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In this episode of TEKTOK on Supply Chain Now, hosts Karin Bursa and Scott Luton welcome Ben Cubitt and Matt Harding to the show.

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UPS Supply Chain Solutions Virtual Connect: https://hopin.com/events/supply-chain-virtual-connect-2?ref=b748cd994367#sponsors

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WEBINAR- A Data-Driven Approach to Smarter Deals: https://bit.ly/2VYRQiD

WEBINAR- State of the Supply Chain Report – Priorities for Building Resiliency in Your Supply Network: https://bit.ly/2XIRZHf

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Scott Luton and Karin Bursa. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/reducing-supply-chain-volatility-tt-709

In this episode of Digital Transformers on Supply Chain Now, host Kevin L. Jackson welcomes Trina Celeste LImpert with RizeNext to the podcast.

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WEBINAR- A Data-Driven Approach to Smarter Deals: https://bit.ly/2VYRQiD

WEBINAR- State of the Supply Chain Report – Priorities for Building Resiliency in Your Supply Network: https://bit.ly/2XIRZHf

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Kevin L. Jackson. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/transformation-diversity-equity-inclusion-708

Teams of all sizes are focused on providing the best experience they can for their customers, and they can’t do that today without investing in a specific digital experience. While many people have the technical skills to build a basic website, that is not the same as crafting a digital experience, a completely different approach that increases engagement and forms lasting bonds.

Zahir Palanpur and Stacey Warthen both work for Azul Arc, a digital product development and design company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Zahir is their CEO and Stacey is their VP of Design and Product Management. They emphasize the need to join each client on process of discovery, the goal of which is to better understand their user base before architecting a solution to meet their needs and interests.

In this conversation, Scott and Karin go on their own discovery journey with Zahir and Stacey to learn more about how to connect business objectives with digital user experiences:

• How they help customers visualize the opportunity associated with a redesigned digital customer or user experience

• The tools they use to capture how users actually interact with content and interfaces rather than just relying on selective reported feedback

• Knowing where to invest scarce creative energy so that the team gets the greatest ROI back from their redesign effort

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WEBINAR- A Data-Driven Approach to Smarter Deals: https://bit.ly/2VYRQiD

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Scott Luton and Karin Bursa. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/supply-chain-now-digital-strategies-707

The Supply Chain Buzz is Supply Chain Now’s regular Monday livestream, held at 12n ET each week. This show focuses on some of the leading stories from global supply chain and global business, always with special guests – the most important of which is the live audience!

In this episode of The Buzz, Supply Chain Now Co-hosts Scott Luton and Greg White welcome Kevin L. Jackson, Host of Digital Transformers, to discuss post-COVID supply chains and sustainability trends. As Kevin points out, all supply chain improvement initiatives – agility, sustainability, diversity, and inclusion – have to start with transparency.

To cover this week’s top stories, Scott, Greg, and Kevin engage with a live Monday audience to discuss:

• How companies are rethinking their digital transformation strategies based on what they learned over the last year

• Advancements in ‘digital on premise,’ from restaurants to airports, and what that is likely to mean for the customer experience going forward

• What is the best cut of steak, where should you go to order one, and is it acceptable to use steak sauce?

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Register for the 2021 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit: https://lnkd.in/dMYq3Rv

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WEBINAR- A Data-Driven Approach to Smarter Deals: https://bit.ly/2VYRQiD

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/supply-chain-buzz-kevin-jackson-706

When we think about logistics and supply chain, the first things that come to mind may be tractors and trailers, warehouses, and automation. But what really makes the supply chain possible are people; drivers who spend much of their life on the road away from friends and family so the rest of us get what we need when we go to the store. Beyond being absolutely invaluable to companies and the economy as whole, these drivers are in demand as shortages plague carriers of all types.

April Coolidge is a Professional Truck Driver with the Walmart Corporation. She recently received a special award – she was recognized by Walmart and PepsiCo as an Everyday Hero. She was also appointed to the American Trucking Associations’ 2019–20 America’s Road Team, being selected as 1 of 18 team members out of 3,600 qualified candidates.

In this conversation, Scott and Greg have the opportunity to talk to April and get a driver’s point of view on a number of supply chain topics:

• The number one thing companies can do to both retain their current drivers and recruit young new drivers to join their team

• What the drivers of passenger vehicles need to remember when they are sharing the road with a tractor trailer

• Some of the ‘courtesy signals’ that drivers of all vehicles can use to communicate and manage safe lane changes on congested highways

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Register for the 2021 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit: https://lnkd.in/dMYq3Rv

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WEBINAR- What You Can Learn From a Digital-First DTC Brand: Quip’s Omnichannel Evolution: https://bit.ly/2TFPS5j

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/april-coolidge-walmart-705

Maintaining an agile, robust supply chain during a global pandemic is challenging enough for any company. But when your organization delivers life-changing medicines and health supplies around the world? It’s time to double down. That's the story of MAP International, and this is your chance to hear it from Vice President of Global Giving Jodi Allison. In this episode of Logistics with Purpose, produced in partnership with Vector Global Logistics, hosts Enrique Alvarez and Kristi Porter welcome Jodi as she discusses the organization’s global impact, how to deliver quality PPE in a crisis, overcoming COVID-related logistics obstacles, and valued strategies for strengthening the supply chain moving forward.

