Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights: Recent Episodes
Lora Cecere
Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights is focused on delivering independent, actionable and objective advice for supply chain leaders. If you need to know which practices and technologies make the biggest difference to corporate performance, turn to us. We are a company dedicated to this research. We help you understand supply chain trends, evolving technologies and which metrics matter.
Lora Cecere speaking at NAM (National Association of Manufacturing) in September 2023 on supply chain resilience.Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence, supply chain excellence, supply chain insights, lora cecere, National Association of Manufacturing, NAM
Outside-in planning requires unlearning. Traditional work processes become obsolete as companies embrace outside-in data and processes.
Here, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Fred Baumann, on his experience with testing the outside-in concepts. He shares his key unlearnings along with his learning.
Tags: Supplychain, outsideinprocesses, demanddriven,supplychaininsights
Inventory grew an average of 30 days across industries over the last decade. This is despite the investment in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning (APS). What happened? What steps should people take? Tune in to gain insights from Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights.
Tags: Market-driven Value Networks, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Excellence, Inventory
Data abounds within the enterprise, but 80% of data is not used. One of the reasons is that today’s processes are inside-out no outside-in. How can we use market data to improve decision making market-to-market. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares her perspective.
Tags: Market-driven Value Networks, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Excellence, Inventory, Outside-in Processes
One of the critical elements of enterprise resilience and customer reliability is organizational alignment, but the gap grew three-fold over the last decade. How did this happen? What should be done to drive improvement. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares her perspective.
Tags: Market-driven Value Networks, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Excellence, Inventory, Organizational alignment
Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah & Lora Cecere Wrap-Up
Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah Talks with Jenny Patzlaff
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Academics with Jenny Patzlaff, University of WI
Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah, Alex & Christine Barnhart
Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Jonathan, Lora Cecere
Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Jonathan, Deanna Denton
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Project Zebra with Lora, Nicole, LKQ and Deanna
Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Alex and Brett Barnello
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Discrete Event Simulation with Brett Barnello
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - The Benefits of Digitization - Ryan Inoyue
Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Alex & Rick McDonald with Clorox
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 PM - Rick, Ashley and Kevin Panel Discussion
SCI Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 PM - Supply Chains To Admire - Ashley Yentz - Sleep Number
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Virtual Global Summit - Sara, Ashley, Alex
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Virtual Global Summit - Sara, Alex, Kevin Carpenter
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Supply Chains To Admire - Rick McDonald - Clorox
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Supply Chains To Admire - Kevin Carpenter-Toro
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Lora Cecere - Imagine Supply Chain 2030
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Virtual Global Summit - Sara, Ashley, Alex
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Virtual Global Summit - Sara, Jonathan and Lora
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Lukas Layden - NFT Improved Customer Service
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Lora Cecere - Eco-labeling & Corp Transparency
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Sarah with Jonathan Kempe & Steve Downey
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Steve Downey - Supply Chain 2030 in Healthcare
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Imagine Supply Chain 2030 with Lora Cecere
SCI Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Sarah with Nicole Miara, Lukasz Zieba, Fred Baumann, Ripu Singh
In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights gains insights from Allison Fowler of Medtronic on her presentation for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th. Allison, with over fifteen years in network design, understands design from both the business and design elements. In her presentation, the focus is making design a part of the process architecture.
Tags: network design, Medtronic, Supplychaininsights
Supply Chain Insights Digital Showcase 2022 with Suresh Prahlad Bharadwaj of Edgeverve #397
Supplly Chain Insights Digital Showcase 2022 with David Kennedy for ITE Consulting #390
Adapting in the Face of Change. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights. answers questions by Alex Wisniewski, a Generation Y supply chain leader, on her recent blog post, Adapting in the Face of Change. While there is no consistent industry definition of the term resilience, supply chain leaders are being challenged every day to deliver consistent results with unprecedented demand and supply variability. Here Lora gives some advice of actions to take.
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Advice for Supply Chain Planners. I this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights is interviewed by Daniel Pellathy, Grand Valley State University on the future of supply chain planning with a focus on helping students and new entrants into supply chain planning positions.
Straight Talk Supply Chain Insights - Lora & Alex Talk About The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 #384
A podcast discussing the impact of the bullwhip effect based on close coupling of the order data to traditional processes. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, discusses the impact with Alex Wisniewski of the Digital PMO Group.
Tags: bullwhip effect, supply chain excellence, supply chain insights
In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, answers questions from Alex Wisniewski, Digital PMO Group, on how organizations should sense market events and align to drive a coordinated response.
Tags: supply chain insights, lora cecere, Alex Wisniewski, supply chain excellence.
