#23 | An Interview on Taking Procurement to the Next Level with Rich Sains

Supplier Experience Live from HICX

Oct 12 2022 • 17 mins

An Interview on Taking Procurement to the Next Level with Rich Sains

For this episode of Supplier Experience Live Podcast, we were joined by Rich Sains. Rich is a procurement practitioner who has spent over twenty years working in a number of organizations for various industries, including retail, hospitality, and FMCG. After gaining experience, Rich went on to establish his own business, Acada, which provides a procurement platform focused on performance, insights and analysis that helps procurement teams increase capacity and reduce time to value.

With Rich we discussed:

  • How Procurement has evolved to become a more strategic function
  • How transformation impacts people, skills and roadmaps needed today
  • The technological revolution of Procurement