lcecere's tracks

Interview with Supply Chain Leader Cynthia Sikora Continuing the interviews with second and third-generation supply chain pioneers, we interview Cynthia Sikora, leader of the North American supply chain for Lego. I love Cynthia’s story of how she managed herself through job transitions and partnered with her family to ignite her career.

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Darrell Edwards Sr VP and COO for La-Z-Boy #367

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Bharat Virmani- N.A Supply Chain Performance VP - Electric Schneider #366

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Tali Rosman - Printing General Manager, Xerox Digital Manufacturing and 3D Printing #365

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Steve Peaslee CEOFounder WickedHyper #364

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Matthew Smith - Sr. Dir. of Global Transportation & Trade Operations - Western Digital Corporation #363

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Ashley Yentz SleepNumber #362

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Desiree Wood Founder and President of the REAL Women in Trucking #361

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Lora Cecere Opening Global Summit 2021 #360

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Allyson Hatfield - Demand Planning Functional Expert for Mars Petcare #359

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Tony Zuazo - EVP Global Supply Chain Dollar General Corp #358

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Jane Kaiser, VP NA Manufacturing Row Crops #357

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Peter Bolstorff ASCM - Global Summit 2021 #356

Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Global Summit 2021 Analysis Panel #355

As part of our podcast series of first and second supply chain pioneers, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Philippe Lambotte, Chief Supply Chain Officer of Tonal. Philippe, a first-generation supply chain pioneer, started his career in Europe with P&G and moved through various leadership roles with Kraft, Merck, J&J, and Mattel before moving to his current position. Philipp...

In this series on supply chain leadership, Annette Clayton, CEO and President of Schneider Electric North America, shares insights on her career while advising future leaders. Annette believes that women often have self-doubt on job readiness and need to raise their hands early and often. She also shares insights on why supply chain leadership is such a pivotal and essential career as we face more...

Ann Dozier focuses on being a transformational supply chain leader. Her advice to the new generation of supply chain leaders? Focus on outcomes, be involved in the industry and drive value.

Hannah Kahn, the CEO of Alom, is a leader in supply chain management. She continually fights for digital transformation and employment equality. Her message to supply chain leaders managing their careers? Be empathic, show heart, and be a lifetime learner.

As ocean containers grew in size, land-locked ports struggled with unloading. In this podcast, Steve Peaslee, CEO of WickedHyper discusses the use of robotics and hyperloop technology with advanced analytics for visibility to attempt to help reduce port congestion.

In his first week in office, President Biden signed Executive Order 14005, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers, launching a whole-of-government initiative to strengthen the use of federal procurement to support American manufacturing. But, in this world of complex, global supply chains, what does “Made in America” mean? And, how should companies use the mandat...

To prepare for the future, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders to share their insights on what made them successful and what advice they have for upcoming supply chain leaders. Here she interviews John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis. John started his career as a technologist building code and led an innovative supply chain planning company. In the discussion, Joh...

Abstract. In this world of variability and improved analytics, there is no substitute for the right question. Getting to the right question is a barrier for most executives hard-wired in historical paradigms. Here we turn to Anthony Howcroft, author of the book Questions—A Users Guide, for advice on how to formulate a good question and what it means for leaders. Order Anthony's Book Here - https:/...

Jose Deya is a Founding member of the new start-up Indigo revolutionizing agriculture in Brazil and Argentina. Why use crop additives if you can improve the soil conditions for farmers through additives? Does the answer to global warming lie in sustainable farming? In this podcast, Lora Cecere explores how Indigo, a new business venture in agriculture, is attempting to innovate in sustainable agri...

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, shares a company and software solution story. All too often, a company has the right solution but did not know they do and go on a nonsensical and circuitous path to try to replace their supply chain planning software with lower-performing solutions.

Project Zebra is a collaborative effort between business leaders, ASCM, educators, and technologists to define and test outside-in supply chain planning processes. Today's processes are inside-out using enterprise data. The focus of Project Zebra is to design strategies that can bi-directional orchestrate across plan, sell, make, deliver, and source. This webinar summarizes the group's work to doc...