Dark clouds rise above the supply chain as the global conflict in Russia and the zero-COVID period of China both near the sixty day mark. Here we discuss the impact on global supply chains and five actions to take. The sixty day point is pivotal because in this time period warehouse raw materials and inbound goods deplete and companies feel the impact of the decline in shipments in China and the lack of replenishment of gases for semi-conductors, metals and food from Ukraine. Here Alex Wisieniski, of the Digital PMO Group, and a GENY supply chain professional, interviews Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights to gain an understanding of how to take the right steps to improve resiliency.
Tags: Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Russia/Ukraine War, China zero COVID, resiliency, supply chains, supply chain excellence
In this podcast, Alex Wisniewski, a GEN Y supply chain professional at the Digital PMO Group, interviews Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, on her recent blog post on shifting taxonomies in supply chain planning. Join the discussion as Lora and Alex discuss the myriad of promising analytics and how companies are forcing bright data scientists to “paint in the box” of existing taxonomies versus freeing the talent to explore new alternatives.
Tags: analytics, Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, Digital Transformation,
New forms of analytics abound, but how can we use these new approaches to improve supply chain planning. In this presentation from the Informs 2022 conference, Lora Cecere builds a case to redesign planning to embrace outside-in processes. She starts by painting the picture of why, then defines the current state, and follows with a definition of how new forms of analytics can help companies to better sense and respond to market conditions.
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Not all conferences are the same. Here, in this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Alex Wisneski, of the Digital PMO group on his experience at the 2021 Supply Insights Global Summit. The discussion is on extreme networking and building a guiding coalition to think differently and drive better outcomes.
Tags: Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Lora Cecere,
Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares insights on the current governmental programs on ocean visibility and improving flows through ports. Lora is interviewed by Alex Wisniewski, Program Manager of Digital PMO Group. FLOW, Ocean snarls, supply chain insights, lora cecere , Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence
In a countdown for the Supply Chain Global Summit, Alex Wisniewski, Digital PMO Group, will interview Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights on her latest blog posts. In this first post, Alex and Lora discuss Lora’s recent blog posts on Anaplan’s acquisition by Thoma Bravo and the increase in variability and the need for outside-in processes in supply chains.
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Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) excellence hinges on leadership. In this video, Jeff Stites, CEO of Bubbies, shares his personal experience in implementing S&OP and the role of Optimity in driving alignment.
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Jeff Sites, Chief Executive Officer of Bubbies, discusses his first 90 days on the job and his efforts to drive organizational alignment. The result is profitable growth. The how is simple. Through Jeff’s leadership, the company improved to better manage cross-functional processes against market demand while understanding and managing constraints.
Tags: Supplychain, Bubbies, LoraCecere, S&OP
Jeff Sites, Chief Executive Officer of Bubbies, discusses his first 90 days on the job and his efforts to drive organizational alignment. The result is profitable growth. The how is simple. Through Jeff’s leadership, the company improved to better manage cross-functional processes against market demand while understanding and managing constraints.
Tags: Supplychain, Bubbies, LoraCecere, S&OP
The Importance of Storytelling in Driving Supply Chain Change and Improvement
The biggest barrier for moving supply chains forward is education and alignment on next-generation supply chain processes. Christian Sautter leads process improvement for Bayer Consumer Products in Switzerland and used the Supply Chain Insights training and the SCOR model to drive change through the pandemic. When the pandemic happened, there was no plan in the drawer at Bayer to drive change. Christian used the training experience on next generation supply chain processes along with empathy and human perspective to build a plan to help his company lead through the pandemic. A great case study of a Gen Y employee driving change.
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Supply chain education should be the foundation of lasting change in the supply chain. However, building supply chain education programs is a barrier because the leaders in education do not see Supply Chain as a sexy or essential topic. Here we interview Ellen Joyce, Founder of the Digital Leader of Tomorrow in her journey to build educational programs for supply chain excellence.
Tags: Education, Supply Chain, Process Improvement, Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere
We pay truck drivers when wheels are turning. The inefficiencies of the COVID-19 supply chain environment make this more challenging. So, how can companies become better shippers and alleviate the issues with the shortages of truck drivers? Here we interview Desiree Wood, President of Real Women in Trucking. (Desiree coordinates the efforts of this 503C nonprofit while driving behind the wheel.)
Tags: Logistics, trucking, COVID-19, Desiree Wood, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Better shippers
Interview with Supply Chain Leader Cynthia Sikora
Continuing the interviews with second and third-generation supply chain pioneers, we interview Cynthia Sikora, leader of the North American supply chain for Lego. I love Cynthia’s story of how she managed herself through job transitions and partnered with her family to ignite her career.
