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Labor management is essential to implement cost-to-serve optimization, but it is easier said than done. In this interview, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, speaks with Daniel Keto, President and Chief Technology Officer of Easy Metrics, about the benefits and obstacles to implementing an effective cost-to-serve process.
Building a successful technology company requires having the right stuff. Few succeed. In this webinar, we interview Jett McCandless, CEO of Project 44, to understand how he was able to build global scale in a software company in such a short period of time.
In this series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders to gather valuable insights for young professionals on career advice from senior leaders. Here, Lora interviews Dave Clark, the prior Supply Chain Vice President of Amazon, and currently the CEO and Founder of Auger.
In this series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews senior supply chain leaders to understand the career advice they would give their twenty-five-year-old self. Here Lora interviews Philippe Lambotte, prior supply chain vice president of Merck, J&J, Kraft, Mattel and Tonal Equipment.
In a continuation of the series, “What Would I Have Told My Twenty-Five Year-Old Self”, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Hannah Kain, founder of Alom. When Hannah immigrated from Denmark, she started Alom, a supply chain service provider located in Silicon Valley providing service for high-compliance supply chains. In this podcast, Hannah shares wisdom on building teams and driving organizational alignment.
As a part of this continuing series of “What Would I Have Told My Twenty-Five-Year-Old Self”, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Brad Blizzard, a thirty-seven-year supply-chain veteran. In this podcast, Brad speaks about the need to show up and be present, build relationships, and how to build effective teams.
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As part of a continued series, here Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Annette Clayton, prior Chief Supply Chain Officer of Schneider Electric (and, prior CEO of North America) on what she would have told her twenty-five-year-old self.
This podcast of Keith Harrison, previously of P&G. Keith managed the global supply chain team for over a decade, building supply chain leadership teams. Here, Keith answers the question of what he would tell his twenty-five-year-old self, and also shares how to gain influence and manage careers.
This podcast is a continuation of the series of interviews where we ask each senior leader, “What Would They Tell Their Twenty-Five-Year-Old Self?” The interviews are designed to gain insights for leaders at all stages in their careers. In this interview, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, gains insights from Ben Massie , Vice President of Supply Chain for Lenovo’s $13B+ Infrastructure division. Listen to a leader share his story, and as you listen, gain insights into the leadership required to drive performance for a Supply Chain to Admire Award Winner.
In this series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders to help others gain an understanding of their advice for graduates entering the profession or supply chain professionals thinking about their career. In the series, "What I Would Have Told My Twenty-Five-Year-Old Self, Lora asks senior supply chain professionals to reflect on their careers and think back to when they were twenty-five and share what they have learned in their career. Here, Lora interviews Matt Spooner, Vice President of Supply Chain at Hitachi Energy. Matt is located in Switzerland, and his prior roles included Gartner, Ericsson, and Kinaxis.
In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews John Davies, facilitator of the Greenbiz network for Trellis Group (a focused group for sustainability leaders). Here we discuss the evolution of sustainability in supply chain.
The world of supply chain is slowly changing. As the first and second generation supply chain leaders retire, in this podcast series, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Scot DeGroot, previously VP of Supply Chain at Kimberly Clark, and now managing the executive program at the University of Tennessee to gain insights into what he would have told his twenty-five year-old self. This is part of a series of interviews that will conclude in the fall.
Here Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain I sights, interviews Vineet Khanna previously head of Nestle supply chain.
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The third podcast in our series of “What I Would Have Told My Twenty-Five Year-Old Self” is with Peter Gibbons. Peter, now retired, reflects on his learnings as a supply chain leader from a young boy in Scotland to running supply chain operations for Mattel, Starbucks, and 3M.
In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Peter Bolstorff, now founder of Inspiresce.AI, on “What would have told his twenty-five-year-old self?” This is part two of a series of interviews.
This is the first of a series in which Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders at the peak of their careers before and shortly after retirement to gain an understanding of how they drove success and what they would have told their twenty-five-year-old self. Here, Lora interviews Peter Lejewski, Former Vice President of Supply Chain of Constellation Brands, and a number of others.
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In this podcast, Lora Cecere, founder of supply chain insights interviews Peter Bolstorff, previously with ASCM and now leading his own firm, Inspiresce.ai, to share insights from the River of Demand work showcased at the recent ASCM conference. In this podcast, the two thought leaders share the value of the technique and give examples of how companies have used the technique to drive value.
