Finishing up the first round of the Supply Management Recruiting Insider Series, Ken Gaul, Nick Lazarra, and Kaitlyn Krigbaum discuss the ins and outs of the search and hire process for procurement and strategic sourcing, and how candidates and companies should best position themselves to fill positions and add value in the long-term, including salary expectations and cycle times.

Kicking off the Management Recruiting Insider Series, Source One hosts MRA Global Sourcing's Managing Partner Naseem Malik to discuss what firms are looking for when seeking procurement and supply management talent and how the market has changed in recent years.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, Buyers Meeting Point interviews Source One about CPOs' burning questions and priorities in aligning procurement with overall corporate strategy.

In Part 2 of this two-part series, Buyers Meeting Point interviews Source One about how procurement organizations can develop and execute strategies that produce short-term fixes, support long-term objectives, and achieve sustainable results.

Today's guest is David Clevenger, Senior Vice President of Corporate United - the nation's largest group purchasing organization. He will share his insights on common procurement myths, upcoming trends, and what to expect in 2015.

Today's interview is with Adam Cooperman,Vice President of ConvergeOne. Adam, who leads the ConvergeOne Program Management team, discusses the synergies between IT and Procurement and how a strategic sourcing process can lay the foundation for successful IT project management.

Charles Dominick - President, Founder, and CPO of Next Level Purchasing Association - discusses the trends he forsees in the future of the strategic sourcing industry along with the buzzwords he feels will not live up to the hype in this, the second Source One Partnercast.

Source One's David Pastore sat down to discuss the telecommunications category, and how strategic sourcing practices can find significant savings and cost reduction opportunities within the category. From the implementation of TEM software, to wireless and wireline optimization services, to streamlined management practices - there are a variety of ways in which strategic sourcing can save money in the telecom category.

Source One walks you through the most common pitfalls that can hinder the merging of strategic sourcing projects - from sponsor disagreements to divergent timelines, before delivering and discussing solutions and best practices for mitigating each of them.

Gary Como, Vice President of Sourcing Operations for Corporate United, the nation's largest GPO, discusses the importance of hiring the proper strategic resources in a modern sourcing department, and then outlines some qualifications that he himself uses in the first ever Source One Partnercast.