Tags: Lego, Supply Chain pioneers, Cynthia Sikora, supply chain excellence, Lora Cecere
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Darrell Edwards Sr VP and COO for La-Z-Boy #367
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Bharat Virmani- N.A Supply Chain Performance VP - Electric Schneider #366
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Tali Rosman - Printing General Manager, Xerox Digital Manufacturing and 3D Printing #365
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Matthew Smith - Sr. Dir. of Global Transportation & Trade Operations - Western Digital Corporation #363
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Desiree Wood Founder and President of the REAL Women in Trucking #361
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Allyson Hatfield - Demand Planning Functional Expert for Mars Petcare #359
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Tony Zuazo - EVP Global Supply Chain Dollar General Corp #358
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights - Jane Kaiser, VP NA Manufacturing Row Crops #357
As part of our podcast series of first and second supply chain pioneers, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Philippe Lambotte, Chief Supply Chain Officer of Tonal. Philippe, a first-generation supply chain pioneer, started his career in Europe with P&G and moved through various leadership roles with Kraft, Merck, J&J, and Mattel before moving to his current position. Philippe’s advice is simple—take advantage of new opportunities and grow through cross-functional roles.
Tags: #supplychaininsights, #PhilippeLamotte, #firstgenerationsupplychainpioneers, #careeradvise, #supplychainmanagement
In this series on supply chain leadership, Annette Clayton, CEO and President of Schneider Electric North America, shares insights on her career while advising future leaders. Annette believes that women often have self-doubt on job readiness and need to raise their hands early and often. She also shares insights on why supply chain leadership is such a pivotal and essential career as we face more and more disruption.
Tags: Annette Clayton, Schneider Electric, Careeradvice, Supplychainmanagement, supplychaininsights, firstandsecondgenerationpioneers
Ann Dozier focuses on being a transformational supply chain leader. Her advice to the new generation of supply chain leaders? Focus on outcomes, be involved in the industry and drive value.
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Hannah Kahn, the CEO of Alom, is a leader in supply chain management. She continually fights for digital transformation and employment equality. Her message to supply chain leaders managing their careers? Be empathic, show heart, and be a lifetime learner.
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As ocean containers grew in size, land-locked ports struggled with unloading. In this podcast, Steve Peaslee, CEO of WickedHyper discusses the use of robotics and hyperloop technology with advanced analytics for visibility to attempt to help reduce port congestion.
globalsupplychains, #buildbetter, #supplychaininfrastructure
In his first week in office, President Biden signed Executive Order 14005, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers, launching a whole-of-government initiative to strengthen the use of federal procurement to support American manufacturing. But, in this world of complex, global supply chains, what does “Made in America” mean? And, how should companies use the mandate to drive a guiding coalition to change sourcing and manufacturing strategies?. Here Tony Uphoff, President, and CEO of Thomasnet.com gives his perspective.
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To prepare for the future, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders to share their insights on what made them successful and what advice they have for upcoming supply chain leaders. Here she interviews John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis. John started his career as a technologist building code and led an innovative supply chain planning company. In the discussion, John speaks of continuous learning and leadership lessons.
Tags: Supply chain, leadership, supply chain insights, lora cecere, john sicard
Abstract. In this world of variability and improved analytics, there is no substitute for the right question. Getting to the right question is a barrier for most executives hard-wired in historical paradigms. Here we turn to Anthony Howcroft, author of the book Questions—A Users Guide, for advice on how to formulate a good question and what it means for leaders.
Tags: Anthony Howcroft, Swarm Engineering, Questions, Supply Chain Excellence, Advanced Analytics.
Jose Deya is a Founding member of the new start-up Indigo revolutionizing agriculture in Brazil and Argentina. Why use crop additives if you can improve the soil conditions for farmers through additives? Does the answer to global warming lie in sustainable farming? In this podcast, Lora Cecere explores how Indigo, a new business venture in agriculture, is attempting to innovate in sustainable agriculture:
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In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, shares a company and software solution story. All too often, a company has the right solution but did not know they do and go on a nonsensical and circuitous path to try to replace their supply chain planning software with lower-performing solutions.
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Project Zebra is a collaborative effort between business leaders, ASCM, educators, and technologists to define and test outside-in supply chain planning processes. Today's processes are inside-out using enterprise data. The focus of Project Zebra is to design strategies that can bi-directional orchestrate across plan, sell, make, deliver, and source. This webinar summarizes the group's work to document the "as is" and "to be" states. The next phase is the test phase of two capabilities: Market-driven Demand Management and the Market-Driven Knowledge Graph. The question remains, can business leaders change their stripes, like a zebra, and adapt based on process innovation.
Tags: projectzebra, outside-in processes, supplychainplanning
Now in its 8th year, in this webinar, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, explains the Supply Chains to Admire methodology and releases the results of the 2021 winners. The Supply Chains to Admire methodology analyzes the performance of 600 public companies by peer group for the period of 2011-2019.
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Today’s supply chains respond based on historical and transactional data. While market data abounds, companies struggle to use it. In project zebra, a cross-company group is working on defining and executing outside-in processes.
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Driving improvement in manufacturing is a great opportunity, but how do companies balance improvement initiatives and compliance to standardization? It is a tough balancing act. To gain insights, we interviewed Jane Kaiser, North American Manufacturing Vice President for the seed division for Bayer. Here Lora Cecere, asks Jane the tough questions on driving manufacturing leadership.
