Resilient Supply Chain— stories and strategies that keep business moving

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Send me a message The shift to online retail has happened at a breakneck pace which has left some retailers spinning and upended their supply chains. This is a space that Amazon had come to dominate, but now everyone is having to catch up. Wanting to know more about this phenomenon, I turned to Prof Sanchoy Das , who literally wrote the book on the topic - his book is called Fast Fulfillment- -The...

Send me a message The Automotive industry supply chain is being buffeted by many converging disruptions at the moment - shortages of semi-conductors, fluctuating demand, and shipping issues to name just a few. To hear more about this and how digitisation is helping I invited Matthias Haberstroh, the Head of Supply Chain Management at ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Technology division, and Nikhil Balkundi...

Send me a message The world is full of small businesses, and many of them are not nearly as digitised as larger companies. Redcloud Technology is on a mission to fix that. There are over 500 million small business traders and helping them connect to one another digitally to remove friction from their commercial activities seems like a very worthwhile endeavour so I invited Justin Floyd , Redcloud&...

Send me a message Supply Chain visibility and sustainability are two of the most important topics in supply chain today. So when I came across Sony Visilion 's Head of IoT Tracking Erik Lund I knew I had to get him on the podcast. Fortunately he was delighted to join and we had a great discussion about IoT tracking and the visibility implications of that, and we also talked about the sustaina...

Send me a message Blockchain is making serious in-roads into Supply Chain. One company working in this space is BlockApps . I invited Sid Siefken , their Director of Business Development to come on the podcast to talk a little about what they're up to. We talked about some of the Blockchain-enabled solutions they're developing - TraceHarvest for seed tracking, Genesis for Beef, and Trace...

Send me a message Welcome to a bonus Wednesday episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast. This is another joint Digital Supply Chain and Climate 21 podcast episode because the topic - the electrification of transportation is relevant to both podcasts. Today's podcast guest is James Carter . James is a Mobility Futurist, Thought Leader , and Influencer, and he is the Principal Consultant at...

Send me a message A few weeks back I published an episode of the podcast (episode 170) where I chatted about the SAP Siemens partnership on integration with the SAP Solution Owner Gareth Webb . The episode was particularly well received so I decided to revisit the topic with the two owners of the project from Siemens and SAP - Mathias Mond (also available by email at mathias.mond@siemens.com) and...

Send me a message There seems to be a constant stream of stories these days about supply chain disruptions, will Santa's supply chain work and will our presents arrive in time for Christmas? One of the big components involved and impacted by this disruption is the ocean carrier industry. Not knowing much about this vital sector of supply chains, I reached out to Ralf Hierzegger , a colleague...

Send me a message Procurement with purpose is a topic that I have felt strongly about for a long time. It is why, when I had the opportunity to purchase electricity from a 100% renewable supplier, I jumped at it. These kinds of actions send a demand signal. So, when my old buddy Mark Perera , CEO at Vizibl reached out to mention he's co-authored a book called Procurement With Purpose with Pet...

Send me a message It has been a while since I dedicated a podcast to data-driven supply chains, so I reached out to Baskar Radhakrishnan , a Senior Director at NTT DATA Services to invite him to come on the podcast to discuss them. We had a wide-ranging conversation covering what data drive supply chains are, and some of their benefits; how to approach rolling out data-driven supply chains, and th...

Send me a message I recently got together with Ronald Van Loon , CEO and Principal Analyst at Intelligent World and we had an excellent conversation around the role of platforms, cloud, and data in Industry 4.0. We had a wide-ranging conversation kicking off with the current disruptions affecting manufacturing and supply chains, the role of cloud in manufacturing, and the different technologies an...

Send me a message The news is full of stories of supply chain issues, goods shortages, and delayed deliveries these days. The latest news though is serious - it seems the global supply chain issues may mean your Christmas presents might not arrive on time ! If you haven't bought your presents yet, it may be too late! To talk about this, I invited my colleague (and author of the Christmas pres...

