As businesses become increasingly automated and more industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices come online, securing these devices becomes increasingly important. On episode 28 of Supply Chain Next, Richard Donaldson talks with biometrics expert Bob Eckel about the many applications for biometrics in supply chain, controlling individual access through biometrics, and navigating the privacy issues this creates.
The supply chains of the world are stuck in the past. Consultant and author Bram Desmet, also a professor at Vlerick Business School, talks with Richard Donaldson on how to see your business plans as a whole, starting with a properly designed supply chain based around your value proposition. Balancing the metrics of service, cost, and cash will help create alignment around business goals.
The days of discreet software programs are reaching an end. The decade of the platform is here. Enterprises are moving toward transparency and digitalization of their operations. On Supply Chain Next #26, Richard Donaldson talks with Brett Sanders of Requis about effective platform development, centralization, and what that means for the enterprises of today leading into tomorrow.
More and more enterprises are trying to ensure that their capital projects are done more sustainably. Roberto Reichard, a highly experienced capital project manager for the energy industry, discusses embodied carbon, climate change, and moving toward a cleaner future. Roberto’s experience spans multiple countries and projects, and has guided projects totalling over $50B before becoming a partner at Zero Emissions Advisors.
Peter Hove Hildebrandt and Sune Stilling were both innovators at Maersk for over two decades. On this episode of Supply Chain Next, they talk about their experiences, from running one of the world’s biggest supply chains to investing, funding startups, and mass industry collaboration.
Predictive analytics in supply chain are essential to optimizing operations. On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Knut Alicke discusses how S&OP can help overcome disruption, his role in helping to create one of the first digital control towers, and digital transformation. Knut is an author, a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company, and is also a professor at the University of Karlsruhe where he teaches supply chain management.
Collecting and storing operations data is more important today than ever before. On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Nicolas Vandeput, author of Data Science for Supply Chain Forecast (2018) and Inventory Optimization: Models and Simulation (2020) talks data science, inventory optimization, and continuous learning. #SupplyChain #InventoryManagement #DataScience #Podcast #SupplyChainPodcast #Forecasting
Philip Black is an accomplished innovation leader with significant energy experience. He currently works for Wood’s Digital and Technology Group. His responsibility is to identify and develop blockchain solutions for the energy, infrastructure, mining, industrial, and power sectors worldwide. He has extensive experience in systems integration, industrial equipment monitoring, software development and product management for energy companies. In previous roles he designed and implemented real-time...
One of the best kept secrets in business is that pursuing environmental and social benefits through supply chain efficiency can often be good for your bottom line. On episode 20 of Supply Chain Next, Scott Donachie and Daniel Robin talk with host Richard Donaldson about fostering the circular economy, sustainability and the pursuit of zero waste in supply chain—all while improving profitability. Scott Donachie is the president and founder of Companies for Zero Waste, an organization that helps c...
Daniel Stanton, PMP, CSCP, SCPro, MCSE, MCP, MBA, M Eng is a global executive with expertise in supply chain management and project leadership. He has worked with Caterpillar, the U.S. Navy, APICS (now ASCM), MHI, and several smaller firms. He's also been a professor at Bradley University, Jack Welch Management Institute, and National American University. Daniel is recognized as a LinkedIn Learning Insider, a "Pro to Know" for Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, and a Supply Chain Futu...
Marcia Williams is a Supply Chain Consultant whose expertise is where supply chain, technology and finance merge. Starting out in Accounting in Uruguay - borders Argentina and Brazil, Marcia realized that in addition to measuring and reporting the value created, she wanted to achieve higher heights by creating such a value. In pursuit of this goal, she came to the US to attend Michigan State University - a consistently top-ranked school in Supply Chain. She obtained her MBA with concentrations i...
Rob’s passion is helping people succeed and businesses improve Supply Chain and Logistics performance. Born and educated in Jersey (Channel Islands, UK), Rob moved from London to Sydney in 1993 following 20 years in senior Supply Chain and Logistics roles at strategic and operational levels. He began building a reputation as a no-nonsense consultant who delivers results. He has a Master of Science in Logistics from Cranfield University. Rob O’Byrne co-founded Logistics Bureau in 1997 as a result...
Suuchi is a software engineer with an MBA in software. She worked at VC-backed tech unicorns prior to Suuchi, Inc. She believes technology is the answer to reinventing a legacy industry.
Dr. Muddassir Ahmed is a Manufacturing Operations, Procurement and Supply Chain leader from international multi-site manufacturing experience in Electrical, Hydraulics and Internet industries. With considerable experience in deploying Continuous Improvement best practices in Europe, Middle East & Africa, Dr. Muddassir Ahmed considers himself as intrapreneur with a strong desire to become an entrepreneur. Dr. Ahmed has received a Ph.D. in Management Science from Lancaster University Managemen...
Radu Palamariu is the Managing Director of APAC for Alcott Global. He is the Practice Head for Global Logistics & Supply Chain. Radu’s job is to connect you with global experts, thought leaders and executives in all things supply chain. He does his best to pick their brain on Supply Chain and Logistics leading-edge technologies, leadership stories, and personal success habits. He is focused on end to end Supply Chain Executive Search: C-level, Vice President, General Management, Supply Chain...
Brian Laung Aoaeh writes about the reinvention of global supply chains, from the perspective of an early-stage technology venture capitalist. He is the co-founder of REFASHIOND Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund that is being built to invest in startups creating innovations to refashion global supply chain networks. He is also the co-founder of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation (The New York Supply Chain Meetup). His background covers the gamut from scientific research, data and s...
