At the 2021 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit  series held September 14th and 15th in Chicago we spoke with Neal Goffman of Vanguard Software, part of Wolters Kluwer, on how supply chain planning is changing, and what companies can and should do with these new capabilities to best navigate the evolving business landscape.

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Neal Goffman
Vice President
Vanguard Software, part of Wolters Kluwer

Neal Goffman has over 15 years of experience in the SaaS industry, taking products through the entire cycle from concept to delivery. Before joining Vanguard, Goffman contributed to several successful start-up exits and he was an innovation leader at IBM, overseeing delivery of IBM Watson projects for the public sector, including such domains as artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and advanced analytics.

Wolters Kluwer (WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with advanced technology and services. Vanguard Software is now a part of Wolters Kluwer, aligned with the CCH® Tagetik portfolio of corporate performance management solutions. Global Fortune 500 to mid-market companies across every major industry rely on the Vanguard Predictive Planning™ platform to optimize end-to-end integrated business planning and deliver more resilient supply chains. Vanguard’s advanced algorithmic modeling, automated workflows, and cloud-based collaboration enable companies to save time, reduce costs and drive increased predictability in their demand, supply, sales and financial planning. To find out more visit www.vanguardsw.com.

At the 2021 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit  series held September 14th and 15th in Chicago we spoke with Joe Buckley and Jon Holztrager of the University of Tennessee on how their approach to supply chain education —particularly for executives already working in the field— differs from other post-secondary institutions.

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The Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, shapes and influences the practice of supply chain management by serving as the preeminent global hub for leading practitioners, academics, and students to learn, network, and connect. With over 1,200 SCM students, supply chain management was the No. 1 major at UT based on number of degrees granted in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Our faculty and programs are also consistently ranked among the top in the nation. Our engagement with industry fuels our research and colors the curriculum we teach. By partnering with industry leaders, GSCI ensures our students have access to the best resources, and that our teaching and research focus on critical real-world issues.

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At the 2021 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit  series held September 14th and 15th in Chicago we spoke with Mike Erickson, CEO of AFMS LCC, about how the global pandemic impacted shippers, how they have adjusted their businesses to cope with changing demand and capacity, how those changes impact supply chain executives, and what companies need to know as they negotiate for their ability to continue to do business effectively in the post-COVID world.

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Mike Erickson
CEO
AFMS LLC

Mike Erickson Founded AFMS LLC in 1992 and serves as its President. Mr. Erickson started his transportation career at Airborne Express where he was one of the top district sales managers. Mr. Erickson oversees the contract negotiation process for many of his firm’s larger clients, saving them millions in transportation costs. Many of AFMS’ clients are Fortune 1000 companies. Some of the conferences Mr. Erickson has recently presented at include; CSCMP, MAILCOM, NCOF, Parcel Shipping & Distribution, AIMED, WERC, D/C Expo, and many others. In addition to speaking, Mr. Erickson has authored over 30 articles for many of the industry’s top magazines and periodicals. Mr. Erickson often quoted and interviewed in publications and in the media such as NBC News with Tom Brokaw, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Traffic World, American Shipper Magazine, MAIL Magazine, Journal of Commerce and many others. In addition, Mr. Erickson is a frequent Guest Lecturer at the University of Oregon and Portland State University’s School of Business. While at PSU, he served as the student body President. Mr. Erickson is one of the industry’s most sought after speakers. He presents at approximately 20 trade shows a year and has received the top speaker award at many of them. Mr. Erickson is a graduate of the Portland State University School of Business.

For 29 years AFMS has helped over 3,000 companies reduce their shipping costs by 15-25%. Specializing in transportation benchmarking, carrier contract negotiations, full RFP and RFQ support for carrier optimization & invoice auditing, for all modes of transportation. Our expert team of former carrier pricing executives and strategists from UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, Hyundai, US lines, Panalpina, Topocean and the major LTL carriers has over 500 years of combined industry experience. AFMS will provide a NO Charge full shipping analysis and profile of where you stand in the market today.

www.afms.com

North American Manufacturing Excellent Summit 2021 was held virtually due to COVID19, but that did not prevent hundreds of senior manufacturing executives and the service and solution providers relevant to their interests from coming together to network, benchmark, learn, and share with one another during what has been a difficult year in uncharted business territory.

In this interview, Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies shares some of his expertise on, “Intelligent Industrial Automation: How Manufacturers can Leverage Pre-Built Machine Learning to Leverage Existing Data and Drive Fast Time to Value.”

