THE PROCUREMENT INTERVIEW
“ AI tools are driving value greater than what our foundational execution systems are doing today... we’ re closer to the start than the end”
Dean Czuma, Chief Procurement Officer, TAMKO
for the future – where technology acts as an additional colleague, handling the“ repetitive nuisance work” so that the human team can focus on the“ relentlessness of quality.”
TAMKO in 2026 By the end of 2026, Dean hopes to have a procurement function with the“ muscle memory” of an elite strategic unit. He envisions a“ source-to-pay” organisation fully enabled by technology, allowing a small but amazing team to deliver outsized value.
“ Elevating the power of procurement to enable the journey to the next level is a place I’ d like us to be,” he concludes.
Under Dean’ s leadership, TAMKO is proving that an 80-year-old company can find new degrees of freedom through procurement. It is a story of how a company with no formal procurement function built one that doesn’ t just buy materials but actively shapes the company’ s strategic future.
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