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FutureChain podcasts will bring you lessons from leaders in the industry on the evolution of supply chain management, including artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive analytics solutions. FutureChain.org

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FutureChain episodes:

06.09.2022
Saket Saurabh of Nexla
Listen to this informative podcast where Meagan Cunningham of FutureChain interviews Saket Saurabh, an entrepreneur with a passion for data and infrastructure who co-founded Nexla — a provider of reliable, consistent, and trusted data products. Learn how today’s best-in-class data...
05.24.2022
Nexla Podcast: Interview with Saket Saurabh of Nexla
Listen to this informative podcast where Meagan Cunningham of FutureChain interviews Saket Saurabh, an entrepreneur with a passion for data and infrastructure who co-founded Nexla — a provider of reliable, consistent, and trusted data products. Learn how today’s best-in-class data...
07.12.2021
Dr. Anura Rathnayake/Adetex.ID/RFiD Threads
A Textiles engineering professional specialising in advanced e-textiles and Smart textiles.Episode Notes:00:08 – Introduction02:18 – Hobby or Personal Passion04:04 – RFiD Thread Overview05:14 – Challenges in Retail 202107:50 – Challenges in Garment Recycling 202109:21 – Barcodes & RFID Challenges10:18 –...
06.07.2021
John Bozzella, President and CEO, Alliance for Automotive Innovation on Auto Supply Chains
Listen to the visionary for the only automotive trade association that represents OEMs, suppliers and mobility companies. Get the inside track on the evolution of internal combustion (ICE) supply chains to electric vehicle (EV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) supply chains.Episode...
06.06.2021
John Bozzella, President and CEO, Alliance for Automotive Innovation on Auto Supply Chains
Listen to the visionary for the only automotive trade association that represents OEMs, suppliers and mobility companies. Get the inside track on the evolution of internal combustion (ICE) supply chains to electric vehicle (EV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) supply chains. Episode...
03.18.2021
Edmund Zagorin, Founder of Bid Ops
How Bid Ops has automated supplier negotiations and brought artificial intelligence to supply chain management. Strategic sourcing trends for 2021 and so much more!Episode notes:John Cooper/Industrial Exchange on increased SKUs increasing management costs 7:12. ‘Spend fragmentation’ 8:17. Volatility and disruption...
03.16.2021
Edmund Zagorin, Founder of Bid Ops
How Bid Ops has automated supplier negotiations and brought artificial intelligence to supply chain management. Strategic sourcing trends for 2021 and so much more! Episode notes: John Cooper/Industrial Exchange on increased SKUs increasing management costs 7:12. ‘Spend fragmentation’ 8:17. Volatility and...
03.09.2021
Randall Pappal, Vice President Purchasing, Supply Chain and Business Development at Automotive Tier 1 supplier Shape Corporation
Randall Pappal, veteran of OEM (GM) and Tier 1 supply chains talks about the global automotive supply chain.Episode notes:Shape’s role in the Automotive supply chain 3:05. Body exterior supply chain 4:14. GM supply chain 5:22. Automotive supply chains in Mexico...
01.26.2021
Jack Freeman, Principal of PeakSpan Capital
PeakSpan supply chain and procurement growth-stage investment strategy. Episode notes: PeakSpan mission 6:37. PeakSpan supply chain technology platforms 9:54. Efficiency targets for investments 13:46. Distinction in investments at 3-5M vs 25M+ 17:29. Value of Zenefits, Netsuite and Oracle perspective 18:27....
01.25.2021
Jack Freeman, Principal of PeakSpan Capital
PeakSpan supply chain and procurement growth-stage investment strategy. Episode notes: PeakSpan mission 6:37. PeakSpan supply chain technology platforms 9:54. Efficiency targets for investments 13:46. Distinction in investments at 3-5M vs 25M+ 17:29. Value of Zenefits, Netsuite and Oracle perspective 18:27. Why...
01.04.2021
Barry McGeough, Global VP of Innovation Wolverine Worldwide
Master class on innovation. Footwear and apparel supply chain to surprise and delight customers 2:47. Innovation at PVH to build in sustainability to dress shirts with Unify 3:55. Influence and negotiation to build global supply chain for 10M units of...
01.02.2021
Barry McGeough, Global Vice President of Innovation at Wolverine Worldwide
Master class on innovation. Footwear and apparel supply chain to surprise and delight customers 2:47. Innovation at PVH to build in sustainability to dress shirts with Unify 3:55. Influence and negotiation to build global supply chain for 10M units of...