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WEBINAR- What You Can Learn From a Digital-First DTC Brand: Quip’s Omnichannel Evolution: https://bit.ly/2TFPS5j

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Enrique Alvarez and Kristi Porter. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/one-night-only-map-international-704.

UPS may be known for their fleet of brown trucks but make no mistake – those trucks cover the last mile in a huge global logistics network. With 50 years of freight forwarding experience and service in over 1,600 countries, UPS is a formidable player in the global ocean freight landscape. As conditions change daily, shippers are weighing their options and re-examining the relative advantages of air and ocean freight.

Steve McMichael is the Vice President of UPS Ocean freight. Even though he’s been in the field for his entire career and has been based all over the world, economically speaking, he has never seen anything like the ocean freight conditions we are observing right now. Ports are congested, rail is congested, and driver shortages persist. How should shippers and consumers adjust their plans?

In this conversation, Scott and Greg get the latest observations and recommendations from Steve based on his unique perspective:

• How companies can work with their suppliers to manage purchase orders so that products and materials arrive on time, no matter how far they have to travel

• How the rate of returning containers to China is causing backups in distribution and potentially even affecting the holiday shopping season

• The critical need for ocean carriers to get better at forecasting minimum quantity commitments and lead times so shippers can make more informed decisions about freight

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Register for the 2021 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit: https://lnkd.in/dMYq3Rv

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WEBINAR- What You Can Learn From a Digital-First DTC Brand: Quip’s Omnichannel Evolution: https://bit.ly/2TFPS5j

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/supply-chain-now-ups-ocean-freight-703

In this episode of the Freight Insider, powered by Supply Chain Now, Page Siplon speaks with Griff Lynch, the Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority. Griff reveals how and why he started his career in maritime freight and what he has learned along the way. Griff has a unique perspective as he has more than 30 years of operational and commercial experience in the maritime industry.

As the leader of the Georgia Ports Authority, Griff oversees the nation’s third-busiest container port, which is reaching record TEU levels of 15% over last year. The Georgia Ports and inland barge terminals support over 490,000 jobs throughout the state of Georgia and contribute $29 billion in income, $122 billion in revenue and $3.4 billion in state and local taxes to the Georgia economy.

Griff Lynch also shares the journey of the Georgia Ports, including:

• How infrastructure investment is expanding capacity at the port and what that means for the Georgia economy as well as surrounding states

• What the completion of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project means for bigger ships coming to Georgia

• How inland rail facilities are broadening port reach while relieving pressure in trucking

• Creation of the One-Stop Dock, an on-terminal cross-dock facility

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WEBINAR- What You Can Learn From a Digital-First DTC Brand: Quip’s Omnichannel Evolution: https://bit.ly/2TFPS5j

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Page Siplon. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/griff-lynch-georgia-ports-authority-702/

In this episode of the Supply Chain Buzz, powered by OMNIA Partners on Supply Chain Now, Scott and Greg welcome Mike Griswold to the show, as they discuss the top news in supply chain this week.

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WEBINAR- What You Can Learn From a Digital-First DTC Brand: Quip’s Omnichannel Evolution: https://bit.ly/2TFPS5j

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/supply-chain-buzz-mike-griswold-omnia-partners-701.

Bulldog blood runs deep here at Supply Chain Now. Meanwhile, the Terry College of Business's Supply Chain Advisory Board continues to grow and flourish at the University of Georgia and beyond. So it's only natural that we'd join forces and hear from the next generation of supply chain leaders, starting with Elena Griggs and Jesse Bailey. We get their take on current trends and challenges, what they look for in an employer, and much more. Whether you're a student looking to learn more about educational opportunities in supply chain or simply curious to meet tomorrow's leaders and practitioners, this episode has something for you.

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WEBINAR- What You Can Learn From a Digital-First DTC Brand: Quip’s Omnichannel Evolution: https://bit.ly/2TFPS5j

2021 Supply Chain and Procurement Awards: https://lnkd.in/gxp7bQy

Download the 2021 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://bit.ly/3f1LO6S

This episode was hosted by Scott Luton, Troy Montgomery, and Mary Parker. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/scn-live-supply-chain-rising-stars-700.