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Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights Unique SAP Deployments with Martin Rowan

Labor management is essential to implement cost-to-serve optimization, but it is easier said than done. In this interview, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, speaks with Daniel Keto, President and Chief Technology Officer of Easy Metrics, about the benefits and obstacles to implementing an effective cost-to-serve process.

Building a successful technology company requires having the right stuff. Few succeed. In this webinar, we interview Jett McCandless, CEO of Project 44, to understand how he was able to build global scale in a software company in such a short period of time.

In this series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders to gather valuable insights for young professionals on career advice from senior leaders. Here, Lora interviews Dave Clark, the prior Supply Chain Vice President of Amazon, and currently the CEO and Founder of Auger.

In this series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews senior supply chain leaders to understand the career advice they would give their twenty-five-year-old self. Here Lora interviews Philippe Lambotte, prior supply chain vice president of Merck, J&J, Kraft, Mattel and Tonal Equipment.

In a continuation of the series, “What Would I Have Told My Twenty-Five Year-Old Self”, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Hannah Kain, founder of Alom. When Hannah immigrated from Denmark, she started Alom, a supply chain service provider located in Silicon Valley providing service for high-compliance supply chains. In this podcast, Hannah shares wisdom on building teams and driving organizational alignment.

As a part of this continuing series of “What Would I Have Told My Twenty-Five-Year-Old Self”, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Brad Blizzard, a thirty-seven-year supply-chain veteran. In this podcast, Brad speaks about the need to show up and be present, build relationships, and how to build effective teams.

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Looking At Outside - In Planning's Upcoming Class

As part of a continued series, here Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Annette Clayton, prior Chief Supply Chain Officer of Schneider Electric (and, prior CEO of North America) on what she would have told her twenty-five-year-old self. 

This podcast of Keith Harrison, previously of P&G. Keith managed the global supply chain team for over a decade, building supply chain leadership teams. Here, Keith answers the question of what he would tell his twenty-five-year-old self, and also shares how to gain influence and manage careers. 

This podcast is a continuation of the series of interviews where we ask each senior leader, “What Would They Tell Their Twenty-Five-Year-Old Self?” The interviews are designed to gain insights for leaders at all stages in their careers. In this interview, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, gains insights from Ben Massie , Vice President of Supply Chain for Lenovo’s $13B+ Infrastructure division. Listen to a leader share his story, and as you listen, gain insights into the leadership required to drive performance for a Supply Chain to Admire Award Winner.

In this series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders to help others gain an understanding of their advice for graduates entering the profession or supply chain professionals thinking about their career. In the series, "What I Would Have Told My Twenty-Five-Year-Old Self, Lora asks senior supply chain professionals to reflect on their careers and think back to when they were twenty-five and share what they have learned in their career. Here, Lora interviews Matt Spooner, Vice President of Supply Chain at Hitachi Energy. Matt is located in Switzerland, and his prior roles included Gartner, Ericsson, and Kinaxis.

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews John Davies, facilitator of the Greenbiz network for Trellis Group (a focused group for sustainability leaders). Here we discuss the evolution of sustainability in supply chain. 

The world of supply chain is slowly changing. As the first and second generation supply chain leaders retire, in this podcast series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Scot DeGroot, previously VP of Supply Chain at Kimberly Clark, and now managing the executive program at the University of Tennessee to gain insights into what he would have told his twenty-five year-old self. This is part of a series of interviews that will conclude in the fall. 

Here Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain I sights, interviews Vineet Khanna previously head of Nestle supply chain.Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

The third podcast in our series of “What I Would Have Told My Twenty-Five Year-Old Self” is with Peter Gibbons. Peter, now retired, reflects on his learnings as a supply chain leader from a young boy in Scotland to running supply chain operations for Mattel, Starbucks, and 3M.

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Peter Bolstorff, now founder of Inspiresce.AI, on “What would have told his twenty-five-year-old self?” This is part two of a series of interviews. 

This is the first of a series in which Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders at the peak of their careers before and shortly after retirement to gain an understanding of how they drove success and what they would have told their twenty-five-year-old self. Here, Lora interviews Peter Lejewski, Former Vice President of Supply Chain of Constellation Brands, and a number of others.Tags: Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, Peter Lejewski, career advice Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, founder of supply chain insights interviews Peter Bolstorff, previously with ASCM and now leading his own firm, Inspiresce.ai, to share insights from the River of Demand work showcased at the recent ASCM conference. In this podcast, the two thought leaders share the value of the technique and give examples of how companies have used the technique to drive value. #riverofdemand, #loracecere, #peterbolstorff, #outsideinplanning, #supplychaininsights, Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, discusses the use case of using Large Language Models for supply chain training with Peter Bolstorff, Founder of Inspirece.ai, and Wael, Founder of Uthereal.ai. The recent Supply Chain Insights Outside-in Planning class uses a large language model to facilitate the training. In this discussion, Peter and Wael share their key learnings.

Supplier risk management is a subset of supply chain risk management. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, discusses the broader context of risk management with Matt Spooner, an independent consultant and prior Gartner analyst. Matt uses his experience gained in building transcontinental playbooks for his bike race as an analogy to think about risk management more holistically.Risk management, risk, demand management, matt spooner, Lora Cecere, Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

In December 2023, the EU reached a provisional agreement: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). The new rules will apply to all products in thirteen industries sold in Europe. The focus is on improving sustainability and circularity compliance through digital certificate compliance by 2027. Track and trace capabilities is essential for enablement. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Heidi Benko on how to get started and next steps to take.

