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Global manufacturer of machines for the automotive sector Index Werke recently rolled out a new Industry 4.0 powered platform for their customers called iXworld (using SAP Industry 4.0 solutions!).

To hear more about this innovative digital transformation, I invited Index' iXworld Product Manager Katharina Piesche to come on the podcast to tell us more about it. We talked about the genesis of the project, lessons learned from the rollout, how it benefits Index Werke's customers, and their future plans for the platform.

This was a really interesting episode of the podcast. I thoroughly enjoyed it, I learned loads, and I hope you do too.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn more about how Industry 4.0 technologies can help your organisation read the 2020 global research study 'The Power of change from Industry 4.0 in manufacturing' (https://www.sap.com/cmp/dg/industry4-manufacturing/index.html)

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

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Another of the cool startups I came across in the SAP.io New York Foundry is called Cogniac.

Cogniac is a company that uses convolutional neural networks to quickly and painlessly automate visual inspection tasks in all kinds of scenarios.

I invited Cogniac CEO Chuck Myers, and Cogniac CTO and co-founder Bill Kish to come on the podcast to tell me more, and we had a fascinating conversation where I learned how their solution is being used in scenarios as diverse as railroads, automotive companies, and timber yards.

This was a really interesting episode of the podcast. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I hope you do too.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn how supply chain leaders improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, download the research study of 1,000 COO’s and Chief Supply Chain Officers – “Surviving and Thriving How Supply Chain Leaders minimize risk and maximize opportunities”.

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't

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We live on a planet of finite resources so it makes a lot of sense to make the maximum possible use of all the resources we have. This is the fundamental tenet underlying the Circular Economy (which we have talked about previously on this podcast), and it is also the principle that Rheaply is building a platform to address.

Rheaply is a startup working with the SAP.io foundry in New York and they have developed a platform to allow organisations maximise use of their assets, saving money in the process, and avoiding unnecessarily sending items to landfill.

I invited Garr Punnett, Rheaply's Chief of Staff, and Head of Sustainability to join me on the podcast to come on the podcast and explain how Rheaply works. We had a fascinating conversation which I totally enjoyed, as I'm sure you will too.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn how supply chain leaders improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, download the research study of 1,000 COO’s and Chief Supply Chain Officers – “Surviving and Thriving How Supply Chain Leaders minimize risk and maximize opportunities”.

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show,

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• Christian Sederberg
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• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

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Setting the price of a product is crucial to its success. Set the price too low, and you can incur losses with every sale, set the price too high and you may fail to make sales. So having a tool to help you set the correct price is invaluable - enter Product Lifecycle Costing (PLC).

In this podcast I chat with Manthan Peshne, product lead for PLC to find out how Product Lifecycle Costing can help organisations set the right price. This is especially complex where manufacturing, and sales are globally distributed!

Manthan was very patient with my lack of knowledge of the product, or the opportunity, and explained it to me in very small words (!) which much appreciated.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn how supply chain leaders improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, download the research study of 1,000 COO’s and Chief Supply Chain Officers – “Surviving and Thriving How Supply Chain Leaders minimize risk and maximize opportunities”.

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget

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I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous Subscribers:

• Christian Sederberg
• Kristal Maharaj
• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

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I'm a big fan of 3D Printing, and have been ever since seeing the Replicator on Star Trek! So, when I heard that one of the Ivaldi, one of the startup companies in the SAP.io New York Foundry was in the 3D Printing space, I was very keen to chat with them.

Espen Sivertsen, the CEO of Ivaldi, graciously agreed to come on the show and we had a fantastic chat about how Ivaldi is helping organisations digitise their inventory (and we got to hear from his 3 year old daughter!).

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn how supply chain leaders improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, download the research study of 1,000 COO’s and Chief Supply Chain Officers – “Surviving and Thriving How Supply Chain Leaders minimize risk and maximize opportunities”.

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!

Elevate your brand with the ‘Sustainable Supply Chain’ podcast, the voice of supply chain sustainability.

Last year, this podcast's episodes were downloaded over 113,000 times by senior supply chain executives around the world.

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Contact me for sponsorship opportunities and turn downloads into dialogues.

Act today. Influence the future.

Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous Subscribers:

• Christian Sederberg
• Kristal Maharaj
• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

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SAP recently launched a new cloud based solution into the market called Enterprise Product Development. I was keen to learn more about it, and to share those learnings with listeners of the podcast so I invited SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solution Manager Mark Landrosh to come on the show to tell us all about Enterprise Product Development.

