Supply Chain Now

“Companies are starting to move and take action and rethink themselves post COVID-19.” – Mike Lackey, Global VP of Solution Management at SAP   Even though many states and cities are facing a surge in new COVID-19 cases, companies have learned from the challenges of the spring and summer and are ready. Whether they are CPG manufacturers, in food production, or provide technology, they are going into the second wave armed and ready. They have reconsidered how they do things – including keeping their employees and customers safe – and they are ready to take action. Rick McDonald is the Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations for The Clorox Company and Mike Lackey is SAP’s Global VP of Solution Management. They have each had a different experience from the pandemic, Rick as he tries to keep both consumer and commercial production up to meet demand and Mike as he has worked with different manufacturers to overcome their production challenges. In this conversation, Rick and Mike tell Supply Chain Now Co-host Ben Harris and Scott Luton: · The importance of having the right mindset when approaching challenges and change, regardless of whether the solution ultimately comes from technology, processes, or…

“We’ve opened up this opportunity to solve the problem of congestion in cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, Savannah – almost everywhere these days – at the same time monetizing capacity that has sat there latent up to that point.” – Lance Theobald, CEO and Co-Founder of SecurSpace   When we think of logistics, most of us naturally think of trucks and trailers out on the open road getting freight from point A to point B. But at some point, carriers need a place to park and store their equipment. Finding and securing access to sufficient yard space real estate can be a growth-gating challenge, especially since the most congested, highest delivery volume areas also tend to be the most expensive. Drawing inspiration from the Airbnb model, Lance Theobald, CEO and Co-Founder of SecurSpace, finds and leases space from different types of property owners and makes it available to carriers who need a predictable cost to park and store their equipment even though they don’t necessarily have predictable storage needs. In this conversation, Lance tells Supply Chain Now Co-hosts Greg White and Scott Luton: · How they discover and monitor available yard space, and how they make it possible for operators…

In this episode of the Supply Chain Buzz on Supply Chain Now, Scott and Greg discuss the top news in supply chain this week and welcome special guest, Bob Bova, with AccuSpeechMobile.

“I feel like I’ve been baptized in the First Church of Freight by Brother Nurfad today.” -Scott Luton, Host, Supply Chain Now   In this episode of the Supply Chain Buzz on Supply Chain Now, Scott and Greg welcome Nurfad Nadarevic to the show as they discuss the top news in supply chain for the week.

” In 2016, I was between startups. We all wanted to open a new venture in Bogota but were not sure what it would be. After physically seeing a lot of empty trucks in the streets and after a first-hand experience trying to buy a grill to cook some burgers over the weekend and the store not offering same-day delivery the idea just hit us. There could be something in connecting independent truck drivers with retailers through technology.” -Brian York   Brian is a serial entrepreneur, with a VC, accounting and technology background as well an early dream to become a professional football / soccer player for Barcelona’s first team. He did audit and taxation in Los Angeles before becoming the CFO of a very famous fund (Lowercase capital) lead by a Shark Tank shark Chris Sacca. Working with Chris and his team allowed him to get a very intimate exposure to amazing start up companies like Uber and Instagram before they became unicorns. Brian openly shares his experience, mistakes and key ingredients for a successful start up company as well as his vision for the future of Supply Chain, technology and Latin America.

“Be true to who you are as a supply chain and be true to who you are in terms of how the supply chain enables your business.” – Mike Griswold is the Vice President of Research at Gartner   Everyone learned a lot from 2020. Companies and individuals have now made the best decisions they can about how to manage themselves in 2021, despite the fact that uncertainty remains. Mike Griswold is the Vice President of Research at Gartner, specializing in retail with a particular focus on forecasting and replenishment. He is responsible for Gartner’s annual Top 25 Supply Chain ranking and joins Supply Chain Now on a monthly basis to discuss the latest in retail supply chains from an analyst’s perspective. Since his last visit, he has been put in charge of a team of five strategy and enablement analysts who focus on everything from talent organization design to environmental, social, and governance-related trends. This has given him good reason to think about coaching and leadership styles as well as to make a few new year’s resolutions. In this conversation, Mike tells Supply Chain Now Co-hosts Greg White and Scott Luton: · The importance of understanding all of the…

In this week’s episode of the Supply Chain Buzz, Scott and Greg welcome the Founder & CEO of Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, to the podcast, to discuss supply chain talent and the top news of the week in supply chain.

“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…

“Nobody is born an optimist or a pessimist. It’s actually a choice that all of us make on a daily basis. Some days it’s easier to choose optimism and some days it’s not, but we have a choice as to how we react to our environment.” – Laura Cyrus, Director of Corporate Engagement at Truckers Against Trafficking   Many of us have a career path that is long and winding. How we see each of those twists and turns – as a setback or an opportunity – often determines how successful we will be at the end of the journey. Laura Cyrus followed a particularly windy path to get to Truckers Against Trafficking, a 501(c)3 organization that exists to educate, equip, empower, and mobilize members of the trucking, bus and energy industries to combat human trafficking. She picked up web skills and voiceover experience in different positions that she now leverages for a whole new reason. In this conversation, Laura tells Supply Chain Now Host Enrique Alvarez: · How new graduates or job seekers ‘take inventory’ of seemingly random professional experiences into a capability profile that will help them find their next role · Why drivers and other members of…