Resilient Supply Chain— stories and strategies that keep business moving

Send me a message What if your ERP only sees the supplier decision after the real battle is already over? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Spencer Penn , CEO and co-founder of LightSource , a direct procurement AI platform. Spencer brings a practical view from high-pressure hardware and autonomous systems environments, and we look at why procurement, data, visib...

Send me a message How many fulfilment failures start as “just this once” exceptions? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Leo Rodriguez , VP at River Plate Inc ., a Southern California 3PL working across e-commerce, retail, warehousing, distribution, freight logistics, kitting, and assembly. We look at fulfilment through the lens of supply chain resilience, risk, da...

Send me a message How much do we really know about the minerals powering the energy transition? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Johan Oosthuizen , a responsible sourcing specialist based in South Africa, working across mining, operations, supply chain governance, and regulatory due diligence. His perspective matters because he works in the uncomfortable gap bet...

Send me a message What if supply chain resilience is already too slow for the world we’re now operating in? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Abe Eshkenazi , CEO of ASCM , the Association for Supply Chain Management. Abe has watched supply chain move from a quiet back-office function to a boardroom priority, and this conversation gets into why that shift matters...

Send me a message What if returns are hiding 4–5 points of EBITDA in plain sight? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Terry Boyle , CEO of Trove , to explore one of retail and logistics’ most neglected pressure points: reverse logistics. Terry’s argument is blunt and useful: if brands care about supply chain resilience, sustainability, risk, data, and visibility, t...

Send me a message What if your biggest supply chain risk isn’t disruption, but the time it takes to decide what to do next? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Robbert de Looff , Industry Commercial Lead for Chemicals at OMP , to explore why supply chain resilience now depends on more than better forecasting. In a world of energy price spikes, shipping disruption,...

Send me a message Most supply chains talk about AI and automation. Meanwhile, many yards are still running on pen, paper, radio calls, and chaos. In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Adam Newsome , CEO of Lazer Logistics, Blaine Dirker , CTO at Lazer and leader of Yard Nexus, and Pini Usha , CEO of Buffers AI, to unpack one of the most overlooked bottlenecks in mode...

Send me a message What happens when the software your business depends on simply disappears? In this episode of Resilient Supply Chain , I’m joined by Wayne Scott , GRC Solutions Lead at Escode , the world’s largest source code and cloud escrow provider. We talk about a risk hiding in plain sight: critical software, SaaS platforms, and cloud services that businesses depend on every day, but may no...

Send me a message Can AI make better supply chain decisions, or just make bad ones faster? In this episode of Resilient Supply Chain , I’m joined by Simon Bezrukov , Chief AI Officer at Bristlecone , for a grounded conversation about AI in supply chain , resilience, risk, data, visibility, and the uncomfortable bit nobody likes to put on the first slide: accountability. Simon’s core point is sharp...

Send me a message If one jammed parcel can cost you a day, what does that say about your supply chain visibility? In this episode of Resilient Supply Chain , I’m joined by James Edge, CEO of Landmark Global , the cross-border e-commerce logistics arm of Bnode Group. James works right at the messy intersection of logistics, tariffs, customs, data, visibility, final mile, and customer expectations....

Send me a message What if your biggest carbon win is not where your team is looking? In this episode of Resilient Supply Chain , I’m joined by John Beath, CEO and Chief Technical Director of John Beath Environmental. John brings a process engineer’s eye to sustainability, which means fewer slogans and far more practical questions about supply chain resilience, risk, data, visibility, and what actu...

Send me a message What if your supply chain isn’t underperforming, you just can’t see it clearly enough? Cost, service, and emissions all suffer when logistics data is fragmented. In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain podcast, I’m joined by Constantine Komodromos , founder of VesselBot , to explore a problem hiding in plain sight: most companies still don’t have a single, real-time view of...

Send me a message What happens when weak carbon data stops being a reporting problem and starts raising your cost of capital? Because that’s no longer hypothetical. It’s starting to hit financing, insurance, and risk in the real world. In this episode, I’m joined by Cynthia Lai , former banker, executive coach, and board advisor, with nearly 20 years’ experience in tier-one banking, including HSBC...

