Trends in Corporate Sustainability with John Davies of GreenBiz
In this podcast, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews John Davies, a Vice President and Senior Analyst for Greenbiz. The focus is on the changing nature of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in supply chain organizations. Here John shares his insights on assessment and risk, and the redefinition of value. Straight Talk With Supply […]
Robotics and the Autonomous Supply Chain with Jim Lawton of Rethink Robotics
As we think about digital manufacturing and Supply Chain 2030, we need to rethink the robot’s role in manufacturing based on new capabilities. While traditional robots were used to replace labor, the robots of the future are able to improve the agility of the supply chain through sensing and enabling new capabilities. In this session […]
Is Honeywell Really Going to Acquire JDA?
There are rumors swirling about a potential acquisition of JDA by Honeywell. In a recent LinkedIn blog post, Why I Believe Honeywell’s Proposed Acquisition of JDA Is a BAD Idea, Lora addresses those rumors, and what it could mean for the market. In this episode we delve into more granular details about what this could mean […]
Building an Analytics Organization with Mani Janakiram of Intel
With over 22 years of experience in supply chain analytics, Mani Janakiram, Senior Director of Supply Chain Intelligence and Analytics at Intel Corporation, reflects on how analytics has changed in the course of his career while sharing insights on how to build a data-driven organization. The hardest piece according to Mani is getting people to ask […]
Demand-Driven Replenishment: An Internet of Things Case Study with Chris Clowes of Costa Coffee
Chris Clowes, the International Operations Manager of Costa Coffee, will be a speaker at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 7-9. At the conference Chris will be speaking on the use of signals from the coffee machines in the stores to drive a demand-driven replenishment signal through the organization. In this podcast Chris […]
The 2016 Supply Chains to Admire – Methodology & Meaning
There are different ways to measure the performance of a supply chain with differing degrees of insight and validity. In this podcast, Supply Chain Insights Founder Lora Cecere talks with marketing Director Alison Crawford about the new methodology used to evaluate supply chain performance in 2016, and what those results means for the market. This […]
Do You Measure Up? How to Succeed in Supply Chain Benchmarking.
Benchmarking performance sounds easy, but can be quite difficult if you don’t know how to start or what to benchmark. In this podcast, Alison Crawford, Director of Marketing,talks with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, about her latest LinkedIn blog post “ Do You Measure Up?” and describes the value of peer […]
Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Pharmaceutical Companies – 2016
Globalization. Serialization. Clinical trials. Cold chain operations. Custom drug protocols. Compliance. Risk Management. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). First pass yield. Over the last decade the number and variety of supply chain initiatives exploded for the pharmaceutical leader. As a result, the supply chain group, and the business imperatives, grew in importance. In this podcast Alison […]
Accelerating Your Supply Chain Strategy with CorpU and Supply Chain Insights: A New Partnership
CorpU and Supply Chain Insights announced a partnership that will integrate Lora Cecere’s research on supply chain excellence into a series of executive education modules designed to develop the skills critical for supply chain excellence. Built on the CorpU platform, which is used by the most admired brands in supply chain, the new modules, dubbed […]
Are You Putting Lipstick on a Pig or Creating Value?
There is a change happening in supply chain. Big ERP deals are drying up, BPO is hindering supply chain innovation, and software maintenance costs are supporting a platform that might not be in the best interest of the client. What should a user to do? In this podcast Alison Crawford, Director of Marketing, speaks with […]