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Supply Chain Next

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Supply Chain Next is a podcast series focused on the digitization of the enterprise supply chain. This show, hosted by Richard Donaldson, investigates the next steps for supply chain, both for the supply chain organization within enterprises and the supply chain professional. We dive into the tectonic shifts happening today for supply chain organizations, as they begin to embrace technology to optimize, create efficiencies, drive lower costs, and improve margins. We aim to understand what these changes really mean, not only for the organizations and leaders with in them, but also what does takes to be relevant in supply chain over the next 10 years. We are sitting upon one of the biggest economic tsunamis to come online since the internet itself. How will supply chain organizations use this opportunity to dramatically change the landscape? Supply Chain Next is here to better understand just that.

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Episodes

  1. 058 - Dr Marcell Vollmer - Tech in Supply Chain, and the Sustainability Shift

    Dr. Marcell Vollmer, a renowned expert in the fields of digitalization, innovation, and sustainability. Marcell is a sought-after speaker and author that has dedicated his career to helping companies and individuals navigate the rapidly changing world of technology and business. He is passionate...

  2. 057 - Catherine Weetman - A Circular Economy Handbook

    International speaker, author and business advisor, Catherine Weetman helps people use circular, regenerative strategies to help their business thrive by creating, capturing and circulating more value for everyone. Catherine Weetman Circular Economy talks, workshops and coaching. Her…

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  3. 056 - Vivian Tai - Digital Innovation and Supply Chain Standards

    Vivian Tai believes that the identification of everything makes anything possible. She says she would have an obsession with the convergence of emerging technology, identity, and sustainability. Vivian is currently working on the future of product identity, data carriers, and the circular economy...

  4. 055 - Tom Raftery - Supply Chain Evangelism

    Tom fell in love with computers and set up a software company while studying for a PhD in Plant Science in 1991. He has since worked for a number of companies at Global VP/CTO level. He recently left SAP after having been recruited in there in 2016 at Global VP level, where he worked as a…

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  5. 054 - Jim Tompkins - The State of Supply Chain in 2022 and Beyond

    Jim Tompkins is an international authority on designing and implementing end-to-end supply chains. Jim is currently Chairman of Tompkins Ventures and Tompkins Leadership. He has started 15 businesses that have done over $2 billion in worldwide revenue during his 50-year career while enhancing the...

  6. 053 - Scott Downes - Invisible AI-driven Outsourcing

    Scott is relentlessly curious and resists being defined too narrowly. He’s a technologist and a businessman, a programmer and a designer, a musician and a writer, a father and a coach. Scott is a veteran CTO who has built and led engineering, product, design, and marketing teams at multiple…

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  7. 052 - Pawan Gupta & Abhishek Sharma - Revolutionizing Fashion Supply Chain

    Fashinza is an AI-driven B2B marketplace for global fashion supply chains. They make it exceptionally easy for international brands to access design to delivery in as fast as 4 weeks with very low minimums. Fashinza offers access to a transparent production process that can be monitored 24/7 with...

  8. 051 - Jason Breault - Supply Chain Recruiting

    Always having the itch to “do his own thing” Jason opened our Westport, MA office in January 2006 after 12 years of working for the man! He has grown our business to be the leading national search firm specializing in supply chain planning across industries such as Consumer Goods, High Tech,...

  9. 050 - Gabriel René & James Hendrickson - Web 3.0 & Supply Chain Transformation

    VERSES is a next generation AI company and developer of COSM™, an operating system for AI, which powers context-aware applications that bridge the gap between digital and physical systems. COSM generates a unified intelligent network of contextualized data, policies, simulation models, and…

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  10. 049 - Jason Murray - eCommerce & the Digital Supply Chain

    Jason is co-founder and CEO of Shipium where he guides the company’s vision towards becoming the world’s best supply chain technology platform for ecommerce and retail. Prior to founding Shipium, he spent 19 years at Amazon as VP of Retail Systems and VP of Forecasting & Supply Chain. While…

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  11. 048 – Jason Azevedo – Made In America

    Fostering a lifelong commitment to growth and excellence in his personal and professional endeavors, at fifteen years old Jason Azevedo began his first manufacturing company with $600. As a nationally-ranked wrestler during the start of his entrepreneurial journey, Jason used his spare time to...

