Supply Chain Now

“I believe ownership, trumps accountability. When people know what they own, they have a different sense of pride, a sense of engagement.” – Billy Taylor, CEO and President of LinkedXL   The Supply Chain Buzz is Supply Chain Now’s regular Monday livestream, held at 12n ET each week. This show focuses on some of the leading stories from global supply chain and global business, always with special guests – the most important of which is the live audience! In this special “Manufacturing Monday” issue of The Buzz, powered by OpenText, Supply Chain Now Co-hosts Greg White and Scott Luton are joined by Billy Taylor with LinkedXL. He has a very unique philosophy on successful business – it includes companies and teams “celebrating the red.” The red represents the problems that they did not previously know they had. Once they have been identified, they can be solved, and are therefore worth celebrating. In this episode, Billy, Greg, and Scott engage in real-time with a live audience to discuss: · The pace of manufacturing globally as reported in the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business, and what it means for consumers and supply chains · The growing discomfort many companies have sourcing from…

“You can be as technically brilliant as you can be, but if you can’t make it work with other people, then what’s the point?” – Sandra MacQuillan, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Mondelez International   As a corporate team gets larger, the internal status of their leader is elevated, but with that elevation comes a whole new set of challenges and demands. When there are thousands of people in an organization – like the 54,000 people that work for Mondelez International – it might be easy to think of them as machines. But as Mondelez International Chief Supply Chain Officer Sandra MacQuillan points out, they are people – just like the millions of people all over the world that snack regularly on brands like Oreo, Cadbury, Ritz, and Trident. Forgetting that would be the #1 mistake a leader could make. In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Sandra MacQuillan joins Co-hosts Greg White and Scott Luton for a real ‘master class’ on what it means to be a supply chain leader: · How a team is different from a group of people, and why individuals need to be willing to drive their own technical and professional development · Why achieving ‘neutral’…

“With the shutdown, the retail brick-and-mortar evaporated, while the e-commerce exploded. That created a lot of disruption, and we were able to provide a significant value to donors: to export their product, and then distribute it effectively to people that could do the most good with it.” -Matt Connelly, CEO, Good360   How do companies that pledge social responsibility actually put purpose into practice? Partnering with major corporations like UPS, the NFL, Amazon and Walmart, Good 360 answers that questions by facilitating the donation of excess product in supply chains to over 90,000 nonprofits. In this episode of Logistics with Purpose, powered in partnership with Vector Global Logistics, our hosts sat down with Good360 CEO Matt Connelly to learn more about delivering goods – and good – in the era of disruption, globalization, and digitization.

In this episode of Supply Chain Now, hosts Scott Luton and Ben Harris welcome Cloe Guidry-Reed, CEO of Hire Ground & Pierre Laguerre, CEO of Fleeting, to the show.

Scott Luton and Greg White welcome Scott Auslund onto Supply Chain Now Radio at eft’s Logistics CIO Forum, a Reuter’s Event in Austin, Texas.

Scott Luton and Greg White welcome Shash Anand onto Supply Chain Now Radio at eft’s Logistics CIO Forum, a Reuter’s Event in Austin, Texas.

Scott Luton and Greg White welcome Pal Narayanan onto Supply Chain Now Radio at eft’s Logistics CIO Forum, a Reuter’s Event in Austin, Texas.

In this episode of the Supply Chain Buzz, Scott Luton discusses the latest topics and top stories in supply chain, in 15 minutes or less!

“I’m reading the news every single day because in the world of Logistics, things change the blink of an eye.” John Haber, CEO of Spend Management Experts   In this conversation, Supply Chain Now Radio Co-hosts Scott Luton and Greg White welcome back John Haber, CEO of Spend Management Experts, for part 2 of the Transportation Trends series. In part 1 of the series, John talked about FedEx’s rates for 2020, and in this episode, he will do the same for UPS.   Shippers are conditioned to expect their parcel shipping rates to increase an average of 5% annually. What they may not see coming in 2020 is the fact that carriers are rolling out policy changes and establishing new fees that will drive up the total cost to ship without increasing regular rates more than the anticipated 5%.   In 2020, for example, UPS is making substantial changes to how heavy goods are priced. Prior to the changes taking effect, packages over 70 lbs. are charged an additional $24. Next year, that threshold will drop to 50 lbs., resulting in more packages being categorized as heavy goods.   Beyond pricing changes, each of the carriers is also making moves…