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Procurement Says No

Procurement Says No

Written 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
  • Procurement Says No Ep39 Predicting the predictable

    Procurement Says No Ep39 Predicting the predictable
    Jan 5 2026
    Last year (and the year before) Rich and Ed made a whole load of procurement predictions - and a few others. Now it's crunch time as we find out how many came true.

    Virtually all of them it turns out. What a pair of prediction-genius-types!
    • ESG - correct
    • Tariffs - correct
    • Befriending IT - correct
    • Obvious stuff from CAPS and Deloitte is true - correct
    • Recession in the West - well, close
    • COP30 - correct
    • Amazon - correct
    • A mysterious leader will emerge from the sea and form an aquatic emprie - correct (sort of)
    • Kearney talking nonsense - correct
    • CIPs resurgence (helped by us of course) - correct
    And now we have a whole load of more predictions - so get ready to place your bets - possibly everything on black Or was it red?

    So, just by listening to Procurement Says No you can potentially make millions of dollars in bet winnings by gambling your house on our predictions (which we don't recommend by the way).

    P.s. We're not sure if "bug people from the moon will eat all the cheese on Earth" will be accurate but it still stands in our list.

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    28 mins
  • Ask Rich & Ed Ep16 - Are you interimming?

    Ask Rich & Ed Ep16 - Are you interimming?
    Dec 22 2025
    ...no it's just the way I walk.

    We get lots of questions from our listener on Procurement Says No...now you can listen to them all again in our series of mini bite-sized podcast chunks. Like dog food. Except in headphone cans, not actual cans. Sort of.

    In episode 16 we are still banging on about consultants, and you ask - is it better to use a big global consultancy (discuss); how to deal with a stakeholder who used to work for a consultancy they now want to use; why IT enterprise software vendors don't do their own implementations; would we recommend a career in interim management; and how best to use interims in your procurement function.

    All of the procurement questions, all of the time.

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    8 mins
  • Procurement Says No Vids Ep10 - Let the lie go

    Procurement Says No Vids Ep10 - Let the lie go
    Dec 19 2025
    Another video which we said we'd never do. Except this is audio only.

    They're on TikTok in full glorious video.

    How will I know if my supplier is lying to you?

    Watch out for them "letting the lie go"!


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    1 min
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