  12. 047 – Charlie Pesti – Supply Chain & Logistics Marketing & PR

    CHARLIE PESTI is the world’s best PUBLICIST of Shipping, Supply Chain, and Logistics Technologies. Focused on the supply chain and logistics sectors, he and his shop pride themselves on being the only premier, full-service PR, and Marketing agency in the space. They are a global team of…

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  13. 046 - Tiffanie Stanard - Data-driven Supply Chain Relationship Management

    Tiffanie Stanard is known for following all her passions – an anomaly in many sorts because she is a techie, a creative, media personality/producer & an award-winning entrepreneur. Tiffanie has been named a U.S. Delegate for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, One of the 15 Women Changing the...

  14. 045 - Ryan W Hunt - Algae and Renewable Materials in the Circle Economy

    Ryan Hunt is a physicist and bioengineer with degrees from the University of Georgia. Ryan has a passion for circular technologies including algae, photosynthesis, bioconversion and biopolymer manufacturing. Ryan co-founded ALGIX that creates sustainable technologies for environmental restoration...

  15. 044 - Marc De Wit, Kyle Ritchie, Lisa Morales-Hellebo - International Supply Chain Day Round Table

    Marc de Wit is a Director at Circle Economy, an impact organisation that guides businesses, cities, and nations towards adoption of a circular system. Marc is a recognized thought-leader on implementation of the circular economy. In 2018 he initiated the Circularity Gap Report: an annual…

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  16. 043 - Marc de Wit - The Circular Economy

    Marc de Wit is a Director at Circle Economy, an impact organisation that guides businesses, cities, and nations towards adoption of a circular system. Marc is a recognized thought-leader on implementation of the circular economy. In 2018 he initiated the Circularity Gap Report: an annual…

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  17. 042 - Stephen Statler

    Steve Statler is a writer, public speaker, and consultant working in the beacon ecosystem. He is also the SVP of Consulting, Business Development and Marketing at Wiliot, a semiconductor manufacturer developing a Bluetooth chip that powers itself by harvesting radio frequency energy that is being...

  18. 041 - David Quintilio

    David Quintilio worked at UPS for over 36 years working up to senior global logistics and supply chain roles where his work arguably built one of the first supply chain as a service platforms (scaas). He is the founder of Leverage Supply Chain Group where he works with partners to produce global...

  19. 040 - Kyle Ritchie

    Kyle Ritchie works in sustainable design for architecture, and is the co-author of Circular Economy for Dummies. In this episode, Kyle talks about how the circular economy can and should be profitable for businesses, and that businesses and government agencies will really need to get involved in...

  20. 039 - Dave Crawley

    As Professor of Practice at the University of Houston College of Technology’s innovation program, Dave Crawley leads students through a transformational journey that unlocks innovation thinking skills. These are skills that Dave synthesized over the course of his extensive career in international...

  21. 038 - Bill Shevlin

    Bill Shevlin has spent his career at the forefront of energy efficiency and clean energy technology. Today he is the CEO of Mavericks Microgrids, a company that creates carbon neutral and carbon negative microgrids for commercial, industrial and residential applications. Bill shares his insights...

  22. 037 - Tyler Wood

    Former hedge fund manager Tyler Wood is now a part of Gravitas Infinitum group of cleantech companies. He shares some exciting technology the team has developed, including Carbotura’s use of hemp to mine carbon from the atmosphere, and using it to create graphene and graphite. You’ll find...

