The Future of Supply Chain: Recent Episodes
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The Future of Supply Chain podcast is a show hosted by Thought Leader and Evangelist Richard Howells, and supply chain experts Sin To and Nicole Smythe. Guests discuss hot topics, best practices, and the latest innovations to deliver a risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain.
SAP Business Network & SAP Digital Supply Chain are a perfect pair, and our own, Elena Parker agrees. This week, she joins us to delve into sustainability hurdles in supply chains, the importance of business networks for collaboration, and our technology in supporting Ukrainian suppliers is helping shape a better tomorrow.
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Guest: Elena Parker, SAPElena Parker is the Chief Revenue Officer for Intelligent Spend and Business Network in the Middle and Eastern Europe (MEE) region at SAP. Elena is responsible for the software line of business, focusing on procurement, supply chain, sustainability, and travel & expense management.
Her priority is to ensure customers’ success through their journey towards becoming networked, intelligent, and sustainable enterprises.
Prior to SAP, Elena held global sales & marketing leadership roles in private equity portfolio companies, where she orchestrated digital transformations to drive top-line growth. Her professional journey is marked by diverse international experiences, having lived, and studied in seven different countries. Elena’s passion for fostering diversity and inclusivity extends beyond her professional endeavors; she actively contributes to D&I initiatives, both within SAP and beyond. In 2022, she founded Impact Ukraine, a Swiss non-for-profit organization with the vision to help rebuild Ukraine. Elena lives in Zurich, Switzerland, with her husband and their 5-year-old daughter.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about gaining visibility through real time data & how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Business Network
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP’s “Source from Ukraine” Initiative Boosts Business and Social Responsibility
- Impact Ukraine: Homepage
- Taulia: Make Smarter Working Capital Choices
- SAP Sustainability Management
- SAP Business AI
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Mobile phones can do more than just call, text, and scroll – they now have the power to digitally transform a company’s ability to efficiently do work within their business processes. This week, Samsung’s Phil Lander and SAP’s Andy Hancock join us to dive into their critical role of mobile devices in driving efficiencies, business continuity, and employee satisfaction within supply chain operations.
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Guest: Phil Lander, Senior Director, B2B | Mobile Experience (MX), Samsung EuropeResponsible for the Mobile Experience B2B go-to-market strategies for Samsung Europe. Delivering pan-European solutions, services, partnerships for large and small businesses both hardware and software to meet the needs of European B2B customers. Passionate about B2B topics from key partnerships to emerging technologies, such as AI, that can enhance our offerings to customers.
Phil Lander has 25+ years experience in the mobile & IT industry, from working within the mobile networks including Vodafone, Orange and BT Mobile through to extensive experience in manufacturers with BlackBerry and with Samsung for the past decade. He has commercial leadership experience in product management, Sales, Commercial and Strategy disciplines, across Consumer and Enterprise segments.
Guest: Andy Hancock, Global Vice President, Center of Excellence, Digital Supply Chain, SAPAndy Hancock is a Global Vice President of the Centre of Excellence within SAP Digital Supply Chain. As a seasoned global executive who has held numerous leadership roles during his 17-year tenure at SAP, he has brought quantifiable results to leading global brands through innovation advocacy. Having worked in more than 40 countries and experienced a vast array of cultures, he understands the importance of challenging the status quo to drive business outcome and create a competitive differentiator in turbulent global markets.
Andy brings thought leadership and a clarity of vision to businesses by merging a strong technical foundation, a passion for solving problems and leveraging a vast array of knowledge obtained from real world situations he has encountered during his career. He understands how to quickly uncover the root of a problem and articulate a clear path to a successful business outcome.
Andy holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a Bachelor in Aeronautic Engineering from the University of Salford, United Kingdom. He is also a Professional Member of the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about SAP & Everstream’s partnership and how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Request a Demo
- Leverage SAP and Samsung Mobile Technologies to Empower Workers with an Enterprise-Ready User Experience
- Samsung KNOX – Stay Connected, Protected, and Productive
- Samsung Galaxy AI – What is Galaxy AI?
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Visibility into data has become a driving differentiator for supply chains, making it a top priority for executives everywhere. But how can organizations ensure their value chain is efficient, but their data, as well? Google Cloud’s Paula Natoli joins us to discuss new and innovative ways companies can ground their supply chains in their data.
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Guest: Paula Natoli, Google CloudPaula Natoli is the Director, Strategic Industries, Global Supply Chain & Logistics at Google Cloud. In this role, she is responsible for helping set the go-to-market approach for driving industry solutions in supply chain, logistics and transportation for North America and Latin America customers across all verticals. Paula works closely with industry products, engineering and industry sales, solving the most complex supply chain challenges through end-to-end solutions in the cloud.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about gaining visibility through real time data & how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Request a Demo
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- Richard Howells: LinkedIn, X
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn, X
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As we all know, risk and disruptions are an aspect of supply chains that are here to stay. However, good news – there’s now something that companies can do about it, through the latest technologies, innovations, and partnerships between SAP and Everstream. Volker Wilhelm, SAP, and Koray Köse, Everstream, join to dive into what the future holds for the field and our two companies.
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Guest: Koray Köse, EverstreamKoray Köse, Chief Industry Officer at Everstream, is a supply chain expert, futurist, board member and multi-lingual thought leader, CPO, researcher, and published author specializing in working with CSCOs, CPOs, CIOs and other C-Level Executives with 20+ years of success in developing global supply chain and sourcing strategies, re-engineering and transforming business processes, and maximizing financial resources. Experienced in designing new business frameworks, risk and governance processes and deploying full scale ERP and procure to pay systems to drive efficiencies through digital transformation. Expert in industries such as automotive, pharma, life sciences, IT, electronics and FMCG.
Koray has written articles for and has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Washington Post, Financial Management Magazine, ABC News, SupplyChainBrain, ISM Magazine, and Supply Chain Management Review and has appearances as guest speaker on television news channels such as CNBC and CNA. He is also a participating member of the NATO 2030: NATO-Private Sector Dialogues that is facilitated by GLOBSEC.
Guest: Volker Wilhelm, SAPVolker Wilhelm works in the Product Marketing ream at SAP. As a business development expert, he has focused on Integrated Business Planning, Supply Chain Planning and Business Network Collaboration.
Volker has 23 years of experience with SAP solutions, from SAP ERP, SAP SCM, SAP IBP and SAP Supply Chain Control Tower as well as SAP Supply Network Collaboration and Ariba Network in various roles, from Development, Consulting, Product Management, Solution Manager to Business Development.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, advertising, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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Learn more about SAP & Everstream’s partnership and how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain Management
- Take the Risk out of Your Supply Chain by Planning Ahead!
- Supply Chain Risk Insights for Business Planning from Everstream Analytics Now Available on SAP® Store
- Shift the Paradigm of Supply Chain Planning by Reflecting External Risks
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- Volker Wilhelm: LinkedIn
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- Sin To: LinkedIn, Twitter
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn, Twitter
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Ask any supply chain executive & there’s one thing at the top of their list – visibility. Kinexon’s Rob Segal join us to discuss how real-time data tracking, much like Kinexon’s location tracking technology, can provide the accurate, up-to-date information needed to automate processes, identify inefficiencies, and enable better decision making.
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Guest: Robert Segal, KinexonRobert Segal is Vice President of North America, Industrial IoT for KINEXON. He is responsible for KINEXON’s Industrial business in the region leading the Sales and Operations teams. Prior to joining KINEXON, Robert held a variety of roles at leading engineering and manufacturing technology companies over a 20 year period.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about gaining visibility through real time data & how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Request a Demo
- SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference: Register Now
- KINEXON Joins SAP® Supply Chain Solution Portfolio
- Transform Your Shopfloor Operations with SAP Digital Manufacturing
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- Nicole Smythe: LinkedIn, X
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn, X
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React faster? Sharper visibility? Enhanced stability? The similarity between these benefits lies in one thing – the Supply Chain Nerve Center, a partnership between SAP and Accenture. This week, Accenture’s Michel Roger & Rahul Dwivedi join us to discuss how this tool redefines how companies react to disruptions and drive resiliency across their business processes.
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Guest: Michel Roger, Accenture Michel Roger is based in New York and has been working at Accenture for more than 25 years to design, deliver and deploy SAP transformation program for Supply Chain processes at global client in North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe in Consumer Goods, Life Sciences, Automotive, Telco and Resources industries. He is responsible globally to develop Accenture capabilities (thought leadership, assets and 5,000+ experts network) to enable supply chain transformation with SAP Solutions (S/4, IBP, PLM, IAM, Sustainability suite, etc.).
Guest: Rahul Dwivedi, Accenture Rahul Dwivedi is a Managing Director at Accenture LLP and is the Global Lead for Supply Chain Nerve Center. He has more than 18 years of professional experience in supply chain planning and execution working with clients in Consumer Goods, Life Sciences and Manufacturing industries.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about the Supply Chain Nerve Center & how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Request a Demo
- SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference: Register Now
- Accenture Expands Partnership with SAP to Help Clients Establish Responsible and Resilient Supply Chains
- Accenture and SAP to Deliver New Supply Chain Nerve Center
- Accenture Supply Chain Nerve Center
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Logistics plays a crucial role in the supply chain as it is responsible for the efficient and smooth movement of goods and services from manufacturer to consumer.
In this podcast episode, we talk to Jochen Freese from Forto about how technology and innovation can improve the supply chain and help minimize its environmental impact. We also discuss the latest trends, challenges and solutions on the road to a greener logistics industry.
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Guest: Jochen Freese Jochen Freese is Executive Vice President and Strategic Advisor at Forto. Before that, he was leading the sales organisation. As Chief Commercial Officer, he drove global procurement of transport capacities, management and growth of the Forto partner network, and strategic business development. In the course of his career, Jochen has been steering global commercial and operating functions for leading logistics companies.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, advertising, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain: www.sap.com/scm
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Are you excited for SAP’s Sapphire and ASUG Annual Conference happening in just a few short weeks in Orlando? We certainly are! This week, SAP’s Bob Merlo and Diane Pickett join us to discuss all the latest trends, innovations, and technologies that you’ll be able to experience, alongside an incredibly stacked agenda – covering everything you need to know for supply chain. With resiliency, AI, and visibility in mind, it’s a discussion and conference you won’t want to miss.
