Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast
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Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast is one of our projects focused on bringing some of the best thought leaders in the industry, pick their brains and share it with as many interested listeners as possible.
We want to connect you with global experts, thought leaders, and executives in all things value chain. We talk about Supply Chain's leading-edge technologies, leadership stories, and personal success habits.
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#128: Massimo Andolina, Senior Vice President Global Operations at Philip Morris International
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04/29/22 • 43 min
Massimo Andolina is the SVP Operations at Philip Morris International (PMI) since 2018. He joined the company in 2008 as Director Operations Planning and served in various VP roles thereafter, including VP PMI Business Transformation. Prior to joining PMI, Massimo held a variety of international positions in strategic marketing and general management for Tetra Pak and in operations for R.J. Reynolds.
PMI is a leading international tobacco company working to deliver a smoke-free future and evolving its portfolio for the long-term to include products outside of the tobacco and nicotine sector. Since 2008, PMI has invested more than USD 9 billion to develop, scientifically substantiate and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke, with the goal of completely ending the sale of cigarettes.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- Inflection points in Massimo’s career
- PMI’s transformation from a tobacco to an electronics company
- From a manufacturing-centric to a customer-centric supply chain
- What worked and what didn't in the transformation process
- Why the ability to learn and unlearn is key to PMI’s transformation
- Leap frogging supply chain and change management
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#99: Francisco Betti Head of Advanced Manufacturing and Production at World Economic Forum
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12/03/20 • 32 min
Francisco Betti joined the World Economic Forum in May 2015. He is an international development professional and is currently leading the platform for Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production, which was launched by the Forum at its Annual Meeting 2017, upon request of world-leading governments and companies. The platform is helping global leaders anticipate how advanced manufacturing technologies are transforming factories, business models and partnerships, and to understand the implications for the economy, society, and environment in order to shape a more inclusive future.
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan, or national interests.
Prior to joining the World Economic Forum, Francisco worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers SA in Geneva, Switzerland, primarily running management consulting projects for international organizations.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- Changes the pandemic has created across supply chains and manufacturing across the world.
- Geopolitical dimension of the global economy and innovation's massive acceleration.
- Next levels of transformation across different companies to fill in the gap that emerged on the supply side.
- Transformation of operations and business models
- Future of manufacturing and operations in terms of of artificial intelligence, robotics, analytics
- Resilience as a major competitive advantage
- Automation and augmentation as a major investment to adapt to the new normal
- Readiness for adapting to change
- things that companies can practically do to constantly upgrade
- Future of manufacturing and production in terms of different talents from across multiple industry
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#05: Tim Wickmann former CEO of MCC Maersk Part 3
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09/18/17 • 18 min
Tim Wickmann is the former CEO of MCC Transport Maersk.Tim Wickmann has 27 years career with A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. He served as vice-president in various portfolios for 10 years. In the last 9 years, he was the CEO of MCC, the intra-Asia shipping specialist. During his term, the company became one of the most successful organizations in the history, from humble beginnings, maybe to the 17th largest line of company in the world in terms of capacity, among top three feeders globally, operated 90 ships, and had over 600 staff in local agencies in 14 countries across Asia.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- How to build the number one shipping company in your industry from scratch
- On giving full independence to country managers – ‘Do anything you want as long as it is legal!’
- On being happy at work – “For 27 years, I have looked forward to going to work every single day. You need to be happy at work. Otherwise, it doesn’t work.”
- On superstitions and playing professional football. And how to handle 9 customer meetings in one day.
- How to react when your eyes stop working because of overwork and how to handle weeks of 13 hour work days.
- Why you should say No! to seemingly great opportunities.
