What this show is and who it is for
Ninety seconds. Who the show is for, what makes it different, and what lands in episode one.
Podcast
Inside the Supply Chain
Straight talk about how procurement and supply chain actually work inside small and mid size companies, from someone who has spent 25 years doing the buying.
The show
No jargon, no panel of experts talking past each other
Most supply chain content is written for Fortune 500 teams with a department behind them. This show is for the other companies: the manufacturer with one buyer, the distributor whose owner still signs every purchase order, the operations manager who inherited purchasing along with everything else.
Each episode takes one real problem, explains what is actually causing it, and gives you something you can use the same week. The show opens with a two part interview with the AI systems everyone is being told will fix their supply chain, asking them directly what they can and cannot do for it.
Season one
Episodes in production
The show has not launched yet. These are the first episodes being produced, in order. Titles may change before release.
In production
AI in the supply chain, a live demonstration
A real, unscripted conversation with an AI assistant about a live tariff question, with my running commentary on what it got right, what it got wrong, and what only 25 years of doing this work can tell you.
Where AI breaks, a procurement reality check
Part two. Instead of asking the AI questions, I ask it to do five things procurement people do every week, and we watch where it helps, where it creates work, and where it is confidently and dangerously wrong.
Why most companies hire procurement too early
The hire feels like the answer. Often the timing is wrong, and there is a cheaper way to get the same result.
Why your supply chain keeps surprising you
The surprises are not random. They come from the same handful of blind spots, and they are all visible before they hit.
Five places manufacturers leak money in purchasing
Not exotic ones. The five that show up in almost every company buying under $50M a year.
Launch list
Get the first episode when it drops
One email when the show launches. No newsletter you did not ask for, and no sales sequence behind it.
Behind the show
Hosted by Michael C. Bardier
Twenty five years in industrial procurement, two published books on procurement and supply chain, and the founder of Strategic Supply Group, a fractional procurement and supply chain business for manufacturers and distributors.
Have a topic or a question?
If something in your own supply base has you stuck, send it over. Listener problems make the best episodes, and I will keep your company name out of it.