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131: How Best Buy Procurement Delivers Value Beyond Savings through CSR, w/ Tim Meester
131: How Best Buy Procurement Delivers Value Beyond Savings through CSR, w/ Tim Meester
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Apr 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Today, I'm joined by Tim Meester. Tim is the Senior Director of Procurement and Sustainability for Best Buy, an almost forty billion dollar revenue provider of technology products, services, and solutions. As I got to know Tim in our pre-interview, I was very impressed by his and his team’s efforts to deliver value beyond savings at Best Buy. We connected to discuss CSR and sustainability, but that is only the start for his team. In today’s discussion, Tim shares the actions that Best Buy procurement is taking to expand the procurement value proposition and importantly, how Best Buy actually incentivizes their teams to enable them to focus on more than just cost savings alone.
Released:
Apr 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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