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Guest: Bob Merlo, SAP Guest: Diane Pickett, SAP Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about our Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference & how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Request a Demo
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Customers
- SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference: Register Now
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- Diane Pickett: LinkedIn
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- Nicole Smythe: LinkedIn, X
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April 29th is National Supply Chain Day in the United States and we thought of no better way to celebrate with two of SAP’s best – Mindy Davis and David Vallejo. On this week’s episode, we dive into the evolution of Supply Chain Management, a coined term since only 1982, covering how supply chains have adapted to disruptions, the role of SAP technology in building resilience, and the impact of geopolitical events, like elections, on global supply chains.
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Guest: Mindy Davis, SAP Mindy Davis is Vice President of Global Marketing for SAP Digital Supply Chain. Mindy’s global marketing organization owns the marketing strategy of SAP’s supply chain solution portfolio, which encompasses cloud software for R&D/engineering, supply chain planning, manufacturing, logistics, and service & asset management. These solutions enable enterprises to become more intelligent and sustainable by developing new business models to avoid being disrupted, gaining efficiencies to fund innovation, and transforming mission-critical systems without business risk.
Mindy joined SAP in 2004, after establishing herself as a leader in product marketing in the software industry at both Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft. In her tenure at SAP, Mindy has held various roles in marketing, partner alliances, merchandising, and business development. Mindy is passionate about building world class teams to successfully launch exceptional products, and is a strategic thought leader and subject matter expert, possessing a depth and breadth of marketing and business knowledge to provide sound, innovative strategic leadership and initiatives while ensuring the preservation of and link between product, industry, field and marketing is maintained.
Mindy earned her B.S. in Marketing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and later an MBA in Marketing from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Mindy was recently featured on the front cover of CIO Look Magazine in 2022 as one of the 10 most influential leaders in supply Chain. She hosted a very well received LinkedIn Live series for Women in Supply Chain and speaks regularly at events around the world, including SAP’s flagship customer event SAP Sapphire.
Guest: David Vallejo, SAP David Vallejo is Vice President, Global Head of Digital Supply Chain Product Marketing. In his role, David is responsible for driving SAP’s product portfolio to the next level of innovation by setting strategy and direction for the future roadmap in close collaboration with SAP’s customers, Industry, and Product & Innovation teams.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about sustainable and risk resilient supply chains & how to bring out your best.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Request a Demo
- SAP Supply Chain Management – Customers
- SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference: Register Now
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- David Vallejo: LinkedIn
- Richard Howells: LinkedIn, X
- Nicole Smythe: LinkedIn, X
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn, X
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Die HMI 2024 steht unter dem Motto “Energizing a Sustainable Industry” und Lieferketten spielen eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Erreichung der Nachhaltigkeitsziele. In dieser deutschen Podcast-Folge sprechen wir mit Till Dengel über nachhaltige Lieferketten.
In Zukunft werden Lieferketten maßgeblich von Technologie geprägt sein. In den letzten Jahren haben sich innovative Technologien wie Künstliche Intelligenz, das Internet der Dinge, Blockchain und Robotik entwickelt. Diese haben das Potenzial, Lieferketten effizienter, transparenter, flexibler und nachhaltiger zu gestalten, um den bevorstehenden Herausforderungen besser zu begegnen.
Guest: Till Dengel, SAPTill Dengel verantwortet die globale Marktforschung, Thought Leadership, kommerzielle Modellierung, Marketing und Kommunikation für das Lösungsportfolio Digital Logistics & Manufacturing der SAP. Als versierter Redner in diesem Bereich bringt er eine breite Perspektive auf die Marktdynamik und die neuesten Branchentrends ein.
Till Dengel hatte mehrere Führungspositionen inne, darunter die Leitung der globalen Geschäftseinheit für die Reise- und Transportbranche und die Funktion des Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer für den Geschäftsbereich Data Intelligence der SAP. Darüber hinaus war er als Kundenbetreuer für den CIO und CPO tätig. Seine SAP-Reise begann im Jahr 2000 als Senior Consultant im Bereich Supply Chain Management. Bevor er zu SAP kam, arbeitete Till als Teamleiter bei DHL.
Er hat einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Betriebswirtschaftslehre und einen Executive Master-Abschluss in Informationsmanagement.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin To verfügt über mehr als fünfzehn Jahre Erfahrung in der digitalen Medienbranche und im Technologiesektor in den Bereichen Marketing, Business Development, Thought Leadership und als mitwirkende Redakteurin. Seit 2019 ist sie im SAP Global Marketing, Thought Leadership & Awareness Supply Chain Team, um die Vordenkerrolle und das Bewusstsein für die Supply Chain Lösungen von SAP, neue Markttrends und Nachhaltigkeit zu fördern.
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Erfahren Sie mehr über nachhaltige Lieferketten und wie Sie Ihr Bestes geben:
- SAP Digital Supply Chain
- Suez Canal Crisis: Lessons Learned And How Tech Can Help
- Register here for a Hannover Messe (HMI) Ticket
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- *Till Dengel*: LinkedIn
- *Sin To*: LinkedIn & X
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn & X
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This year, EarthDay.Org deemed the theme of 2024 Planet vs. Plastics, calling for widespread awareness on the health risk of plastics, and how they negatively affect not only people and corporations, but our biosphere as a whole. SAP’s Stephen Jamieson joins us this week to dive into the ways we can begin to change our world from the inside out, and steps we can take as both consumers and corporations to drive plastic waste out of our supply chains.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Stephen Jamieson, SAPStephen Jamieson is Global Head of Circular Economy Solutions at SAP. In his role, Stephen leads the creation and development of the industry solutions needed to keep products in use, design out waste and regenerate natural systems.
As founder of the SAP’s Plastics Challenge, Stephen has been working collaboratively with industry, NGO and regulatory stakeholders to develop design-led solutions aligned to SAP’s 2030 Clean Ocean Vision. This has now culminated with the launch of SAP’s Circular Economy program where Stephen leads the Go-To-Market and commercialisation of solutions that deliver Sustainable Business Processes aligned to global impact.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe is a marketer, blogger, and podcaster in the Digital Supply Chain and ERP space at SAP. With a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain Management and various field experiences, she hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, focusing on topics like market trends, emerging technology, and the next generation of workers.
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Learn more about Earth Day 2024, sustainable supply chains & how to bring out your best:
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- Sustainable Supply Chain
- SAP Responsible Design and Production – Request a Demo
- Planet vs. Plastics Global Theme for Earth Day 2024
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- Richard Howells: LinkedIn & X
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn & X
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Whether you’re a supply chain professional, a business leader, or simply someone curious about the latest technological advancements, we dive into the strategies you need to leverage blockchain for your organization’s success with SettleMint’s Matthew Van Niekerk. As we discuss the transformative power of blockchain in supply chain management, we see how this revolutionary technology unlocks companies’ potential to drive efficiency, resilience, and innovation.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Matthew Van Niekerk, SettleMintIn 2016, after 12 year’s experience in the financial services sector, Matthew co-founded SettleMint and is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Matthew has led the growth of the company and the geographic expansion of SettleMint beyond its home base in Europe to MEA, India, Singapore and Japan.
The vision of the company is to simplify the blockchain transformation journey for private and public organizations and in doing so, accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology globally. SettleMint is a Blockchain Transformation company recognized by Gartner and the World Economic Forum as an industry leader in supporting organizations transforming their business with blockchain technology.
He obtained his Hons. BA in Economics, specializing in Economic Development from Western University, London, Canada and later his Master in Business Administration (MBA) specializing in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Vlerick Business School, Leuven, Belgium.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how to support supply chain agility at scale & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- What is Blockchain Technology?
- SettleMint: Blockchain Transformation Made Easy
- Industry Report: The State of Blockchain Transformation in Supply Chain
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- Matthew Van Niekerk: LinkedIn, X
- Richard Howells: LinkedIn, X
- Nicole Smythe: LinkedIn, X
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn, X
- SettleMint: LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram
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From nuts to crackers to milk, Blue Diamond Growers’ (BDG) complex ecosystem is a force of nature. On this week’s episode, Steve Birgfield from BDG joins us to discuss how their company built a technical foundation tough enough to withstand expedited growth, through increased visibility, enhanced transportation methods, and redefining their logistics, whilst tackling the beast of burden that is Mother Nature.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Steve Birgfeld, Blue Diamond GrowersSteve leads the overall strategy, design and implementation of Blue Diamond Growers information technology services, working closely with the business to define solutions that provide value to our growers and our customers.
Steve has led strategic efforts of large scale innovations and digital transformations throughout his career. He brings a strong balance of business, technical, resource and financial management leadership.
Steve has been with Blue Diamond since March 2016. Prior to that, Steve has held a variety of Information Technology leadership positions including VP of IT and Workplace Services for Unisys; Chief Information Officer for Hostess Brands and CompuCom; VP of Information Technology for Quaker State; and acting Chief Information Officer for Booz Allen Hamilton. In 2012, Steve was named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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- SAP Supply ChainManagement
- SAP Enterprise Resource Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- Customer Stories: Blue Diamond Growers
- SAP Innovation Awards 2023 Winner – Blue Diamond Growers
- Better Together: Customer Conversations with Blue Diamond Growers
- Digital Transformation Helps Companies Keep Promises
- Blue Diamond Invests In SAP To Improve Their Supply Chain
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Generative AI and volume-based growth have more similarities than what meets the eye. This week, IBM’s Sammy Soufi joins us to discuss their beneficial partnership, and how companies in both the Retail & CPG spaces can utilize both to not only meet customer demand, but exceed it.
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Guest: Sammy Soufi, Senior Managing Consultant, IBM ConsultingSammy Soufi is a Senior Managing Consultant at IBM Consulting with experience across the CPG, Retail, Automotive, Utilities, Healthcare, and Agricultural industries, focusing on helping organizations navigate through business transformations and benefit from emerging technologies.
By bringing a strong analytical approach to solving complex business challenges with technological solutions; harnessed with hands-on experience leading business transformations across South America, Central Europe, Australia and in several North American locations.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Business AI
- SAP Business AI in Supply Chain
- IBM Collaborates with SAP To Develop New AI Solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Industries
- SAP to Embed IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence into SAP Solutions
- SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference Orlando
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Technology will play a crucial role in the future of supply chain. In recent years, new technologies such as AI, the Internet of Things, blockchain, and robotics have emerged that can help to make the supply chain more efficient, transparent, agile, and sustainable to meet future challenges.
