Resilient Supply Chain— stories and strategies that keep business moving

Send me a message Global manufacturer of machines for the automotive sector Index Werke recently rolled out a new Industry 4.0 powered platform for their customers called iXworld (using SAP Industry 4.0 solutions!). To hear more about this innovative digital transformation, I invited Index' iXworld Product Manager Katharina Piesche to come on the podcast to tell us more about it. We talked ab...

Send me a message Another of the cool startups I came across in the SAP.io New York Foundry is called Cogniac . Cogniac is a company that uses convolutional neural networks to quickly and painlessly automate visual inspection tasks in all kinds of scenarios. I invited Cogniac CEO Chuck Myers , and Cogniac CTO and co-founder Bill Kish to come on the podcast to tell me more, and we had a fascinating...

Send me a message We live on a planet of finite resources so it makes a lot of sense to make the maximum possible use of all the resources we have. This is the fundamental tenet underlying the Circular Economy (which we have talked about previously on this podcast), and it is also the principle that Rheaply is building a platform to address. Rheaply is a startup working with the SAP.io foundry in...

Send me a message Setting the price of a product is crucial to its success. Set the price too low, and you can incur losses with every sale, set the price too high and you may fail to make sales. So having a tool to help you set the correct price is invaluable - enter Product Lifecycle Costing (PLC). In this podcast I chat with Manthan Peshne , product lead for PLC to find out how Product Lifecycl...

Send me a message I'm a big fan of 3D Printing, and have been ever since seeing the Replicator on Star Trek! So, when I heard that one of the Ivaldi , one of the startup companies in the SAP.io New York Foundry was in the 3D Printing space, I was very keen to chat with them. Espen Sivertsen , the CEO of Ivaldi, graciously agreed to come on the show and we had a fantastic chat about how Ivaldi...

Send me a message SAP recently launched a new cloud based solution into the market called Enterprise Product Development . I was keen to learn more about it, and to share those learnings with listeners of the podcast so I invited SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solution Manager Mark Landrosh to come on the show to tell us all about Enterprise Product Development. I learned loads, and had fu...

Send me a message SAP recently produced a fascinating new whitepaper (seriously!) on enabling technologies for Industry 4.0 (called SAP Enabling Technologies for Industry 4.Now). Given the very close alignment between Industry 4.0 and the digitisation of Supply Chain, I thought I'd invite someone on the podcast to talk about this. I reached out to my old friend and colleague Elvira Wallis ( @...

Send me a message On this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast, I welcomed back Chris Wolfe . Chris is the CEO of PowerFleet - a global mobile asset solution provider. Chris was on a previous episode of the show talking about PowerFleet, and how it helps organisations manage their fleets of vehicles. He reached out to me to talk about how he's seeing a trend in fleets to electric vehic...

Send me a message I came across a colleague recently who leads SAP's strategic engagements in supply chain with a special focus on high tech and other innovative organisations. His name is Sudy Bharadwaj , or as everyone calls him SudyB - in fact, that's his Twitter handle, @SudyB . Given we're in the midst of a global supply chain disruption (thanks coronavirus!) I decided to ask h...

Send me a message Delaware Consulting is a global company helping organisations with their supply chain solutions, amongst other topics.  I was interested in how they were helping their clients handle disruption, so I reached out to Richard Seel , Managing Director at Delaware North America to ask him to come on the podcast to have a chat. We had a cool chat about some of the things he's seei...

Send me a message Planning is a fundamental part of supply chains, and while I have had some customers on the podcast who refer to their use of planning, I haven't had an episode dedicated to the topic of planning, and how it is needing to go more realtime in these disrupted times. Consequently, I invited David Vallejo ( @SAPVallejo on Twitter) to come on the podcast to have a deep dive into...

Send me a message I came across the Coca Cola Company's VP Supply Chain, Jeff Markey at one of our customer council meetings where he gave an excellent presentation on what he called their Project Contour - a project to get total end-to-end visibility throughout their supply chain. I reached out to Jeff subsequently to ask if he'd be willing to share that info with the Digital Supply Cha...