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Lora will explain the methodology used to evaluate the progress of seven-hundred public companies within twenty-seven industry sectors. The webinar is June 16th at 11:00 ET.
Here is the link to register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4782631904005707024
Software capabilities are growing, but how do we improve organizational decision-making and help companies to learn. In this podcast, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, tackles this topic.
Tags: supply chain planning, decision support, new forms of analytics, supply chain insights, lora cecere
The pandemic speaks: supply chain management is more critical to organizational resilience. As a result, money flows into the supply chain market by venture capitalists, spurring a rash of liquidity events, consolidation, and market shifts. Here, the Founder of Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, asks and answers the critical question: Is this good for the business buyer? The answer is no. Consolidation, liquidity events, and venture capital investments typically result in employee turnover, slowing product roadmaps, and client delivery.
Tags: JDA, Blue Yonder, FarEye, Project44, Kinaxis, E2open, Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, value for business leaders
Embracing the Art of the Possible: How Could We Redefine Supply Chain Planning?
New forms of analytics allow companies to connect workflow, engines, and new forms of visualization to embrace demand, not as a time-phased outcome but as a river. The change is possible if and only if we redefine work. In this podcast, we explore the art of the possible and challenge companies to tackle the change management issues.
Tags: supply chain planning, lora cecere, supply chain insights,
We are now 18 months into the Pandemic response. Companies are continuing to wrestle with how to drive a local response. The hammer (mandatory shutdowns) and the dance routine (slowly returning to normalcy) continues. As the spikes rise in India and the United States struggles to get workers to restart parts of the economy, the answer for supply chain leaders is the same. In this podcast, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, recommends focusing on mining market data, building a mature capability for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), and ensuring robust supplier development efforts with suppliers. Own your forecast and your data to ensure that you can avoid shortages.
Tags: pandemic, lessons from the pandemic, build better, supply chain excellence, lora cecere, supply chain insights
Nick Lynch is your average supply chain guy. He drives organizations to test and learn and experiment with new technologies by building a guiding coalition. Here in this lessons in leadership series, Lora interviews Nick on how he built guiding teams at Shell to test and learn and drive change management.
Tags: Nick Lynch, Shell, Lora Cecere, Lessons in Leadership, Supply Chain Insights
In this new podcast series on leadership and lessons learned by supply chain baby boomers, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Rick Davis, now the founder of DemandChain.AI. In her travels, Lora has never seen anyone more effective at influence management. Here Lora probes to understand how Rick managed himself through his twenty-eight-year tenure at Kellogg with nine changes in leadership with multiple twists and turns.
tags: Rick Davis, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Leadership, Influence Management, Leadership, Supply Chain Excellence
In May, Supply Chain Insights kicks off a new podcast segment with interviews of business leaders on lessons learned. The pandemic accelerated retirements and baby boomer turnover, and Lora wants to be sure to capture the insights and voices of past supply chain leaders. In each podcast, business leaders share their definitions of supply chain leadership; lessons learned, and insights to share. Here Lora kicks off the podcast series.
Tags: lora Cecere, supply chain insights, leadership, supply chain,
In this episode, Lora talks to Pervinder of Blume Global about supply chain logistics globally with a focus on India and China. #332
Interview with Scott Sureddin, CEO of North America, of DHL on the pandemic and the future for 2021. In this interview, Scott gives advice for supply chain business leaders and academics.
Tags: Logistics, DHL, pandemic, supply chain, customer service, supply chain talent.
Supply Chain Technology. Venture Capitalists are Sharks in the Water. Is This a Good Thing?
As more and more venture capitalists turn supply chain companies and roll-up assets for a consolidation strategy, we address is this a good thing for the market? Should line of business users be concerned about E2open’s announcement to go forward with an IPO through a SPAC. We think yes. Here we share our reasoning.
Tags: venturecapitalinvesting, supplychain, supplychainmanagement, technology
Vaccine to Vaccination. Covid-19 Response Requires Supply Chain Innovation
Pfizer released great news on the COVID-19 vaccine this week, and Biden announced the formation of a new Coronavirus task force. In this podcast, we address the road from a vaccine to vaccination and why supply chain innovation is needed.
Tags: Covid-19, vaccine, operationwarpspeed, vaccination, supplychaininnovation
Driving diversity in supply chain is a goal for DHL. In this podcast, Meredith Singletary, Senior HR Directorshares insights on how they have redefined maternity leave benefits to help working families. I celebrate DHL’s leadership in this area.
supplychain, #womeninsupplychain, #DHL
John Monarch is the Founder of ShipChain. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, inteviews John to share his insights on blockchain and the use of standards and public blockchain formats.
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As supply chain leaders come to grips with the impact of COVID-19, we talk to the leaders to get answers. Here we share a podcast with Troy Hicks, SVP of Herbalife, on managing the supply chain in a harsh operating environment.
