Resilient Supply Chain— stories and strategies that keep business moving

Send me a message On this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Doug Marinaro , the CEO and co-founder of Riptide , a three-way text platform for issue resolution.  Doug shared the story of how Riptide came to be and how it's being used today in roadside service, delivery, field service, and home services. He explained how Riptide is different from c...

Send me a message Hey everyone! Welcome back to the Digital Supply Chain podcast. I'm Tom Raftery and today we have a special guest, Muhammad Alam , who is with SAP and has two jobs there. He's the product and engineering leader for one of SAP's five solution areas called Intelligent Spend and Business Network, and also the General Manager for SAP Business Network .  In this episode...

Send me a message In today's fast-paced business world, having a connected supply chain is essential. That's where Transflo comes in - a company that specializes in helping businesses in the freight sector connect their supply chain operations. On this episode of the podcast, I'm thrilled to have Transflo 's CIO, Don Burke , as my guest. He'll be sharing the company's...

Send me a message Welcome to this, the first episode of 2023 on the Digital Supply Chain podcast. In this episode, we're joined by Timo Landener , Head of Innovation Management at Swisslog . Swisslog is an intralogistics company that specializes in the food and fashion industries. During our conversation, we delve into the shift from globalisation to glocalisation, the growing importance of t...

Send me a message As the title of this episode says, this is the final episode of 2022.  Compliments of the season to all of you, the listeners, and have a very Happy New Year. The podcast will be back again in 2023 on January 9th, with lots of great episodes lined up. In the meantime, there are 280 episodes in the back catalog, across all aspects of supply chain, across all industries, across all...

Send me a message There are many types of risks that are associated with working with suppliers. Everything from financial, to supply disruption, to brand risk if a supplier turns out to be unethical, or worse. One company working to mitigate this is Rebirth Analytics . Rebirth uses AI and big data to assess suppliers across a range of categories (financial, ESG, Fraud, etc.) to more accurately pr...

Send me a message Working with ERP systems in Supply Chain can be particularly challenging - particularly for remote field service workers. This is the problem Arkyn set out to resolve. They have created a series of field service iOS apps which are persona based, fast, and intuitive enabling field workers more efficient access to backend systems. I invited Arkyn's Martin Holm Nielsen , and Ni...

Send me a message There are many ways to make supply chains more efficient. One of them is through smarter buying strategies. This is what LogicSource does. I invited their Chief Procurement Officer Michael Braunschweiger onto the podcast to tell us all about it. We had an excellent conversation. And Michael can be contacted at MichaelBraunschweiger @ logicsource.com Support the show Podcast suppo...

Send me a message Supply chains are complex beasts as we all know. Most organisations have 10's to 100's to even 1000's of suppliers. How to keep up with all of them? Are they secure, up-to-date? Certified for what they're saying they can do? and so on. How to find new suppliers to meet your criteria. One company looking to help organisations stay up-to-speed all of their suppl...

Send me a message Supply chains are not only digitising, but they're also becoming more automated. One area that has been slow to go digital is cross border trade between countries - how can you be sure your shipment doesn't contain anything besides what it says on the tin, or your new supplier is legitimate?? A company called Ultra helps customs authorities inspect goods flowing through...

Send me a message Scaling up your manufacturing supply chain is never easy. Finding the right suppliers, the best manufacturing partner can be a minefield. This is where Gembah steps in. Gembah matches companies with manufacturing partners and suppliers to help them scale up quickly. To find out more, I invited Zack Leonard , one of the founders of Gembah to come on the podcast to talk all about i...

Send me a message  Holiday Season is on us and supply chains are girding for the rush. Ware2Go , a company that works with SMBs on fulfilment and inventory strategy and logistics, just released data about consumer behaviour, and the challenges that SMBs are facing ahead of peak season. I invited Ware2Go's Chief Supply Chain Officer Chris Domby to come on the podcast to tell us all about it. S...

