Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen as Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Brian Younglove, General Manager of Supply Chain at King’s Hawaiian, on how technologies are dependent upon having larger organizations.  Mid-market companies need to have partners who are willing to help with the management and development of their solutions. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #103

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Rick Sather, VP of Customer Supply Chain at Kimberly-Clark,  discusses with Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, Metrics That Matter and how you need to look at the balance of metrics both daily and strategically.  In stock levels it is not as simple as it appears.  Two items to look at are how to test and learn successfully, and to always ask questions as you continually learn. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #102

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews John Davies, VP & Senior Analyst of GreenBiz Group, on what he is seeing regarding corporate social responsibility.  Unfortunately he is not seeing big change overall.  Consumers  and legislators are not driving any changes.  Listen as they discuss McDonald’s efforts regarding sustainable beef. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #101

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interview Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos, on the challenges of managing freight.  They discuss how the different modes of transportation are handled separately which causes even more delays in the process.  Zvi discusses how people start with one person using their cloud-based software, and then expand to other offices. Two day freight quotes can be two minute quotes using Zvi’s Freightos system. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #100

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen as Naomi Frye interviews Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, about the work that’s being done to redesign the supply chain.   Keith Holliday of Sonoco Products, and John Davies of Greenbiz, will be on the upcoming Green Supply Chain webinar—and they will be attending the  2014 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit along with Judy Glazer of Hewlett-Packard, and Kathleen Shaver of Cisco Systems—as they discuss making good things from waste, as well as taking their products from cradle to grave. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #99

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen to Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, as she interviews Bob Bahramipour, CEO of Gigwalk, as he discusses how they use crowd sourcing to collect data across North American locations.  CPG companies make investments in marketing but they have no visibility as to the effect, which is where we can help them with visibility. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #98

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Allison McFadden, Director – Strategy & Business Development at IBM, on supply chain excellence.  Allison discusses how they deliver a signature client experience as well as the expertise of practitioners.  She mentions how their metrics look at client satisfaction as well as looking at how they facilitate internal engagements.  Additionally they have a very integrated talent program which includes everything from mentoring to classroom work for supply chain operation. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #97

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen to Naomi Frye as she interviews Lora Cecere on her latest report Maximizing the ROI in Supply Chain Planning – Insights from Quantitative Studies.  Lora looks at how supply chain planning has evolved over the last 40 years as well as reflecting on the opportunities of the future.  One question she asks is, “Should companies abandon their current technology to look at new forms of analytics and collaborative technology?” To read the report: http://supplychaininsights.com/maximizing_the_roi_in_supply_chain_planning/ Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #96

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen to Naomi Frye as she interviews Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, on the survey results of the new Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) report. You can also hear what Lora feels explain her vision/dream of how VMI can be used in a downstream data test-and-learn strategy. View the report mentioned in this podcast here: http://supplychaininsights.com/what-is-the-value-of-your-vendor-managed-inventory-relationships/ And view ALL 55 of Supply Chain Insights’ free reports here: http://supplychaininsights.com/report-archives/ Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #95

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen to Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, as Naomi Frye interviews her on her latest blog post on network modeling and design, “Do No Harm….”  Learn why Lora feels that supply chains are stuck, why old technologies cannot move companies forward, and learn about the non-linear relationship between metrics. Read the blog post at: http://www.supplychainshaman.com/new-technologies/do-no-harm/ Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #94

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Please join Naomi Frye, from Supply Chain Insights, as she talks with Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, as they discuss Lora’s latest Forbes blog post about how the healthcare value network has evolved over the last 3 decades.  Lora discusses how the alignment needs to shift for supply chains between the hospital, patient and doctor because of the Affordable Healthcare Act etc.  The Supply Chain Index will help companies look at how they are making progress with the multiyear evolution cycle within healthcare.   Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #93

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen to Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, and Collin Otis, CEO of Powered Analytics, as they discuss how technology can impact customers by using personalization within stores.  They power in-store discovery to help enrich your experience with your mobile device. Collin is launching a new platform/mobile app called Fabric which brings an online experience of recommendations and research into the retail store.   Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #92

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen as John Bermudez, VP for Product Management at Infor, discusses his vision of having social networking work with business applications such as ERP, and S&OP,  with Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights.  They have built their sales & operation planning process around social networking.  Don’t overthink, but give your operations a new way of using it. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #91  

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen to Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, as she interviews Judy Glazer, Sr. Director – Social & Environmental Responsibility, Printing and Personal Systems of Hewlett-Packard, as they discuss sustainability.  Learn about “Living Progress” (Human Progress, Economic Progress and Environmental Progress – all to advance mankind and life on planet Earth) and how it impacts and gains awareness within the supply chain.  Listen to how they have impacted their carbon footprint as well as how they gain alignment. Learn what plastic clothes hangers have to do with your inkjet carts.   Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #90

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Listen to Lora Cecere, CEO and Founder of Supply Chain Insights, as she interviews Keith Holliday, Director – Corporate Supply Chain & Logistics at Sonoco Products, as they discuss what metrics matter to them (inventory, cash, AP, AR) as well as how they manage customer satisfaction.  They discuss how costs are creeping into the system because of longer payment terms and how they are looking at using lead times to help in this area. And don’t forget CSR. Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – Podcast #89