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Food Visibility and Traceability — A Conversation with Louis-Olivier Roy of OPTEL Group
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11/10/23 • 15 min
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At North American Food Safety & Quality 2023 we sat down with Louis-Olivier Roy of OPTEL Group to talk about one of the most important challenges and opportunities facing FSQ professional today: Being able to see their products from one end of the value chain to the other. New regulations are coming online that demand Food Safety and Quality teams be able to document everything that happens to the food under their responsibility, but beyond compliance, knowing the quality and quantity of goods at all stages of the journey from farm to fork offer a wide range of advantages and capabilities that generate real ROI. In an evolving regulatory environment where getting data from suppliers is going beyond a best practice to become a requirement, what does treating compliance as the starting point rather than the finish line look like? How can FSQ data collected at this granular level help other parts of the business achieve their goals as well? For all this and more, give this episode a listen!
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OPTEL has a proven track record of over 30 years in providing end-to-end and highly granular traceability solutions that enable companies to unlock the potential of intelligent and agile supply chains.
OptchainTM, OPTEL’s flagship traceability and decision-making solution, connects all stakeholders across the value chain to ensure complete, real-time visibility. It helps to boost supply chain performance and resilience, and resolve operational challenges related to supply and demand balancing. What’s more, it provides the tools businesses require to accurately measure greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), their carbon footprints, and an array of other detailed data to achieve their ESG targets and comply with regulatory standards.
For decades, OPTEL has helped companies in a wide range of industries digitalize their supply chains, including the pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, mining, agrochemicals, residual materials, and many more.
Founded in 1989, OPTEL is a Certified B Corporation headquartered in Canada, with facilities in Germany, Ireland, India and Brazil, as well as employees worldwide.
www.optelgroup.com
Striking the Balance Between Risk, Cost, and Control — A Conversation with Pieter de Wit of BCI Global
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10/18/24 • 19 min
At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Pieter de Wit of BCI Global to discuss how companies who are rethinking their footprint, updating their supply chain networks, and preparing themselves for future growth are thinking through issues of risk management, cost control, and the ability to act upon decisions quickly in a rapidly evolving business landscape. There are so many variables, so many pros and cons to think through, and of course choices made today will resonate long into the future. How do senior leaders responsible for plotting the course of their organization make informed choices on these issues? What are the important questions they need to ask, and who can they rely upon to give them nuanced answers built on real data? How are these conversations changing over time, and what does planning for the future look like in an age of disruption and volatility? For all this and more, give this episode a listen!
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Pieter de Wit
Partner
BCI Global
Pieter de Wit studied Supply Chain Management at the Transport Academy in Venlo and the TIAS (MBA) in Tilburg, the Netherlands and has been associated with BCI Global since 2021.
Pieter has fulfilled various leadership roles for decades at large logistics service providers both nationally and internationally (particularly in Asia: Hong Kong 5 years, Shanghai 5 years and Singapore 5 years). He is an expert in supply chain optimization and logistics outsourcing in various sectors, both up-stream (mostly control towers) and down-stream (with many e-fulfillment solutions recently).
Over the years, Pieter has led dozens of projects and operations. Examples are: Amazon, L'Oréal, LVMH, FastRetail, Lego, SC Johnson, JnJ, 3M, Honeywell, Kärcher, Bosch, Schneider Electric, Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco, Yamaha Music, Belkin, Baxter, BD, Sanofi, Airbus.
