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Let's Talk Procurement — 69 episodes

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S3.E9 How Procurement Thinking Can Stretch A South America Travel Budget

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S3.E8. Has Procurement got..Easier? 1990s CIPS v 2026 CIPS

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S3.E7. The final Procurement assignment: Does Luke 10 get his CIPS?

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S3. E6. Procurement Frameworks Made Simple, Really Simple

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S3. E5. We Share Big Life Updates And Tease A Packed Procurement Lineup For 2026

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S3.E4. Data Protection Essentials for Procurement Professionals

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S3.E4. From Setbacks To Passes: Practical CIPS Procurement Exam Retake Strategies

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S3.E3. How Procurement Automation Wins Trust, Time and Stakeholder Buy-in

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S3.E2. Porter's Five Forces Explains Sportswear Buying Industry

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S3. E1 Why tariffs raise prices—and what smart buyers can do about it

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Let's Talk Procurement Season Three, For Real This Time

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S2. E31. Ship Happens: Global Trade Disruption Duck Up

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S2. E30 The Next Wave: Gen Z in Procurement

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S2. E29. When Contract and Category Management Collide: CIPS Assignment Survival Story

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S2. E28. Why you should NOT become a procurement person. Become a business person instead!

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S2. E27. Learn These Important Procurement Acronyms: Decoding Procurement Buzzwords

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S2. E26. What is the Dream Procurement Job?

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S2. E25. How to Smash CIPS Multiple Choice Exams (Tips from a 90% Achiever)

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S2. E24. CIPS Essay Route (Part 3): Global Strategic Supply Chain Management. Including Live Results!!

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S2.E23. The Real Work: What Procurement Professionals Actually Do Daily

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S2. E22. The Path to Procurement Excellence (Career growth)

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S2. E21. Navigating the CIPS Essay Route (Assignment 2: Commercial Management)

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S2. E20. Statements of Work: When, Why, and How to Use Them in Procurement (SOWs)

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S2.E19. From Classroom to Career: A Procurement Graduate's Journey

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S2.E 18. Strategic Procurement in 2025's Tech-Driven World (Short Episode)

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S2.E17. Technology in Procurement with a SaaS platform provider COO

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S2. E16. Bouncing Back After a Bad Week in Procurement

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S2. E15. Procurement Insights on CIPS exam route and more featuring Abdul

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S2.E14. Total Cost of Ownership - All you need to know

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Christmas Message from the Lukes

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S2. E13. Busting These Myths - Common Procurement Myths

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S2. E12. Results day! CIPS Assignment Route (Part 1b)

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S2. E11. What is the CIPS Assignment Route? An Alternate Way to become MCIPS Qualified (Part 1a)

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S2. E10. What are the most frustrating things about working in Procurement?

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S2. E9. Procurement Horror Stories (H'ween special!)

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S2. E8. Do Suppliers Even Like Me?? Exploring the Supplier Preferencing Model - Stakeholder Series Part 3

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S2 E7. The Public Sector Procurement Goddess Caitlin

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S2 E6. Ministry of Defence Duck Up - Ajax Armored Vehicle Programme

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S2 E5. Psychology in Procurement - How to use behavioural science to your advantage

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S2 E4. Procurement Royalty - Insights from a Procurement Director

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S2 E3. Project Managers Roasting Procurement

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S2 E2. RFI - What the hell is that?

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S2 E1. Procurement Says No

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24. Season 2 Trailer

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23. The End of Season 1

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22. What is Termination anyway?

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21. Inside Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) featuring Nigel

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20. Procurement & Supply Chain FAQs

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19. Stakeholder Management part 2: Mendelow's Matrix

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18. Stakeholder Management part 1

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17. The Procurement Cycle part 1

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16. Bite Size - Competitive Advantage & Porters 3 sources

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15. Contracts Unleashed: The 5 Elements of a Legally Binding Contract

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14. ISOs recapped - Bite Size

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13. The Night-Mare Duck up - Horsemeat Scandal

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12. The 5 Wrongs (Rights) of Procurement

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11.Get to Know your hosts - Luke 1 & Luke 10

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10. Will AI steal our jobs? 2 Lukes meet an AI expert

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9. What are specifications anyway? Everyday Dave with Sanaed!

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8. What is the Triple Bottom Line?

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7. This FCK up goes way off track (KFC Chicken Shortage)

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6. Lean Manufacturing God Taichi Ohno

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5. Goods V Services

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4. The KFC FCK Up

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3. Is MCIPS worth it? Cheers Janet

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2. CIPS TIPS

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1. What is Procurement anyway?

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0. Barbershop Pilot Ramble

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The Teaser