The SupplyChainBrain Podcast

By Bob BowmanBusiness Technology

The SupplyChainBrain Podcast episodes

December 09, 2020 What It Takes to Make Direct-to-Consumer Fulfillment Work
Retailers selling over the internet can’t hope to compete without a reliable and effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for fulfillment. But setting one up is anything but easy. Read more.
26 min
December 03, 2020 Bridging the Generation Gap in U.S. Manufacturing
If U.S. manufacturing is to compete with cheap overseas production, it needs to attract a younger workforce with technology chops.
20 min
November 19, 2020 Supply-Chain Finance: A Life Preserver for Small Suppliers?
21 min
November 11, 2020 Out With Conveyors, In With Autonomous Mobile Robots
The humble conveyor is no longer the symbol of warehouse automation. The robots are here.
We’ve seen countless iterations of technology for automating warehouses and factories over the decades, but somehow the conveyor remained the essence of that evolution. Until now. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are increasingly supplanting conveyors in the warehouse. They’re far more flexible and varied in the tasks they can perform, and more suitable for meeting the demanding needs of omnichannel retailing. On this episode, we discuss the development of AMRs with Wes Reid, senior vice president of products and operations with IAM Robotics. We learn how these units are serving warehouses large and small. And we tackle the question of whether humans will have a role to play in the increasingly automated warehouse of the future. Hosted by Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief of SupplyChainBrain.
This episode is sponsored by IAM Robotics.
Show notes:
A blog post from IAM Robotics: “The Rise of Autonomous Mobile Robots.”
20 min
November 05, 2020 Are There Positive Signs of Economic Recovery?
22 min
October 29, 2020 A U.S. Producer Challenges China’s Dominance in Rare Earth Mining
The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is.
21 min
October 21, 2020 Massive Changes Are Happening Across the Retail Landscape
22 min
October 14, 2020 Strategies for Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S.
Easier said than done: that pretty well describes the task of shifting manufacturing out of China and back to the United States.
21 min
October 07, 2020 Blockchain for the Supply Chain: In the Pandemic and Beyond
Easier said than done: that pretty well describes the task of shifting manufacturing out of China and back to the United States.
20 min
September 30, 2020 Once, Nothing Was AI. Now, Everything Is.
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in global business today, especially in the supply chain. But what exactly is this thing called “AI”?
24 min

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The SupplyChainBrain Podcast features in-depth conversations with industry practitioners, academics, consultants and other experts on every aspect of supply-chain management and international trade.…