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BCI Global
BCI Global is a specialized consultancy and leader in developing comprehensive, practical manufacturing and supply chain footprint strategies as well as selecting sites worldwide for new operations in the US; in Europe, Middle East and Africa; and in the Asia Pacific region (including China and India). In the last 36+ years BCI has supported more than 1,000 clients. Our location strategy work combines proven frameworks with in-depth global knowledge of manufacturing hotspots, detailed labor analytics, cost factors, qualitative factors, incentives and risks. Supply chain advice ranges from transformation of supply chains, network design, COEs, Control Towers, procurement of logistics services, to location strategy for warehousing, go-to-market strategies into new markets, risk & resilience assessment. BCI Global is ISO-9001 certified, Llamasoft certified partner and recognized on Forbes Best Management Consultants list for the third year in a row.
www.bciglobal.com
Finding Capacity Alternatives in the Biopharmaceutical Industry — A Conversation with Kenna Harris of Scorpion Biological Services
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07/13/23 • 8 min
At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series recorded last November in San Diego we spoke with Kenna Harris, a vice president of Scorpion Biological Services, about how biopharmaceutical manufacturers are both finding and creating CMO and CDMO organizations to create additional capacity and where possible build alternatives to gather the inventory necessary to operate in a supply chain-constrained business environment.
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Kenna Harris has spent over 19 years working in the contract research environment, with an emphasis on proteomics and oncology. She began her career as a program manager and spent five years leading a team to develop and characterize monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. After this, she moved into business development with Taconic, specializing in the creation and breeding of GEM models.
Kenna later moved to Cell Signaling Technology as a proteomics specialist then subsequently to a similar role at SomaLogic. She then joined Mitra Biotech to help organizations create effective translational studies for oncology and developed a team at Concept Life Sciences specializing in the sale of chemistry and immunology services. Kenna is a graduate of UC Davis, with a BS in Biology, focusing on Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior.
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Scorpius BioManufacturing is an integrated contract research and contract development & manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on rapidly advancing your mammalian and microbial biologic programs to the clinic and beyond. With end-to-end capabilities from discovery to limited-scale commercial production, we provide a broad array of R&D, analytical testing, and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. With an experienced team and new, purpose-built, U.S. facilities, Scorpius is dedicated to easily accessible, transparent collaboration and flexible biologics biomanufacturing.
Connected Supply Chain Planning for Manufacturers — A Conversation with Bob Honer of Anaplan
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05/02/24 • 12 min
At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Bob Honer, Anaplan’s Senior Director of Supply Chain Practice, to talk about connected supply chain planning and what it means for manufacturers. Today’s business landscape is one of frequent disruption and changing customer expectations. Demand planning has never been more complicated, and fulfilling the S&OE requirements of shifting demand with an evolving footprint across a logistical network undergoing sometimes dramatic transformation is a challenge that can only be addressed by having everyone in the value chain sharing the same information and making decisions with the whole picture in mind. What does that look like for manufacturers? What does it allow them to do that they cannot do any other way? How does it allow the strategic and tactical level to align and coordinate? What is involved in moving to a connected supply chain model? For all these questions and more, give this episode a listen!
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Robert Honer, PMP CPIM
Senior Director, Supply Chain Practice
Anaplan
Robert Honer is a seasoned professional with a solid background in finance, supply chain management, and software solutions. He currently holds the position of Senior Director, Supply Chain Practice at Anaplan where he leverages his vast experience to develop effective supply chain strategies and support new software launches. Robert’s education background includes a Masters degree in Finance and Supply Chain Management from Syracuse University. Prior to joining Anaplan, Robert spent over a decade at Blue Yonder, serving in various supply chain-focused leadership roles.
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Anaplan
Leverage connected planning to fast-track better supply chain decisions
When it comes to your supply chain, the most precious resource you have is time. With the onset of connected supply ecosystems, fast action is key for sustained success. Your planning needs to help you anticipate change and prepare for any possibility. By integrating supply chain planning with sales and operations plans (S&OP), demand planning, and workforce planning, you can set a more robust strategy and shorten the time from events to decisions. Anaplan for Supply Chain lets you shift from siloed, sequential, reactive plans to real-time proactive planning. Sense shifts, analyze opportunities, draw insights and build consensus with a single platform solution. When you elevate your supply chain planning, you have the power to get ahead of change and take control of your outcomes.
