Resilient Supply Chain— stories and strategies that keep business moving

Send me a message With all the disruptions to supply chains these days, inventory management is very much top-of-mind for supply chain professionals. Too much inventory is wasteful, too little risks stock-outs and missed sales. Enter Flowlity - a French start-up helping companies better manage inventory planning using AI. To learn more I invited their co-founder, and CEO Jean-Baptiste Clouard to c...

Send me a message Blockchain can get a bit of a bad rep because of the massive carbon footprint Bitcoin has, and more recently because of its huge losses!  Enterprise blockchains though don't suffer either of those problems and so can be very elegant solutions to some quite challenging problems. In this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast, I spoke to IOV42 's Chief Product Office...

Send me a message Our machines and processes are creating increasingly larger volumes of data - how can we handle this, what insights can we glean from it, and what are some lessons learned? These are some of the questions I put to Sisu Data' s Joel McKelvey in this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast. We had a great conversation spanning why AI ML solutions are increasingly necessary...

Send me a message I hosted Gareth Webb on the podcast 8 months ago talking about the, then new integration developed by Siemens and SAP for Teamcenter , and then again more recently two months ago when Feature Pack 2 was released to talk about what the new enhancements in that were. When it was announced at Sapphire that a Cloud version of this was in the works, I had to invite Gareth back to give...

Send me a message Integration projects are becoming increasingly important to allow disparate systems to share information. Enter IPaaS - the Integration Platform As A Service. Celigo is an iPaaS company, so I invited their VP of Strategy Mark Simon to come on the podcast to tell me all about it. I learned loads, I hope you do too... If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcas...

Send me a message Disruption in Asia, particularly the China with the government's Zero Covid policy is playing havoc with global markets and supply chains. To learn more about this I invited Uwe Haizmann , a partner at EAC Consulting based in Shanghai to come on the podcast to discuss the issues. We had a fascinating conversation talking about how over two months of lockdown is affecting Chi...

Send me a message The garment industry has had a bit of a reputational issue largely because of the lack of visibility down the supply chain. TrusTrace was set up to solve this. To find out more I invited TrusTrace Co-Founder and CEO Shameek Ghosh to come on the podcast and tell me all about it. We had a fascinating conversation talking about all the flaws in the current garment industry, how Trus...

Send me a message The diamond trade has always been a murky one with lots of talk of Blood Diamonds . This has meant the diamond supply chain is mired in suspicion about the origin of the stones that go into making the jewelry we wear.  One company seeking to change that is HB Antwerp . They've developed a unique direct, community-based, blockchain-backed sourcing strategy, and are bringing t...

Send me a message We're increasingly hearing how everything is moving towards networks. To find out more about how this is impacting businesses and the supply chain implications I invited Bob Baker (aka @HoosierZimbob on Twitter) Global Vice President, for Business Network Success at SAP. We had a fascinating conversation talking about what business networks are, what the network economy is,...

Send me a message Sourcing is a fascinating space, and one company upending the sourcing space is Keelvar with its sourcing optimization, and automation solutions. I invited Alan Holland , Founder and CEO of Keelvar to come on the podcast to tell me more. We had a fascinating conversation talking about why Alan set up Keelvar, the dizzying journey from being a startup to having a blue-chip client...

Send me a message China's zero Covid policy, and the shutdown of Shanghai are impacting global supply chains. To discuss this, and strategies organisations can take, I invited the Reshoring Institute's Rosemary Coates back onto the podcast. We had a fascinating conversation. I learned loads, I hope you do too... If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel fre...

Send me a message The health of manufacturing machinery is hugely important for any manufacturing organisation - unplanned downtime can be extremely costly. Enter Augury .  Augury uses AI to predict when a machine is going to fail, and so helps organisations reduce costs, and increase productivity. Eager to learn more, I invited Augury's VP Strategy Artem kroupenev to come on the podcast to t...