12.21.2020
Ilir Skendaj, Director of Omnichannel and Supply Chain for Logic Information Systems
Building solutions for Logic’s clients. Retail supply chains 3:56. Omni-channel for top-line growth 6:49. Holiday retail 7:58. Optimizing processes for demand forecasting 8:42. AI analysis for demand planning/forecasting 9:47. Curbside retailing 11:21. Supply chain optimization 13:30. Right product, price, inventory 14:41....
12.11.2020
Dr. David L. Anderson, Managing General Partner for Supply Chain Ventures
Early and late-stage supply chain investing in software and hardware. LeanLogistics 2:24. Kiva Systems (robotics) 2:55. Steelwedge (supply chain planning) 3:09. Optiant (inventory planning) 3:20. Macropoint (supply chain visibility) 3:28. Llamasoft 3:34. Shipmonk 3:41. Pre-COVID investing climate 4:59. Virtual brokerage of...
12.07.2020
Ron Volpe and Christian Lindberg, Persequor, Food Supply Chain and Food Safety in a COVID-19 World
COVID-19 has reset the bar for food chains. Consumer confidence in the safety of our food chains is damaged, both in terms of those buying products and those manufacturing the products (think meat). The US FDA has gone all in...
12.03.2020
Ilir Skendaj, Director of Omnichannel and Supply Chain for Logic Information Systems
Episode Notes:Retail supply chains 3:56.Omni-channel for top-line growth 6:49.Holiday retail 7:58.Optimizing processes for demand forecasting 8:42.AI analysis for demand planning/forecasting 9:47.Curbside retailing 11:21.Supply chain optimization 13:30.Right product, price, inventory 14:41.Leveraging existing investments in tools and solutions to maximize ROI 15:34.Internal...
12.02.2020
Dr. David L. Anderson, Managing General Partner for Supply Chain Ventures
Early and late-stage supply chain investing in software and hardware. LeanLogistics 2:24. Kiva Systems (robotics) 2:55. Steelwedge (supply chain planning) 3:09. Optiant (inventory planning) 3:20. Macropoint (supply chain visibility) 3:28. Llamasoft 3:34. Shipmonk 3:41. Pre-COVID investing climate 4:59. Virtual brokerage...
12.01.2020
Ron Volpe and Christian Lindberg, Persequor, Food Supply Chain and Food Safety in a COVID-19 World
COVID-19 has reset the bar for food chains. Consumer confidence in the safety of our food chains is damaged, both in terms of those buying products and those manufacturing the products (think meat). The US FDA has gone all in...
10.01.2020
Arnaud Deshais, Formerly of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
How to plan the production of an antigen and carry a vaccine through a cold chain. What is an antigen and a cold chain 4:44. Production planning 20:15. Materials Requirements Planning 21:12. FDA has to approve sourcing of compounds 22:28. Trial...
09.30.2020
Andy De Senior Industry Director, Global Solutions Strategy and Go-to-Market, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Altryx
Beyond COVID-19: how will healthcare providers leverage AI and analytics to minimize "supply chain disruption" in the post-pandemic era?Supply, device and testing demand 4:10. Emergency Response Inventory Services Fulfillment Provider model 9:45. Financial epidemic caused by supply chain disruption 12:04....
09.29.2020
Nicolas Vandeput, Author of "Data Science for Supply Chain Forecasting" and "Inventory Optimization: Models and Simulations"
Nicolas Vandeput is a supply chain data scientist specializing in demand forecasting and inventory optimization. Data science in SCM 4:56. Small data 6:09. Historical sales/stockouts/marketing expenses data 6:40. Importance of data culture 9:11. Challenge of developing in house machine learning...
09.27.2020
Jeremiah Pomerleau, Lessons from GoPro and Puls
Jeremiah Pomerleau uses his experience with GoPro as a case study on building out procurement, logistics and global trade systems. Procurement 1:59. Air and ocean freight cost reduction 45-50%. Trade lane 7:44. Total Landed Cost 14:47. Trade compliance cost 24:32....
09.26.2020
Brian Reed, VP of Global Supply Chain Optimization for Geodis
Brian Reed of Geodis discusses supply chain management solutions. Planning and forecasting 4:47. Goal of building a platform 23:48. Blue Yonder, i2 25:01. SAP, Oracle 24:43. ROI: 25:03. 3PL, 4PL 31:56. Blockchain 36:45. ML, AI 40:06. Importance of service (Geodis,...
09.25.2020
Ashutosh Prasad, Founder and CEO of KoiReader Technologies