Send me a message I first met Alan Amling in 2017 at an IoT and Supply Chain event in Frankfurt. At the time Alan was a VP for UPS heading up their 3D Printing initiative. Since then he left UPS to pursue a PhD, and he has authored a book called Organizational Velocity. The book deals with how large companies find it difficult to be nimble, and offers many lessons on how to overcome this. Because...

Send me a message Getting access to capital can be tricky for supply chains as banks often don't understand them, and their trans-national nature often complicates matters. One company looking to fix this using a heave dose of AI, ML, and data is Fishtail.ai . To find out more I invited their CEO Marc Held to come on the podcast to tell us all about it. He agreed, and we had a fascinating con...

Send me a message Knut Alicke and Radu Palamariu are both very high profile, highly respected figures in the world of supply chain - in fact, Knut featured in a previous episode of this podcast . So, when I heard that they had partnered to co-author a book called From Source To Sold , I reached out to them to ask if they'd like to come on the podcast to talk about it. They very graciously agr...

Send me a message Collaborative manufacturing is a relatively new trend in supply chain. One of the companies leading this charge is Wikifactory . I invited their CEO, Joel Tortolero to come on the podcast to tell me all about it. We had a fascinating conversation covering what collaborative manufacturing is, why it is more than just sharing files using Dropbox or similar, and how Wikifactory are...

Send me a message VC funding is down this year in almost all sectors except supply chain! To find out more about why this might be I invited Silicon Foundry CEO Neal Hansch to come on the podcast. We had a fascinating conversation covering what's happening in the world of VC funding right now, what startups can expect when interacting with large enterprises in a funding round, and how startup...

Send me a message Standards are super important, especially when it comes to ecosystems as diverse, and with as many stakeholders as supply chains. One organisation that has been crafting supply chain standards for decades is GS1 US . GS1 is the organisation that sets the standards around barcodes - the reason why when you scan an item at a self-checkout, the machine knows what the item is, and it...

Send me a message The topic of cybersecurity isn't one I've addressed in previous episodes of the Digital Supply Chain podcast so we were long overdue to talk about it. Consequently I invited Imprivata 's Chief Products & Design Officer Mark McArdle to come on the podcast to talk all about it. He graciously agreed and we had a fascinating conversation covering the reasons why cy...

Send me a message Question: what do black holes, AI, and digital twins of supply chains have in common? Answer: Bob Rogers , CEO of OII.ai - a company using AI to create digital twins of supply chains, allowing planners to quickly and accurately run what-if scenarios to improve their planning. And the black holes? Bob cut his AI teeth creating digital twins of black holes to understand what was ha...

Send me a message Integrated circuits (aka semiconductors) and their supply chains have been in the news quite a bit lately. In this episode I spoke to Danny Rittman , CTO of GBT Technologies , a company that designs integrated circuits, and systems to speed up their design which could help with the current supply chain issues semiconductors are having. We had a fascinating conversation covering t...

Send me a message With so many diverse stakeholders involved, it is no wonder that making supply chains more transparent is a big challenge. One company tackling this lack of visibility is Project 44 . To find out more about their latest initiates in this space I invited their Chief Industry Officer, Bart De Muynck to come on the podcast to tell us all about it. We had a fascinating conversation c...

Send me a message Supply chains have been slow to take up digital transformation, and logistics even more so. One company making use of technology and data to transform is Arrive Logistics . They have an 250 person technology team so I invited their CTO Michael Senftleber to come on the podcast to tell me all about it.  We had a fascinating conversation covering how data is transforming the logist...

Send me a message The supply chain of semiconductors is still reeling. Lead times are long, and this is affecting production of all kinds of devices, from phones to vehicles, and everything in between. To learn more about this space I invited A2 Global 's CEO Frank Cavallaro to come on the podcast to talk about it. We had a fascinating conversation covering what the root cause of the current...

Send me a message Enterprise blockchains would seem to be an ideal solution for enabling track and trace functionality in supply chains. This is why I have featured a few blockchain companies on the podcast in previous episodes. Similarly with low-code/no-code companies In this week's episode I'm featuring Finboot , a company which has a low-code/no-code enterprise blockchain solution fo...