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Supply Circles: Inside the unique mind of a Procurement Professional with Andy Brightmore

Today episode is an engaging café style chat with two supply chain specialists: Host James Scotland sits down with his old mate Andy Brightmore for a wandering and endearing chat on all things supply chain.

Listen in to hear the two have another of their usual fun and unstructured wanderings through the issues of business and life today.

Topics covered this time include:

• Why is Andy no longer considered one of the ‘youngest and the brightest’? (It’s a sad story)
• Andy’s fascinating multi-industry, multi-national, multi-discipline supply chain career.
• Andy and James’ learnings of supply chain management from the covid and post-covid years.
• The importance of relationships, resilience, and good people in building sustainable supply chains.
• The emerging challenge of a world economy that seems to be turning once again.
• The generational differences and what it means for markets and supply chains (is there one?)
• And much more.

If you love a good chat, if supply chain and business improvements interest you, this episode is for you.

Bio
Andy Brightmore has had an amazing career- from his early days within the Toyota world class manufacturing environment through to being part of highly innovative and creative successful procurement teams at Novar, a fascinating role with leading business process outsourcer Xchanging, then with global consulting leader KPMG and finally a senior role with the world's largest food and support services organisation, Andy is a leading proponent of Procurement and Supply Chain.

He has a career long passion for transforming businesses by driving dramatic cost, margin, revenue and capability improvement.

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