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Procurement Says No

Procurement Says No

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!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/procurement-says-no--5886102/support.Richard Beattie & Edward Cross Economics Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Ask Rich & Ed Ep17 - The cap and collar

    Ask Rich & Ed Ep17 - The cap and collar
    Jan 22 2026
    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 17 we have still so much to share about consultants, and you ask - would we recommend a risk and reward/gainshare approach; how to spot "land and expand"; and how to negotiate with an incumbant consultancy.

    All of the procurement questions, all of the time.

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    7 mins
  • Procurement Says No Vids Ep11 The Art of Persuasion #1 Conditioning

    Procurement Says No Vids Ep11 The Art of Persuasion #1 Conditioning
    Jan 19 2026
    Another video which we said we'd never do. Except this is audio only.

    They're on TikTok in full glorious video.

    The first of two mini-vids on the art of persuasion - condition or repetition. Or conditioning.
    Or repetition.

    What was your saving target again?

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    1 min
  • 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
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