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Peter Bolstorff, Founder of InspireSCI.ai, to discuss driving in the value chain. In the podcast, Lora and Peter share perspectives on the need for a simple, but research-based methodology, to determine if a company is driving value when compared to a peer group. The goal is to connect the work being done on regression analysis with Georgia Tech to a SCOR-like methodology to help supply chain leaders. These two founders are on a mission to help supply chain leaders.

What drives supply chain excellence? How do supply chain leaders know they are making progress? In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, and Peter Bolstorff, Founder of Inspiresce.ai discuss the Metrics That Matter and the tie of a balanced Scorecard to SCOR metrics. This podcast is released as an introduction to the Fundamental Score that will be released at the December 5th event at the IYSE Building at Georgia Tech on December 5th. #supplychainexcellence, #metricsthatmatter, #SupplyChainInsights, #PeterBolstorff,#Loracecere ,Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

Disruption. Demand shifts. Volatility. In the face of changing demand and supply, how do we synchronize demand and supply? LeanDNA synchronizes inbound flows providing availability insight for ATP in discrete industries. In this podcast Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews the Founder of LeanDNA to provide insights.

Defining Outside-in Supply Chain Planning Processes: Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights Interviews John Sicard, CEO of KinaxisAn order is a poor proxy for demand. A market-driven forecast always beats a forecast based on enterprise data. New forms of technology enable the redefinition of supply chain planning to transition from inside-out to outside-in planning processes. The question is how to get started. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis.Tags: Kinaxis, Supply Chain Insights, John Sicard, Lora Cecere, Outside-in Planning Processes, Market Data, Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

The use of graph technology offers promise to map relationships, translate flow, and improve time to value. However, most solutions today are not built on a graph. So, how can companies get value from the graph approach without re-wiring their current systems? Here, Pat Byrne, Founder of Indeco, explains a point of view on how to get started with Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights.Tags: Graph, supply chain insights, sensing, slow, supply chain excellence, Lora cecere, Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

What is supply chain excellence? It is easier to say than define. Supply Chain Excellence is defined as driving improvement, outperforming the peer group, and driving value. This analysis analyzes over 500 companies' progress over the last ten years. Here, we share the insights on the methodology and compare it to the Gartner Top 25 approach.Tags: supply chain excellence, supply chain insights, straight talk with supply chain insights, supply chains to admire, lora cecere, benchmarking, supply chain management, Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Igor Rikalo, Chief Operating Officer of o9 Solutions. The goal is to share thoughts on the power of outside-in processes and use the knowledge graph to deliver insights on flow to drive better outcomes.

Discussion of Network Resource Planning with Bharath from Tracelink. Using a network built for serialization, Tracelink is launching a series of services to help pharmaceutical manufacturers sense potential drug shortages and redesign their networks to drive better patient outcomes. Here we share a discussion between Bharath and Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights. Tags: Tracelink, Supplychaininsights, loracecere, pharmacuetical, networkresourceplanning (NRP), networkautomation, supplychain.

With the rise in variability, safety stock increases in importance as a buffer. However, in recent research, we find that 90% of companies do not measure inventory helth or include supply variablity in the calculation of safety stock. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews Johnathan Colehower, Partner of UST to gain his insights on the gap and potential solutions.UST, inventory, demand and supply variability, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

Lora Cecere presents insights on Supply Chain 2030 and how to prepare through building resilience at the National Association of Manufacturing, MLC conference.Tags: Supply Chain Insights, #NAM, #MFG2030, Supply chain excellence, manufacturing excellence, Lora Cecere Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

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Lora Cecere speaking at NAM (National Association of Manufacturing) in September 2023 on supply chain resilience. Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence, supply chain excellence, supply chain insights, lora cecere, National Association of Manufacturing, NAM

Outside-in planning requires unlearning. Traditional work processes become obsolete as companies embrace outside-in data and processes. Here, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Fred Baumann, on his experience with testing the outside-in concepts. He shares his key unlearnings along with his learning.

Inventory grew an average of 30 days across industries over the last decade. This is despite the investment in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning (APS). What happened? What steps should people take? Tune in to gain insights from Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights.

Data abounds within the enterprise, but 80% of data is not used. One of the reasons is that today’s processes are inside-out no outside-in. How can we use market data to improve decision making market-to-market. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares her perspective.

One of the critical elements of enterprise resilience and customer reliability is organizational alignment, but the gap grew three-fold over the last decade. How did this happen? What should be done to drive improvement. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares her perspective.

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah & Lora Cecere Wrap-Up

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Hannah Kain - ALOM

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah Talks with Jenny Patzlaff

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Academics with Jenny Patzlaff, University of WI

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Lora Cecere Opening Session

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah, Alex & Christine Barnhart

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Jonathan, Lora Cecere

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Jonathan, Deanna Denton

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Project Zebra with Lora, Nicole, LKQ and Deanna

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Alex and Brett Barnello

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Discrete Event Simulation with Brett Barnello

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - The Benefits of Digitization - Ryan Inoyue