530: Navigate Supply Chain Disruption and Resilience, with ProcureAbility
Carlos Perico is a managing director at ProcureAbility with 25 years of international experience in consulting, procurement, and supply chain. Originally from Colombia, he has lived and worked on five continents, which has given him a unique, relationship-driven approach to business and negotiation. Carlos emphasizes that his international exposure has been tremendous for his career, providing an edge in understanding different cultures and markets. He shares insights on the importance of strategic partnerships and having deep visibility into the supply chain to build resilience against constant disruption.
Today I’m joined by ProcureAbility, a firm that combines leading methodologies, analytics, market intelligence, and industry benchmarks, with a uniquely flexible and customizable service delivery model, to help you reimagine your procurement capabilities.
ProcureAbility is the leading provider of procurement services, offering advisory, managed services, digital, staffing, and recruiting solutions. For 30 years, ProcureAbility has focused exclusively on helping clients elevate their procurement function.
Today, Carlos Perico, Senior Director at ProcureAbility, joins me to talk all about supply chain resilience and what that really means in 2026. We’ll be exploring the biggest challenges of the year ahead and why proactive capability is still rare. We’ll be shining a light on why organizations expect more from their suppliers, and whether or not suppliers can live up to those expectations. And we’ll be sharing the key strategies you should be adopting now for future resilience.
Guest bio:
Carlos has 25 years of international experience in consulting, business process management, procurement, and supply chain. He has expertise in procurement organization transformation, category management, strategic sourcing, procurement operations, and the development of delivery teams. Carlos has worked in high-tech manufacturing, CPG, hospitality, retail, telecommunications, automotive, utilities, and social media industries. He started his career at UM Motorcycles, building their Global Procurement and Supply Chain Finance capabilities. Later, he founded CPG, a boutique consulting firm based in Shanghai, specializing in strategic sourcing out of Asia. After returning to the U.S., Carlos joined Denali Sourcing Services, where he spent 8 years delivering global procurement services to Fortune 1000 organizations and was a member of the integration team after the WNS acquisition. Before joining ProcureAbility, he led Unify Consulting’s Delivery Centers’ expansion.
Carlos has lived on five continents, allowing him to adapt and learn from diverse cultures and ways of doing things. He is bilingual in Spanish and English and continues to hone his Mandarin skills. Carlos holds a B.A. in International Economics and an M.S. in Finance from Florida International University. Carlos, his wife, and his two daughters live in the Seattle area. They enjoy the outdoors, traveling to new places, and discovering new local flavours.
An introduction to Carlos, and how his international experiences helped shape his career.
An overview of ProcureAbility – who they are, what they do, and how they help their customers.
The current landscape of ongoing disruption, the biggest industry challenges in 2026, and Carlos’s advice to help businesses stay on top.
What supply chain resilience really means in 2026, the power of strategic partnerships, and the importance of traceability.
What ProcureAbility’s recent survey, in partnership with ProcureCon, reveals about the biggest challenges in 2026, and how supply chain leaders are navigating impacts from disruptions to shortages.
With tariff instability set to continue in 2026, how the issue interplays with other core industry challenges.
How equipped organizations actually are to adapt to tariff instability.
Changing supplier relationships: what organizations now expect from their suppliers, whether or not suppliers are actually meeting those expectations, and why it’s crucial to remember that the best client-supplier relationships are two-way.
The next steps listeners should take to navigate disruption and resilience in 2026.
Resources & Links Mentioned
- Head over to ProcureAbility’s website now to find out more and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with ProcureAbility and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn or YouTube, or you can connect with Carlos on LinkedIn.
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