This year’s theme for HMI 2024 is ‘Energizing a sustainable industry’, and supply chains are an important part of the problem when it comes to carbon emissions, waste, and human rights. In this episode, we talk to Dominik Metzger about how companies are making sustainability part of their supply chain solution. And how technology such as AI or GenAI can help to achieve these goals.
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Guest: Dominik MetzgerDominik Metzger is SAP’s Global Head of Software Engineering and is responsible for running a global development Line of Business (LoB). This organization provides innovative Digital Supply Chain solutions, including design, product management, engineering, and customer co-innovations for all products within the LoB including the product portfolio of Planning, Manufacturing and Delivery & Logistics.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain
- Suez Canal Crisis: Lessons Learned And How Tech Can Help
- Global optimism report Q1 2024
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Investing, adopting, and developing – three words that that hold a greater meaning to Accenture’s Sunita Suryanarayan, as she dives into their recent study, Resiliency in the Making. This week, she joins us to discuss the incredible findings of their research, three key steps to building resiliency, and why the time is now to start investing into your future.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Sunita Suryanarayan, North America Supply Chain & Operations, Resiliency Lead, AccentureSunita is Accenture’s North America Supply Chain & Operations Resiliency Lead. She’s a global strategist leading digital risk transformations in tech, media, automotive and consumer products for over two decades. She specializes in designing robust strategies to fortify supply chains against disruptions, leveraging a comprehensive approach that integrates risk prioritization, mitigation, and resilience building measures. Sunita is at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge technologies and collaborates with MIT’s data science lab to revolutionize supply chain operations. With a keen eye for emerging trends, she champions the integration of AI models into supply chain processes, harnessing the power of predictive and prescriptive analytics to optimize decision making and drive efficiencies across the board. Sunita has successfully led numerous digital transformations for Fortune 500 companies, spearheading the adoption of AI-driven solutions that have yielded measurable improvements in supply chain agility, responsiveness, and overall performance.
Sunita has published several articles on the future of supply chain and presented at numerous industry conferences. She is also involved in multiple foundations and organizations to champion diversity, equity and inclusion in the workforce. Sunita is on the board of Braven – a national non-profit that focuses on empowering students from underrepresented backgrounds with the skills, confidence, experiences and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact. She is also an advisor at komunity.io, a Silicon Valley tech start-up focused on redefining professional networking.
Sunita is based out of San Francisco, has an MBA from Creighton University and a bachelor’s in accounting and economics from University of Mumbai.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- Resiliency in the making
- Supply chain and operations services
- Digital engineering and manufacturing services
- Reinventing for resilience: A CEO’s guide
- Resilient Supply Chain
- SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference Orlando
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Happy International Women’s Day – as we celebrate women’s accomplishments, advancements, and progression in the workplace, we kicked Richard out for a girls-only episode! Our own, Darcy MacClaren, joins us to discuss supply chain’s ever-evolving digital transformation, her self-developed community of women, Empowering Women in Supply Chain, and how generations can utilize the next wave of technologies.
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Guest: Darcy MacClaren, Chief Revenue Officer of SAP Digital Supply ChainDarcy MacClaren is a strategic global leader who has spent 30 years growing, differentiating, and improving businesses through technology transformation with a focus on supply chain. She has held various leadership roles at SAP over the last twelve years, most recently serving as the Senior Vice President of Digital Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 for SAP North America. Today, she serves as Chief Revenue Officer of SAP Digital Supply Chain, overseeing the global supply chain business.
With an emphasis on customer success, Darcy is responsible for driving risk resilient and sustainable Digital Supply Chain business, including the thought leadership towards solution portfolio investments, go-to-market strategy as well as overseeing core operations in pipeline development, demand management, and revenue growth. Darcy is committed to guiding organizations in their digital transformation journey through innovative technology including artificial intelligence and next generation business processes. She is passionate about collaborating with and empowering companies to elevate the strategic value delivered to their ecosystem. Her central focus is to help companies build resilient, agile, and sustainable supply chains.
Darcy is a true expert in her field, an active champion for women in supply chain, and a recognized thought leader. Recently named in Fortune’s Broadsheet newsletter for and about the world’s most powerful women, Darcy has also been featured in Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2022 Women in Supply Chain and as a 2022 and 2023 Supply Chain Pro to Know. Darcy’s expertise has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Radio, NPR, Protocol, SupplyChainBrain, and Supply Chain Quarterly among other supply chain outlets. She is a frequent moderator, panelist, and keynote speaker at major supply chain events. She is the founder of the Empowering Women in Supply Chain Network which is dedicated to improving diversity in the supply chain field and since its inception in 2020, has grown to over 800 members. Last year, she was awarded the SAP Diversity and
Inclusion Award for her work with this group.
Before joining SAP, Darcy held several senior supply chain leadership positions at companies such as Blue Yonder, Infor, G-Log, (acquired by Oracle), and Hewlett Packard. Darcy graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She has an MBA from SUNY at Buffalo.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain Management
- SAP’s Empowering Women in Supply Chain Seeks to Elevate a New Generation of Leaders
- SAP’s Darcy MacClaren Explains How Joule is Progressing SAP’s Supply Chain AI to the Next Level
- Mastering SAP Empowers Women in Supply Chain at Latest Event
- SAP’s Darcy MacClaren: How AI Will Impact 2024
- Supply Chain Trends 2024: GenAI Is Backbone Of Risk Resiliency
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Connected, composable, and cloud-based… all vital traits to a modern-day supply chain in the face of navigating disruptions. On this week’s episode, SAP’s Guy Clutton-Diesen joins us to discuss how visibility across your ecosystem, collaboration within your network, and Embedded and Generative AI can increase resilience across your ecosystem to better anticipate a disrupted demand chain.
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Guest: Guy Clutton-Diesen, SAPGuy Clutton-Diesen has a background in supply chains, setting up distribution networks across Asia for publishing companies before joining SAP in 2010. Since then, Guy has supported strategic customers across Europe and Asia with digital transformations of their operations and supply chains management. Recently completing an EMBA in Shipping and Logistics, Guy is an expert on supply chain networks and planning strategies who believes in the power of global diversity and globalization to solve complex problems and drive new growth.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how to support supply chain agility at scale & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP IBP Delivers Risk-Resilience with Swift Supply Smartness
- SAP Supply Chain Management: Supply Chain Planning
- SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference Orlando
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Technology is the true MVP pulling the strings in almost every aspect of our lives, and the supply chain is no exception. We’re talking about cutting-edge technologies – AI, Internet of Things, blockchain and robotics – that are taking the supply chain to a whole new level of efficiency, transparency, flexibility and sustainability to handle whatever the future brings.
And you know what? AI is the superhero in this technology saga, simplifying and speeding things up, especially in the supply chain. In this podcast episode, Carlos Portillo explains what types of AI there are and how they can be used in and improve the supply chain.
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Guest: Carlos PortilloCarlos is Global Product Marketing Lead responsible for the Artificial Intelligence in Cloud ERP Go-to-Market Strategy, Messaging, and Thought Leadership. With a robust academic foundation in Operational Research and over 24 years of professional experience, he has honed his expertise in business process optimization across diverse sectors such as supply chain, manufacturing, operations, and sustainability. This extensive background aligns perfectly with his current role, allowing him to effectively drive innovation and elevate the strategic positioning of AI in Cloud ERP.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain
- SAP Business AI in Supply Chain
- Why Generative AI Is A Game Changer For Supply Chains
- What is artificial intelligence?
- What is generative AI?
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Guest: Robert Thiele, TeamViewerRobert Thiele is a vice president strategic alliances, Americas at TeamViewer, a market leading global provider of remote connectivity and workplace digitalization solutions. TeamViewer provides SAP Endorsed Apps that empower companies to change the way they work and enable Industry 4.0 and supply chain optimization through Augmented Reality and a digitally connected workforce.
Robert has 15 years of experience working with SAP customers in North and South America in leading positions at OpenText and StreamServe before joining TeamViewer in 2021. He was featured in numerous episodes of the SAP Radio/Audible podcast “Coffee Break with Game Changers” addressing game-changing industry trends and innovations in the areas of business strategy, digital technologies, customer engagement, and the impacts of a changing workforce.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how augmented reality can shape your digital supply chains & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- TeamViewer Integration with SAP – Demo
- TeamViewer: Remote Access & Support You Can Trust
- TeamViewer Frontline & SAP
- TeamViewer Unveils Real-Time Assistance App for Apple Vision Pro
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The future is in the present as seen through the emerging innovations in the factories of today. EY’s Daniel Minotti and Brannon Lockhart join us on the series to explore how technologies are transforming the way companies manufacture their goods, collaborate within their network, and attract the next generation of workers.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Daniel Minotti, EYAs an EY Americas Partner, Dan manages a client portfolio consisting of leading branded consumer packaged goods, food, and agribusiness companies. Dan focuses on educating leaders on the role of emerging technologies and developing a business-led transformation strategy to optimize and grow their business.
Dan has a BS degree from The Ohio State University in Mechanical Engineering.
Guest: Brannon Lockhart, EYBrannon Lockhart is a Manager at EY and he is the SAP Lead at the Nottingham Spirk Innovation Hub in Cleveland. Brannon has been with the firm for 5 years and has over 16 years experience of industry experience centered around Plant Maintenance and SAP.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how design plays a crucial role in your holistic supply chain transformation & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management: Manufacturing
- EY-Nottingham Spirk Innovation Hub
- EY-Nottingham Spirk Innovation Hub opens in Cleveland, Ohio
- Unleash Extraordinary – Inside EY- Nottingham Spirk Innovation Hub
- Request a Session
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Why wait until 2050 to transform your company’s sustainability initiatives and efforts? SAP’s Mike Censurato joins us to discuss what companies can begin doing today – such as implementing sustainable operations throughout their full supply chain – to not only better their own carbon footprint, but society, as a whole.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Mike Censurato, SAPMike is global Solution Manager for the SAP Environment Health and Safety applications. He is located in North America and has responsibility for EHS solution strategy, go-to-market activities, sales support, and partner channel support. Altogether, Mike has 25 years of experience related to design, development, and implementation of SAP EHS and Sustainability software solutions.
Prior to moving into the Solution Management group in 2016, Mike worked in SAP Services as a practice lead, application consultant, and project manager for implementation projects across multiple industries.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Business AI in Supply Chain
- SAP Supply Chain Management: Sustainable Supply Chains
- Request a Demo
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Almost all supply chains start in the same place – design. This, often, overshadowed part of the holistic system can become one of the top drivers for growth, innovation, and transformation. SAP’s Sean Laughlin joins us to discuss how companies can seamlessly integrate beyond their ecosystem to make better decisions for their business and incorporate the newest trends in technology for faster innovation.