Ashutosh Prasad, founder and CEO of KoiReader Technologies, talks about operational automation and edge computing. i2 supply chain system 13:30. Supply chain fragmented from a process & systems perspective 15:19. Arrival of NVIDIA, open source, AI 15:54. Edge computing 17:57....
09.24.2020
Dr. Farid Harche, Formerly of British Telecom, Wipro, IBM and DHL
Dr. Farid Harche formerly of British Telecom, Wipro, IBM and DHL talks about artificial intelligence in SCM. Digital transformation in SCM 5:04. Machine learning and deep learning 10:30. Priority should be to organize data 13:03. Fail rate on solutions as...
09.23.2020
Mike Lavaglio, the Director of Supply Chain Planning for Dexcom
Mike Lavaglio, the Director of Supply Chain Planning for Dexcom, discusses the diabetes medical device supply chain. Type 1 diabetes continuous glucose monitoring focus 3:30. Look and feel improvements to device 6:08. Giving physicians and platforms access to data 7:11....
09.22.2020
Dr. Manjeet Singh, DHL’s Director of Global Operations Science and Analytics
Dr. Manjeet Singh, DHL’s Director of Global Operations Science and Analytics, talks about how machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the world of supply chain management. Convergence of data collection, processing power, techniques resulting in products like autonomous vehicle,...
09.21.2020
Dave Malenfant, EVP of the Biotech Supply Management Alliance and Director of Outreach and Partnerships for TCU's Center for Supply Chain Innovation
Dave Malenfant, EVP of the Biotech Supply Management Alliance and Director of Outreach and Partnerships discusses COVID-19 supply chains and ML and AI-based SCM solutions. 4:04 Medical supply oversupply. 6:27 ESRI global map of hotspots. 7:21 Geographical Information Systems (GIS)....
09.18.2020
Derek Mizysak, Supply Chain Director, for method products
Derek Mizysak, Supply Chain Director, for method products talks about the phases of SCM, lean tools and methodologies and blockchain. Supply Chain Ninja 2:41. Demand for cleaning supplies 8:45. Integrated business planning process for Demand Planning 10:55. Inventory management 12:32....
09.17.2020
Chris Winston, VP of Operations for J.R. Watkins
Chris Winston discusses his personal and home care product experience with J.R. Watkins and Clorox. Clorox supply chain 14:10. Supply chain management solutions used 22:30. Netsuite 24:50. Shopify, Magento 25:17. KPIs 26:15. Customization 27:14. ROI 28:12. Future of solutions 30:19....
09.16.2020
Mike McComb, VP of Sales at Pitney Bowes for Global Ecommerce
Mike McComb, VP of Sales at Pitney Bowes for Global Ecommerce discusses what role Pitney Bowes plays in industry supply chains. Ecommerce growth 4:35. Challenges for PB and shippers/brands/retailers/marketplaces 6. How fulfillment companies are responding with technology to deal with...
09.15.2020
Patricia Vasconcellos, Formerly VP of Supply Chain for Flowserve
Patricia Vasconcellos, formerly VP of Supply Chain for Flowserve, talks about circular supply chain, supply chain responsiveness, resilience and customer needs. Then closes with post-COVID-19 supply chain. 00:34 - CSCMP 03:22 - Circular supply chain, re-use of materials (Accenture, Philips) ...
09.14.2020
Steve Clarke, Supply Chain Transformation
Steve Clarke discusses his article, “Leveraging the Power of Simple Analytical Tools & Daily Management Techniques to Achieve RAPID and SUSTAINED Supply Chain Transformation” (https://tinyurl.com/y6ghpjtw). Challenges to improving supply chain performance 3:37. Solution to challenges 6:06. Supply Chain Capability Model 8:59....
09.08.2020
Dr. Manjeet Singh, DHL’s Director of Global Operations Science and Analytics
Dr. Manjeet Singh, DHL’s Director of Global Operations Science and Analytics, talks about how machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the world of supply chain management.Episode Notes:Convergence of data collection, processing power, techniques resulting in products like autonomous vehicle,...
09.08.2020
Patricia Vasconcellos, Formerly VP of Supply Chain for Flowserve
Patricia Vasconcellos, formerly VP of Supply Chain for Flowserve, talks about circular supply chain, supply chain responsiveness, resilience and customer needs. Then closes with post-COVID-19 supply chain. Episode Notes:00:34 - CSCMP 03:22 - Circular supply chain, re-use of materials (Accenture,...
09.08.2020
Mike Lavaglio, The Director of Supply Chain Planning for Dexcom
Mike Lavaglio, the Director of Supply Chain Planning for Dexcom, discusses the diabetes medical device supply chain.Episode Notes:Type 1 diabetes continuous glucose monitoring focus 3:30. Look and feel improvements to device 6:08. Giving physicians and platforms access to data 7:11....