Send me a message A ceasefire is in place, so why are supply chains still under pressure? Because a half-open chokepoint can be harder to manage than a fully closed one. In this second bonus episode of Resilient Supply Chain+ , I break down what the war on Iran means for supply chain resilience, sustainability, risk, data, and visibility over the next 6-12 months. This isn’t about headline panic....

Send me a message What if the real bottleneck in warehouse performance isn’t the tech, but the people, decisions, and systems needed to make it work together? Keith Moore says it plainly: software is easy, people are hard. In this special Resilient Supply Chain roundtable, I’m joined by Mor Peretz , CEO of CaPow , Keith Moore , CEO of AutoScheduler , and Gonzalo Benedit , CRO of Aera Technology ,...

Send me a message What if the real reason transformation stalls isn’t the tech, but the fact that everyone is making decisions with a different rubric? And what happens when you start training AI on processes built 30 years ago? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Don Mahoney , Global Head of Products and Innovation at SNP Group . Don has had a ringside seat to som...

Send me a message What happens when a war hits not just oil, but fertiliser, LNG, jet fuel, shipping, and food? This isn’t just geopolitics. It’s a live stress test for global supply chains. In this first bonus episode of Resilient Supply Chain+ , I break down how the US and Israel’s war on Iran is rippling through global trade, energy markets, inflation, and food systems, and why this matters rig...

Send me a message If your AI strategy can’t show hard ROI, it’s not a strategy at all. And if your supply chain still runs on phone calls, emails, and patchy partner data, resilience is weaker than it looks.  In this episode, I’m joined by JP Wiggins , CEO of 1Logtech , co-founder of GLog which became Oracle Transportation Management, co-founder of 3G TMS , and a former SAP transportation leader....

Send me a message What happens when last-mile delivery stops being a logistics function and starts becoming a strategic differentiator? It changes how you think about cost, resilience, sustainability, and even customer retention. In this week's episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast , I’m joined by Nishith Rastogi , Founder and CEO of Locus , to explore why last mile has become one of...

Send me a message If your safety metrics are improving, are your people actually safer? Or are you just getting better at measuring the wrong things? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by John Dony , CEO and co-founder of the What Works Institute , and Mike Swain , Technical Enablement Manager at Evotix , to unpack a stubborn problem hiding in plain sight: why seriou...

Send me a message Is your supply chain one nut away from failure? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain podcast, I’m joined by Jonathan Doller, Senior Solution Consultant at Logility (now part of Aptean), to explore how AI is reshaping supply chain resilience - beyond the hype, and into real operational impact. At a time of tariff shocks, port disruptions, climate risk and talent pressure,...

Send me a message In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast , I’m joined by Ricky Ho , Founder of SourceReady , to explore how AI is reshaping sourcing, supplier discovery, and supply chain resilience in an era of tariff shocks, sanctions risk, and geopolitical uncertainty. We unpack why sourcing is still stubbornly relationship-driven, and why that’s becoming a structural risk. You’ll...

Send me a message Over 50% of companies say they’re getting garbage supplier data. Over 40% never hear back at all. And we’re basing ESG disclosures, compliance filings, and climate targets on that? In this episode, I’m joined by Lily Hogan , Senior Product Manager at 3E , to unpack why supplier data remains one of the biggest hidden risks in supply chain resilience and sustainability. In a world...

Send me a message If 98% of your emissions sit in your supply chain, what does that say about your resilience when things start to break? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast , I’m joined by Keith O’Flynn , Group Supply Chain Sustainability Manager at John Sisk & Son . Construction is often labelled slow, conservative, and carbon-heavy. But beneath the surface, it’s becoming a...

Send me a message Three corporate jets as “excess assets.” Absurd? Yes. Rare? Not really. What does that say about how companies handle surplus? In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast , I’m joined by Gordon Zellner, CEO and founder of Evergreen Trading, to unpack a problem most organisations quietly struggle with: surplus that turns into risk, waste, and financial drag. Excess inven...