At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Fred Stahl, a Senior Director with Dot Compliance, about the importance of bringing all the QA/QC processes pharmaceutical manufacturers already apply in their own operations out to their partners and suppliers. Building visibility and transparency up and down the value chain so Quality can be monitored, controlled, documented, and regulated is of vital importance to every business in this increasingly collaborative industry. How are leading companies applying new tools and technologies to assist themselves and their external partners achieve their objectives? Give this episode a listen to learn more!

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Dot Compliance offers the industry’s first ready to use Quality Management Solution powered by the Salesforce.com platform. The Dot Compliance Suite includes an extensive set of off-the-shelf ready quality and compliance pre-configured processes, enabling customers to deploy quickly and cost-effectively. Dot Compliance ready-to-use solutions include full project validation services and product validation packages and are fully compliant with 21 CFR part 11, EU-Annex 11 and support ISO 9001, 13485, 14971, and 27001.

Eliminating costly customization and professional service fees, Dot Compliance ready-to-use solutions allow life science organizations to quickly deploy and manage processes such as Controlled Documents, Training Management, CAPA, Customer Complaints, Audits, Supplier Quality, Risk Management, Equipment and Maintenance, BOM and more.

Dot Compliance offers the industry’s most cost-effective quality and compliance management solution available, allowing users to easily deploy flexible and scalable solutions.

www.dotcompliance.com

At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we sat down with Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies to talk about what the fruits of Digital Transformation can really offer the shopfloor. In the changing business landscape of high turnover in a tight labor market, manufacturers are refocusing and redoubling their efforts to empower frontline workers to improve productivity without increasing headcount, document and retain institutional knowledge, and free workers from boring, uncomfortable, and repetitive tasks to do more interesting and valuable work. Give this episode a listen!

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Willem Sundblad is the co-founder and CEO of Oden Technologies, a company empowering manufacturers to make more, waste less, and innovate faster through machine learning and applied analytics. He is a Forbes.com contributing writer and a recognized leading voice in manufacturing analytics. He is pioneering the use of real-time and predictive analytic tools that uncover untapped value. Sundblad aims to transform the manufacturing industry by digitizing, analyzing, and perfecting peak factory performance. In his spare time, he takes every chance he gets to enjoy the mountains, either skiing, hiking, or climbing.

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Oden Technologies is a manufacturing analytics platform that helps manufacturers find the best actions to take and enables them to take those actions faster to improve operations. Oden leverages existing automation, quality, and business data to highlight areas for process improvement and recommends changes to process settings to improve performance and quality. Utilizing predictive analytics, Oden helps operations maintain ideal performance and avoid producing scrap. With a pre-built platform and machine learning models, Oden provides ROI to customers in under 60 days and can be scaled across a global enterprise in 12 months.

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At North American Food Safety & Quality 2022 held in Chicago, we spoke with Warren Hojnacki, SGS North America's Regional Manager for Midwestern Plain States, about a topic of primary importance to every FSQ professional: Risk, especially as it manifests itself in the supply chain. What should Food Safety and Food Quality leaders be doing to better identify and mitigate risks in their supply chains proactively? How is technology changing the nature of some of the existing best practices? What does training QA/QC people throughout a supply chain to use new tools and gather and communicate data look like? How should organizations benchmark their capabilities against others to spot gaps and opportunities for improvement? Give this episode a listen to learn more.

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SGS North America. As the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, SGS leads the way in food safety, successfully delivering innovative, client-focused solutions including product testing, research and development, auditing & certification and training. Our solutions which span across the entire supply chain from primary production to retail and hospitality, help you mitigate risk, improve quality and sustainability and build consumer trust and confidence. With our global reach and local touch, we translate global standards into local solutions, helping to improve food standards around the world.

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At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series held January 31st through February 1st in Austin, Texas,  we spoke with Allister Furey, Co-Founder & CEO and Sylvera Ltd, about the Carbon Market and what organizations of all shapes and sizes need to know about the quality and availability of the carbon credits available on a rapidly evolving market as they create and manage their carbon offset strategy. For every business leader looking to learn more about this important topic, give this episode a listen!

