This may be the Buzz for September 12, but Scott, Greg and guest Sebastian Bleser, VP of Supply Chain Excellence at Seven Senders, already have their eyes on Peak Season 2022. Join the trio as they review top headlines on how the logistics world and retailers can prepare for peak. Plus, hear from Scott and Greg on the impending rail strike…
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How A Buy-Sell Solution Can Operationalize Supply Chain Resilience To Create Value
The ability to rapidly respond to disruptive events in a sustainable manner is a critical capability for most enterprises. The key is to minimize the impact on cost and quality. How can supply chain leaders operationalize supply chain resilience to create value in the supply chain? The answer: They must have total visibility into inventory, order…
Taking a Thoughtful Approach to Relentless Improvement Featuring Tom Burke with ButcherBox
Although the most memorable shortage of 2020 was toilet paper, there was a span of time in the spring and early summer when the food supply chain was under strain as well. Concerned about lockdowns and being able to feed their families, people bought huge quantities of groceries and stocked up their homes…
TEKTOK Crossover: Ready to Turn Your CFO into a Supply Chain Cheerleader?
As the threat of an economic downturn looms, it’s time to discuss why NOW is the right time to turn your CFO into a Supply Chain Cheerleader. CFOs strongly believe that good supply chain performance is vital to achieving financial growth. However, most CFOs view supply chains as a tremendous cost of doing business and…
Key Elements to a Successful WMS Lifecycle
Every warehouse used for storage, manufacturing, distribution, and order fulfillment are central points in the supply chain that require continuous improvement and proper staffing to sustain and grow market share. Operations professionals need to constantly evaluate essential functions such as channels of communication…
Logistics with Purpose Classic: Putting Social Responsibility and Sustainability First: Bob Dalton with Sackcloth & Ashes
Sackcloth + Ashes produces 14,000 blankets a month using 75-100% recycled materials with a goal of donating 1 million blankets to homeless shelters by 2024. And to think, it all started with one inspirational coffee sleeve. In this classic Logistics with Purpose episode, produced in partnership with Vector Global Logistics…
Behind Every Package is a Patient featuring Jim Mullins
Operating a growing business can be a challenge – a wonderful challenge, but a challenge all the same. Growing pains are par for the course, but when growing through acquisition is core to the business’ strategy, managing transitions and integrations well is absolutely critical. Jim Mullins is the Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain…
Supply Chain Today & Tomorrow Featuring Mike Griswold with Gartner
Everyone wants to do good, but actually doing it takes a fair bit of supply chain coordination. In this episode, Mike Griswold of Gartner joins Scott and Greg to examine the supply side of charitable initiatives, including current challenges and success stories. Tune in as they discuss the importance of giving forward, how to do your due diligence before…
Supply Chain Now Celebrates Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2022 with April Coolidge
In celebration of National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2022, Scott shares a few thoughts on recent events and features a past conversation with the award-winning professional truck driver, April Coolidge.
Logistics with Purpose Crossover: Making a ‘Decent’ Living with THRIVE Farmers’ Michael Jones
Highly complex fragmented supply chains may create a competitive advantage for the companies that build and maintain them, but the same isn’t necessarily true for all the tiers of that chain – particularly at the raw material production level. Michael Jones is the Co-Founder and CEO of THRIVE Farmers, an innovative organization that is transforming the coffee industry…
Intent v. Effect of Uyghur Forced Labor Regulation
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which took effect on June 21, 2022, is aimed at stopping human rights abuses taking place in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. All goods coming from the region are assumed to be the result of forced labor unless the importer can prove otherwise – an uphill climb to be sure…
Supply Chain Now University: Edge Computing in Manufacturing
What’s going on at the edge? For manufacturing, quite a bit. Kevin L. Jackson has the scoop thanks to his recent conversation with Theresa Lanowitz of AT&T, where they reviewed the latest AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report, Securing the Edge—A Focus on Manufacturing. Join Kevin as he discusses leading edge use cases for…