have been tough on businesses. Between a global pandemic, geopolitical unrest, natural disasters, rising interest rates, inflation and supply chain shortages, it’s no wonder that the financial health of many companies is suffering, and often small and medium-sized private companies have suffered the most.
But what does this all mean for a company’s supply chain? What risk factors do we need to be aware of when we see signals of poor financial health within our supply base? How can businesses be better equipped to track and monitor these financial health risk signals to navigate the current economic climate?
Our guest today, James Gellert, is a recognized international authority on corporate counterparty risk management, supply chain risk, the health of public and private businesses, and US rating regulation.
James began his career in the credit world, working in Debt Capital Markets at multiple global banks, most prominently running business for Deutsche Bank, bringing non-US corporates, financial institutions, and sovereign entities into the US public and private debt capital markets, as well as for issuance of global bonds. Since entering the technology world, he has run four private companies – three in data, risk, and media, and one, an investment banking boutique focused on raising capital and M&A in the financial information services industry. He sold three of these companies and acquired RapidRatings to focus entirely on financial risk for credit and supply chain risk professionals.
RapidRatings has received awards and accolades for risk management in credit and supply chain, and James Gellert has been awarded the “Pros to Know” title in the supply chain industry.
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Co-Host: Amanda Slevar – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Co-Host: Lindsey Freedman – Director, Center of Excellence, SAP North America, Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Special Guest: Marc-Andre Vachon – Senior Solution Advisor, SAP
In the second episode of Flex and the City, co-hosts Amanda Slevar and Lindsey Freedman, introduce their first ever guest Marc-Andre Vachon.
Amanda and Lindsey kick off this episode with an interview with Marc to explore his background in the flexible workforce industry. They dive into a recap of SAP Sapphire, highlighting some of the exciting sessions and key customer interactions. They also explore recent news, including the European ESG reporting requirements, discussing what this means for the external workforce. In addition, they tackle a fundamental question: “What is a green job?” and explain its significance in external workforce management.
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