Supply Chain Next

Susie Bodnar is the Director of Operations and Client Strategy at FourKites.

FourKites is a SaaS based technology company, the fastest-growing predictive supply chain platform, backed by top-tier VC firms in Silicon Valley, Boston, and Chicago, delivering real-time visibility and execution for Fortune 500 companies, carriers and third-party logistics firms. Using a proprietary algorithm to calculate shipment arrival times, FourKites enables customers to lower operating costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen end-customer relationships. With a network of more than four million GPS/ELD devices, FourKites covers all modes including ocean, rail, parcel and over-the-road. The platform is optimized for mobile and equipped with market-leading end-to-end security.

Deborah Dull is a supply chain strategist and passionate circular economy advocate.

After several years in senior supply chain roles at Microsoft, Deborah was tapped to become the new Program Officer for Health Supply Chains at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At the Foundation, she led the digital transformation of $1B in annual spending and developed processes to use technology better in developing countries. Now a Principal in Manufacturing Product Management at GE, she is also part of the dynamic duo at Supply Chain Revolution. As the Circular Nomad™, she travels the world helping organizations unlock the many benefits of the circular economy.

On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Deborah joins host Richard Donaldson to talk about the circular economy, its challenges, and the benefits it has for both businesses and society.

Robert Handfield, Ph.D., is the executive director of the SCRC and the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in NC State’s Poole College of Management. Handfield is a consulting editor of the Journal of Operations Management and has written several books on supply chain management, including “Supply Market Intelligence, Supply Chain Re-Design.”

He has co-authored textbooks for MBA and undergraduate programs include “Purchasing and Supply Chain Management” (with Robert Monczka) and “Operations and Supply Chain Management” (with Poole College of Management professor Cecil Bozarth). Indentified as one of a handful of professionals in the 2007 Pros to Know list complied by Supply and Demand Chain Executive journal, Handfield is regularly quoted in such periodicals as the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Supply Chain Management Review.

Over the course of his career, Handfield has consulted with more than 25 Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. Such experience has helped inform his ongoing research on the performance of companies with “best in class” supply chain management processes versus those whose supply chain practices are mediocre, which shows that best-in-class companies experience greater stockholder value and enjoy higher savings. Handfield joined the college in 1999 and received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1990.

Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. She works with supply chain leaders to take teams to higher levels of excellence.

Her research firm Supply Chain Insights is paving new directions in building thought-leading supply chain research. Lora loves to write and research is in her veins. She is the author of the enterprise software blog “Supply Chain Shaman." The blog focuses on the use of enterprise applications to drive supply chain excellence. Her co-authored book, Bricks Matter published in December, 2012 and her new book, Metrics that Matter publishes in December 2014. Lora writes monthly columns for Consumer Goods Technology and CSCMP Quarterly and actively blogs on LinkedIn as an Influencer and on Supply Chain Leadership on Forbes.

As an enterprise strategist, Lora focuses on the changing face of enterprise technologies. Her research is designed for the early adopter seeking first mover advantage. Current research topics include the digital consumer, supply chain sensing, demand shaping and revenue management, market-driven value networks, accelerating innovation through open design networks, the evolution of predictive analytics, emerging business intelligence solutions, and technologies to improve safe and secure product delivery.

Dyan Finkhousen is a leading strategist, adviser and entrepreneur building expert ecosystems and platform operations that drive growth and productivity in all industries. She is the Founder and CEO of Shoshin Works and is known for her strategic work in enterprise-scale ecosystems that leverage open innovation, collaboration, crowdsourcing, and freelance resourcing.

Before launching Shoshin Works, Dyan was GE’s Global Director of Open Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing, and Founder of GE GeniusLink and GE Fuse – where she cultivated an expert ecosystem with reach to over 21 million resources and enabled over $6 billion in impact.

Her pioneering platform and ecosystem work in connected vehicles, connected equipment, and now connected experts has enabled organizations in financial, industrial and healthcare sectors to optimize performance. She also helped coach GE’s industrials on the development of new IoT product and service portfolios, and oversaw the development of GE’s global IoT brand, Predix.

Valued for her record of creating and scaling transformational business models, Dyan has served on client advisory boards for Expert Economy companies and is an Advisor and Founding Member for Open Assembly. Her award-winning thought leadership has been showcased in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired, Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Analytics curriculum, MIT Sloan, Singularity University, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Nikkei Business, CIO Review, Slush, keynote speaking engagements and podcasts.

Alan Dunning has over 35 years direct Procurement and Contracts management experience and is the Principal Supply Chain Manager for Worley in Perth. This includes over 25 years commercial project management in the resources industry, primarily on oil and gas projects (LNG, offshore platforms), as well as the defence and airline industries. He is a key member of Worley’s global Procurement and Contracts leadership team, with demonstrated strong commercial management and strategic leadership capabilities. During a peak workload period Alan managed a team of 140 staff across a portfolio of projects with a development capital cost more than $26 billion. Alan actively assists in the set up and planning of all major procurement and contracts works associated with projects. Alan’s work history includes extensive experience in developing commercial and contracting strategies, reflecting the Company and the clients’ business drivers, whilst delivering maximum value to a project. In addition to this role Alan is also one of the founders of Requis.

Dr. John Gattorna, stands at the forefront of supply chain ‘thought leadership’ in the world today, and his work has influenced many of today’s leading multi-national corporations.

He has made it his passion in life to stay at the cutting edge of supply chain design, and his last three books are testament to that, the most recent being Dynamic Supply Chains; how to design, build and manage people-centric value networks, 3rdedn., FT Prentice Hall, Harlow, 2015.