Send me a message We are living through some very interesting times - which if you are in supply chain, can seem like a curse, as the Chinese seemingly never said ! How can organisations survive the disruptions, and thrive? To answer these questions and more I invited IDC's Manufacturing Insights thought leader Lorenzo Veronesi to come on the podcast to talk about this. We had a great convers...

Send me a message Data science is a relatively new discipline. Its use in supply chain is still in early stages so having a well thought out data science strategy is of utmost importance. To talk about this I invited Ganes Kesari , the Co-founder & Chief Decision Scientist at Gramener . We had a great conversation spanning mistakes organisations make when embarking on data science journeys, so...

Send me a message What is the Metaverse, and does it have a role in supply chain? The Metaverse has received lots of headlines in the last couple of years, but does it have a role  to play outside of the spheres of entertainment, and e-learning? Can it be used in supply chain, for example? To answer these questions and more I invited IDC's Manufacturing Insights thought leaders Jan Burian and...

Send me a message I hosted Gareth Webb on the podcast 6 months ago talking about the then new integration developed by Siemens and SAP for Teamcenter . In that episode he talked not just about what had been achieved in the integration, but their plans for the second release of the product. 6 months later and Feature Pack 2 has launched, so I invited Gareth back to give us an update on what's...

Send me a message As a key component of supply chains, fleets have proven difficult to digitise. One of the companies working to change this is Ridecell . I invited their VP Marketing and Alliances, Mark Thomas to come on the podcast to tell me how they're changing that. We had a fascinating conversation discussing how Ridecell are helping organisations digitise their fleets, some of the use...

Send me a message Sourcing has always been a bit of a black box to me, and so to learn more I invited Etosha Thurman to come on the podcast to get me up-to-speed. Etosha is the Chief Marketing & Solutions Officer, for Intelligent Spend and Business Network at SAP. We had a fascinating conversation discussing the growing strategic importance of sourcing, the shift away from single sourcing, and...

Send me a message SAP and robot industrial maker Kuka have partnered on a project to digitalise robots in the manufacturing space. To learn more about what this means, why it was done, and what it could mean for manufacturers, I invited Kuka Principal Consultant Christian Liedtke , and SAP's Alex Altermann to come not eh podcast to tell us more. It was a fascinating conversation. I learned lo...

Send me a message In this week's episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast , I talk to Throughput CEO Ali Raza .  We had a really interesting chat covering what operations does when disasters throw off planning systems, the gap operations people need to be filled by IT, and thoughts about some of the solutions on the market It was a fascinating conversation. I learned loads. I hope you do t...

Send me a message Product Roadmap Management is a discipline to help you align your product strategy with your business objectives and customer needs faster and easier. One of the companies working in this space is Gocious . I invited their co-founder and CTO Maziar Adl to come on the podcast to tell me all about it. We had a really interesting chat the genesis of Product Roadmap Management, the i...

Send me a message Supply chain planning can often seem like a lot of trade-offs. Genlots is a company using Reinforcement Learning to optimise the triangle of cash, (inventory working capital and so on), costs, (prices,  delivery, transportation, etc.), and service (customer service, or the service that you give to your production). I invited Simon Schenker, Founder, and Co-CEO at Genlots to come...

Send me a message BDO, one of the world's largest accounting firms has published its third annual CFO Outlook Survey . This year, CFOs say supply chain disruption will be their #1 business risk. To find out more I invited Maurice Liddell, BDO Digital's Market Leader for Manufacturing to come on the podcast to talk about it. We had a fascinating conversation discussing the findings of the...

Send me a message What if, in the B2B space, finding a new supplier was as easy as it is for example to find vendors in the B2C space on platforms such as Amazon? That is the vision Balance has - they are providing a B2B eCommerce marketplace to connect buyers and sellers, removing friction you normally associate with these relationships. To find out more about Balance I invited co-founder and CEO...

Send me a message Digital Transformation projects are notoriously long, expensive, and disruptive for organisations. What if there were an easier way? A way to dip your toes in without testing the depth of the water with both feet? In today's episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast I talked to Sandy Markin and he told me about the S/4 HANA DSC Edition which helps companies do exactly that...