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Allister Furey is a repeat entrepreneur with a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA from London Business School. As well as 10 years developing technology in the renewables industry, he has built and operated business units in Asia, Continental Europe and the UK.

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Sylvera is the leading carbon credit ratings company. We help corporate sustainability leaders, traders and asset managers confidently evaluate and invest in high quality carbon credits. By creating the first carbon intelligence platform, Sylvera is raising the bar on project accounting and analysis, and introducing a much needed source of truth for carbon markets. We are backed by renowned investors like Index Ventures, Insight Partners, LocalGlobe and Salesforce Ventures.

www.sylvera.com

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we spoke with Michael Conley, a Technology Consulting Advisor with Wolters Kluwer, on Integrated Business Planning and its growing role in the world of supply chain professionals. How should organizations rethink their decision-making and planning to bring department heads together? How should teams share information and data to have a clear picture of shared objectives and obstacles? How can Finance be moved from a gatekeeper and final arbitrator into an equal partner and collaborator as supply chain leaders work day-to-day and think in the long-term? It is a fascinating and important idea, and it may well be the future of most businesses. Give this episode a listen, and see what you think.

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Michael Conley is a seasoned Supply Chain professional with over three decades of experience in industry and management consulting. His career spans industries from Food & Beverage, Retail, and Consumer Goods to Electronics, Chemicals, and Industrial Manufacturing, plus extensive work in Corporate ESG within the technology sector.  Michael has robust, end-to-end expertise across the Supply Chain, including Forecasting & Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Inventory Management, Manufacturing & Operations, Logistics, and Procurement. Recognized for leading enterprise-wide transformations that deliver maximum operational and financial performance, Michael consistently drives disparate functional groups into cohesive, connected planning teams.

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Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services. Our award-winning CCH® Tagetik global expert solution enables CFOs and their peers to propel their strategy with faster and better-informed decisions. With embedded AI-based intelligence, CCH® Tagetik unifies and streamlines supply chain planning, financial planning, financial close, and regulatory compliance processes. Wolters Kluwer, headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, serves customers in over 180 countries, employs approximately 19,800 people, and reported 2021 annual revenues of €4.7 billion.

www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/cch-tagetik/supply-chain-planning

Robbie Friedman has a law degree from the University of Michigan and worked as a lawyer for a few years before launching a start-up dedicated to bringing better transparency and communication to the attorney-client relationship. After selling that business, Robbie co-founded ootBox, a company that takes shipping containers and turns them into moveable, temporary, and beautiful workspaces that can be set up anywhere. ootBox has been featured on Shark Tank, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, the New York Times, and Architectural Digest. 

In this interview we talk about entrepreneurship, the power and importance of customer-centricity, and what it's like pitching a business successfully on Shark Tank is like. Give it a listen!

At North American Food Safety & Quality 2022 held in Chicago, we spoke with Gary Iles and Paul Bradley of TraceGains about the need to build supply chain agility and resiliency into how the Food industry works, and how understanding the data drives timely decision-making that keeps customers safe and happy. What does that look like in real terms? How is the work of FSQ professionals changing to better understand what is going on in their supply chains and how that impacts their products and the public at large? How are Food companies partnering with one other to communicate and coordinate their information, and what role do service and solution providers like TraceGains play in building and empowering that network?

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Gary Iles
SVP of Marketing and Business Development
TraceGains

Gary Iles is a technology leader and pioneer who has spent his career designing categories and innovating customer experiences. Whether via software applications or buying journeys, he brings a portfolio of successful experiences challenging the status quo and catalyzing industry change.

Having recently joined TraceGains as their SVP Marketing and Business Development, he’s embraced the concepts in Play Bigger to share an exciting new vision that TraceGains is creating for the CPG industry. Mr. Iles has led concept-through-deployment efforts of industry leading billing analytics software, award winning customer portal designs, and advanced unified collaboration SaaS applications. At his previous three companies, he’s helped Sales teams achieve consistent growth through creative, disciplined, and integrated marketing tactics. He’s driven high double-digit revenue growth in start-ups, mid and even large cap companies by reinventing brand strategies to create “blue oceans” and new solution categories. He’s worked on M&A and transition teams, with experience participating in two successful liquidity events.

