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Sustainable Supply ChainWhy Procurement Holds the Key to Supply Chain Sustainability and Risk ManagementSend me a messageProcurement has come a long way, from back-office cost-cutting to a central role in driving sustainability, risk management, and supply chain resilience. In this episode of the Sustainable Supply Chain podcast, I sat down with Pierre Laprée, Chief Product Officer at SpendHQ, to unpack what that transformation looks like in practice.Pierre shares sharp insights on how procurement teams can baseline and reduce scope 3 emissions, track supplier diversity, and manage supply chain risk, not with static spreadsheets, but with actionable, real-time data. We explored how supplier risk has expanded from p...
2025-06-3038 min
The Procurement Software PodcastMeasuring Procurement's Value Delivery – Pierre Laprée from Per AngustaProcurement has an image problem.
We're often seen as the department our stakeholders and business partners run to when they have a problem that requires an immediate reaction. We're often brought in to extinguish the fire extinguisher, but rarely to prevent them from happening.
So, how do we move from being a reactionary department seemingly in servitude to our stakeholders, to a better respected business partner that is seen as a value generator.
Part of the solution is making our contribution to the organisation better known and more visible. We're not just a department that fulfils our annual cost savings...
2020-06-1731 min
Art of Procurement298: Per Angusta - AOP Start Up SeriesProcurement has always been fertile ground for tech entrepreneurs. We have pulled together some of the most compelling – and potentially disruptive – procurement solutions for a Special Startup Series. We will ask each entrepreneur questions about what gap in the market their solution addresses, how they differentiate their technology and what their tools look like in action. In this podcast, we interview Pierre Laprée, Founder of Per Angusta, a procurement project pipeline and performance tracking tool founded in 2012. Discussion highlights include: The importance of investing in - and building up - procurement’s internal credibi...
2020-01-3014 minArt of Procurement287: Best Practices for Managing Procurement Performance w/ Pierre Lapree and Jason TreidaThis week’s podcast is based on our recent AOP Live session with Pierre Lapree and Jason Treida. They joined us last month to take live audience questions about how procurement can maximize the value potential of automation while ensuring that performance management is not lost in the ‘noise’ of technology. Most of today’s technology focuses on either the transactional aspects of procurement (P2P) or shiny new toys (RPA/AI/Blockchain). It does not necessarily provide a holistic view our activity and performance. And yet, it is those activities and that performance that determine procurement’s impact a...
2019-12-1656 min
L'invité de CPO Radio.TVPer Angusta donne les solutions pour piloter la fonction achats | Pierre Laprée, Président et Fondateur de Per AngustaSelon Pierre Laprée, la fonction achats doit gagner en maturité et être structurée. La clef du succès est la communication et l'adhésion à des règles communes.
2018-03-0913 minArt of ProcurementHow to Bring Trust & Transparency to the Cost Savings Reporting Process w/ Pierre LapreeJoining me today on the show is Pierre Lapree. Pierre founded Per Angusta, a procurement project pipeline and performance tracking tool, over four years ago following a career within IT, and then procurement, at staffing firm Adecco. For regular listeners, you may recall that Pierre was previously one of our revolutionaries at The Procurement Revolution event that I co-founded with Kelly Barner last September. Today, we talk all about the savings process. Specifically, what are the actions that we can take to bring trust, transparency and consistency to the savings tracking process. It is widely rep...
2017-08-0136 min
The Procurement Revolution 2016The Procurement Revolution will Not be Televised w/ Pierre LapreeThe Procurement Revolution 2016 was a virtual, global, multi-media movement aimed at getting procurement professionals to stand up, speak out, and drive change and was co-organized by Philip Ideson of Art of Procurement and Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point. Over the course of 5 days in September 2016, 40 Revolutionaries from both within and outside the procurement profession. delivered 5 live Q&A webinars and over 50 unique pieces of audio, video, and written content. One of our key beliefs was to make the content generation accessible to all. No paywalls, no email signups required, and no sponsors. To...
2016-10-1805 minArt of ProcurementProcurement Change Must Come from Within w/ Pierre LapreeToday is the last day that content will be published in support of The Procurement Revolution event. We have had 40 revolutionaries share their perspective on such as wide variety of topics – tactical, strategic and a little bit of crystal ball gazing too! There was a particular submission from the event that I think embodies my thoughts on what the role of procurement really is - and why change must come from within. It was recorded by Pierre Lapree, the Founder of a procurement performance management SaaS business called Per Angusta. When I received Pierre’s submiss...
2016-09-3007 min