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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 an...

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...

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...

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...

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, an...

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.  #riv...

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 holist...

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, Foun...

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 anal...

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 5t...

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.