Send me a message There's a whole lot of disruption happening in supply chain right now. Lots of talk about how ports are backed up, and what needs to happen there. I was interested to know if other aspects of supply chain can help out as well, so I reached out to SAP's Solution Manager for warehouse management software Richard Kirker and asked him to come on the podcast to talk about th...

Send me a message It has been a while since I had someone on the podcast talking smart factories, so I reached out to James Crean , Co-Founder , and CTO of Crean Inc , a company dedicated to smart factory transformation services. We had a great conversation spanning minimising the pandemic's effects, tying operational efficiency to sustainability, and the growing tendency to reshoring.  I lea...

Send me a message In the manufacturing world, many organisations use software solutions from SAP, and Siemens. In July of this year, we in SAP announced our road map to integrating our  solutions with Siemens' Teamcenter which showed that Phase 1 of that road map would launch in October of this year (2021). To find out how the integration is proceeding, I invited the solution owner Gareth Web...

Send me a message With 35 years of experience in supply chain, Jonathan Rosenthal is the definition of an industry veteran. CEO of Saybrook Management , and ESP Logistics Technology , as well as a strong background in the airline and utility industries, it is fair to say there is little Jonathan hasn't seen.  A strong proponent of the digitization of supply chains, he was an ideal guest for t...

Send me a message My colleague Dominik Metzger, who has been on the podcast previously talking about Industry 4.0, wrote a fascinating article about how Smart Sensing Can Enable Industry 4.0 . I hadn't come across the term Smart Sensing before (in this context), so I was interested to know more. I invited Dominik to come on the podcast to tell us more, and thankfully he agreed. We had a great...

Send me a message There is an increasing requirement to measure and report on your carbon emissions. This is particularly difficult in complex ecosystems such as supply chains. Two companies working to make this simpler are Novigo and Tracks . To find out more I invited Novigo VP Thorsten Schmidt , and Tracks founder and CEO Jakob Muus to  join me on the podcast to learn all about it. We had a gre...

Send me a message Elon Musk's exaggerated claims apart, autonomous vehicles are going to have a huge impact on supply chains if they ever make the leap from proof of concept to commercially available. One company working to make that happen is Innoviz Technologies - the Israeli startup selected by BMW to supply their vehicles with lidar (a sensor used in most autonomous vehicle prototypes). I...

Send me a message Do you work in Supply Chain? Ok, what do you tell your kids that you do? How to explain the intricacies of supply chain to children. Well, a new series of illustrated kids' books aims to help. The Supply Jane Adventures bring supply chain, logistics, and inventory management principles to life. Our intrepid superhero Supply Jane and her canine sidekick Fifo teach kids simple...

Send me a message Supply chain visibility is an urgent requirement for businesses all over the world the world. New technologies are arriving to help fill that gap, but solutions need to be affordable, and scalable, which is where Wirepas comes in. Wirepas makes large scale Enterprise IoT solutions that are cheap and reliable. To learn more I invited Wirepas' CEO Teppo Hamiä to come on the po...

Send me a message One of the things the pandemic has highlighted (and continues to highlight) is the fragility of extended supply chains. Consequently, there is increased chatter around near-shoring, and home-shoring some manufacturing. To talk about some of these issues I invited Rosemary Coates to come on the podcast. Rosemary is a supply chain veteran as well as Founder and Executive Director o...

Send me a message I'm acutely aware that I've not had many guests on this podcast from South East Asia, so when  Bernard Hor from Hatio reached out to talk about supply chain in that region, I jumped at the chance of having him on. Hatio are a company providing digitisation and digitalisation services to SME's in South East Asia so we had a cool conversation about supply chain chall...

Send me a message As part of our Industry 4.0 for Fridays, I realised we hadn't really delved into the idea of smart factories so I reached out to Fujitsu's Head of Smart Factory, Senior Director, Digital Transformation, and IIoT Ray Russ and invited him to come on the podcast. Along with Ray, I also invited Vanessa Molina back on the podcast because Vanessa has worked with Ray in the pa...