Send me a message SAP released a new product on Wednesday of this week called the Digital Vehicle Hub DVH. To find out what that is, and what I might want one for (!) I invited Mukund Rao , a Director in SAP's Automotive Business Unit, and Andreas Klaschka SAP's Digital Vehicle Hub Solution Owner, to come on the podcast to explain all. The DVH is a repository for all the data coming off...

Send me a message I am giving the opening keynote at the SAP Supply Chain Resilience Conference this coming Tuesday October 6th. Unlike previous years, this years event is a virtual conference, for obvious reasons, which means anyone from any part of the globe can participate! Giving the closing keynote at the event is McKinsey partner Knut Alicke . McKinsey recently published the results of a sur...

Send me a message This is one of thise podcasts which took an unexpected turn - check it out to see why... For obvious reasons SAP is holding its annual Enterprise, Health, Safety, and Product Compliance event online this year - the good news is that this means you too can attend 😀 You no longer need to book days off, find an hotel, fly to the nearest airport, etc. You can now just register to at...

Send me a message The term Circular Economy is one you hear increasingly these days so I reached out to Stephen Jamieson, who heads up SAP's Circular Economy go to market in Northern Europe to ask him to come on the podcast and explain everything there is to know about circular economies. We had a great chat, and as ever, I learned loads. I hope you did too If you have any comments/suggestion...

Send me a message For obvious reasons SAP is holding its annual Enterprise, Health, Safety, and Product Compliance event online this year - the good news is that this means you too can attend. You no longer need to book days off, find an hotel, fly to the nearest airport, etc. You can now just register to attend , block the time in your calendar for the relevant talks, and get access to global exp...

Send me a message We're starting the week off with a great episode. My guest on the podcast today is Dominik Metzger . Dominik is the Program Manager for SAP's Industry 4.0 (aka Industrial Internet of Things) portfolio which is branded as Industry 4.Now by SAP. Dominik and I had an excellent conversation about Industry 4.0 - what it is, how it can help companies in all kinds of ways (inc...

Send me a message In this episode I caught with an old online buddy, W. David Stephenson (aka @Data4All on Twitter). David is a prolific writer on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on his Stephenson Strategies website as well as writing a regular column for Industry Week , a speaker, and author of the book The Future is Smart: How Your Company Can Capitalize on the Internet of Things--and W...

Send me a message In SAP we have lots of different supply chain solutions. Two in particular Transportation Management (TM), and the Logistics Business Network (LBN), are very complementary and so SAP has an offer around them. I wanted to know more so I invited Petra Diessner , SAP's LBN Solution Manager, and Bill King , SAP's TM solution manager to come on the podcast to tell me about t...

Send me a message We haven't talked enough about assets on this podcast - what an asset is, asset management strategies, and how the asset management world is evolving as assets become smart and connected. To address this, I invited on a friend and colleague Tom Kurtz . Tom heads up IoT Business Innovation at SAP and has a very strong asset management pedigree. And because Tom is a good frien...

Send me a message The maritime shipping industry has for a very long time been extremely opaque, analog, and consequently data poor. Fortunately that is starting to change. One company helping to change that is Singapore's Portcast.io . On this episode of the podcast, I was fortunate enough to get to chat with Nidhi Gupta ( @NidhiG_Portcast on Twitter), co-founder and CEO of Portcast.io. We h...

Send me a message Between Brexit, trade wars, pandemics etc. supply chains are being disrupted more than ever. Managing these risks is a matter of growing importance to maintain a reliable and resilient supply chain, so my guest on today's podcast is Jacob Shapiro . Jacob is the founder and chief strategist at Perch Perspectives , a company that provides geopolitical and risk analysis to orga...

Send me a message I was contacted on LinkedIn by Dr Justin Goldston of Penn State university . He was interested in coming on the podcast to share his learnings from the last few months with the audience of this podcast, so I immediately said "Absolutely, please do come on the show" And we had a great chat about how supply chains are responding to the disruption, how students and supply...

Send me a message Aaaannnnd I'm back - I had a very restful break for the last few weeks, recharged my batteries, and I'm ready to resume. And boy have I got a great podcast for you to kick off the new season - in this episode I'm chatting to the co-founder and CEO of inVia Robotics , ( @inViaRobotics on Twitter) Lior Elazary . Lior and I had a great conversation about the use cases...