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This Week In Supply Chain Now: April 12th – 16th
Stay in the loop with Supply Chain Now! We’ve got all the latest episodes, interviews, conversations, and livestreams from this week right here.
On Monday, we released 2 new episodes!
On Supply Chain Now, hosts Scott Luton and Ben Harris welcomed two bold and innovative CEOs to the podcast: Cloe Guidry-Reed with Hire Ground and Pierre Laguerre with Fleeting.
On This Week in Business History, guest host Kelly Barner remembers key innovations, inventions, and firsts that took place between April 12th and the 16th, including Metallica’s legal stand against Napster, the relative advantages and costs of the Pony Express and postage stamps, and two ‘Titanic’ operations – the RMS Titanic and McDonald’s Inc.
On Tuesday, we released 2 new episodes.
On this episode of Logistics with Purpose, powered in partnership with Vector Global Logistics, our hosts Scott Luton, Enrique Alvarez, and Kevin Brown sat down with Good360 CEO Matt Connelly to learn more about delivering goods – and good – in the era of disruption, globalization, and digitization.
On TECHquila Sunrise, host Greg White sat down with Peter Stangeland, Chief Commercial Officer of DB Schenker, to talk about the exciting progress his teams have made in clearing the path to sustainability through innovative forms of transportation and his advice for companies that want to show real leadership on supply chain sustainability.
On Wednesday, Mondelez International Chief Supply Chain Officer Sandra MacQuillan joined Scott and Greg on the Supply Chain Now podcast for a real master class on what it means to be a supply chain leader.
On Thursday, we released a replay of The Supply Chain Buzz, a Supply Chain Now livestream powered by OpenText that focuses on the top news in supply chain this week. In this special “Manufacturing Monday” episode, we welcomed Billy Taylor with LinkedXL
On Friday, Mike Griswold with Gartner joined Scott and Greg on the podcast to discuss the top three priorities of new supply chain leadership.
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