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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 Industrial IoT. 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 leverages your existing assets and systems to help manufacturers optimize production. As a ready to use platform, Oden works out of the box and provides value from day one by making it easy to access your data and solve problems. Oden’s pre-built machine learning models help customers drive fast performance and quality improvements by identifying and prescribing process settings to utilize on a continuous basis. Predictive intelligent alerting ensures operations can proactively avoid making bad product before it is too late.

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North American Manufacturing Excellent Summit 2021 was held virtually due to COVID19, but that did not prevent hundreds of senior manufacturing executives and the service and solution providers relevant to their interests from coming together to network, benchmark, learn, and share with one another during what has been a difficult year in uncharted business territory.

In this interview, Justin Woody and Gary Liebowitz of Claroty share some of their experiences and insights on how the new generation of powerful interconnected digital tools that is transforming manufacturing requires a new generation of cyber security, and how IT and OT leaders need to work together to address that reality.

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Justin Woody is the Director of Innovation Claroty.  Prior to joining Claroty, he ran the FireEye ICS Managed Services Practice and was responsible for monitoring threat actors within critical infrastructure environments.

Justin received his MBA from University of Maryland, his undergraduate degree in Applied Physics.  He holds numerous certifications in networking, security and systems administration.

Gary Leibowitz is a Technology Executive with extensive and diversified international experience in high tech Consulting, Product Management and Business Development.

Gary’s experience includes VP positions at BMC, General Manager of Panda Security USA, EVP at Dexa Systems and Director, Americas at Claroty. Over the past 15 years, Gary has been focusing on Industrial Cybersecurity, directly involved in major projects protecting critical infrastructure with some of the largest global organizations.

Currently Gary is Advisor board member of SecurityGate.io, AuthMind and Board member of ThreatGen and The Houston Chapter of InfraGard.

Claroty is the industrial cybersecurity company. Trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, Claroty helps customers reveal, protect, and manage their OT, IoT, and IIoT assets. The company’s comprehensive platform connects seamlessly with customers’ existing infrastructure and programs while providing a full range of industrial cybersecurity controls for visibility, threat detection, risk and vulnerability management, and secure remote access—all with a significantly reduced total cost of ownership. Claroty is backed and adopted by leading industrial automation vendors, with an expansive partner ecosystem and award-winning research team. The company is headquartered in New York City and has a presence in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America, and deployments on all seven continents.

To learn more, visit www.claroty.com

In this episode, get insights on:

• How the pandemic has impacted operating structures
• Management Systems during a crisis: Leaning in VS Building New
• Data Literacy: Building the framework to deliver meaningful innovation
• Creating a “Thermostatic Management System”

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Shane Yount
President at Competitive Solutions, Inc.

Shane A. Yount is a nationally recognized thought leader, author, and President of Competitive Solutions, Inc., an international Business Transformation consulting firm which pioneered the acclaimed organizational development system known as Process Based Leadership® – A business transformation methodology designed to create a sustainable culture of clarity, connectivity, and consistency through the use of Non-Negotiable Business Processes.

Shane began his career with Perdue Farms, Inc.  Having performed such roles as Front Line Supervisor, Site Operations Manager, Quality Manager, Director of Human Resources, and Corporate Continuous Improvement Champion, Shane brings extensive experience in every aspect of organizational dynamics.  His “Real World” process driven approach to creating and sustaining high performance has led leaders across the world to embrace the Process Based Leadership® methodology as a core operating system in driving organizational focus, urgency, and accountability.

Since 1991 he has led the offices of Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI), personally working with such organizations as Michelin, Genentech, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, the Department of Defense, and many others. His three books, “Buried Alive: Digging out of the Management Dumpster,” “Leaving Your Leadership Legacy” and “Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success” are required reading in many organizations.

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Competitive Solutions, Inc., (CSI) is an international consulting/software firm serving fortune 500 companies since 1991. Our globally recognized transformation platforms of Process Based Leadership® (PBL), Visuant® and Leadership GPS®  have been the solution of choice in such organizations as 3M, Rust-oleum, Colgate, Alcon, BP, Revlon, Zoetis and countless others. CSI’s proven capabilities around Colleague Engagement, Robust and Sustainable Metrics that Matter, Visible and Personal Accountability Systems and Communications Cadence that move the business forward, have made us the consulting partner of choice for virtually every industry. CSI  also offers Visuant® a web-based, multi-lingual easy-to-use, balanced and business performance software solution that incorporates an accountability system, communication process and a robust scorecard system.  Drive Business Execution with a Single Source of Truth- Visuant®.