09.08.2020
Derek Mizysak, Supply Chain Director, for Method Products
Derek Mizysak, Supply Chain Director, for method products talks about the phases of SCM, lean tools and methodologies and blockchain.Episode Notes:Supply Chain Ninja 2:41. Demand for cleaning supplies 8:45. Integrated business planning process for Demand Planning 10:55. Inventory management 12:32....
09.08.2020
Chris Winston, VP of Operations for J.R. Watkins
Chris Winston discusses his personal and home care product experience with J.R. Watkins and Clorox.Episode Notes:Clorox supply chain 14:10. Supply chain management solutions used 22:30. Netsuite 24:50. Shopify, Magento 25:17. KPIs 26:15. Customization 27:14. ROI 28:12. Future of solutions 30:19....
09.08.2020
Mike McComb, VP of Sales at Pitney Bowes for Global Ecommerce
Mike McComb, VP of Sales at Pitney Bowes for Global Ecommerce discusses what role Pitney Bowes plays in industry supply chains.Episode Notes:Ecommerce growth 4:35. Challenges for PB and shippers/brands/retailers/marketplaces 6. How fulfillment companies are responding with technology to deal with...
09.08.2020
Jeremiah Pomerleau, Lessons from GoPro and Puls
Jeremiah Pomerleau uses his experience with GoPro as a case study on building out procurement, logistics and global trade systems.Episode Notes:Procurement 1:59. Air and ocean freight cost reduction 45-50%. Trade lane 7:44. Total Landed Cost 14:47. Trade compliance cost 24:32....
09.08.2020
Brian Reed, VP of Global Supply Chain Optimization for GEODIS
Brian Reed of GEODIS discusses supply chain management solutions.Episode Notes:Planning and forecasting 4:47.Goal of building a platform 23:48.Blue Yonder, i2 25:01. SAP, Oracle 24:43. ROI: 25:03. 3PL, 4PL 31:56. Blockchain 36:45. ML, AI 40:06. Importance of service (GEODIS, Ernst &...
09.08.2020
Ashutosh Prasad, Founder and CEO of KoiReader Technologies
Ashutosh Prasad, founder and CEO of KoiReader Technologies, talks about operational automation and edge computing.Episode Note:i2 supply chain system 13:30. Supply chain fragmented from a process & systems perspective 15:19. Arrival of NVIDIA, open source, AI 15:54. Edge computing 17:57....
09.08.2020
Dr. Farid Harche Formerly of British Telecom, Wipro, IBM and DHL
Dr. Farid Harche formerly of British Telecom, Wipro, IBM and DHL talks about artificial intelligence in SCM.Episode Notes:Digital transformation in SCM 5:04. Machine learning and deep learning 10:30. Priority should be to organize data 13:03. Fail rate on solutions as...
09.08.2020
Nicolas Vandeput Author of "Data Science for Supply Chain Forecasting" and "Inventory Optimization: Models and Simulations"
Nicolas Vandeput is a supply chain data scientist specializing in demand forecasting and inventory optimization. Episode Notes:Data science in SCM 4:56. Small data 6:09. Historical sales/stockouts/marketing expenses data 6:40. Importance of data culture 9:11. Challenge of developing in house machine...
09.08.2020
Andy De Senior Industry Director, Global Solutions Strategy and Go-to-Market, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Altryx
Beyond COVID-19: how will healthcare providers leverage AI and analytics to minimize "supply chain disruption" in the post-pandemic era?Episode Notes:Supply, device and testing demand 4:10. Emergency Response Inventory Services Fulfillment Provider model 9:45. Financial epidemic caused by supply chain disruption...
11.30.2019
Arnaud Deshais, Formerly of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
How to plan the production of an antigen and carry a vaccine through a cold chain.What is an antigen and a cold chain 4:44. Production planning 20:15. Materials Requirements Planning 21:12. FDA has to approve sourcing of compounds 22:28. Trial...
09.15.2019
Steve Clarke, Supply Chain Transformation
Steve Clarke discusses his article, “Leveraging the Power of Simple Analytical Tools & Daily Management Techniques to Achieve RAPID and SUSTAINED Supply Chain Transformation” (https://tinyurl.com/y6ghpjtw).Challenges to improving supply chain performance 3:37. Solution to challenges 6:06. Supply Chain Capability Model 8:59....
09.08.2019
Dave Malenfant, EVP of the Biotech Supply Management Alliance and Director of Outreach and Partnerships for TCU's Center for Supply Chain Innovation
Dave Malenfant, EVP of the Biotech Supply Management Alliance and Director of Outreach and Partnerships discusses COVID-19 supply chains and ML and AI-based SCM solutions.Episode Notes:4:04 Medical supply oversupply.6:27 ESRI global map of hotspots. 7:21 Geographical Information Systems (GIS). 9:33...

