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This Week In Supply Chain Now: August 9th – 13th
Stay up to date on all the latest conversations, interviews, and episodes we released this week here at Supply Chain Now.
On Monday’s episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott Luton leads the conversation on reverse logistics and welcomes Tony Sciarrotta with RLA and Rich Bulger with Cisco to the show.
On This Week in Business History, Scott tells the rags to riches story of Airbnb and more.
On Tuesday we released a classic episode of TEKTOK in which Karin Bursa shares the 3 Things C-Level Execs Need to Know About Sales & Operations Planning and Inventory Optimization.
On Tuesday we also released a new episode of TECHquila Sunrise. Greg White welcomed Kubera Venture Capital’s Balaji Gopinath and special guest Robin Gregg, CEO of RoadSync.
On Wednesday, Scott had the opportunity to talk with some of the University of Georgia’s up-and-coming Supply Chain Rising stars, Jessie Bailey and Elena Griggs.
We also released another episode of the Supply Chain Buzz featuring Mike Griswold, and presented by OMNIA Partners. Scott, Greg, and Mike discussed everything from rising COVID-19 infections impact of the supply chain to the United Nations response to climate change.
On Friday, host Page Siplon sat down with Griff Lynch with the Georgia Ports Authority for a new episode of the Freight Insider series.
On Friday, we published another episode of Veteran Voices. Hosts Scott Luton and Kim Winter had the opportunity to hear the amazing and inspiring story of veteran, Mark Ormrod.
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