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Guest: Sean Laughlin, SAPSean Laughlin has been working in the R&D and Engineering arena for over 30 years leveraging his engineering education as a design engineer, presales evangelist and solution manager. Sean has been with SAP for 17 years, the last 4 years within the Product Marketing organization serving as a PLM expert focused on the topics of PLM for process and discrete industries, CAD data management, product costing and many other areas of the SAP PLM portfolio.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how design plays a crucial role in your holistic supply chain transformation & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP: Supply Chain Management: Product Lifecycle Management
- Servitization in Manufacturing: New services Drive Growth, Profits
- Design – Interactive Digital Experience – Video
- Request a Demo
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You know the saying… new year, new predictions? That’s right – SAP’s Michael O’Donnell joins us to discuss the trends, patterns, and predictions we see driving digital supply chain transformation in 2024, diving into the exponential growth of Gen AI, the power of risk resiliency, and the demand for sustainability visibility across networks.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Michael O’Donnell, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Supply Chain, SAP North AmericaAs the Head of Digital Supply Chain for SAP North America, Michael is responsible for customer success, go-to-market strategy, and core operations in pipeline development, demand management, and business growth. In close collaboration with customers, partners, and the vast SAP ecosystem, Michael is dedicated to transforming how businesses manage supply chains for a more risk-resilient, sustainable future.
Prior to this role, Michael served as National Vice President of the Utilities Practice at SAP North America, driving meaningful customer outcomes, designing strategy, fostering team development, and managing the overall success of the practice. Throughout his 23 years at SAP, Michael has consistently championed the voice of the customer to ensure a clear path to value realization early in the customer journey and that the continuous evolution of the SAP portfolio supports customers as they make their transition to the cloud.
An active voice for sustainability, Michael serves as an advisor to the board of Smart Energy Water, Alert Enterprise, and DataVisor. He serves on the executive advisory panel for CS Week and is involved with the board of directors for Western Energy Institute. Michael is a graduate of North Carolina State University and lives outside Philadelphia with his wife Leslee and their three daughters. He is an avid golfer, runner, reader, and technology enthusiast – always on the lookout for what’s next.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how supply chain plays a differentiating role in your digital transformation & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Predictions 2024: AI, Sustainability Top Of Mind
- Supply Chain Trends 2024: GenAI Is Backbone Of Risk Resiliency
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Heineken is one of the largest breweries in the world. However, like other industries, the beer industry is facing a number of challenges, such as supply chain disruptions, price increases, rising inflation, and a tight labour market.
This week, we talk to Heineken’s Hugo Timmerman about how they’re using the latest technology within their supply chain to increase the end-to-end visibility needed to cope with the constant changes, as they become one of the most connected breweries in the world.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Hugo Timmerman – Director Digital & Technology @ HEINEKENAs the Director Digital & Technology for the Global Supply Chain at HEINEKEN, Hugo Timmerman is responsible for developing and executing the digital supply chain strategy and roadmap for one of the world’s leading brewers. He leverages his expertise in Industry 4.0, Data & Analytics, PLM, and Smart Connected Products to enable operational excellence, cost efficiency, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. He fosters a culture of innovation, learning, and empowerment among his team and partners, aligning with HEINEKEN’s vision and values.
Hugo has over 20 years of experience in digital technology and in management consulting and is passionate about delivering value and impact through digital innovation and transformation. He has a track record of bridging between digital technology and business needs, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and leading teams at country, region, and global levels.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
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What a year it has been! On this special episode, Richard, Sin, and Nicole look back on a memorable 2023, recapping the top trends, such as risk resiliency, sustainability, and digital transformation, shared with our incredible guests, and look forward to the future, predicting what is to come in 2024.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how business networks & supply chain plays a differentiating role in your digital transformation & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- The Secret of Santa’s Supply Chain
- A Festive Musical Journey Through the Christmas Supply Chain
- Best Sustainable Gifts For The Holiday Season
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The business environment is constantly evolving, and companies need to adapt to remain competitive while aligning customer expectations with shareholder objectives. This requires a smart planning system that integrates different business functions and provides real-time data and analyses. By utilizing Integrated Business Planning (IBP), this can be achieved, and companies will become disruptors.
In this podcast episode, we talk to SAP’s Anna Linden and Oliver Wight’s Stuart Harman about how IBP can enable organizations to plan effectively, adapt and respond quickly to changing market dynamics.
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*Guest*: Stuart Harman – Managing Partner, Oliver Wight Asia PacificStuart Harman spent 20 years working in manufacturing organisations around the world gaining extensive experience in operations, sales & marketing, supply chain and general management. For the past 15 years he has worked with Oliver Wight clients across the Asia Pacific region to assist their business improvement efforts through engaging senior management and providing education and coaching to build in-house expertise.
An acknowledged expert in Integrated Business Planning, Stuart also has specialist expertise in strategy management, purchasing, private label, and business improvement techniques (Agile, Lean, Sigma).
In 2021 Stuart co-authored the book Integrated Tactical Planning and regularly publishes white papers and blog articles
Stuart’s clients include Kellanova, PepsiCo, Inghams, Dupont, Lion Beer, The Australian Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Cochlear, PPG, Primo Foods, Qantas, Kimberly Clark, Danone, Glen Dimplex, Fonterra, BAT, Swarovski, Briggs & Stratton, and CHEP
Guest: Anna Linden, VP, Global Head of Supply Chain Planning, Solution Management at SAPSupply chain expert with a 15-year experience in SAPs product and solution management. Focusing on topics such as manufacturing, quality management, and supplier collaboration in the early days, before finding her professional home in supply chain planning.
Has been driving innovation in SAPs Integrated Business Planning solution for the past 10 years as a product manager, specifically looking at processes and scenarios that span end-to-end planning along finance, supply chain planning, production, logistics, and the business networks. Anna is globally responsible for the strategy, go-to-market and positioning of SAP’s supply chain planning portfolio.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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The digital thread between SAP’s Business Network and Digital Supply Chain portfolios have not only strengthened as time evolves but become a driving force in companies’ holistic digital transformations. Joern Keller, Chief Product Officer for SAP’s Business Network, joins us to discuss the differentiating power of connecting these dominant portfolios.
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Guest: Joern Keller, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, SAP Business NetworkA global enterprise software leader with more than 20 years of experience, Joern Keller is responsible for SAP Business Network (sap.com/businessnetwork) product management and engineering. SAP Business Network is the world’s largest platform for business-to-business commerce, orchestrating the interconnected, mission-critical operations of trading partners, spanning procurement, supply chain, logistics, asset collaboration and working capital solutions. Trusted by millions of enterprises in 190 countries, SAP Business Network facilitates more than $4.5 trillion in commerce across 752 million business-to-business transactions annually. As chief product officer, Keller sets the strategic direction for SAP Business Network and oversees its global product engineering centers located in Germany, the United States, China, India, and Peru.
Previously, Keller served as Executive Vice President of SAP S/4HANA Industry Cloud and Quote to Cash, where he had global responsibility for product management and engineering across the Consumer Industry, Discrete Industry, Energy and Natural Resources, Financial Services, Public Services, and Real Estate industry clusters. He was additionally responsible for the SAP S/4HANA Quote to Cash offering, due its close functional industry overlap. Keller’s mandate is to introduce customer-focused modular industry cloud offerings to the market, using state-of-the-art cloud engineering and operations practices. Keller has also served in leadership roles within SAP S/4HANA Cross-Engineering (as Vice-President), SAP IT (as Head of Core Value Chain Services), and SAP Digital (as Head of Platform). Keller began his SAP career in 1998 as a retail industry developer, spending several years working in Germany and in the United States. He holds degrees in Computer Science from HTW Saarbrücken, in Software Engineering from Arizona State University, and an MBA from Arizona State University.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP Business Network
- Business Networks: The Only Path Forward is Together
- How to Build – and Benefit from – a Supplier Diversity Program
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Ever question how you can mitigate risk and proactively plan for uncertainty? On this week’s episode, Cosmo Tech’s Nadia Hospital joins us to discuss how new technologies, such as Vulnerability Scan and AI, allow companies to optimize their strategic and tactical planning decisions.
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Guest: Nadia Hospital, Cosmo Tech, Chief Product OfficerHost: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
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Learn more about how to proactively identify supply chain vulnerabilities & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- SAP: Supply Chain Planning
- Cosmo Tech: Home
- Webinar: Moving Beyond Resilience Using Supply Chain Vulnerability to Thrive!
- Supply Chain Vulnerability Scan for SAP Integrated Business Planning
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The role of logistics in supply chain has greatly transformed over the past few years, with new trends and technology changing the way companies do business. On this week’s episode, SAP’s Kam Ghossaini joins us to discuss how companies can utilize logistics as a main differentiator in revolutionizing their supply chain.
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Guest: Kam Ghossaini, SAPKam has over 25 years of Supply Chain experience helping to drive continuous performance improvements in supply chain and logistics space. He started his career as a technology supply chain consultant, and has worked with several best of breed supply chain solution across Europe, the UK and the Middle East.
Kam joined SAP Dubai in 2013 and relocated to SAP North American in 2017, where he is the national lead for logistics as part of the Digital Supply Chain Center of Excellence. He focuses on helping our customers uncover their business and logistics challenges and guiding them in determining the operational and financial impact on their businesses.
He is passionate about delivering value to customers by providing innovative solutions that optimize, integrate, and automate their logistics processes and systems.
Kam holds an BS in Computer Science and an MBA in Management from the American University of Beirut. He lives with his family in the Chicago area where he enjoys playing and coaching soccer.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how logistics plays a differentiating role in your supply chain & how to future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- Last Mile Logistics: Solutions for a Changing World
- Benefits of Warehouse ‘Cobots’ in Logistics! Why SAP EWM?
- A Shift in Perceived Value
- My SAP Life with Purpose
- Candy Crush through Life
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In this episode, we delve into the fascinating and sustainable world of Frosta’s frozen food. With Frosta’s Ben Windhorst, we dive into their ambitious sustainability goals and how the company uses cutting-edge technology to offer its customers more transparency in the supply chain.