Tags: Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Excellence, Herbalife, Troy Hicks
Each year, Supply Chain Insights completes the Supply Chains to Admire analysis to help business leaders. The goal is to shine a light on the companies driving improvement faster than peers while outperforming and driving value. In the first videocast, Lora explains the method, while here she announces the winners.
Tags: Supply Chains to Admire, Supply Chains to Admire 2020, L’oreal, Dollar Tree, TJX, Ahold, Lockheed Martin, Broadcom, AbbVie, Monster Beverage, Ecolab, Paccar, BorgWarner, Sleep Number, iRobot, Toro
This video is the first in a four-part series for business leaders to understand the Supply Chains to Admire methodology and the current state of supply chain performance. In this podcast Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights explains the method and sets the stage to reveal the Supply Chains to Admire award winners.
Tags: supply chain excellence, supply chains to admire 2020, supply chains to admire, Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, supply chain
Logility, now in its fourth decade of providing supply chain planning software, is undergoing a leadership transformation. Mac McGary, with prior experience at i2 Technology and GT Nexus, is leading the change. In this podcast, Mac discusses the change, the need for service-based offerings and agile deployment and shares his thoughts on the autonomous supply chain.
Tags: logility, supply chain, Mac McGary, supply chain excellence
In supply chain management, the term "flow" is used frequently, but seldom managed. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Trevor Miles of Celonis on how to automate flow and take the friction out of processes.
Tags flow, supply chain, supply chain excellence, supply chain management, trevor miles, lora cecere
In this series, Lora Cecere speaks about a number of supply chain fallacies. The first is the misconception that tight integration delivers better supply chain performance. Here Lora debunks this myth.
Tags: Supply Chain Excellence, End-to-End Supply Chain, Flow, Harmonization, Synchronization, alignment, leadership, performance
Insights for the COVID-19 Supply Chain Recovery teams. The economic rebound is not going to be V-shaped. Expect it to be a rolling recovery where state by state and city by city we establish new demand patterns that will change as the economy goes through phases. Here Lora Cecere, founder of SUpply Chain insights gives insights for Supply Chain Recovery teams as they attempt to reformat the supply chain for this rebound.
Tags: supply chain excellence, covid-19, recovery teams
State against state. Federal relief efforts buying and bidding against states. Hospitals trying to procure goods. In this podcast Karen Conway, Vice President of Value Chain, shares how GHX is helping hospitals and healthcare professionals source protective gear and ventilator accessories to aid in the fight for patient recovery.
Tags: supply chain, GHX, Karen Conway, COVID-19, healthcare, Supply Chain Insights
One thing is certain, the post COVID-19 economy will be starkly different than before. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews Jeremiah Owyang, Founder of Kaleido Insights and Catalyst Companies. Forever at the forefront, Jeremiah helps companies to see into what is possible and how technology can help. Here Lora and Jeremiah discuss how the definition of business may require a reboot post COVID-19.
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An interview with Yossi Sheffi, Director of the Logistics Center at MIT. In this podcast, Yossi shares insights on expectations going forward with Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights. Here he shares what he has learned and how to plan for the post pandemic econom.
Tags: MIT, Yossi Sheffi, supply chain, pandemic
As part of our series on how to prepare the supply chain for COVID-19 recovery, I interview supply chain experts to gain insights. Here we interview Uwe Goehring, President of BigByte software on how to maximize the value from SAP implementations to drive improvement in the supply chain response.
Tags: COVID-19, pandemic, Data Analysis, Supply Chain Excellence, Supply Chain Management, SAP, Supply Chain Insights
Steve Vielmetti leads the supply chain team at Tenneco, a manufacturer of automotive supplies. Here he shares thoughts on how to prepare the supply chain for the new normal post COVID-19.
Tags: Tenneco, supply chain insights, supply chaon excellence, risk management
Adama is a global manufacturer of crop protection products. With ownership by a Chinese company and operations in Israel, managing the global supply chain in a pandemic environment is a challenge. Today we talk to Joe Krkoska, leader of the Adama's supply chain, shares his experience.
Tags: supply chain excellence, Adama, Pandemic, supply chain insights, lora cecere
These are unprecedented times for the supply chain as companies try to find and adjust to the new normal. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, gives advice for supply chain leaders on driving pandemic recovery.
Tags: COVID-19, pandemic, recovery, supply chain insights, supply chain excellence
As part of the response for COVID-19, Straight Talk of Supply Chain Insight interview with John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis to discuss the current pandemic and how Kinaxis is helping. Kinaxis is a provider of decision support software for business leaders.
Tags: John Sicard, Kinaxis, COVID-19, Pandemic, Supply Chain Insights
Interview with CEO of Blocnets, Bob Betts. Bob shares his insights on the readiness of Blockchain and the potential for value networks. Blocnets is stopping operations because of slow adoption of blockchain. Bob's view is that the technology is more advanced than readiness for adoption.
