Resilient Supply Chain— stories and strategies that keep business moving

Send me a message On this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast I talked to  to Mike Censurato . Mike is one of the Solution Managers for SAP's Environment Health and Safety (EHS) solutions, based out of the US. Why did I want to talk with Mike? Well now that we are in the middle of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, I wanted to know how EHS systems could help organisations to continue...

Send me a message I published a podcast at the start of April with SAP SVP Martin Barkman where he announced that SAP were making some of the Digital Supply Chain Software solutions available to customers for free for 90 days initially to help them respond to the Coronavirus pandemic. On this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast I wanted to find out how that program is progressing, so I inv...

Send me a message On this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast I wanted to talk once more to Mike Lackey . Mike is the Global Head of Solution Management for Digital Manufacturing at SAP . If Mike's name sounds familiar, it may be because he came on the show last October so we could have a chat about manufacturing, and how digital technologies are transforming it . Why did I want to ta...

Send me a message Supply chains have been shocked with a perfect storm of trade wars, an oil price crash, and the coronavirus crisis - the last hit Asia first, then Europe, then the US and the other countries. To get a sense of how Asian supply chains were affected, and how they coped with these crises, I reached out to my colleague Ash Pujari - Ash is General Manager and Vice President IOT &...

Send me a message Supply chains have been shocked with a perfect storm of trade wars, an oil price crash, and the coronavirus - how should they respond? In the midst of this crisis, I reached out to old friend Lorcan Sheehan ( @LorcanS on Twitter) to talk about the impact the coronavirus is having on supply chains, and how companies can and should respond. Lorcan is the founder and CEO of internat...

Send me a message For the second episode of the Women in Supply Chain series I decided to invite Cathy Roberson (aka @cmroberson06 on Twitter) back on the show (fittingly Cathy was my guest on the second episode of this Digital Supply Chain podcast way back in July of 2019). Cathy is Founder and President of global logistics research and consulting firm Logistics Trends & Insights LLC . Cathy...

Send me a message On this, the 7th episode of the Digital Supply Chain series themed on Industry 4.0, I wanted to have a chat with Franz Hero . Franz heads up the development organisation for Digital Supply Chain at SAP. Why did I want to talk with Franz? Well, apart from the fact that he heads up the development, I know he has a keen interest in Industry 4.0, so I was interested to know how compa...

Send me a message Before the whole Coronavirus lockdown happened, I had a great chat with the Global Director Discrete Industries & Internet of Things for Itelligence , Wolfgang Moeller . We talked about the relationship between Industry 4.0 and supply chain - but then before I had a chance to publish the podcast we were overtaken by global events. Now, a few weeks later, for anyone who wants...

Send me a message Update: 17 April 4pm CEST - I found an audio issue at around 22 minutes into this podcast, so I corrected it and uploaded the corrected audio. Apologies if this caused you any issues. Supply chains have never been hit with so many disruptions at once. A perfect storm of trade wars, an oil price crash, and then the coronavirus have seen global supply chains shocked like never befo...

Send me a message On this fifth Digital Supply Chain podcast on the theme of Industry 4.0 , I had a great chat with Claudius Link . Claudius is the Head of Digital Manufacturing at SAP, so obviously I was keen to have Claudius come on the show to have a chat about the impact Industry 4.0 is having on manufacturing. We had a great conversation covering manufacturing and Industry 4.0 - and we dived...

Send me a message It is April 2020 and we are currently in the middle of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, however we will develop a vaccine  for this virus, and so this crisis will finally pass. Unfortunately there is no similar "easy cure" for climate change. With that in mind, a huge amount of an organisation's carbon footprint comes from its supply chain, so when I heard about...

Send me a message It is early April 2020 and the world is in the middle of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. The contagion has hugely impacted supply chains, and in some cases supply chains have hugely impacted the contagion, stepping up to allow automobile manufacturers pivot to building ventilators , airplane manufacturers switch to 3D printing protective visors , and drinks makers start making...

Send me a message It is April 2nd 2020 and the world is in the middle of a deadly pandemic which by the end of today will have infected over one million people, and killed over 50,000 with both number rising at exponential rates. Businesses and entire industries have been massively negatively impacted (tourism, restaurants, sports, etc.) while demand for things like webcams has soared as people sh...

