ProCure Remedy: A purchasing podcast (Episode 1: The Anatomy of Misalignment: and how to fix it)

This is part 2 of a two-season (2025) podcast produced by HHU master’s students as the final project for Purchasing and Supply Management. Each episode grounds essential procurement topics and features interviews with industry experts—designed for practitioners in purchasing, supply chain, operations, and adjacent fields.
Season 2 — ProCure Risk Remedy: a purchasing podcast
Episode 1 (Ep. 5 overall) — The Anatomy of Misalignment: and How to Fix It
Guest: Mireille Klomps, Power Service Solutions GmbHStudent hosts: Yunus Dos, Silvio Expinoza, Ekaterina Tomacheva
When procurement, stakeholders, and suppliers pull in different directions, value leaks. We dissect where misalignment comes from—and how to repair it fast—with insights from Mireille Klomps.
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Schiele, H. (2007). Supply-management maturity, cost savings and purchasing absorptive capacity: Testing the procurement–performance link. Journal of
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Narasimhan, R., & Das, A. (2001). The impact of purchasing integration and practices on manufacturing performance. Journal of Operations Management, 19(5), 593-609. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-6963(01)00055-9
Juha, M., & Pentti, J. (2008). Managing risks in organizational purchasing through adaptation of buying centre structure and the buying process. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 14(4), 253–262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2008.09.001
Minute: 32:20 
Ellram, L., & Tate, W. L. (2015). Redefining supply management׳s contribution in services sourcing. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 21(1), 64–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2014.10.001