Mr. Iles believes that great people are attracted to great purpose, and that the best teams emerge from a dedication to bold, impactful missions designed to leapfrog technology. He’s operated and led teams EMEA and APAC, holding executive roles over Marketing, Partners, Product and Sales, a breadth of responsibilities that has afforded him perspective and empathy for the challenges facing all departments attempting to win the hearts and wallet-votes of markets.

Paul Bradley
Sr. Director of Product Marketing
TraceGains

Paul is a veteran product development and product marketing professional with over twenty years in the technology and consulting industries, with a longstanding focus on the food and beverage, restaurant, and retail verticals. He has worked with, and learned from, some of the largest and most dynamic brands in the industry and is a passionate but pragmatic advocate for the power of technology to help businesses achieve the resiliency and scale necessary to thrive in a complex global marketplace.

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TraceGains is a rapidly growing software company, delivering a sophisticated suite of products for food, beverage, and CPG companies. TraceGains solutions empower our customers to satisfy compliance with regulations and industry standards such as FSMA, GFSI, and HACCP/HARPC, without the need for additional staff.

At the heart of TraceGains is a robust platform that enables companies to automate and optimize their processes through instant information sharing and collaboration between supply chain partners, which saves time and improves food safety and quality. TraceGains is leading the charge to revolutionize information exchange across the supply chain.

www.tracegains.com

At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Jon Emery, a Sr. Solutions Engineer with Aizon, about the biopharmaceutical industry's urgent need to break down data silos between manufacturers and their CMO and CDMO partners. As the capacity crunch continues to bottleneck the pipeline of new medicines and therapies, more and more companies are working with contract manufacturers, but tech transfer, QA/QC, regulatory compliance, and a wide range of other information can find itself living with one organization or the other and only being intermittently and incompletely shared. How should the industry work to address this issue?

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Aizon is an AI software provider that transforms manufacturing operations with the use of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other smart factory technologies focused on optimizing production and quality within highly regulated industries. The Aizon platform seamlessly integrates unlimited sources of structured and unstructured data to deliver actionable insights across all manufacturing sites. Aizon offers an intuitive way to gain meaningful operational intelligence by enabling real-time visibility and predictive insights in a GxP compliant manner with end-to-end data integrity.

www.aizon.ai

Human Resources as a discipline, as a profession, and as a business function is always evolving, and there has been dramatic change in recent years. In this interview we speak with Dr. Steven Hunt about his new book, Talent Tectonics, which explores navigating global workforce shifts, building resilient organizations, and reimagining the employee experience, all within the context of the large socioeconomic forces that shape the business landscape like glaciers moving slowly but surely across a continent. HR professionals and senior executives can no more stop these forces than turn back glaciers, but they can see them coming, understand their power, and plan accordingly. It is a fantastic discussion about issues that matter to every organization as told by one of the top thought leaders in the field. Give this one a listen!

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Dr. Steven T. Hunt is a recognized expert on strategic human resources who has had a pivotal role in developing systems that have improved productivity and engagement for millions of employees working for hundreds of companies across five continents. His work focuses on helping companies increase workforce agility and performance through improving employee experience, development, engagement, inclusion, and well-being.

He has experience as an advisory board member for the Society of Human Resource Management, the Workforce Institute, the Journal of Management, and other talent management organizations. He has written more than 100 articles and three books. 

Steve holds a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from The Ohio State University, a B.A. in applied mathematics and psychology from the University of California, San Diego, as well as certification as a Strategic Professional of Human Resources from the Society of Human Resource Management. 

At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series held January 31st through February 1st in Austin, Texas,  we spoke with Matt Helgeson, Siemens' Head of Sustainability, Siemens USA, about the power of the Digital Revolution in helping organizations understand and improve their ESG performance as part of the larger movement in all industries to harness the power of their data to make informed and impactful decisions quickly where they will do the most good. Siemens helps businesses of all shapes and sizes on their Sustainability journey with a wide range of tools, tactics, technologies, and technical expertise. Siemens can also speak from its own experience as a multinational conglomerate and one of the largest manufacturing companies in Europe with a long track record of reducing its impact while also gathering the performance metrics that matter most in a holistic approach to doing better and being better both now and into the future.

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Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, we create technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, we empower our customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people.

www.siemens.com