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*Guest*: Ben Windhorst, FrostaBen Windhorst is a passionate People, Technology und Transformation leader with an IT and Project Management background. He was driving and delivering digital transformation programs in different companies and roles in the last 15 years. He is currently driving the transformation and change of the FRoSTA AG into a data driven and open mindset company.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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Clean energy is the hottest topic in every boardroom, but ever wonder what it would take to fully decarbonize the value chain? This week, PwC’s Sadi Fieldsend and Jeff Briner join us to discuss how companies have the power to transform not only their own supply chain, but society.
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Guest: Sadi Fieldsend, PwCWith 20 years serving the SAP community, Sadi is passionate about people and partnerships. She strives to create experiences where trust, transparency, and collaboration define new boundaries for innovation. Not only has Sadi held various roles that involve SAP implementations, from defining IT strategies and managing large global programs, but she passionately believes in developing others and leading strong partnerships focused on transformation. She also believes that mentoring directly contributes to growth and diversity, both individually and as a collective network.
While Sadi has experience in automotive, chemical, consumer products, manufacturing, and life sciences, she is now dedicated to driving transformation within the utility and energy industry. By realizing the full scope of this industry’s challenges and opportunities for evolution, she understands the end-to-end digital supply chain processes that drive operational efficiency, but never loses focus of the customer and the impact this change can create for them as well as the employees within the organization being affected. She brings this depth of knowledge and insight when leading complex programs, driving innovation, and helping others achieve their corporate objectives.
Guest: Jeff Briner, PwCJeff is a Principle in our SAP Practice and is the Digital Supply Chain Capability Leader. Jeff has 30+ years of Power & Utilities and SAP EAM experience. This includes 20 years of Power Generation experience and 15 years of Transmission and Distribution for Gas & Electric utility experience. Jeff has additionally supported Rail, Agriculture, Pharma, and Energy clients with EAM Transformations.
Jeff has a multidimensional foundation that includes functional/operational experience in addition to his technical skills. He has successfully transformed large Utility organizations by using business process and organizational re-designs, technology lead transformation using ERP/EAM solutions including SAP, Maximo, EMPAC, WMIS, and Ventyx, as well as strategic cost and efficiency via org span and layer changes.
Jeff spent 6 years in China where he developed a leading SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) practice delivering mission-critical business transformations to the Chinese Nuclear Utility industry. His team has successfully completed Enterprise Asset Management Template based business standardization and transformation for Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain across 99% of China’s nuclear power industry (22 Sites, 70+ Units). Some of Jeffs relevant functional experience includes:
- Deployed PwCs SAP Nuclear Template to every Chinese Nuclear Power generation site
- Ten full cycle SAP/EAM implementations, seven in utilities
- Lead EAM consultant on the SAP CU solution development; spent time in Germany on the alpha and beta testing effort
- Lead EAM consultant for a multistate western US gas and electric T&D Maximo EAM project; planned and led the CU development team
- Lead EAM consultant for a five-state eastern gas, electric, and LNG T&D SAP EAM project and consulting architect of the SAP solution; key member of team that developed the compatible unit solution, the first SAP CU implementation
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Sustainability Management
- Decarbonising the Value Chain: PwC
- Decarbonising the Value Chain: The Global Construction Futures Report: PwC
- Decarbonization and Net Zero Services: PwC
- A Landscape View into Value Chain Relationships
- Widening the Sustainability Circle
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In supply chain planning, the only thing that is certain is uncertainty. In this episode, SAP’s Jeff Brown joins us to discuss how enhanced technologies have not only changed the way new generation of workers learn, but how seasoned generations adapt. Diving into the digital transformation of your planning processes to sustainability being a driving force, this is a masterclass you do not want to miss.
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Guest: Jeff Brown, SAPJeff has over 30 years of Supply Chain and Operations experience helping to drive continuous improvement in supply chain and manufacturing performance. He has worked in industry as a supply chain and manufacturing planner before transitioning to consulting and technology.
Jeff joined SAP in 2006, first as a solution advisor, followed by roles in the Digital Supply Chain Center of Excellence, most recently as Vice President, Strategic Initiatives. He has broad industry experience, working with customers such as Boston Scientific, Google, Louisiana-Pacific, Microsoft, Flowers Bakery, and Coca Cola.
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Georgia Tech. He lives in the Atlanta area with wife Lynn where they enjoy playing tennis and following their favorite local sports teams.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about sustainability, resilience, and growth in your value chain & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP: Supply Chain Planning
- Disruptions in the Supply Chain, Jeff Brown
- The New Era of Demand Planning
- Perspectives on Supply Chain Planning
- Key Supply Chain Issues, Explained
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Customer Testimonial Video – Harman International
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This week, we explore the fusion of technology, entrepreneurship, and supply chain as SAP’s Sherry Li joins us to see business through the lens of SAP.iO. From learning how startups are reimagining the future of supply chain to how SAP is guiding innovators through their partnership to success stories in the field, it’s an innovative episode you do not want to miss.
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*Guest*: Sherry Li, SAPHead of SAP.iO New York
Sherry is a seasoned business leader with over 10 years of experience in the technology industry. She is passionate about innovation and using technology to solve real-world problems.
Prior to joining SAP.iO, Sherry held positions with SAP strategic partnerships team, SAP Concur’s corporate strategy team, SAP Corporate Development, and SAP.iO Venture Studio. In these roles, she focused on sourcing strategic partnerships, international expansion, and business acceleration.
Before receiving her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Sherry worked at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, where she helped private companies in the US and Asia go public. She was the primary point of contact for Nasdaq’s 120 Asia-based companies, helping them develop investor strategies to succeed in capital markets.
Sherry and her husband David are the proud parents of two young boys and live on the Upper West Side. In their spare time, they write children’s books and enjoy taking their boys to Riverside Park. Sherry is thrilled to join the SAP.iO team and lead innovation initiatives for SAP.iO NY.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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Learn more about SAP.iO and how your company can get involved in the cohorts & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Supply Chain: Insights
- SAP.iO: Home
- SAP.iO Overview for Customers: One-Pager
- 2022 Year in Review
- SAP.iO Foundries: Portfolio & Apply
- Testimonials
- Dole Sunshine Company and Clarifruit: Partnering to Automate Quality Control and Reduce Fruit Loss
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Resiliency, sustainability, and visibility – three words that sum up the current focus of supply chain, we’d say, and Accenture’s Matias Pollmann-Larsen agrees. This week, he joins us to discuss the incredible findings of their recent United Nations Global Company CEO Study, from how CEOs are reimagining their supply chains to re-evaluating their global supply chain structures. Who knows, you may discover a thing or two.
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Guest: Matias Pollmann-Larsen, AccentureMatias Pollmann-Larsen is the Managing Director – Supply Chain & Operations, Sustainable Value Chain Lead at Accenture. Matias has deep experience in transformation and large-scale change, having led several programs in international companies across consumer products, industrial and energy sectors. As an expert on Sustainable Value Chains, on strategic aspects ranging net zero footprints, circularity and transparency / ESG risk management, he focuses on how firms can transform, with value and purpose.
Matias authored a number of regional and global reports on sustainability, diversity, societal impact and the role of companies, and often shares strategic insights at conferences / leadership / board meetings. He speaks fluent Italian, Spanish and English, skilled in Portuguese and Danish. He serves in the board of the INDEXproject, a nonprofit organisation that promotes designs aimed at the improvement of life worldwide, and in the board of InnoAid.org, an NGO with an international outreach.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about sustainability, resilience, and growth in your value chain & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- Reimagining the Agenda: Unlocking the Global Pathways to Resilience, Growth, and Sustainability for 2030 – Special Feature: Supply Chain
- The 12th United Nations Global Compact – Accenture CEO Study – Full Feature
- Guide to End-to-end Supply Chain Sustainability
- How supply chain sustainability helps unlock resilience and growth
- Research Report: Can you see your Scope 3?
- Accenture + SAP
- SAP and Accenture Collaborate on Immersive Services and Simulations to Improve Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability
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Goblins, ghosts, and ghouls may give you bad dreams, but shipment delays, lack of visibility, and a disconnected value chain are the real nightmares for companies this holiday season. On this episode, SAP’s Anu Shah joins us to discuss how to navigate the spookiest of obstacles throughout your business processes and value chain.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Anubhuti Shah, SAPAnu Shah is the Head of the Solution Management function focused on SAP’s AI and platform-related offering for SAP S/4HANA cloud, supply chain and finance. SAP customers can benefit from pre-built AI capabilities delivered with our cloud ERP and other applications. These capabilities help customers to accelerate business processes and optimize decision making across functions such as supply chain planning. Similarly, we multiply user productivity through AI-augmented user experiences.
She joined SAP in 2015 in a leadership development program for MBA-graduates and since then held various roles in industry-specific enterprise software, solution management and business development. Prior to that Anu worked for several years in Dubai.
Anu completed her Master of Business Administration at Mannheim Business School (Germany).
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about how to avoid spooky frights this Holiday season & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- SAP Announces New Generative AI Assistant Joule
- Introducing Joule
- Pioneering the Business AI Revolution
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain Management
- The New Era of Demand Planning
- Generative AI with SAP
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Generative AI is all the buzz in the not only the supply chain world, but society, in general. But have you ever wondered, really, what is Gen AI? You may get a few different answers but Deloitte’s Subit Mathew joins the series to discuss how companies can utilize it to do things differently and do different things – from supply demand balancing to intelligent product design.
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Guest: Subit Mathew, DeloitteSubit is a Principal in Deloitte’s Enterprise Performance – SAP Consulting Practice. He specializes in advising companies on Supply Chain Mgmt., IT roadmap strategies, ERP business case development as well as planning, managing & delivering large global SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
Drawing on his 18+ years of industry & consulting experience, Subit serves as an advisor to senior executives on applying innovations leveraging latest technology from SAP. Subit has deep experience in delivering numerous Phase 0 and global SAP S/4 transformations for clients through the combination of his end-to-end process knowledge, industry expertise, ERP solution validation, and delivery leadership. He focuses on serving his client through transformation planning, SAP program management, delivery risk mitigation, and deployment orchestration.
Additionally, Subit leads Deloitte’s US SAP Supply Chain Practice, working with client organizations to drive spend optimization, reduce working capital, and maximize supply chain operational efficiencies. Subit also leads Deloitte’s US Central Region SAP practice and has worked with companies of all sizes across the Life Sciences/Medical Devices, Consumer Products, F&B, Industrial Products & Chemicals, Automotive & Semiconductor Hi-tech manufacturing sectors to deliver transformations.