  23. 036 - Stan Aronow

    Stan Aronow has led supply chains at Intel and leads supply chain industry research today at Gartner. In this podcast, he shares his insights on how supply chain has evolved, and what makes a successful supply chain, and the qualities and technologies managers will need in their corners for years...

  24. 035 - Gabriel Plotkin

    Gabriel Plotkin talks to us about refrigerants as powerful greenhouse gases, Tradewater’s work to destroy them as part of the fight against climate change, and how funds generated by carbon offset credits make their work possible. Carbon offset credits from Tradewater are now available for…

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  25. 034 - Jill Robbins

    Supply chain consultant Jill Robbins has spent over 20 years helping to build procurement teams for large enterprises. She's helped procurement departments become more efficient and KPI-driven, and has played leading roles in digital transformation initiatives. On this episode of Supply Chain…

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  26. 033 - Mary Kate Love

    Mary Kate Love of Koch Disruptive Technologies talks about how large organizations can become more innovative, transparent and sustainable by partnering with startups. As part of Koch Industries’ investment wing, Koch Disruptive Technologies, her role is all about building effective partnerships…

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  27. 032 - Humberto Olivo

    Venture capital and private equity investor Humberto Olivo talks about transparency and technology, and how they are leading the way to profitable businesses and a cleaner world for all.

  28. 031 - International Supply Chain Day: Supply Chain Next

    What challenges need to be overcome to accelerate the adoption of International Supply Chain Day? Our all-star panel with Daniel Stanton, Deborah Dull and Brian Aoaeh discuss visibility, transparency, sustainability, risk and resiliency for International Supply Chain Day as well as the benefits…

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  29. 030 - Ben Bellamy

    We all know supply chains need to modernize, but complexity makes this a difficult and risky undertaking. Ben Bellamy of The Visibility Council facilitates open, honest collaboration to advance industry across the world with next-generation supply chain principles and technologies. The focus is…

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  30. 029 - John Bolto

    3D printing (and the related technologies of additive manufacturing) both virtualize and localize the physical creation of products required to keep industry functioning. John Bolto of AdditiveNow discusses additive manufacturing, and explains how it will change the supply chains of the future....

  31. 028 - Robert Eckel

    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...

  32. 027 - Bram Desmet

    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....

  33. 026 - Brett Sanders

    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,...

  34. 025 - Roberto Reichard

    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...

  35. 024 - Peter Hove Hildebrandt & Sune Stilling

    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.

  36. 023 - Knut Alicke

    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...

  37. 022 - Nicolas Vandeput

    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...

  38. 021 - Philip Black

    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...

  39. 020 - Scott Donachie & Daniel Robin

    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...

  40. 019 - Daniel Stanton

    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...

  41. 018 - Marcia Williams

    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…

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  42. 017 - Rob O'Byrne

    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...

  43. 016 - Suuchi Ramesh

    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.

  44. 015 - Dr. Muddassir Ahmed

    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 &...

  45. 014 - Radu Palamariu

    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...

  46. 013 - Brian Aoaeh, CFA

    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…

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  47. 012 - Susie Bodnar

    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...

  48. 011 - Deborah Dull

    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...

  49. 010 - Rob Handfield

    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...

  50. 009 - Lora Cecere

    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...

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Supply Chain Next is a podcast series focused on the digitization of the enterprise supply chain. This show, hosted by Richard Donaldson, investigates the next steps for supply chain, both for the supply chain organization within enterprises and the supply chain professional. We dive into the tectonic shifts happening today for supply chain organizations, as they begin to embrace technology to optimize, create efficiencies, drive lower costs, and improve margins. We aim to understand what these changes really mean, not only for the organizations and leaders with in them, but also what does takes to be relevant in supply chain over the next 10 years. We are sitting upon one of the biggest economic tsunamis to come online since the internet itself. How will supply chain organizations use this opportunity to dramatically change the landscape? Supply Chain Next is here to better understand just that.

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