Tags: Bob Betts, Blocnet, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights, Global Pandemic
Supply chain excellence requires holistic design. This becomes more critical in a crisis when there is a shortage of talent. In this podcast, Razat Gaurav, CEO of LLamasoft, shares steps that he is taking to help companies source talent to complete critical network design activities.
Tags: Razat Gaurav, Supply Chain Design, Supply Chain Excellence, Supply Chain Insights, LLamasoft
Ninety percent of companies have inherited their supply chains and have focused on making the assets efficient. However, as many companies find out with the struggle with COV-19, the efficient supply chain (lowest cost per unit) is fragile in world events. This pandemic is a good opportunity to rethink supply chain strategy. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, coaches leaders to start with demand. Use consumption, not order data, and translate market demand with accuracy and the speed of business. One thing is clear, consumer demand is changing, and the order, and order history, will be a poor proxy to guide companies through this unprecedented times. Secondly, now is a good time to rethink the nodes of the supply chain and the roles each plays. Companies do not have one, instead they have many supply chains. Each requires demand and constant configuration based on demand. The greater the demand variability, the need to have fewer nodes and be closer to markets. Alignment also requires the rethinking of metrics, the role of the budget and the need for analytics.
Tags: Cov-19, Supply Chain Excellence, Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, Variability, Risk Management
Nok is a new business model using the supply chain to promote trial. Join this podcast to gain insights as Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Bobby Wann, Founder of Nok to understand this new business model. This is a new twist to drive test and learn insights through supply chain innovation. #307
Tags: Nok, supply chain insights, supply chain excellence, circular economy, test and learn
Here we share Lora Cecere’s presentation to the Foundation for Strategic Sourcing on how to drive a more effective response for contract manufacturing in the food, beverage and household products industry. As a provocateur, Lora asks companies to rethink their supply chain strategies to improve the customer service response.
Tags: customer service, effective supply chains, lora cecere, supply chain insights, new product launch, supply chain management, consumer goods, household products, food industry
In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, shares research on why supply chain planners cannot be successful. There are three issues to be overcome. In this podcast, Lora outlines the issues along with recommendations. #305
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In this podcast, Lora Cecere gives advice to supply chain leaders who are thinking about how to design the supply chain to be fit for purpose to drive growth strategies. Here Lora shares insights from the dialogue at the Foundation For Strategic Sourcing audience on managing contract manufacturing. #304
Tags: supply chain, supply chain effectiveness, supply chain insights, asset strategies, growth, supply chain leadership
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights With Lora Cecere - Avoiding Disruption with the Coronvirus #303
Surprise will be the new normal as we work our way through the knotty issues surrounding the Coronovirus. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, gives feedback to supply chain teams on steps to take.
Tags: coronavirus, china, risk management, supplier development
Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights With Lora Cecere - Why is S&OP Performance Slip Sliding Away? #302
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes are degrading. Business leaders rate their processes 30% less effective in 2019 than three years ago. What happened? In this podcast Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares the slippage on basics and the infatuation with shiny objects. She also gives advice on how to drive improvement.
Tags: Supply Chain Excellence, S&OP, Sales and Operations Planning, analytics, supply chain planning
Interview with Simon Woods, CEO of Risk Pulse on the use of market data on transportation planning. While we have spoken about the use of weather data to better manage transportation planning for many years, Risk Pulse, recently acquired by Rising Tide 360, is using weather data to better manage refrigerated container freight. #301
Tags: transportation, weather, container management, risk management, Risk Pulse, Rising Tide 360
Sleep Number, a 2019 Supply Chains to Admire award winner, shares insights on the design of their supply chain to deliver on the brand promise of wellness. With a focus on improving the quality of the customer experience, the team applied test, learn and apply strategies to design a supply chain that was fit for purpose for a unique brand promise. Here we share insights from the Sleep Number Supply Chain Vice President, Tony Rossi and the Chief Digital Officer, John Brine, on how they made this happen. #293
Tags: sleep number, Tony Rossi, John Brine, Supply Chains to Admire, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Excellence, wellness, supply chain leadership
Straight talk with Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). In the past two decades, companies have gone backwards with 45% lower effectiveness of S&OP. The reasons are many, but the answers are clear. Here Lora shares her insights. #292
Tags: Sales and Operations Planning, S&OP, demand planning, feasible supply planning, sales forecast, supply chain forecast, forecast value add, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights
Supply Chain Insights monthly webinar on cool and evolving technologies. Presentation given in October 2019 by Lora Cecere. The focus is on analytics, blockchain and evolving trends. 291
Supplychain, cooltechnologies, analytics, blockchain, networks
In 2019, P&G revenues are forecasted to be 67B$. How does a very large company partner effectively with smaller and innovative companies around the world. This is Michael Miller, Global Process lead for Business Development at P&G, job. In this podcast, Michael shares how to get started in innovating with new start-ups and how to do this effectively. He also shares his insights on the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2019. 290
Tags: Supply Chain Insights, P&G, Michael Miller, Lora Cecere, innovation, supply chain, sharktank, Supply Chain Insights Global Summit
Consolidation of technology providers attending the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2019 on the future of Supply Chain 2030.
