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Stay up to date on all the latest conversations, interviews, and episodes we released this week here at Supply Chain Now! We started this week off with a very special episode of Supply Chain Now. Host Scott Luton and special co-host Allison Giddens get to converse with a pair of very powerful women in the manufacturing business. Scott and Allison talk with Stacey Schroeder the President and Founder of EVelop; and the Value Improvement Project Engineer at Polaris Industries, Coral Huffmaster. Together they discuss the Key Takeaways from the 2021 Women in Manufacturing Summit. For Monday’s This Week In Business History episode, Kelly Barner explores a car invention that was created over 120 years ago. On Tuesday, we released a new episode of Supply Chain Now with Scott Luton and Greg White. This episode features two of Manhattan Associates’ reputable representatives. Rob Schaefer the Vice President of Transportation Management Sales and Gregg Lanyard the Director of Product Management for Manhattan Associates. During this episode, they all offer their perspectives on the supply chain outlook for 2022. On Wednesday we released an episode of Logistics With Purpose with host Enrique Alvarez and Kristi Porter. This episode features Michael Broidy the Senior…

Manufacturers across chemicals, life sciences, and consumer packaged goods lose more than $120 billion annually through inventory write-offs, but those losses are often the end result of material risks that began months earlier. Forecast changes, supplier delays, quality events, aging inventory, and shifting production priorities can quietly compound into shortages, excess inventory, scrap, and lost margin when they aren’t identified and addressed early enough. The State of Material Risk & Recovery explores how leading batch manufacturers are moving beyond traditional inventory management to identify risk earlier, coordinate decisions across functions, and protect the value of materials throughout their lifecycle. Discover the Prevent, Mitigate, Recover framework and how AI-enabled decision intelligence can help teams connect signals across systems, understand root causes, prioritize the highest-impact actions, and intervene before operational risk becomes financial loss. Download the report to learn how to: Spot material risk earlier, before it turns into excess and obsolete inventory, production disruption, or a write-off. Close the gap between ERP visibility and actionable decisions by understanding not just what happened, but why and what to do next. Apply the Prevent, Mitigate, Recover framework to improve material readiness and unlock more recovery opportunities. Use AI to turn scattered signals into…