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This Week In Supply Chain Now: November 15th – November 19th
Stay up to date on all the latest conversations, interviews, and episodes we released this week here at Supply Chain Now!
We started this week off with a very special episode of Supply Chain Now. Host Scott Luton and co-host Jenny Froome interview Ramatu Abdulkadir the Head of Pharmacy Department for the National Ear Care Centre at Kaduna. One of the main topics of discussion are the huge supply chain challenges that Africa is facing right now.
For Monday’s This Week In Business History episode, Scott Luton gives insight on 3 different figures and how their contributions were critical and aligned with humanity & our march forward.
On Tuesday, we released a TEK TOK classic episode with host Karin Bursa and guest host from Supply Chain Now Scott Luton. For this episode, they get to chat with one of the top 50 retail technology influencers, Paula Rosenblum. Paula is also the Founder and Managing Partner for RSR Research.
On Wednesday we released an episode of Supply Chain Now with Scott Luton. He had a great conversation with author and the founder of The Memo, LLC, Minda Harts. These two talk about the importance of asking for what you need and investing in yourself and the story behind her forthcoming book, Right Within: How to Heal From Racial Trauma in the Workplace.
On Thursday, we released another episode of Supply Chain Now with host Scott Luton. This episode features Darcy MacClaren Senior Vice President of Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing North America, SAP. And Jenny Patzlaff the Supply Chain Practice Director for the University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium. One main point that these figures tackle is the difference between mentorship and sponsorship.
On Friday, we released the Supply Chain Buzz with Scott Luton and special guest host Kevin L. Jackson. This show also features Richard Hummel the Manager of Threat Intelligence at NETSCOUT. They all will be discussing new terms like “honeypot,” getting actionable strategies for safeguarding your network. And you will also find out how you can get timely updates on the threat landscape from NETSCOUT.
And to wrap up the week, we released an episode of Veteran Voices with Host Scott Luton and co-host Monica Fullerton with Spouse-ly. During this episode, Scott and Monica talk about the journey that led to Forbes Next 1000 status and the amazing sellers making Spouse-ly an enormous success.
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