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#190: Cost Reduction, Supplier Relationships and Innovation
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07/08/24 • 35 min
*Hosted by Radu Palamariu*
In this episode, I interviewed Frank McKay, Jabil's Chief Supply Chain and Procurement Officer. We discussed Frank's 30-year career journey in supply chain and procurement leadership, including key inflection points like gaining international experience and taking on new challenges. Frank also shared insights from his role at Jabil on topics like cost reduction strategies, developing strong supplier relationships, transforming the supply chain into a profit center, and the importance of hiring diverse talent and staying innovative to remain relevant.
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#05: Tim Wickmann former CEO of MCC Maersk Part 1
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09/18/17 • 41 min
Tim Wickmann is the former CEO of MCC Transport Maersk. Tim Wickmann has 27 years career with A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. He served as vice-president in various portfolios for 10 years. In the last 9 years, he was the CEO of MCC, the intra-Asia shipping specialist. During his term, the company became one of the most successful organizations in the history, from humble beginnings, maybe to the 17th largest line of company in the world in terms of capacity, among top three feeders globally, operated 90 ships, and had over 600 staff in local agencies in 14 countries across Asia.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- How to build the number one shipping company in your industry from scratch
- On giving full independence to country managers – ‘Do anything you want as long as it is legal!’
- On being happy at work – “For 27 years, I have looked forward to going to work every single day. You need to be happy at work. Otherwise, it doesn’t work.”
- On superstitions and playing professional football. And how to handle 9 customer meetings in one day.
- How to react when your eyes stop working because of overwork and how to handle weeks of 13 hour work days.
- Why you should say No! to seemingly great opportunities.
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#88: Andrew Kirkwood CEO of Blujay Solutions
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08/04/20 • 40 min
Andrew Kirkwood is Chief Executive Officer at BluJay Solutions. With 25 years of experience in the supply chain and SaaS market, Andrew provides leadership to the BluJay organization through the creation of vision, strategic, tactical, and financial plans, along with organizational and goal development, performance measurement, and liaising with stakeholders. He joined BluJay in January 2019 after a successful 14-year career at RedPrairie and JDA Software (now BlueYonder) in a number of senior roles.
BluJay Solutions helps companies around the world achieve excellence in logistics and trade compliance - it’s in our DNA. Through a blend of Data, Networks, and Applications, delivered in the BluJay Way, our DNA platform powers the Frictionless Supply Chain for thousands of the world’s leading manufacturers, retailers, distributors, freight forwarders, customs brokers, carriers, and logistics service providers – 7,500+ customers. BluJay conducts business in 112 countries, has 1,200+ employees worldwide, and powers a global network of over 50,000 customers, carriers, freight forwarders, and service providers. With BluJay, 1.9 billion transportation transactions are processed, and 4.5 billion boxes shipped annually. Over 58 million electronic customs declarations are cleared annually using BluJay’s global customs solutions.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- [08:14] The collaboration between LLamasoft and BluJay
- [12:09] Creating a freight market index with spot capacity pricing and made it available to everyone – this lead to keeping prices down for the consumers.
- [13:11] 40% volume search spike in demand on their transportation solution – this made the Christmas period look insignificant.
- [14:20] BluJay has 1300 associates working remotely – just finished their first quarter and they exceeded all of our targets
- [23:24] Releasing 5 new products during lockdown – the importance of innovation – hackathons and collaboration with partners
- [26:12] A culture based on transparency: “A problem shared is a problem solved”
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#113: Emer Cunningham, VP Internal Medicine Global Supply Chain at Pfizer
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05/03/21 • 37 min
Emer has +20 years of experience in the pharma industry across manufacturing, engineering, operational excellence, and supply chain. Her experience in operational excellence saw her gain extensive experience in value stream improvement of global products, project coaching, training delivery, and support for lean transformation. Furthermore, in product portfolio management she was responsible for strategic supply chain design and identified and executed cross-functional, strategic projects.
