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Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase 2022 with Jeff Metersky - OptiLogic #392

Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase 2022 with Peter Benson from ECCMA #391

Supplly Chain Insights Digital Showcase 2022 with David Kennedy for ITE Consulting #390

Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase 2022 with Madhav Durbha from Coupa #389

Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase 2022 with Piet Buyck of Garvis #388

Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase with Alex Pradhan of John Galt Solutions #387

Adapting in the Face of Change. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights. answers questions by Alex Wisniewski, a Generation Y supply chain leader, on her recent blog post, Adapting in the Face of Change. While there is no consistent industry definition of the term resilience, supply chain leaders are being challenged every day to deliver consistent results with unprecedented...

Straight Talk Supply Chain Insights with Lora Cecere - Supply Chains To Admire 2022

Advice for Supply Chain Planners. I this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights is interviewed by Daniel Pellathy, Grand Valley State University on the future of supply chain planning with a focus on helping students and new entrants into supply chain planning positions.

Straight Talk Supply Chain Insights - Lora & Alex Talk About The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 #384

Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase - Bill Benton with GAINSystems #381

Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase - Matt Spooner with Kinaxis #383

A podcast discussing the impact of the bullwhip effect based on close coupling of the order data to traditional processes. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, discusses the impact with Alex Wisniewski of the Digital PMO Group.

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, answers questions from Alex Wisniewski, Digital PMO Group, on how organizations should sense market events and align to drive a coordinated response.

Dark clouds rise above the supply chain as the global conflict in Russia and the zero-COVID period of China both near the sixty day mark. Here we discuss the impact on global supply chains and five actions to take. The sixty day point is pivotal because in this time period warehouse raw materials and inbound goods deplete and companies feel the impact of the decline in shipments in China and the l...

In this podcast, Alex Wisniewski, a GEN Y supply chain professional at the Digital PMO Group, interviews Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, on her recent blog post on shifting taxonomies in supply chain planning. Join the discussion as Lora and Alex discuss the myriad of promising analytics and how companies are forcing bright data scientists to “paint in the box” of existing taxonomie...

New forms of analytics abound, but how can we use these new approaches to improve supply chain planning. In this presentation from the Informs 2022 conference, Lora Cecere builds a case to redesign planning to embrace outside-in processes. She starts by painting the picture of why, then defines the current state, and follows with a definition of how new forms of analytics can help companies to bet...

Not all conferences are the same. Here, in this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Alex Wisneski, of the Digital PMO group on his experience at the 2021 Supply Insights Global Summit. The discussion is on extreme networking and building a guiding coalition to think differently and drive better outcomes.

Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares insights on the current governmental programs on ocean visibility and improving flows through ports. Lora is interviewed by Alex Wisniewski, Program Manager of Digital PMO Group. FLOW, Ocean snarls, supply chain insights, lora cecere , Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain exce...

In a countdown for the Supply Chain Global Summit, Alex Wisniewski, Digital PMO Group, will interview Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights on her latest blog posts. In this first post, Alex and Lora discuss Lora’s recent blog posts on Anaplan’s acquisition by Thoma Bravo and the increase in variability and the need for outside-in processes in supply chains.

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) excellence hinges on leadership. In this video, Jeff Stites, CEO of Bubbies, shares his personal experience in implementing S&OP and the role of Optimity in driving alignment.

Jeff Sites, Chief Executive Officer of Bubbies, discusses his first 90 days on the job and his efforts to drive organizational alignment. The result is profitable growth. The how is simple. Through Jeff’s leadership, the company improved to better manage cross-functional processes against market demand while understanding and managing constraints.

The Importance of Storytelling in Driving Supply Chain Change and Improvement The biggest barrier for moving supply chains forward is education and alignment on next-generation supply chain processes. Christian Sautter leads process improvement for Bayer Consumer Products in Switzerland and used the Supply Chain Insights training and the SCOR model to drive change through the pandemic. When the pa...

Supply chain education should be the foundation of lasting change in the supply chain. However, building supply chain education programs is a barrier because the leaders in education do not see Supply Chain as a sexy or essential topic. Here we interview Ellen Joyce, Founder of the Digital Leader of Tomorrow in her journey to build educational programs for supply chain excellence.

We pay truck drivers when wheels are turning. The inefficiencies of the COVID-19 supply chain environment make this more challenging. So, how can companies become better shippers and alleviate the issues with the shortages of truck drivers? Here we interview Desiree Wood, President of Real Women in Trucking. (Desiree coordinates the efforts of this 503C nonprofit while driving behind the wheel.)