Susie Bodnar is the Director of Operations and Client Strategy at FourKites. FourKites is a SaaS based technology company, the fastest-growing predictive supply chain platform, backed by top-tier VC firms in Silicon Valley, Boston, and Chicago, delivering real-time visibility and execution for Fortune 500 companies, carriers and third-party logistics firms. Using a proprietary algorithm to calculate shipment arrival times, FourKites enables customers to lower operating costs, improve on-time per...
Deborah Dull is a supply chain strategist and passionate circular economy advocate. After several years in senior supply chain roles at Microsoft, Deborah was tapped to become the new Program Officer for Health Supply Chains at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At the Foundation, she led the digital transformation of $1B in annual spending and developed processes to use technology better in developing countries. Now a Principal in Manufacturing Product Management at GE, she is also part o...
Robert Handfield, Ph.D., is the executive director of the SCRC and the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in NC State’s Poole College of Management. Handfield is a consulting editor of the Journal of Operations Management and has written several books on supply chain management, including “Supply Market Intelligence, Supply Chain Re-Design.” He has co-authored textbooks for MBA and undergraduate programs include “Purchasing and Supply Chain Management” ...
Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. She works with supply chain leaders to take teams to higher levels of excellence. Her research firm Supply Chain Insights is paving new directions in building thought-leading supply chain research. Lora loves to write and research is in her veins. She is the author of the enterprise software blog “Supply Chain Shaman." The blog focuses on the use of enterprise applications to drive supply chain excellence. Her co-authored book, Bricks Matter p...
Dyan Finkhousen is a leading strategist, adviser and entrepreneur building expert ecosystems and platform operations that drive growth and productivity in all industries. She is the Founder and CEO of Shoshin Works and is known for her strategic work in enterprise-scale ecosystems that leverage open innovation, collaboration, crowdsourcing, and freelance resourcing. Before launching Shoshin Works, Dyan was GE’s Global Director of Open Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing, and Founder of GE Geni...
Alan Dunning has over 35 years direct Procurement and Contracts management experience and is the Principal Supply Chain Manager for Worley in Perth. This includes over 25 years commercial project management in the resources industry, primarily on oil and gas projects (LNG, offshore platforms), as well as the defence and airline industries. He is a key member of Worley’s global Procurement and Contracts leadership team, with demonstrated strong commercial management and strategic leadership capab...
Dr. John Gattorna, stands at the forefront of supply chain ‘thought leadership’ in the world today, and his work has influenced many of today’s leading multi-national corporations. He has made it his passion in life to stay at the cutting edge of supply chain design, and his last three books are testament to that, the most recent being Dynamic Supply Chains; how to design, build and manage people-centric value networks, 3rdedn., FT Prentice Hall, Harlow, 2015. His advanced methodologies offer a ...
Richard Martin is CEO of Requis. Martin is a 25-year veteran of the high-tech industry working for technology leaders such as VMware (NYSE: VMWARE), Nortel (NYSE: NT), Bay Networks (NYSE: BAY), 3Com (NYSE: HPQ), Chipcom (NASDAQ: CHPM), Memotec (NASDAQ: CMTL), Bell Northern Research (NYSE: NT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). He has a proven track record for providing strategic and operational leadership in research and development, product management, marketing, business development, sales, channel manageme...
Geoffrey Parker is a scholar whose work focuses on distributed innovation, energy markets, and the economics of information. He co-developed the theory of two-sided markets with Marshall Van Alstyne. His current research includes studies of platform business strategy, data governance, and technical/economic systems to integrate distributed energy resources. Parker is Professor of Engineering and Director, Master of Engineering Management, (MEM) Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, ...
Dave Anderson is Managing General Partner of Supply Chain Ventures, LLC, a venture capital company specializing in marketing, sales and supply chain software investing. He is a retired managing partner of supply chain consulting at Accenture, a $40 billion global technology consulting company. He serves on the Board of Directors of Placester, of Boston, Massachusetts, NextShift Robotics of Lowell, Massachusetts and NBD Nanotechnology, of Boston, Massachusetts. He is also the Chairman of the Boar...
Daniel Stanton, PMP, CSCP, SCPro, MCSE, MCP, MBA, M Eng is a global executive with expertise in supply chain management and project leadership. He has worked with Caterpillar, the U.S. Navy, APICS (now ASCM), MHI, and several smaller firms. He's also been a professor at Bradley University, Jack Welch Management Institute, and National American University. Daniel is recognized as a LinkedIn Learning Insider, a"Pro to Know" for Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, and a Supply Chain Futur...
Daniel Stanton, PMP, CSCP, SCPro, MCSE, MCP, MBA, M Eng is a global executive with expertise in supply chain management and project leadership. He has worked with Caterpillar, the U.S. Navy, APICS (now ASCM), MHI, and several smaller firms. He's also been a professor at Bradley University, Jack Welch Management Institute, and National American University. Daniel is recognized as a LinkedIn Learning Insider, a"Pro to Know" for Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, and a Supply Chain Futur...
Since the 1980s Bill Marrin has been one of supply chain’s most important thinkers. He has worked for innovative start ups as well as Eastman Kodak, and has worked closely with companies like Apple and Adobe to help improve product delivery as the print and publishing industry adopted networked services in the 1990s. As Bill says, “We were doing cloud before cloud computing was cool.” In 2007, Bill joined World 50, an invitation-only peer organization that provides a forum for C-level executives...
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