I learned loads, and had fun finding out about Enterprise Product Development and PLM, aspects of supply chain that I previously knew very little about.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn how supply chain leaders improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, download the research study of 1,000 COO’s and Chief Supply Chain Officers – “Surviving and Thriving How Supply Chain Leaders minimize risk and maximize opportunities”.

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!

Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous Subscribers:

• Christian Sederberg
• Kristal Maharaj
• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

Finally
If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to just send me a direct message on LinkedIn, or send me a text message using this link.

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SAP recently produced a fascinating new whitepaper (seriously!) on enabling technologies for Industry 4.0 (called SAP Enabling Technologies for Industry 4.Now). Given the very close alignment between Industry 4.0 and the digitisation of Supply Chain, I thought I'd invite someone on the podcast to talk about this.

I reached out to my old friend and colleague Elvira Wallis (@ElviraWallis on Twitter), Global Head of IoT at SAP, to ask her to come on the podcast, and she graciously agreed. We had a great chat about the enabling technologies (chiefly IoT and Edge Computing), trains, and swimming!!!

We had fun chatting about this. I hope you enjoy it too.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

For more information, do check out the 2020 global research study "How to drive agility and productivity in Manufacturing with Industry 4.0"

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!

Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous Subscribers:

• Christian Sederberg
• Kristal Maharaj
• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

Finally
If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to just send me a direct message on LinkedIn, or send me a text message using this link.

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On this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast, I welcomed back Chris Wolfe. Chris is the CEO of PowerFleet - a global mobile asset solution provider. Chris was on a previous episode of the show talking about PowerFleet, and how it helps organisations manage their fleets of vehicles. He reached out to me to talk about how he's seeing a trend in fleets to electric vehicles.

This should come as a surprise to no one especially given the recent Consumer Reports study confirming that “drivers of electric vehicles are saving an average of 50% on maintenance and repair over the life of a vehicle compared to owners of gas-powered vehicles” And electric vehicles being a topic I love, I immediately asked Chris to come on and chat about that.

Chris has a rich history in this space (having bought one of the very first Tesla Roadsters) , some of which I managed to tease out of him during this chat. He also talked knowledgeably about the space, and the latest trends in it.

The audio quality on this podcast is not great at times because while we were interviewing there was someone outside Chris' home office using a leaf blower (unfortunately, not an electric one) and so that interfered with his sound.

Other than that, we had fun putting this podca

Elevate your brand with the ‘Sustainable Supply Chain’ podcast, the voice of supply chain sustainability.

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• Christian Sederberg
• Kristal Maharaj
• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

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I came across a colleague recently who leads SAP's strategic engagements in supply chain with a special focus on high tech and other innovative organisations. His name is Sudy Bharadwaj, or as everyone calls him SudyB - in fact, that's his Twitter handle, @SudyB.

Given we're in the midst of a global supply chain disruption (thanks coronavirus!) I decided to ask him onto the podcast to talk about steps companies can take to help with their recovery, and we also had a great chat about the importance of supplier relationship management.

Sudy and I had a great chat, and as ever, I learned loads. I hope you did too

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

For more information, do check out the 2020 global research study "How to drive agility and productivity in Manufacturing with Industry 4.0"

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!

Elevate your brand with the ‘Sustainable Supply Chain’ podcast, the voice of supply chain sustainability.

Last year, this podcast's episodes were downloaded over 113,000 times by senior supply chain executives around the world.

Become a sponsor. Lead the conversation.

Contact me for sponsorship opportunities and turn downloads into dialogues.

Act today. Influence the future.

Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous Subscribers:

• Christian Sederberg
• Kristal Maharaj
• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

Finally
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Delaware Consulting is a global company helping organisations with their supply chain solutions, amongst other topics. 

I was interested in how they were helping their clients handle disruption, so I reached out to Richard Seel, Managing Director at Delaware North America to ask him to come on the podcast to have a chat. We had a cool chat about some of the things he's seeing, and how they're helping their client base.

I really enjoyed putting this podcast together, I hope you enjoy listening to it. If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

For more information, do check out the 2020 SAP EHS and Product Compliance Annual Conference website.

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!

Elevate your brand with the ‘Sustainable Supply Chain’ podcast, the voice of supply chain sustainability.

Last year, this podcast's episodes were downloaded over 113,000 times by senior supply chain executives around the world.

Become a sponsor. Lead the conversation.

Contact me for sponsorship opportunities and turn downloads into dialogues.

Act today. Influence the future.

Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous Subscribers:

• Christian Sederberg
• Kristal Maharaj
• Alicia Farag
• Kieran Ognev

And remember you too can become a Sustainable Supply Chain+ subscriber - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to the full back catalog of over 460 episodes.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

Finally
If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to just send me a direct message on LinkedIn, or send me a text message using this link.

If you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it.

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