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Source Code Episode 9: Source Code: Shashi Mandapaty, Former Chief Procurement Officer at Johnson & Johnson, on Why One Throne Isn't Enough

Shashi Mandapaty (Johnson & Johnson) on leaving a $400B pharma company's top procurement role, building the world's largest cancer biorepository in India, and why relationships hold when systems fail.

Source Code Episode 8: Running on Paper: Rick McDonald, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Clorox, on Why Supplier Trust Is the Real Business Continuity Plan

The IEEPA Ruling Wasn't a Win. Here's What Procurement Leaders Are Missing.

Direct Materials Doesn't Have an AI Problem. It Has an Operating System Problem.

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Source Code Episode 7: The Failed Historian: Jason Busch, Founder of Spend Matters, on Why 99% of the Auction Happens Before Bid Day

A modular docking chassis with interchangeable cartridges, one orange cartridge hovering mid-swap
Rent the Model, Own the Evals

A raw lump of orange modeling clay beside a precise architectural house model built from the same clay
LLMs Are Playdough. Deployment Builds the House.

Source Code Episode 6: Boots on the Ground: Danny Wang, former SVP at Canada Goose on Consulting, Sourcing, and Supply Chain Trust

Source Code Episode 5: From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage: How AI Is Reshaping Procurement Leadership

A precision EUV lithography optics column with a glowing orange light beam
5,100 Suppliers vs. One Country: Two Ways to Build the Machines That Make Chips

Google Sold a Million Chips to Its Own Competition

The Power to Resist Influence

Source Code Episode 4: CFOs Have a Ledger. Why Don't CPOs?

Previous posts

Source Code Episode 7: The Failed Historian: Jason Busch, Founder of Spend Matters, on Why 99% of the Auction Happens Before Bid Day

A modular docking chassis with interchangeable cartridges, one orange cartridge hovering mid-swap
Rent the Model, Own the Evals

A raw lump of orange modeling clay beside a precise architectural house model built from the same clay
LLMs Are Playdough. Deployment Builds the House.

Source Code Episode 6: Boots on the Ground: Danny Wang, former SVP at Canada Goose on Consulting, Sourcing, and Supply Chain Trust

Previous posts

Source Code Episode 7: The Failed Historian: Jason Busch, Founder of Spend Matters, on Why 99% of the Auction Happens Before Bid Day

A modular docking chassis with interchangeable cartridges, one orange cartridge hovering mid-swap
Rent the Model, Own the Evals

A raw lump of orange modeling clay beside a precise architectural house model built from the same clay
LLMs Are Playdough. Deployment Builds the House.

Source Code Episode 6: Boots on the Ground: Danny Wang, former SVP at Canada Goose on Consulting, Sourcing, and Supply Chain Trust

Source Code Episode 5: From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage: How AI Is Reshaping Procurement Leadership

A precision EUV lithography optics column with a glowing orange light beam
5,100 Suppliers vs. One Country: Two Ways to Build the Machines That Make Chips

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Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.

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