Season 2 Ep 15: Italy’s Next Digital Procurement Wave feat. Andrea Cozzi

RELEASED September 16, 2025

Italy is currently going through a time of accelerated change as companies embrace a second wave of procurement digitization. Now that the basics are in place, a large number of mid-market companies are building on their accomplishments by leaning into source to pay, supplier visibility, sustainability, and data capture.

In this episode of the #LoveProcurement podcast, host Kelly Barner welcomes Andrea Cozzi to the show. Andrea is Ivalua’s Country Sales Manager for Italy, and he joins the show to share the unique trends, successes, and challenges, from his part of the world.

Andrea speaks about the trends he is seeing play out in Italian procurement teams today:

• The current state of the Italian procurement technology market, and what a rejection of the status quo suggests about procurement’s priorities
• How stakeholders, suppliers, and even procurement skillsets have to be considered in the effort to drive digital transformation
• His insights on the priorities of procurement at some of the world’s most famous luxury fashion brands, including supply chain risk and sustainability