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The 2020 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit was held virtually due to COVID19, but that did not prevent hundreds of industry leaders from coming together to network, benchmark, learn, and share with one another during what has been a difficult year for everyone. 

One of the key topics discussed was work being done on COVID19 vaccines, and this interview is no exception. Gary Hutchinson of Modality Solutions has been working with his clients to simulate how therapies can survive being transported from where they are made to where they are needed. Modality Solutions' expertise in designing and understanding the supply chains underpinning the pharmaceutical industry is second to none, and Gary's insights will help companies save time and avoid losing product as the world waits for delivery of life-saving therapies.

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Gary Hutchinson is president of Modality Solutions and has led our organization since its founding in 2011. Over the last two decades, he has designed and managed biopharmaceutical cold chains for best-in-class organizations. His professional focus is on environmentally-controlled logistics management: shock, vibration, pressure, humidity and temperature-sensitive biologics, medical devices, including tissue heart valves and perfusion systems, and pharmaceuticals.

Gary is an industry leader in cold chain optimization and a regulatory submission expert in the global biopharmaceutical industry. In 2019, he was invited and admitted to the prestigious Forbes Technology Council.

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Modality Solutions is the leading biopharmaceutical cold chain engineering firm in the world. We combine three types of firms into a single source of expertise for your cold chain management integration: a cold chain regulatory filing authority, a logistics network operations team, and an integrated experienced staffing firm. Services include ensuring compliance with cold chain regulations, delivering cold chain thermal packaging design/qualification and controlled-environment logistics solutions, conducting transport simulation testing, providing staffing augmentation, decreasing development cycle times for faster route-to-market, developing transport validation strategies to support global regulatory applications and supporting clinical trial operations. Modality Solution’s Advantage Transport Simulation Laboratory™ concurrently exposes product and packaging to all five environmental hazards – temperature, shock, vibration, humidity, and pressure as they occur during real-world distribution.

www.modality-solutions.com

North American Food Safety & Quality 2020 was held virtually due to COVID19, but that did not prevent hundreds of food safety, quality, and compliance professionals from coming together to network, benchmark, learn, and share with one another during what has been a difficult year in uncharted business territory.

In this interview, Peter Jardine of Bayer Digital Pest Management talks about how the Internet of Things is offering exciting new tools to address the insect and rodent challenges all food companies face. A sea change of improved results and documentation as well as reduced costs and time commitments is underway, and Peter has a number of insights to share about how companies can best incorporate these new capabilities into their existing and ongoing pest management programs.

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Bayer Digital Pest Management

Bayer is the global leader in product supply to the pest management industry. In collaboration with the pest management industry, Bayer has created a rodent monitoring system which can transform traditional pest services from reactive, weekly trap checking to proactive, 24×7 monitoring and data driven integrated pest management.

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The 2020 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit was held virtually due to COVID19, but that did not prevent hundreds of industry leaders from coming together to network, benchmark, learn, and share with one another during what has been a difficult year in uncharted business territory.

In this interview, Matt Balzola of Breakthrough offers a bold suggestion: The traditional annual RFP process is hopelessly outdated; it costs companies time and money they can save by using the information they now have at their fingertips to react in real-time and work with their shippers and carriers as things happen rather than as part of an annual cycle. How should supply chain leaders rethink their processes? Where do you start, and what does real change look like? Listen to this interview to find out!

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Matt Balzola is the Vice President of Go To Market at Breakthrough, a global transportation energy & information management company. Breakthrough is most notably known for its Fuel Recovery program which enables shippers to reduce the cost, consumption, and emissions associated with fuel in their supply chains.

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Breakthrough is the expert in managing the energy and information that fuels the movement of goods globally. We use our patented technology and industry knowledge to create transportation energy and supply chain management strategies for the world’s leading shippers. We remove the waste associated with distorted supply chain practices and reveal data-driven insights to give our clients a competitive advantage in their supply chains.

www.breakthroughfuel.com

Thought Process is our new series about effective leadership. This conversation is in Q&A format. Get an overview of how the financial crisis in 2008 influenced PepsiCo's 2020 Vision, Michael's expat experience restructuring PepsiCo's Asia, Middle East, and Africa business unit, and collaborating across regions, leading through disruption, and competing in China, and much more.