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This Week on Supply Chain Now- July 20th-24th

What a week! Five episodes, four livestreams, and so much to listen to and watch! Did you catch all the episodes? If not, listen here!

On Monday, we featured another great episode in This Week in Business History, where Scott looks back at some of the biggest historical events in business history for the week ahead. This week, he spoke about the business legacy of the Apollo missions.

 

 

 

Then on Tuesday, Chris Barnes proved that Supply Chain is in fact anything but boring with a cross-over episode of Supply Chain is Boring with Data & WMS Pioneer, special guest John Hill.

 

 

 

On Wednesday we published the Supply Chain Buzz, where Greg and Scott discussed the top supply chain news of the week, and were joined by special guest David Shillingford, Chairman of Resilience360.

 

 

On Thursday, we shared another great episode in the TECHquila Sunrise series with Greg White, where Greg shares the latest investments, acquisitions, innovations, and glorious implosions in Supply Chain Tech every week. This week he shared how venture capitalists choose which startups to invest in, the supply chain tech index, and much more.

 

 

And we wrapped up the week with Scott and Greg as they welcomed extraordinary leader Yone Dewberry, SVP & CSCO for Land O’Lakes, to the podcast.

 

Which was your favorite episode? Make sure you tune in next week for more great conversation, timely topics, and exceptional guests on Supply Chain Now!

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