Future of Sourcing Awards

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Finalist Interviews for Rising Star Awards: Wouter Passtoors, Moneyball CPH

How did you get into this field – was it purposeful or by accident?

It was for sure not purposeful, as I initially decided to obtain a bachelor degree in Business Economics at Tilburg University in order to become auditor eventually after graduating. That has been the plan ever since going to high school… until I figured during my studies and first internship at one of KPMG’s technology advisory teams that rather started working at a...

Nov 16, 2022 0

Finalist Interviews for Sourcing Star Awards: David Bush, Simfoni

How did you get into this field. Was it purposeful or by accident?

Accidental! I had just exited my first company, named EcoSearch, which was an environmental mapping company. We had a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution in the mid-nineties, a decade before that term was even coined! I was sent information by a friend about FreeMarkets, the original architects of eSourcing, and their full-service model for reverse auctions. It was clunky...

Nov 16, 2022 0

Finalist Interviews for Sourcing Star Awards: Jerome Arfeli, UPS

How did you get into this field. Was it purposeful or by accident?

Actually, my entry into Procurement was unexpected. I was finalizing my engineering internship at Solvay in a production facility in Belgium, when I decided to submit my resume to the centralized HR database of resumes without applying to any specific role. A few weeks later, a recruiter called me to discuss an analyst opportunity within Solvay’s newly created centralized...

Nov 16, 2022 0

Finalist Interviews for Sourcing Star Awards: Catherine Candland, nextSource

How did you get into this field. Was it purposeful or by accident?

I have always been interested in why, how and with what criteria professionals make career choices. In college and as a young professional I often heard friends and colleagues say, “this job is OK until I figure out what I want to do.” I wanted to find a way to pre-emptively help employers and candidates make great choices. Companies struggle to build workforces...

Nov 16, 2022 0

Finalist Interviews for Rising Star Awards: Matt McLoughlin, Scientist.com

1) How did you get into this field? Was it purposeful or by accident?

I started my career as a geneticist for AstraZeneca at 18, so I would say that the first half of my career was not at all aligned with procurement and sourcing. However, as that role developed, I received more exposure to it and realized I found it more rewarding than bench science. In 2013, I made the conscious...

Nov 16, 2022 0

Finalist Interviews for Rising Star Awards: Leyanna Torres, Amazon

How did you get into this field. Was it purposeful or by accident?

It was by a happy accident. I started in the packaging engineering industry. In that industry, I played the role of purchasing by sourcing my own customized packaging. In the process of combining engineering design with negotiation my...

Nov 07, 2022 0

Finalist Interviews for Rising Star Awards: Tyler Higgins, Managing Director, AArete

1) How did you get into this field? Was it purposeful or by accident?

Interestingly, it was both purposeful and accidental. The accidental side is that my first internship was with a CIO of a publicly traded engineering firm. The CIO, a family friend, hired me that summer to help him complete post-acquisition cost reduction efforts. They had acquired 50+...

Oct 22, 2022 0

SIG ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 2022 FUTURE OF SOURCING AWARDS

JACKSONVILLE, FL — October 25th, 2022 — Sourcing Industry Group (SIG), the premier membership organization for sourcing, procurement, outsourcing, and third-party risk executives, announced the winners of the Future of Sourcing Awards at its Global Executive Summit on October 19th, 2022.

Held in Palm Springs, California, the Future of Sourcing Awards honored organizations and individuals that show innovation, leadership, and transformation in...

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Finalist Interviews • Future of Sourcing Awards

Oct 15, 2022 0

Innovations in Digitization: GEP

Can you outline why your team embarked on this project and the problem that needed to be solved?

The client, a Fortune 500 CPG company, wanted to improve its procurement resource efficiency, speed up operations and enable the team to focus on strategic goals and value creation rather than on day-to-day repetitive, administrative tasks.

The overall goal was to improve the turnaround time and establish a...

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