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In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Dean Ocampo, Senior Director of Marketing, at Aera Technology on the future of supply chain planning, Supply Chain 2030 and how companies should prepare. Aera is an advanced analytics company working on the concept of the “self-driving supply chain.” 280
Tags: Supply Chain 2030, Aera, Cognitive computing, supply chain planning, supply chain excellence, Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Lora Cecere
Dan Crenin, Commercial leader of Elemica shares insights of the future of Supply Chain 2030. Improving networking capabilities is essential to improving corporate social responsibility, reducing waste and improving customer service. #279
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Interview by Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights with Christine Barnhart, now of GT Nexus on the Future of Supply Chain 2030, the barriers and drivers for joining a network, and her plans for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. #278
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Supply chain operating network, GTNexus, Infor, supply chain excellence, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain 2030
Interview with Andy Duncan, CEO of Boardwalktech, on Supply Chain 2030 and the need to share data effectively between trading partners. Boardwalktech is a simple digital ledger that can be deployed in weeks between trading partners. On the podcast, Andy shares case studies of how the digital ledger improved value between companies. #277
Tags: digital ledger, boardwalktech, supply chain insights, supply chain insights global summit, data sharing, trading partners
Interview with Richard Barnett, SVP of Marketing at Levadata on the future of Supply Chain 2030. In preparation for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, I am interviewing technology supply chain leaders to gain insights into their views of the future of supply chain. Richard, with a long tenure in supply chain management with both i2 Technologies and GT Nexus and now at Levadata, is a thought leader in the supply chain management space. #276
Tags: Levadata, Richard Barnett, Supply Chain 2030, Imagine, Cognitive Computing, Sourcing
Interview with Shellie Molina, a senior leader in supply chain management with experience at First Solar and Rollease Acameda, shares insights on her use of the Supply Chain Insights research. Gain insights from her views on the use of eBooks and Supply Chains to Admire research to improve Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and drive supply chain excellence.
Tags: S&OP, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Chain Excellence, Supply Chain Management, Benchmarking, Women in Supply Chain, Leadership, Supply Chain Insights
Working with data scientists can be a lot like dogs chasing their tail. The language and thought processes between business users and data scientist teams are different, and the data scientists can be arrogant and difficult to corral. In this interview, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Jennie Wienke, Randall Reilly, in how she navigates the gulf between data scientists and business users. #273
Tags: data scientists, organizational talent, analytics, business results, supply chain management, lora cecere, Supply Chain Insights
Interview with Kevin Wong, COO of Nulogy on the Building of Supply Chain 2030. In preparation for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews Kevin on how to build value networks. 272
Tags: Nulogy, supplychain2030, blockchain, networks
As we get ready for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights is interviewing all of the technologists attending to gain insights on how they see Supply Chain 2030. Here Lora interviews John Tecce, manager of North East Sales of ThoughtSpot. The company is a new form of analytics combining enterprise search and artificial intelligence. #271
Tags: supplychain, analytics, thoughtspot, loracecere, supplychaininsights
What is Supply Chain Excellence? In this discussion, Lora shares insights on Gartner Top 25 2019 winners on the effective frontier of balancing growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) using data from the 2010-2018 time period. Here she explains why no company on the Gartner Top 25 2019 list beat peer group performance while driving improvement.
Tags: supply chain excellence, Gartner Top 25, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chains to Admire, Supply Chain Index, supply chain, business strategy, network strategy
In 2019 only 35% of manufacturing leaders rate their Sales and Operations Planning processes effective. In contrast, 65% rated the processes effective in 2016. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights shares the reasons for this precipitous decline. The remedy is enlightened leadership. To make the shift, companies need to define what defines supply chain excellence and how it ties to the business strategy. Then manage the supply chain as a complex non-linear system to ensure the recognition of constraints, the design of buffers, and the impact of changes in mix. Only 30% of companies have “what if analysis” and only 50% of companies tie the output of the tactical plan in S&OP to execution. As organizational complexity increases—with seven S&OP processes using five different technologies—getting the basics right matters more than ever.
Tags: Sales and Operations Planning, IBP, Supply Chain Excellence, Demand planning,
Inventory, supply chain strategy, supply chain insights, Lora Cecere, supply chain tactics
In this podcast, Lora Cecere interviews Doug Bordonaro, Field Chief Technology Officer, on the use and relevance of enterprise search to answer questions at the speed of business. Join the podcast to understand how this new form of descriptive analytics can improve supply chain decision making.
