Andrè Vermeulen The CPO's Inner Game Picture a procurement director, 20years in, walking out of a supplier negotiation with 9% off a THB 40 million contract. He is pleased. His CFO is pleased for about a week, until the "savings" fail to... Coaching Mentoring Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen The Supply Chain Multiplier A supply chain multiplier effect happens when a small waste at one point in a chain, like a minor overproduction or delay, gets padded at every handoff moving upstream until it becomes a much larger c... Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen The 10-Month ZBB Runway Continuing from my post on Zero-based budgeting, Beyond the Red Pen , if you are reading this at the start of April and planning for a January 1st fiscal year, you are in the perfect position to succe... Logistics Mentoring Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen Beyond the Red Pen The Ghost of 1970s Finance Returns Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) has long been the "ghost" haunting corporate finance, a reputation forged in the late 1970's as a tedious, manual ordeal famously attempte... Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen Change Impact Analysis is the Blueprint for ERP The third and final instalment of this series on digital transformation in supply chain and business operations. We have already explored the Business Impact Assessment (BIA), the overarching operatio... Logistics Mentoring Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen Why Change Management is the Heartbeat of ERP Success Welcome back to my series on navigating digital transformation. In my last post, we established why the Business Impact Assessment (BIA) is your critical first step. Today, we are tackling the engine ... Logistics Mentoring Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen Business Impact Assessments Welcome to the first instalment of my digital transformation series. As a professional who has navigated supply chain management, ERP implementations, and business operations, I’ve seen what separates... Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen Beyond the Sticker Price Introduction: The Evolution of Value If you have been following my recent discussions, we have already dismantled the dangerous obsession with the lowest price. In The Cheap Trap , we explored why a l... Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen Beyond the Contract In my last article , we debunked the myth of the "cheap" supplier. We explored how the lowest sticker price often masks an iceberg of operational risks, ethical liabilities, and long-term costs. But e... Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen The "Cheap" Trap We have all been there. You are looking at two supplier bids. One is a well-known, stable partner with a fair market rate. The other is a new entrant promising to slash your costs by 20% immediately. ... Ethics Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen 5 Counter-Intuitive Truths Shaping Business in 2026 The Noise and the Signal The narrative of business transformation is dominated by a single, seductive idea: technology as the ultimate solution. But this view is dangerously incomplete. While buzzword... Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
Andrè Vermeulen The 5 Principles of LEAN in 2026 If you’ve been in the procurement and supply chain game for as long as I have, you remember when LEAN was treated like a religion. The mantra was strict: cut the fat, reduce the stock, and chase the a... Logistics Procurement Supply Chain
