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The 2020 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit was held virtually due to COVID19, but that did not prevent hundreds of senior executives and thought leaders from coming together to network, benchmark, learn, and share with one another during what has been a difficult year in uncharted business territory. In this interview, Joe Gerstl of GE Digital shares some of his experie...

The 2020 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit was held virtually due to COVID19, but that did not prevent hundreds of senior executives and thought leaders from coming together to network, benchmark, learn, and share with one another during what has been a difficult year in uncharted business territory. In this interview, Shane Yount of Competitive Solutions shares some of...

At the 2020 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series last month in Orlando we spoke with Michelle Goyette, the Director of National Partnerships and Resources for Brandman University. Brandman works with companies large and small around the world to build bespoke educational opportunities for employees within their employers' existing training budgets. -- Brandman University D...

At the 2020 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series last month in Orlando we spoke with Matthew Kaiser, SVP, Strategic Advisory Services for Providence Technology Solutions. Learn about how the workforce has changed and HR professionals are often forced to innovate within the products they own often without budget for new solutions including supporting the rise in contract labor,...

At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series in San Diego we spoke with Amos Dor, Applied Materials’ Pharma General Manager & CTO. Industry 4.0 solutions are transforming the way biopharmaceutical manufacturers do business, and Amos offered his insights into some of the challenges they are facing and the decisions they need to make as they bring these powerful new tools into...

At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series last November in San Diego we spoke with Randy Erwin of Cloudleaf about how biopharmaceutical manfuacturers are embracing Industry 4.0 solutions to their unique challenges. -- Randy Erwin VP Sales Cloudleaf Cloudleaf’s mission is to create significant value across the end-to-end supply chain network by dramatically increasing visibili...

At the 2020 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series last month in Orlando we spoke with Dr. Steven Hunt, SAP SuccessFactors' Chief Expert, Technology & Work. We discussed how Human Resources professionals are moving from traditional Human Capital Management (HCM) to Human Experience Management (HXM). What is driving this shift, what does it really mean in the short-and lo...

At the 2020 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series last month in Orlando we spoke with Dave Tuttle of ZipRecruiter. Dave offered a comprehensive look at trends in today's job market and how technology is transforming the way job-seekers engage with employers, and how Human Resources professionals seek the people their organizations need to succeed. -- Dave Tuttle VP Enterpri...

At the 2020 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series last month in Orlando  we spoke with Angela Hood, the CEO and Founder of ThisWay Global about Ai4JOBS, a new application of artificial intelligence and augmenting the intelligence of recruiters to understand the talent available for a given position, and also to bring great opportunities to the attention of candidates who may nev...

At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series earlier this month in San Diego we spoke with Laks Pernenkil, Principal | Life Sciences Operations with Deloitte Consulting LLP. Laks shared his insights into digital transformation in general, and specifically how the ‘Smart Factory’ will change the way biopharmaceutical companies operate. — Deloitte Life Sciences Innovation starts w...

At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series earlier this month in San Diego we spoke with Jack Garvey, Compliance Architects’ co-founder and CEO. Jack has chaired the Quality stream of content for several Biomanufacturing World Summits, and he has deep insights to offer biopharmaceutical manufacturers looking to communicate with regulators and build their organizations to bette...

At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series last November in San Diego we spoke with Dan Littlefield of Modality Solutions. Dan recently worked with the National Institute of Health to support clinical trials to help fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this interview, Dan talks about some of the challenges of working in an unusual environment, and how Modality S...

At the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago we spoke with Josh Betz, E2open’s AVP of Solutions Consulting. He shared some of his thoughts on transparency and visibility in a supply chain, how it informs agility, and how control towers –and control towers by any other name– empower companies and leaders to move from reactive to proactive thinking. -- Josh Betz is AVP of Solutions...

At the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago we spoke with Michael Dickstein, the Group Director Sustainability and Community for the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company. Coca-Cola HBC is the winner of this year’s Sustainability Award at the EP Awards that took place at NASCES19. Michael shared some of his thoughts on the win, sustainability in general, and how other businesses c...

Defining seamless execution from the customer’s point of view Real-world use cases of robotics, automation, the sharing economy, and artificial intelligence Debating how these influences will change the way resources are allocated across a global network Collaborating to develop new processes and capabilities through industry benchmarking Dave Bozeman VP, Amazon Transportation Services Amazon -- D...

At the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago we spoke with Nick Banich, Head of Supply Chain Transformation (North America) for Miebach Consulting. Nick shared some of his thoughts on the rapid rate of change facing supply chains, what is driving the move towards shorter decision cycles, and what companies should be doing to reinvent themselves to meet customers’ needs. -- Miebac...

At the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago we spoke with Mike Erickson of AFMS Global Carrier Pricing Experts about LTL freight rates, and what shippers should be doing to ensure they are not paying last year’s prices. -- Mike Erickson CEO AFMS Logistics Management Group Mike Erickson Founded AFMS LLC in 1992 and serves as its President. Mr. Erickson started his transportation...

At the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago we spoke with Matt Balzola of Breakthrough about navigating IMO 2020 and understanding volatile fuel costs in the supply chain. -- Matt Balzola is the Vice President of Go To Market at Breakthrough, a global transportation energy & information management company. Breakthrough is most notably known for its Fuel Recovery program whic...

Steve Robinson discusses Gobble's nomination for the Supply Chain Innovators Spotlight Award. Gobble is a unique meal kit company that emphasizes on speed, pre-prepped, par-cooked ingredients to make meals within 15 minutes. The goal was to reach profitability as well as improve the packing and boxing error rate. Under Steve Robinson’s leadership, Gobble made some great changes, doubled the b...

John Botkin General Manager, Product Planning to Deliver for  Intel Corporation discusses Intel's nomination for the Supply Chain Process Transformation Award. Beginning with Diagnostic Assisted Intelligence, moving into Predictive Augmented Intelligence and Prescriptive Assigned Intelligence. This year, Intel is working with Cognitive Autonomous Intelligence that employs Adaptive and Continu...

Fabio Duarte Research Professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discusses MIT's nomination for the Supply Chain Technology Enablement Award. Roboat is a research collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, aimed at developing a fleet of autonomous boats resulting in full autonomy, path planning a...

Bart Talloen is a 25-year veteran of supply chain operations with Johnson & Johnson. As a senior executive overseeing projects in Asia, Europe, and North America, he has worked on the day-to-day projects and big picture strategic planning that drives success at one of the largest companies in the world. Bart is also responsible for the J&J Supply Chain Academy providing enterprise-wide sub...

Peter Evans of LEGO is an expert in transforming workforce cultures, something he has done in Defence, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Shipping before joining the world’s most famous toy manufacturers.  In this episode we find out what did LEGO want to change about the way it works? What attracted Peter to the role? How did he break down a mandate as big and broad as ‘make us better’ i...

Dave Warrick - General Manager, Global Supply Chain - Microsoft -How will Supply Chain evolve, and how will this impact the way we do Retail? -Harnessing digital technology -What actions can be done to stay ahead of the game? -Leveraging the Cloud -Sharing the lessons learned so far and discussing next steps ------------------------------------------ As GM of Global Supply Chain for Microsoft, Dav...

In this episode we get insights into the industry and trends from: Daniel Kaulfus - Global Head of Logistics & Operations at Google (0:23), Hans Thalbauer - SVP, Digital Supply Chain & IOT at SAP (9:42), Kevin Kryscio - Sr. Director Supply Chain at Ace Hardware (19:31) and Matthew Liotine - Clinical Professor at The University of Illinois at Chicago (27:23) .  To meet and hear more from th...