Subit is a frequent speaker at numerous SAP conferences and Universities on topics related to SCM process and technology transformations. Subit lives in Chicago with his family and holds a M.S in Information & Operations Mgmt. from the Texas A&M University and a Bachelors of Engineering in IT from the University of Bombay, India.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about Generative AI’s ever growing presence in Supply Chain & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain Management
- Deloitte – Alliances – Digital Supply Chain
- Deloitte – Global Alliances – Supply Chain Management
- The New Era of Demand Planning
- Generative AI with SAP
- Deloitte AI Institute: Connecting Enterprises Through Perspectives & Analysis to the Entire AI Ecosystem
- Five in 5: A Smarter Supply Chain – AI & Collaboration
- Intelligent Drug Supply Chain: Creating Value from AI
- Cognitive Supply Chain and a New Way of Working
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Did you know that 1.2 billion people in the world don’t have access to basic water services? While the numbers are staggering, EY’s Neil Banerjee joins us to discuss how there are measures that can be taken across companies’ supply chains to ensure the circular usage of water to build positive outcomes that are good for business and the environment.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Neil Banerjee, EYNeil Banerjee is the Americas SAP Sustainability & Public Cloud Leader at EY, where he drives go-to-market strategy and the overall alliance relationship between SAP and EY in the ESG and cloud ERP domains. With more than a decade plus of global experience in supply chain, commercial innovation, and sustainability, Neil is recognized as a thought leader on supply chain, sustainability and technology transformation as well as commercial growth strategy in the agribusiness, chemicals, advanced manufacturing and mobility sectors. Neil has deep history partnering with some of the world’s industry leading large enterprises and start-ups to commercially launch and scale new sustainable business models from concept to market.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
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Learn more about shipment visibility & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- Guide to End-to-End Supply Chain Sustainability, SAP Insights
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- What The Sriracha Sauce Shortage Can Teach Us About Climate Change, Richard Howells
- What is a Sustainable Supply Chain?
- Sustainability in business | Insights & trends | EY – Global
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Bristlecone’s Vivek Jha joins us to discuss how logistics and visibility can be a clear source of differentiation in companies’ supply chains, enabling accelerated time to customers and enhanced customer satisfaction.
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Guest: Vivek Jha, BristleconeVivek Jha is the Practice Lead for SAP Data and Analytics at Bristlecone and has been with the company for 10 years now. He leads pre-sales conversions, innovations, offering development, capability development and quality assurance for supply chain analytics and BTP solution. Bristlecone is a leading provider for AI powered application transformation services for the connected supply chain.
Host: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for almost 4 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like sustainability, market trends, and emerging technology.
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Learn more about shipment visibility & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain Management
- Track and Monitor Shipments in Transit with TrackWell
- Trackwell- Shipment Tracking | Bristlecone (sap.com)
- How The Panama Drought Could Impact Holiday Shopping by Richard Howells
- SAP Co-Innovation Lab
- SAP Hack2Build: Create Working Prototypes with SAP
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In this podcast episode, we dive into the world of last mile delivery with parcelLab’s Tobias Buxhoidt to discuss how this crucial stage of the supply chain can be optimized. Learn how intelligent tracking systems and innovative solutions can increase efficiency, improve the customer experience, and promote sustainability.
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*Guest*: Tobias Buxhoidt, parcelLabTobias Buxhoidt is co-founder and CEO of parcelLab, where he leads global business strategy and is focused on bringing the parcelLab platform to brands across global markets. In 2015 he co-founded parcelLab, the only truly global enterprise post-purchase software provider, enabling brands to increase top-line revenue, decrease operational costs, and optimize customer experience in an unprecedented way. The award-winning post-purchase platform empowers brands to transform mundane operational touchpoints into the most differentiated and personalized experience, creating unique moments of pure joy for their customers. Trusted by over 800 brands including IKEA, Chico’s, H&M, and Yeti, parcelLab actively manages the post-purchase experience across 175 countries and tracks shipping data from more than 350 carriers worldwide.
Host: Nicole Smythe, SAPNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
Host: Sin To, SAPSin has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain
- SAP Insights: Supply Chain
- Last Mile Logistics: Solutions Changing the World
- Sustainable Logistics on the Move
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International trade has become an increasingly visible topic, impacting global businesses and economies, but your supply chain could be in jeopardy without the proper global trade services in place. SAP’s Linda McKee and Trond Rovang joins us to discuss how these two functions go hand in hand, and how trade services can not only support top line growth, but drive global compliance.
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The power of real-time data can make or break a company’s supply chain, especially in the consumer industry. Alloy.ai’s Joel Beal joins us to discuss how AI is changing how brands forecast demand, fulfill customer expectations, and revolutionize how companies look at data.
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In this podcast episode, we talk with Uwe Haizmann from EAC Consulting about supply chain challenges and possible solutions regarding the upcoming China’s Golden Week. And we take a closer look on China and its strategy to build a more resilient supply chain as well as sustainability.
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Ever wonder what would happen if the United States decoupled from China? Supplyframe’s Richard Barnett joins us to discuss how the reliance on Chinese sourcing has major impacts on the global value chain, the downstream effects on the High-Tech industry, and how the chip shortage has brought the topic to center stage.
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Believe it or not, we’re already six months into The Future of Supply Chain and we thought of no better way to commemorate the occasion than reminiscing on the amazing conversations we have had with our guests so far, from 2023 predictions to International Women’s Day to funding the supply chains of tomorrow.
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In times of distress, vulnerability, and fragility, companies all over the world were unsure of the strength of their supply chain processes. However, those very vulnerabilities are becoming the driving force in digital transformation, as SAP’s Venkat Venkataramani discusses the power that process synchronization can have.
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New, enhanced technology continues to change the way we work, and Artificial Intelligence is already making its presence known in the Manufacturing space. On this week’s episode, SAP’s Sam Castro joins us to discuss how new technology can help companies reach their profitability, sustainability, and productivity goals all whilst empowering the shop floor workers of the future.
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In this podcast episode, we talk with Robert Tubis from AstraZeneca about supply chain challenges in the pharmaceutical industry. We take a closer look at a German law that will help eliminate supply chain bottlenecks, and how the use of advanced technologies can help to make products more sustainable and improve the supply chain to overcome these obstacles.
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3D isn’t just for the movies anymore – in fact, it’s becoming an embedded aspect to companies’ supply chain processes, allowing them a clear view into the very items they are producing. On this episode, SAP’s Lars Olson joins us to discuss enhanced visualization tools are connecting business data to the end user, the power of contextual data, and the bright future of 3D technology in supply chain.
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Join us on a captivating journey through data-driven product analytics with "Data Driven Discoveries: Inside Product Mining." Dive into Solely’s product mining software and learn how data can lead to breakthrough insights and help companies revolutionize their products and supply chains. Get excited to see how data can shape the future.
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You can’t buy love, but you can buy visibility – however, did you ever wonder how much poor visibility across your ecosystem could cost you? We’re here to tell you that it’ll affect more than just your profit and revenue. In this episode, SAP’s own Rene Vallejo joins us to discuss the true value of visibility across your logistics processes, how you can drive sustainability across these processes, and the bright future of business networks.
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Transportation visibility is crucial for businesses to stay competitive and meet the demands of today's fast-paced world. By leveraging real-time data and advanced analytics, companies like Shippeo are providing real-time insights into the movement of goods, enabling supply chain managers to make informed decisions and optimize their operations.
During our conversation, we'll uncover the benefits of real-time transportation visibility and how it empowers companies to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. We will talk about Shippeo's state-of-the-art platform, which harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to track shipments, predict delays, and proactively manage exceptions.
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Join us, as we explore the exciting world of supply chain investments in our podcast. Discover the latest trends, technologies, and strategies that are transforming the industry. Gain valuable insights from Brian Aoaeh, the industry experts, to make informed investment decisions in tomorrow's supply chains. Don't miss how REFASHIOND is unlocking the future of supply chain investment.
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As many can agree, supply chain can become quite the juggling act and, in recent years, the plates have only continued to pile. Between sustainability efforts, avoiding risk, increasing profitability, and sharper visibility, the list of responsibilities for those in supply chain grows daily. On this week’s episode, Accenture’s Michel Roger joins us to discuss how to manage this balancing act and better prepare for the future through risk-resilient and sustainable processes.
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Risk-Resiliency has become a topic that supply chain executives have not only built into their supply chains but become a driving factor for transformative change. CloudPath’s Tushar Bhalla joins us on the series to discuss resiliency’s increasing necessity in the field and how companies can predict risk before it happens.
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Guest: Tushar Bhalla, CloudPathsTushar has been guiding customers through their implementation challenges in Digital Supply Chain Strategy, Planning & Transformations for the last 15 years with expertise in SAP IBP, SAP APO, SAP Ariba and more. Led and delivered projects from planning to stabilization across multiple geographies and industries with more than 25 recognized brands in the Consumer Products, Food, Automotive, Semiconductor, Hi-Tech, Oil & Gas, Chemical sectors.
Tushar previously held roles with Accenture, Intrigo Systems and HPE.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- Is Your Supply Chain Ready For The Permacrisis?, Richard Howells
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Perma-crisis: an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events. This word has become all too familiar with top supply chain executives across the globe. With the recent Oxford Economics Report publications, leaders deep dive into the top five supply chain strategies to achieve resiliency and avoid risk, with SAP’s Lyndsey Spurgin joining us on the series to discuss these very findings.
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Guest: Lyndsey Spurgin, SAPLyndsey Spurgin is Vice President of Corporate Marketing for the Supply Chain team. As General Manager of Integrated Demand Programs, her focus is on digital demand generation working with the regions and marketing channels to take unknown contacts and inspire them with digital content and events to turn into opportunities.
With over 20 years’ experience in digital marketing, Lyndsey also has a passion for Diversity and Inclusion and founded and co-leads the Business Women’s Network in the UK.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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Learn more about the Oxford Economics Research Report & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- Oxford Economics Report: Achieve Supply Chain Resilience and Avoid Risk
- 5 Supply Chain Strategies To Avoid Risk And Enable Sustainability, Richard Howells
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‘Like mother, like daughter’ rings true in this special episode as we celebrate Mother’s Day the best way we know how: a joint mother-daughter episode. Eileen Smythe, Vice President of Supply Chain for Arkema, joins the series for a multigenerational conversation with daughter & co-host, Nicole Smythe, to candidly discuss making her mark in the supply chain space, motherhood & career advancement’s special pairing & the bright future of women in supply chain.
