Smarter Sourcing · 2026-05-20 · 35 min
Regine Honoré Villain spent 30 years inside complex enterprise environments watching brilliant strategies get handed off and quietly die. Not because the strategy was wrong, but because nothing was built to catch it. That gap between execution and organizational adoption is now the core focus of her advisory firm, REHVÉAL, and it reframes how she evaluates everything from AI readiness to vendor partnerships to where the next dollar of margin actually comes from. Regine Honoré Villain , Founder & Principal at REHVÉAL™ and Former SVP, Supply Chain & Support Services at Ochsner Health, tells Eric why the traditional conference pitch of "save another 10% on supplies" is table stakes, not strategy. With an engineering background in industrial and systems engineering, she approaches organizational change as architecture, and makes the case that indirect spend categories like HR, facilities, food/nutrition, and legal services have been treated as sacred cows for too long. She warns that leaders who view AI as a passing fad will be in a difficult position within one to two years, and lays out exactly which internal teams supply chain leaders need to partner with now to get ahead of it.
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