His advanced methodologies offer a way of dealing with the ‘new normal’ operating environment, characterized by volatility, and yet more volatility, with no respite in sight.

John’s work has taken on a ‘whole-of-enterprise’ feel and scope, because he steadfastly believes that you can only transform enterprise supply chains if you transform the entire enterprise, hence his multi-disciplinary approach to supply chain design, from ‘outside-in’, using ‘design thinking’ principles.

Apart for researching, consulting, and teaching, John likes to share his best thinking with peers and business associates around the world, and for this reason he organises summits every two or three years – bringing the very best supply chain academics, practitioners, and business executives together for a talk-fest lasting two days, on a strictly ‘by-invitation-only’ basis.

John officially launched his latest book Dynamic Supply Chains (2015) at the last global SC ‘thought leadership’ Summit, Athens, Sept’15, and both e-book and hard copy versions are now available. See the ‘Book Launch’ tab of the Summit website www.2015gscs.com for more details about the contents. John is Executive Chairman of Gattorna Alignment, a Sydney-based Firm specialising in supply chain ‘thought leadership’, and Adjunct Professor at UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia.

John welcomes your comments, and can be contacted on his personal email address: [email protected]

He is now one of the most respected supply chain ‘thought leaders’ in the world.

Richard Martin is CEO of Requis.

Martin is a 25-year veteran of the high-tech industry working for technology leaders such as VMware (NYSE: VMWARE), Nortel (NYSE: NT), Bay Networks (NYSE: BAY), 3Com (NYSE: HPQ), Chipcom (NASDAQ: CHPM), Memotec (NASDAQ: CMTL), Bell Northern Research (NYSE: NT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM).

He has a proven track record for providing strategic and operational leadership in research and development, product management, marketing, business development, sales, channel management and operations.

Prior to Requis, Richard spent eight years with VMware where he held several leadership roles in Global Channel Alliances and OEM Sales Operations. He joined VMware in the summer of 2003 as a private company with $50M in annual sales and left in 2011 from a public company generating over $3.5B in sales.

Richard holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, a Technology Management Certificate from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Sherbrooke University, and a diploma in Computer Science from Bois De Boulogne College.

A dedicated triathlete, Richard is a recipient of the 2016 IRONMAN All World Athlete award, signifying he’s in the global top five percent ranking.

Geoffrey Parker is a scholar whose work focuses on distributed innovation, energy markets, and the economics of information. He co-developed the theory of two-sided markets with Marshall Van Alstyne.

His current research includes studies of platform business strategy, data governance, and technical/economic systems to integrate distributed energy resources.

Parker is Professor of Engineering and Director, Master of Engineering Management, (MEM) Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, the first national research university to graduate a class of engineers with more women than men. He has set the Thayer School of Engineering apart with the introduction of Data Analytics and Platform Design classes, emphasizing the business aspects of engineering and giving engineers the background they need to be business innovators and entrepreneurs. Parker is part of a unique culture that is breaking gender barriers.

Parker is also a Faculty Fellow at MIT and the MIT Center for Digital Business. Parker is co-author of the book Platform Revolution, which was included among the 16 must-read business books for 2016 by Forbes.

Dave Anderson is Managing General Partner of Supply Chain Ventures, LLC, a venture capital company specializing in marketing, sales and supply chain software investing. He is a retired managing partner of supply chain consulting at Accenture, a $40 billion global technology consulting company.

He serves on the Board of Directors of Placester, of Boston, Massachusetts, NextShift Robotics of Lowell, Massachusetts and NBD Nanotechnology, of Boston, Massachusetts.

He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of New England and a member of the Boston College Technology Council.

At Accenture, he was instrumental in building the company’s $2 billion supply chain management practice in North America, Asia and Europe. Over the past thirty years, he has helped numerous global corporations transform their supply chains into world-class organizations. He was also global lead for all Accenture alliances with supply chain software companies, including i2, Manugistics, Ariba and CommerceOne.

Before joining Accenture, he was vice president in charge of logistics consulting at Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc. (now Mercer Management Consulting) and a vice president of Data Resources, Inc. (now part of IHS/Global Insights, Inc.), where he founded the Firm’s transportation and logistics consulting practice. He was a founding partner of Operations Technology, Inc. (now part of Supply Chain Consulting), a web-enabled, intelligent messaging software company. He has also taught classes in undergraduate and graduate level business courses at Northwestern, MIT, Boston University and Northeastern University.

Dr. Anderson is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the United Kingdom and a Member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals in the United States. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He is a frequent public speaker and has published numerous articles on supply chain strategy and business management in leading journals and websites, including the Supply Chain Management Review, Supply Chain Practice Journal, The Journal of Finance and Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through Technology.

His past associations include the Board of Directors of Descartes Systems Group, of Waterloo, Ontario, Steelwedge Software , of Pleasanton, California, Board of Directors and Interim CEO of Optiant (acquired by Logility), the Board of Directors of Industri-Matematik-International (acquired by Symphony Technology, then China dotcom), the Board of Directors of Vtrenz (acquired by SilverPop), the Board of Directors of LeanLogistics of Holland, Michigan (acquired by Brambles USA), Avenue Right, of Fargo, North Dakota, Waer Systems, of Brighton, UK, the Board of Directors of New Vine Logistics (acquired by IBG Fulfillment Services) in Napa, California, ActualMeds, of Hartford, Connecticut, Aiko Biotechnology of Portland, Maine and Board Chairman of Control Group, a New York City-based digital media technology consulting and outsourcing company (acquired by Intersection/Google).

Dr. Anderson has a BA, Economics from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut and a PhD. In Econometrics and Finance from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.