Tune in for insights into the ever-changing world of supply chain from two generations of supply chain professionals.
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Guest: Eileen Smythe, ArkemaEileen Smythe is the V.P. of Supply Chain for Arkema for the Americas region overseeing logistics
procurement, supply chain activities including optimization and digitalization, talent acquisition and
career development for Arkema’s supply chain professionals as well as customs compliance.
Eileen’s entire professional career has been with Arkema and its legacy companies. Since joining Arkema in 1987, Eileen has taken on various leadership roles in multiple business units including marketing, supply chain and iTeam and has led multiple initiatives specific to M&A, safety and crisis management. Eileen holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Saint Joseph University, is a certified project manager and completed the inaugural Arkema Leadership Development Program in collaboration with Cornell University in 2015.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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- SAP Supply Chain Management
- International Women’s Day: How Can Digitalization Enable Gender Equality? By Sin To
- Mother’s Day Supply Chain: How Sustainable Is Your Breakfast In Bed? By Öykü Ilgar
- The Future of Supply Chain: How Innovation & Technology are Opening Doors for Women in Supply Chain with Mindy Davis & Paige Cox
- Let’s Talk Supply Chain: 321: Women in Supply Chain, Darcy MacClaren, SAP
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Drones are no longer a futuristic device only seen in sci-fi movies, but, instead, are becoming integral pieces to innovative supply chain transformations, from production to delivery. In this episode, we sit down with Bath University’s Mike Lewis PhD, Professor of Operations & Supply, to discuss the importance of innovation in business use cases, how enhanced technologies are enabling organizations to negate disruptions, and the future of drones in the supply chain space.
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Guest: Michael Lewis, PhD, Bath UniversityMichael joined Bath as a Professor in 2004. His research, teaching and advisory portfolio covers a wide range of practice-centered operations and supply management challenges; from fast fashion retail to senior care, to drones in warehouse, to retrofitting buildings.
He is the author of more than 50 journal articles and several books, including a widely adopted and translated textbook (with Nigel Slack) on Operations Strategy. His most recent work (A Better Way to Pilot Emerging Technologies, with Torbjørn Netland and Omid Maghazei of ETH Zurich) has recently been published in MIT Sloan Management Review.
You can follow him on Twitter @OpsProf
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain Management: Logistics
- A Better Way to Pilot Emerging Technologies, MIT Sloan Management Review
- Emerging Technologies and The Use Case: A Multi-Year Study of Drone Adoption, Omid Maghazei, Michael A. Lewis, Torbjørn H. Netland
- Operations Strategy, 6th Edition, Pearson, Nigel Slack Warwick Business School, Warwick University, Mike Lewis Bath University
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Logistics plays a vital role in driving resiliency and sustainability in supply chains. By optimizing transportation efficiency, providing supply chain visibility, adopting sustainable packaging and waste management practices as well as fostering collaboration and partnerships, managing reverse logistics, and leveraging innovation and technology, logistics can contribute to building more resilient and sustainable supply chains. In this podcast episode we will talk about how these practices will help companies to mitigate risks, reduce transportation-related emissions, optimize inventory management, minimize waste, promote circular economy principles, and enhance operational efficiency.
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Guest: Till DengelMr. Dengel is globally responsible for the strategy, the thought leadership and the go-to- market of SAP’s Digital Logistics solution portfolio. In this field he is a tenured speaker with a broad perspective on the market and latest trends.
Prior to this assignment he has served in a number of senior management positions e.g. as Chief Strategy & Business development officer for SAP’s Data Intelligence business unit, customer officer for the CIO & CPO and as a global Business Unit lead for the Travel & Transportation Industry. He started his SAP career in 2000 as a senior consultant in Supply Chain Management.
Before joining SAP, Mr. Dengel worked as a team leader for DHL.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an Executive Master’s Degree in Information Management.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Sin ToSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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Technology will play a crucial role in the future of supply chain. In recent years, new technologies such as AI, the Internet of Things, blockchain, and robotics have emerged that can help to make the supply chain more efficient, transparent, agile and sustainable to meet future challenges. And companies that invest in technology will have a competitive advantage because they can respond more quickly and flexibly to changes in the supply chain.
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Guest: Dominik MetzgerDominik Metzger is Head of the SAP Digital Supply Chain – Plan to Fulfill product engineering unit and is responsible for running a global development Line of Business (LoB). This organization provides innovative Digital Supply Chain solutions, including design, product management, engineering and customer co-innovations for all products within the LoB including the product portfolio of Planning, Manufacturing and Delivery & Logistics.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Sin ToSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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Sustainability equals Profitability – this statement has rung true as Manufacturing factories and sites shift their focus into a new way of working and producing. SAP’s own, Mike Lackey, Global Vice President of Solution Management, Digital Manufacturing, joins us to dive into attracting the new generation of shop floor workers with advanced innovation, how sustainability is at the forefront of production, and what it takes to transform into a smart factory.
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Guest: Mike Lackey, SAPMike Lackey joined SAP in 2008 through the acquisition of Visiprise and is the Global Head of Solution Management, Digital Manufacturing. With previous roles at Visiprise, NetVendor and Teradyne Manufacturing Software Group, Mr. Lackey has a unique set of knowledge that covers both manufacturing software and design collaboration along with over 30 years of experience in the manufacturing sector. Early in his career, he started as a manufacturing engineer with DCA/Attachmate, which provided him with invaluable first-hand knowledge and understanding of how SAP customers can use SAP’s Digital Manufacturing Solution Portfolio to improve their global operations.
Mr. Lackey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MA in Business Administration from Mercer University with dual concentrations in International Business and Marketing.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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Learn more about Smart Manufacturing, how to evolve into a Factory of the Future, and how SAP can help you run best.
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: Manufacturing
- Design & Manufacture Report: Sustainability – from a product’s conception to its recycling – is baked into SAP’s enterprise software application solutions
- Smart Press Shop: Digitalizing Core Manufacturing for Smart, Automated Operations
- Energy Crisis: Are Industrial Manufacturers Sustainable Enough To Tackle It? By Andreas Queck, SAP
- Digital Twin Technology Is Changing How Infrastructure Is Designed, Built And Operated by Judith Magyar, SAP
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Product Development is typically the whole process of bringing a product from concept or idea through to market release and beyond. So product designers and engineers need to understand how various components and subsystems work together in a product to ensure that it functions properly and meets the desired specifications. This requires knowledge of not only the individual parts but also how they interact with each other and with the environment in which the product will be used
In this episode, Richard Howells and Sin To discuss with Arend Weil and Gareth Webb what is means to design a product what customers want. And how a partnership can leverage more advantages and benefits to the customer.
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Guest: Gareth WebbGareth Webb has more than 20 years’ experience in new product development process and PLM technology. Having worked across the industry as a customer for PLM solutions in the Formula 1 world, as Services leader for PLM at a global solution integrator and now with SAP supporting its strategy in the area of PLM technology integration, he is well positioned to provide insight into the future of process level integration aimed at reducing time to market, driving efficiency and supporting more sustainable product design. At SAP Gareth is responsible for the Foreign PLM integration strategy, working closely with the SAP Teamcenter by Siemens solution portfolio, having direct responsibility for the SAP private cloud solutions.
Guest: Arend WeilArend Weil leads the portfolio and product engineering for SAP’s strategic partnership with SIEMENS Digital Industries. He does closely collaborate with SAP’s customers, ecosystem and SIEMENS to enable a true digital thread and drive the joint mission to success. In his previous role as SAP Portfolio Lead, he was responsible for SAP’s on-premise and private cloud service portfolio. He did drive the investments and the launch of related service offerings and innovations, such as SAP Model Company, SAP Value Assurance and SAP Advanced Deployment. He initially joined SAP in 2004 and has held a succession of regional and global roles in solution management, pre-sales and business development. Prior to SAP, he was a pre-sales manager at ORACLE. He began his career as an ERP consultant and project manager.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Sin ToSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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- SAP Digital Supply Chain: www.sap.com/scm
- Gareth’s Blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2022/11/30/sap-and-siemens-the-journey-so-far-and-how-it-will-increase-customer-value/
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A new Supply Chain Sourcing Obligations Act (known as LkSG) has been in force in Germany since January 1, 2023. In December 2022, EU countries agreed on a Europe-wide law on the supply chain. The new EU law would require companies to carefully manage social and environmental impacts throughout their supply Chain.
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Guest: Annette EhrnspergerAnnette Ehrnsperger joined SAP in 2001 and currently holds the role of Legal Dept. Sen. Manager in SAP’s Legal Organization. Responsible for leading a team of lawyers, negotiating and creating contracts with SAP’s customers and partners. In close collaboration with other areas such as GCF she takes care of regional legal harmonization tasks as well as contract and clause standardization topics. She is also a certified mediator and supports SAP’s Global Ombuds Office.
Guest: Stephanie RaabeStephanie Raabe is SAP’s Human Rights Officer and responsible for the company’s overall human rights agenda including monitoring compliance with the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. Specializing in sustainability for almost 20 years, she has driven many important sustainability initiatives at SAP like human rights due diligence, integrated reporting, sustainable finance and environmental management. Stephanie is also a member of UN Global Compact Germany Steering Committee.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Sin ToSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
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- Sin’s blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2022/11/03/the-german-supply-chain-due-diligence-act/
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Happy International Women’s Day – as we celebrate women’s accomplishments, advancements, and progression in the workplace, we kicked Richard out for a girls-only episode! Our own, Mindy Davis, Vice President of Global Marketing for SAP Digital Supply Chain, and Paige Cox, Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer and Head of SAP Business Network, joins SAP’s Sin To and Nicole Smythe to discuss supply chain’s ever-evolving digital transformation, what’s in store for the future generations of women in supply chain, and the ‘magic’ that women bring to the field everyday.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Mindy Davis, SAPMindy Davis is Vice President of Global Marketing for SAP Digital Supply Chain. Mindy’s global marketing organization owns the marketing strategy of SAP’s supply chain solution portfolio, which encompasses cloud software for R&D/engineering, supply chain planning, manufacturing, logistics, and service & asset management. These solutions enable enterprises to become more intelligent and sustainable by developing new business models to avoid being disrupted, gaining efficiencies to fund innovation, and transforming mission-critical systems without business risk.
