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“It’s been proven that diverse businesses spread their profits back out to diverse communities. So working with them is a way for corporations to really help people in diverse communities.”

– Hannah Kain, President and CEO of ALOM

 

There are many different aspects of a supply chain that can be outsourced or executed through third parties, but few service providers can handle them all. ALOM seems to be one of the exceptions to this rule, providing everything from procurement and inventory management to ecommerce and reverse logistics.

Their President and CEO is Hannah Kain, who founded the company in Freemont California in 1997. Her journey began in Denmark, where she was exposed to international business from an early age, which is why – after she and her husband bought one-way tickets to the U.S. – she may have felt so at home in the entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley and how she ended up being featured in the book ‘Scrappy Women in Business’.

In this conversation, Hannah tells Supply Chain Now Co-hosts Greg White and Scott Luton:

· Why it is personally and professionally important to her to elevate diverse and women-owned businesses

· What she looks for above all else when she is added a member to the ALOM team

· How she sees connections between what is happening in manufacturing in the U.S. and geopolitical events around the globe

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