What's FutureChain about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

FutureChain episodes:

Saket Saurabh of Nexla

Nexla Podcast: Interview with Saket Saurabh of Nexla

Dr. Anura Rathnayake/Adetex.ID/RFiD Threads

John Bozzella, President and CEO, Alliance for Automotive Innovation on Auto Supply Chains

John Bozzella, President and CEO, Alliance for Automotive Innovation on Auto Supply Chains

Edmund Zagorin, Founder of Bid Ops

Edmund Zagorin, Founder of Bid Ops

Randall Pappal, Vice President Purchasing, Supply Chain and Business Development at Automotive Tier 1 supplier Shape Corporation

Jack Freeman, Principal of PeakSpan Capital

Jack Freeman, Principal of PeakSpan Capital

Barry McGeough, Global VP of Innovation Wolverine Worldwide

Barry McGeough, Global Vice President of Innovation at Wolverine Worldwide

Ilir Skendaj, Director of Omnichannel and Supply Chain for Logic Information Systems

Dr. David L. Anderson, Managing General Partner for Supply Chain Ventures

Ron Volpe and Christian Lindberg, Persequor, Food Supply Chain and Food Safety in a COVID-19 World

Ilir Skendaj, Director of Omnichannel and Supply Chain for Logic Information Systems

Dr. David L. Anderson, Managing General Partner for Supply Chain Ventures

Ron Volpe and Christian Lindberg, Persequor, Food Supply Chain and Food Safety in a COVID-19 World

Arnaud Deshais, Formerly of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics

Andy De Senior Industry Director, Global Solutions Strategy and Go-to-Market, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Altryx

Nicolas Vandeput, Author of "Data Science for Supply Chain Forecasting" and "Inventory Optimization: Models and Simulations"

Jeremiah Pomerleau, Lessons from GoPro and Puls

Brian Reed, VP of Global Supply Chain Optimization for Geodis

Ashutosh Prasad, Founder and CEO of KoiReader Technologies

Dr. Farid Harche, Formerly of British Telecom, Wipro, IBM and DHL

Mike Lavaglio, the Director of Supply Chain Planning for Dexcom

Dr. Manjeet Singh, DHL’s Director of Global Operations Science and Analytics

Dave Malenfant, EVP of the Biotech Supply Management Alliance and Director of Outreach and Partnerships for TCU's Center for Supply Chain Innovation

Derek Mizysak, Supply Chain Director, for method products

Chris Winston, VP of Operations for J.R. Watkins

Mike McComb, VP of Sales at Pitney Bowes for Global Ecommerce

Patricia Vasconcellos, Formerly VP of Supply Chain for Flowserve

Steve Clarke, Supply Chain Transformation

Dr. Manjeet Singh, DHL’s Director of Global Operations Science and Analytics

Patricia Vasconcellos, Formerly VP of Supply Chain for Flowserve

Mike Lavaglio, The Director of Supply Chain Planning for Dexcom

Derek Mizysak, Supply Chain Director, for Method Products