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Analytics, supply chain excellence, enterprise search, making decisions at the speed of business, descriptive analytics,
Podcast with Lora Cecere and CJ Das from Simple Tire discussing Analytics strategies. CJ is an innovative CIO driving change in business through collaboration and delivering business results from innovative analytics technologies. #266
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analytics, Tires, Simple Tires, Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Insights. Supply chain excellence
Why are inventory levels in the supply chain higher post-recession than before 2007? In this podcast, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, share insights to answer the question and offers guidance to better manage inventories in a complex world. #265
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Inventory, supply chain strategy, supply chain insights, Lora Cecere, supply chain tactics
How do we get started with new forms of analytics? In this podcast, Lora Cecere addresses the question of “should companies start with process innovation, data cleanliness or governance?” The important first step is to get started. In this podcast, Lora shares insights on how. #264
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Lora Interviews Heather Moe, Product Engineer for ESRI on women in analytics. Heather is active in WORMS—Women in Operations Research and Management Science. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights discusses with Heather on how to improve the presence of women in analytics positions.
Tags: #analytics, women, operations research, business
Does the supply chain space need another conference? There are far too many today. Most follow a format of sponsors, paid speaking and booths. The same content gets hashed again over and over. In this podcast, Lora makes an argument for the need for a different kind of conference. One where business and technology leaders roll-up their sleeves together and imagine the supply chain of the future together. With 95% of the industry stuck at the intersection of cost, customer service and inventory, Lora thinks that it is important to challenge the status quo. So if you are planning to go to industry events which often focus on functional excellence of source, make and deliver, consider stepping up to the plate to Imagine Supply Chain 2030 in an event designed for extreme networking of supply chain innovators. This year’s event is in Chicago on September 3rd-6th.
supplychain, #conference, #imagine, #2030, #new technologies.
Interview with Dematic on the use of the digital twin, machine learning and cloud to improve warehouse operations.
warehouse management, #cloud, #machinelearning, #digitaltwin,
In this podcast, Lora Cecere addresses the question of “Who is Going to Win?” After a month of speaking to venture capitalists, Lora shares her insights.
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In this episode of Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights, Lora talks with Shaun Snapp, Founder of Brightwork on SAP HANA and migration strategies.
SAP, HANA, supply chain planning, analytics
Lora talks with Joannes Vermorel, CEO of Lokad. He is an innovator in supply chain planning. Here Joannes shares his vision of the future of supply chain planning with Lora.
Key words: supply chain planning, master data, open source analytics
In Supply Chain Insights monthly webinar, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights walks through the five potholes of selecting a demand management solution. In this session, she shares a framework of how to select a demand management solution.
Tags: demand management, demand sensing, forecasting, supply chain excellence, measurement, error, bias, and supply chain organizations
What is the role of software robots in the future of Supply Chain? Listen as Gisele Nogueira from HMD Global shares lessons learned on the use of software robots in customer service.
Tags: supply chain, RPA, automation, customer service, innovation
Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence
Lora Cecere presents a webinar on "Update on Talent in The Supply Chain - Preparing for 2030" #253
Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence
Lora talks with Marty Kisliuk, prior director of supply chain at FMC, on supply chain excellence. In this podcast, Marty shares his insights on the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit and his lessons learned.
Tags: supply chain excellence, supply chain management, supply chain, Supply Chain Insights Global Summit
In this episode Lora interview Peter Gibbons, CEO of Tire Hub to discuss the creation of a join venture between two large tire manufacturers in North America. Peter is a seasoned supply chain executive. In the show, he discusses the start-up and the creation of the new joint venture, and his philosphy to make it successful. Episode 251
Tags: supply chain, Tire Hub, Peter Gibbons, leadership, tire industry, distributor models, supply chain excellence, start-ups, leadership
In this episode Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights talks about The Five Reasons Why We Have Not Reduced Inventory
Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence
How can you balance opportunity against risk if you don’t understand the factors? Join this webinar to gain insights on recent research. Learn from experts as the guest panelists share their wisdom of how to best manage supply chain risk in this ever-changing world.
In this special episode we hear from Alina Beskrovna, Research Director, Supply Chain Insights and her observations about the great supply chain conference that many people from around the world attended, hosted by Lora Cecere of Supply Chain Insights.
Lora talks with Nick Lynch of Shell Oil in this in depth conversation about past and present supply chain needs and changes as well as the digital aspect.
In this episode Lora talks with Deanna Denton of Corning covering a great topic - AI and the labor market changes in the global business market place.
In this episode Lora talks with Kim Ballewske, Director of Distribution at La-Z-Boy about digital processes and the changing environment today.
Lora interviews Betty Oliver of Schneider Electric. Today they talk about educating students about supply chain and recruiting supply chain talent. – Podcast episode #243
Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights talks with Kyle Hamm VP of Customer Transformation – Podcast episode #242