Mindy joined SAP in 2004, after establishing herself as a leader in product marketing in the software industry at both Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft. In her tenure at SAP, Mindy has held various roles in marketing, partner alliances, merchandising, and business development. Mindy is passionate about building world class teams to successfully launch exceptional products, and is a strategic thought leader and subject matter expert, possessing a depth and breadth of marketing and business knowledge to provide sound, innovative strategic leadership and initiatives while ensuring the preservation of and link between product, industry, field and marketing is maintained.
Mindy earned her B.S. in Marketing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and later an MBA in Marketing from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Mindy was recently featured on the front cover of CIO Look Magazine in 2022 as one of the 10 most influential leaders in supply Chain. She hosted a very well received LinkedIn Live series for Women in Supply Chain and speaks regularly at events around the world, including SAP’s flagship customer event SAP Sapphire.
Guest: Paige Cox, SAPPaige Wei-Cox is Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer and Head of SAP Business Network, the world’s largest and most comprehensive business network, connecting people, processes, and systems to orchestrate inter-company collaborations spanning procurement, supply chain, logistics, asset intelligence, and working capital.
As chief product and technology officer, Paige is directly responsible for setting the strategic portfolio direction and overseeing the global product engineering centers located in Germany, the U.S., China, India, Peru, and Hungary. In addition, she leads the overall SAP Business Network program reporting to the executive board, aligning all lines of business in SAP across product, industry, support, services, sales, solution marketing, pricing, and partner ecosystem. Paige also serves on the executive board of Taulia, a leading supply chain financing network acquired by SAP in 2022.
Within her 20+ SAP career, she held various executive positions in the U.S. and Germany, driving product development and technology innovation in supply chain including manufacturing, Industry 4.0, PLM, logistics, and asset management. Paige has deep expertise in building global organizations and reinventing portfolios toward strategic growth. She is passionate about working with customers, partners, analysts, and thought leaders to drive supply chain transparency, resiliency, and sustainability. In April 2022, Supply Chain Digital listed Paige among the its annual ranking of the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain, checking in at an impressive No. 22! Also in 2022, Supply & Demand Chain Executive included Paige on its prestigious annual list of “Pros to Know” in the industry and among the recipients of its “Women in Supply Chain” award. Paige holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and an executive MBA from Mannheim University. Born in Shanghai, she grew up in New York City and resides currently in Heidelberg, Germany, with her family.
Host: Sin ToSin To has more than fifteen years of experience in the digital media industry and technology sector in the field of marketing, business development, thought leadership, and as a contributing editor. In 2019, she joined SAP’s digital supply chain team to drive thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s supply chain solutions, emerging market trends, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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Learn more about our two incredible guests, women in leadership, and how SAP can help you run best
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- SAP Business Network
- Top 100 Women in Supply Chain 2022 – Paige Cox, Supply Chain Digital
- 10 Most Influential Leaders in Supply Chain, 2022 – Mindy Davis, CIO Look
- International Women’s Day Virtual Event, SAP Global Diversity & Inclusion and Business Women’s Network
- Smart Press Shop: Enabling Agility and Speed with 100% Traceable Production, SAP Customer Stories
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- Mindy Davis: LinkedIn, Twitter
- Paige Cox: LinkedIn, Twitter
- Nicole Smythe: LinkedIn & Twitter
- Sin To: LinkedIn, Twitter
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn & Twitter
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As technologies continue to emerge, transform, and pave a new way of working, companies are being put to the test on how to keep up. Justin Goldston, PhD, Professor of Project and Supply Chain Management at Penn State University, joins SAP’s Richard Howells and Nicole Smythe to discuss the evolution of expert systems, academia and corporate’s growing relationship, and what a virtual future of work looks like.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest: Dr. Justin GoldstonDr. Justin Goldston is a Professor of Project and Supply Chain Management at Penn State University. Goldston has also led and assisted in the development of Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, and Business Analytics programs and courses at Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, the University of Southern California. Goldston serves on Advisory Boards at various higher education institutions, at the International Supply Chain Education Alliance, as well as on the Sensing subcommittee at the Association of Supply Chain Management. Goldston is also the author of multiple peer-reviewed journal articles on supply chain management, sustainability, innovative technologies, and is a five-time TEDx speaker where he discussed emerging technologies such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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Learn more about the Metaverse, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain and how SAP can help you run best****
- Artificial Intelligence, SAP
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, SAP Community
- How Blockchain Technology Will Positively Change Our Everyday Lives, Justin Goldston, PhD
- Why The Metaverse Is A Gutenberg Moment For Business, Susan Galer
- The Take: The Metaverse Could Alter the Game of Business, SAP
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- Justin Goldston, PhD: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Official Website
- Richard Howells: LinkedIn & Twitter
- Nicole Smythe: LinkedIn & Twitter
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn & Twitter
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A chicken & a turkey walk into the Shark Tank, and what do they leave with? An offer from one of the top businessmen in the world. This dream became a reality for Brian Halasinski and Kirk Hyust, inventors and co-founders of the Turbo Trusser. In this episode, Richard Howells, Nicole Smythe, and the pair dive into the localized strategies of a small business, the fluctuating supply chain demand from television exposure, and the importance of building close relationships.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest 1: Brian HalasinskiBrian Halasinski is a highly experienced professional in the pharmaceutical industry, with 18 years of experience under his belt. He holds a four-year business degree from Kent State University and a Master of Business Administration from Malone University, showcasing his dedication to education and professional growth. Brian’s entrepreneurial spirit and drive have made him a valuable asset in his field, and his commitment to success is evident.
Outside of work, Brian is a devoted family man. He has been married to his wife Brie for 14 years and they have two sons, Nathan and Hudson, ages 20 and 11. He loves spending time with friends and family, and enjoys hobbies such as inventing, barbecuing and fishing. With his strong work ethic and love for life, Brian continues to be a positive force in his community.
Guest 2: Kirk HyustKirk Hyust is a multifaceted individual with a diverse range of skills and interests. With 20 years of experience in construction, Kirk is a seasoned professional in home remodeling and has a keen eye for detail. But that’s not all, he is also a former chef who trained at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, showcasing his passion for creativity and the arts.
In addition to his construction and culinary expertise, Kirk is also an inventor with a passion for innovation. He holds 10 patents on various inventions, demonstrating his innovative spirit and problem-solving abilities.
When Kirk isn’t busy working, he loves to travel and explore new cultures. He speaks fluent Portuguese, adding to his already impressive list of accomplishments. With his diverse skill set and love for life, Kirk is a true Renaissance man and a valuable asset in any project or endeavor.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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Learn more about Risk Resilient Supply Chains & how SAP can help you run best
- SAP Digital Supply Chain
- What Does It Take to Build a Risk-Resilient Supply Chain?, Mindy Davis
- Is Your Supply Chain Resilient Enough To Go Viral On TikTok?, Nicole Smythe
- Sustainability In Midsize Companies: Finding The Way To Competitive Supply Chains, Richard Howells
- Continuous Innovation: Where Midsize Businesses Truly Grow More Competitive, Richard Howells
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- Turbo Trusser: Official Website, Amazon, & Shark Tank Episode
- Socials: Instagram, Twitter, & LinkedIn
- Kirk Hyust: LinkedIn
- Brian Halasinski: LinkedIn
- Richard Howells: LinkedIn & Twitter
- Nicole Smythe: LinkedIn & Twitter
- SAP Digital Supply Chain: LinkedIn & Twitter
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Servitization: a tongue-twister of a word that is on track to becoming one of the hottest topics in our economy and corporate world. In this episode, Richard Howells and Nicole Smythe discuss with SAP’s Patrick Crampton-Thomas, Vice President of Digital Asset Management at SAP, what is the future of the as-a-service model? And how can companies transform their products into a differentiating factor in the market?
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest Speaker: Patrick Crampton ThomasPatrick Crampton-Thomas is Vice President of Digital Asset Management in SAP’s Solution Management Organization. Responsible for the solution strategy and Go-to-Market of SAP’s Intelligent Asset Management and Service Management cloud and S/4 HANA suite, working closely with SAP customers in service and maintenance-intensive industries.
Patrick joined SAP in 2005, since then he has held a number of regional and global roles responsible for Supply Chain, R&D, Procurement, and Asset Management including Solution Management, Business Development, and Sales.
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
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*Learn more about utilizing services within your business & how SAP can help you run best*
SAP Field Service Management: https://www.sap.com/products/scm/field-service-management.html
Richard’s Blogs:
- It’s Time to Get Serious About Servitization
- At Your Service: How To Wow Your Customers By Creating New Revenue Streams
Other related blogs and articles:
- What is Field Service Management?
- Transforming Field Services for Customer Satisfaction
- What Is Servitization And How Can It Help Your Business?
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Patrick Crampton-Thomas:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-crampton-thomas-582422/
Richard Howells:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/richardjhowells
Twitter: www.twitter.com/howellsrichard
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nicolesmythe-mba
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2023 is officially underway and we talk with David Vallejo, supply chain expert, on the upcoming year’s predictions, diving into industry trends, new technology, and the power of resiliency.
The New Year is already well underway and it’s time to focus on the future. Richard Howells and Nicole Smythe discuss with SAP’s David Vallejo, Vice President and Global Head for Go-To-Market for Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, and Logistics, the top 2023 supply chain predictions, diving into proactive risk resiliency, consumers’ focus on sustainability, predictive analytics, and the unmatched power of real-time data.
Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.
Guest Speaker: David VallejoDavid Vallejo is globally responsible for solution management and go-to-market for SAP’s Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, and Logistics solutions. In his role, David is responsible for driving SAP’s product portfolio to the next level of innovation by setting strategy and direction for the future roadmap in close collaboration with SAP’s customers, Industry, and Product & Innovation teams.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/vallejodavid
Host: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the supply chain management and manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardjhowells/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/howellsrichard
Host: Nicole SmytheNicole Smythe has been with SAP for over 3 years now but has been working in the supply chain space for over 6 years through various field experiences. With a Master’s degree specializing in Global Supply Chain Management, Nicole hopes to bring a fresh, new perspective to the space with her active marketing contributions, blogs, and now podcasts, focusing on topics like social media, sustainability, and market trends.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nicolesmythe-mba
Twitter: www.twitter.com/NSmythe_DSC
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Learn more about 2023 Supply Chain Predictions & how SAP can help you run best
SAP Digital Supply Chain: www.sap.com/scm
Richard’s Blog: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2022/12/15/2023-supply-chain-predictions-resiliency-sustainability-and-visibility-set-new-expectations
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