Send me a message As well as running the Digital Supply Chain podcast, and the Industry 4.0 themed series of podcasts, I decided to also spin up a new series - themed around the topic of Women in Supply Chain. This series will strive to highlight the stories of women leaders in Supply Chain to attempt to address the current imbalance in their representation on panels, podcasts, etc. Kicking off th...

Send me a message We are in a very strange times! On this fourth Digital Supply Chain podcast on the theme of Industry 4.0 , I had chat with Stefan Krauss . Stefan is SVP and he heads up discrete industries at SAP, so I was keen to have a conversation with him about the impact of Industry 4.0 on discrete manufacturing. Of course, given the time we are in right now, we couldn't avoid discussin...

Send me a message We are in a very strange times! On this third Digital Supply Chain podcast on the theme of Industry 4.0 , I had chat with Martin Barkman . Martin is an SVP and the Global Head of Solution Management for Digital Supply Chain at SAP, so I was keen to have a conversation with him about that, but the conversation went a bit off track! With all that is going on in the world right now...

Send me a message On this second Digital Supply Chain podcast on the theme of Industry 4.0 , I had a great chat with Elvira Wallis ( @ElviraWallis on Twitter and Elvira Wallis on LinkedIn). Elvira is the Global Head of IoT at SAP, so obviously I was keen to find out her take on how Digital Supply Chain, IoT and Industry 4.0 intersect. We had a great conversation covering Supply Chain, Internet of...

Send me a message The buzz around Industry 4.0 is starting to grow so I decided it might be interesting to have a series of interviews themed around Industry 4.0 here on the Digital Supply Chain podcast. To kick off this series I asked my friend, and colleague Hans Thalbauer to come on the show to talk about where he sees the relationship between Digital Supply Chains, Industry 4.0, and how they c...

Send me a message The logistics aspect of supply chains is increasingly being digitised, and is now often referred to as Digital Logistics . To find out more about this I invited Till Dengel to come on the show. Till is the Global Head of Digital Logistics Solution Management at SAP , so if anyone could fill me in on Digital Logistics, what it is, and where it is going it would be Till. We had a g...

Send me a message In this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast I interviewed Dr Johannes Drooghaag (aka JD and @DrJDrooghaag on twitter) We had a wide ranging discussion about Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and toward the end touched also on the importance of cybersecurity. Check out the transcript of our podcast over on my TomRaftery.com sit e In the meantime, if you want to get in touch wit...

Send me a message My guest on this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast is Colin Sutherland , EVP Sales and Marketing for fleet tracking platform Geotab .  Geotab invited me to give the closing keynote at their Geotab Connect 2020 event this year in San Diego. I took the opportunity to bring my recording equipment with me to talk to Colin about Geotab, what it does, how it is connected to D...

Send me a message Welcome to the first episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast for 2020. My guest on this show is Dorit Shackleton (also known as @DoritShackleton on Twitter).  Dorit is Global Head of marketing and Communications for Digital Supply Chain at SAP and as such Dorit has been responsible for bold new messaging around Digital Supply Chain namely calling it Desires Delivered, and so...

Send me a message My guest on this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast is Philipp Ortwein .  Philipp Ortwein is Co-Founder and Managing Director of InstaFreight   (aka @InstaFreight_en on Twitter), a digital forwarding company. He graduated with a Master in Management from the University of Mannheim and did his executive education at Harvard and Stanford. During 9 years of work experience...

Send me a message A few years back my colleague Richard Howells (aka @HowellsRichard ) wrote a great (albeit lighthearted) blog post about Santa's supply chain . With the holiday season rapidly approaching I invited Richard to come on the show to talk about one of the most important supply chains on the planet - Santa's Supply Chain and I must say we had great fun making this episode as...

Send me a message My guest on this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast is Paige Cox   (aka @weicox_paige on Twitter).  Paige is Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Supply Chain Networks development at SAP. We have talked about business networks on the podcast in previous episodes ( the one with Marcell Vollmer and more recently the show with Josh Greenbaum ), but with Paige leading S...