She has been with Pfizer for over 20 years in various roles. And in her current role for close to 2.5 years as Vice President Internal Medicine Global Supply Chain.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- Her own career from a chemical engineer to lean and ops excellence and now to the world of supply chain
- Examples of how Pfizer manages their Internal Medicine division, with 400 products and 9000 unique SKUs
- What keeps Emer up at night
- What skills are most needed
- Best career advice that she received (it does link to stop the overthinking)
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#114: Susan Johnson, EVP Global Connections and Supply Chain at AT&T
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05/28/21 • 41 min
Susan Johnson is the Executive Vice President of Global Connections & Supply Chain for AT&T.
In this capacity, she is responsible for AT&T’s international & domestic strategy and partnership development for network connections. She also leads Supply Chain functions within AT&T Communications supporting the Entertainment Group, Business Services, and Technology and Operations. Her team manages strategic sourcing, purchasing, supplier diversity, sustainability, and supply chain logistics. Jointly, her organization is responsible for a spend portfolio of over $70B that covers all of AT&T’s network and goods & services, domestically & internationally.
Ms. Johnson began working for AT&T in Corporate Development and over her 20-year career has served in a variety of positions within the AT&T portfolio of companies.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- Her own career and how the many jobs in banking, finance, investor relations, strategy helped her in her supply chain role
- Challenges with chip shortages and how is AT&T tackling it
- COVID-19 has disrupted the retail channel – how has AT&T adapted to this via direct to consumer model, self installations, etc
- A big challenge across the chain is a lack of trust between the different parties – what can be done to address it
- Supplier diversity and how to achieve it
- Supply chain skills of the future and best career advice
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#100: Pier Luigi Sigismondi President at Dole Packaged Foods
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12/10/20 • 45 min
For over 20 years, Pier-Luigi Sigismondi has worked at the intersection of purpose-led brands and value creation for the business. He is a strong believer in the proactive role companies can play against climate change, social equality, and inclusion when doing business.
As President of Dole Worldwide Packaged Foods, a 169 year-old-brand, he is leading a profound transformation, with a vision to make it an iconic Nutrition and Wellness company. One that is driven by purpose, globally.
Prior to Dole, Pier-Luigi was the President of Unilever for South East Asia and Australasia. He joined Unilever and its Executive Board in 2009. Before joining Unilever, Pier-Luigi was Vice President of Corporate Operations Strategies at Nestle’ SA (CH) and VP Operations and R&D Nestle’ Mexico.
He has served as Non-Executive Director of Rexel SA Supervisory Board and was a Board Member of Ben & Jerry’s, one of the brightest purpose-led brands.
In August 2020, Pier Luigi was appointed non-Executive Chairman of Sustenir, a vertical farming start-up based in Singapore committed to delivering triple-bottom-line value to Temasek and other future strategic investors committed to the urban farming industry.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- How Pier Luigi made the switch from being Unilever Chief Supply Chain officer to a CEO role
- The importance of purpose beyond buzz words
- How COVID-19 affected sustainability within different companies
- Driving and selling sustainability
- Carbon emission in transportation and manufacturing
- Developing CEOs from supply chain
- Shaping cultures in different organizations
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#63: Christian Lanng CEO of Tradeshift
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11/27/19 • 40 min
Christian Lanng is CEO, Co-founder, and Chairman at Tradeshift. He started his first technology company at age 19 and was the youngest Head of Division in the Danish Government, National IT and Telecom Agency, where he co-founded and led the Danish Nemhandel Project (EasyTrade), the world’s first open-source peer-to-peer trade platform.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- How Tradeshift started in a garage in Denmark
- Connecting 90% of the companies in Denmark through easyTrade
- Going in 100 countries within 6 months
- How Tradeshift differs from its competitors
- “Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint”
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How many episodes does Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast have?
Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast currently has 206 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Career Advice, People, Management, Leadership, Supply Chain, Podcasts, Business and Careers.
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The episode title '#132: Roberto Canevari, EVP and CSCO at The Estée Lauder Companies' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast is 41 minutes.
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Episodes of Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast are typically released every 8 days.
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The first episode of Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast was released on Jul 25, 2017.
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