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In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, discusses the use case of using Large Language Models for supply chain training with Peter Bolstorff, Founder of Inspirece.ai, and Wael, Founder of Uthereal.ai. The recent Supply Chain Insights Outside-in Planning class uses a large language model to facilitate the training. In this discussion, Peter and Wael share their key learnings.
Supplier risk management is a subset of supply chain risk management. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, discusses the broader context of risk management with Matt Spooner, an independent consultant and prior Gartner analyst. Matt uses his experience gained in building transcontinental playbooks for his bike race as an analogy to think about risk management more holistically.
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In December 2023, the EU reached a provisional agreement: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). The new rules will apply to all products in thirteen industries sold in Europe. The focus is on improving sustainability and circularity compliance through digital certificate compliance by 2027. Track and trace capabilities is essential for enablement. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Heidi Benko on how to get started and next steps to take.
In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Peter Bolstorff, Founder of InspireSCI.ai, to discuss driving in the value chain. In the podcast, Lora and Peter share perspectives on the need for a simple, but research-based methodology, to determine if a company is driving value when compared to a peer group. The goal is to connect the work being done on regression analysis with Georgia Tech to a SCOR-like methodology to help supply chain leaders. These two founders are on a mission to help supply chain leaders.
What drives supply chain excellence? How do supply chain leaders know they are making progress? In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, and Peter Bolstorff, Founder of Inspiresce.ai discuss the Metrics That Matter and the tie of a balanced Scorecard to SCOR metrics. This podcast is released as an introduction to the Fundamental Score that will be released at the December 5th event at the IYSE Building at Georgia Tech on December 5th.
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Disruption. Demand shifts. Volatility. In the face of changing demand and supply, how do we synchronize demand and supply? LeanDNA synchronizes inbound flows providing availability insight for ATP in discrete industries. In this podcast Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews the Founder of LeanDNA to provide insights.
Defining Outside-in Supply Chain Planning Processes: Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights Interviews John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis
An order is a poor proxy for demand. A market-driven forecast always beats a forecast based on enterprise data. New forms of technology enable the redefinition of supply chain planning to transition from inside-out to outside-in planning processes. The question is how to get started. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis.
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The use of graph technology offers promise to map relationships, translate flow, and improve time to value. However, most solutions today are not built on a graph. So, how can companies get value from the graph approach without re-wiring their current systems? Here, Pat Byrne, Founder of Indeco, explains a point of view on how to get started with Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights.
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What is supply chain excellence? It is easier to say than define. Supply Chain Excellence is defined as driving improvement, outperforming the peer group, and driving value. This analysis analyzes over 500 companies' progress over the last ten years. Here, we share the insights on the methodology and compare it to the Gartner Top 25 approach.
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In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Igor Rikalo, Chief Operating Officer of o9 Solutions. The goal is to share thoughts on the power of outside-in processes and use the knowledge graph to deliver insights on flow to drive better outcomes.
Discussion of Network Resource Planning with Bharath from Tracelink. Using a network built for serialization, Tracelink is launching a series of services to help pharmaceutical manufacturers sense potential drug shortages and redesign their networks to drive better patient outcomes. Here we share a discussion between Bharath and Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights.
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With the rise in variability, safety stock increases in importance as a buffer. However, in recent research, we find that 90% of companies do not measure inventory helth or include supply variablity in the calculation of safety stock. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews Johnathan Colehower, Partner of UST to gain his insights on the gap and potential solutions.
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Lora Cecere presents insights on Supply Chain 2030 and how to prepare through building resilience at the National Association of Manufacturing, MLC conference.
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Lora Cecere speaking at NAM (National Association of Manufacturing) in September 2023 on supply chain resilience.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 6 - Virtual Summit interview with Lora Cecere
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 Jeffâs leadership, the company improved to better manage cross-functional processes against market demand while understanding and managing constraints.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vaccine to Vaccination. Covid-19 Response Requires Supply Chain Innovation
he 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.
Driving diversity in supply chain is a goal for DHL. In this podcast, Meredith Singletary, Senior HR Director shares insights on how they have redefined maternity leave benefits to help working families. I celebrate DHL’s leadership in this area.
John Monarch is the Founder of ShipChain. In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews John to share his insights on blockchain and the use of standards and public blockchain formats.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. #315
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.