Michael Uziel of Headwater Engineered Systems — Rapid PDCA Events (Eight-Step Problem-Solving)
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10/17/23 • 14 min
At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we sat down with Michael Uziel, the Manager of Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement at Headwater Engineered Systems, to talk about a themed lunch discussion he had hosted for a group of manufacturing executives all interested in improving their Plan-Do-Check-Act problem-solving and troubleshooting processes. These small-group interactive sessions are among the most popular features of Executive Platforms' agendas, but by their very nature only a handful of attendees can participate. In this conversation, Michael generously shares some of the key takeaways his themed lunch discussion produced. Give it a listen!
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Michael Uziel has 20+ years of manufacturing experience with expertise in process development, production workflow improvement, and machine operation, along with fluency in educating Lean Six Sigma Green and Black belts, Kaizen, A3, 5S methodologies, and Toyota Kata. Michael is skilled at creating site strategy and improvement roadmap, value streams, productivity project funnel, and plant-wide engagement. An Analytical leader, Michael is known for proactive management approach in implementing production activities, defining key initiatives, as well as leading and coordinating with a team of managers, engineers, and associates toward the achievement of operational goals.
Accelerating Digital Transformation ROI – A Conversation with Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies
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06/17/21 • 16 min
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.
The Tech-Enabled CFO, Empowered by Generative AI — A Conversation with Tom Hood of AICPA & CIMA
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02/22/24 • 16 min
At the 2024 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Tom Hood, AICPA & CIMA’s EVP — Business Engagement and Growth, to explore one of the most topical and timely topics out there at the moment: How is Generative AI going to impact me? Senior Finance leaders are in a particularly exciting place with this new and emerging technology, as their function already has a lot of familiarity and comfort-level with different forms of automation, and data already flows into their department. Is there an opportunity for Finance to be at the forefront of their organization’s adoption of Generative AI? What would that look like in real terms, and what should Finance professionals be thinking about and learning about as they prepare themselves for the future? How are associations like AICPA & CIMA helping people get up to speed, stay informed and engaged, and understand both the challenges and the opportunities of this exciting new tool? For all this and more, give this episode a listen!
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Tom Hood, CPA, CGMA
EVP – Business Engagement and Growth
AICPA & CIMA
Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA is currently the EVP Business Growth & Engagement for AICPA-CIMA and the Business Learning Institute.
Tom recently stepped onto the global stage of the largest association of certified professional accountants in the world, representing over 690,000 CPAs, CGMAs, and students. He was named the second most influential person in accounting by Accounting Today Magazine for the tenth year.
His focus is elevating and accelerating the role of CPAs and CGMAs in corporate and management accounting.
In 2012 LinkedIn recruited Tom as one of their Top 100 Influencers and he now has a following of over 730,000. He is a member of Forbes Finance Council and was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame. He is the former CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs and former CFO of a highway construction company. He has a Master’s in Finance from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Loyola University of Maryland.
He lives in Baltimore with his wife Sharon.
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AICPA & CIMA
The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants® (the Association), represents AICPA® & CIMA®. We advance the global accounting and finance profession through its work on behalf of 696,000 AICPA and CIMA members, students and engaged professionals in 192 countries and territories. Together, we are the worldwide leader on public and management accounting issues through advocacy, support for the CPA license and specialized credentials, professional education and thought leadership. We build trust by empowering our members and engaged professionals with the knowledge and opportunities to be leaders in broadening prosperity for a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future.
What’s New in Workforce Development and Training for Manufacturers — A Conversation with Andrew Knez of Covalent Networks
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06/04/24 • 15 min
At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Andrew Knez, the CEO of Covalent Networks, to talk about one of the most important issues facing manufacturers today. A number of industry trends have combined to make the tried, tested, and true ways of training a workforce ineffective in the modern business environment. Today’s workers need to be able to come up to speed much faster than ever before with fewer experienced people available to show them the ropes and impart institutional knowledge than ever before. Fortunately, a new generation of tools and technologies —including ones powered by AI— are coming online to bridge the gap and put information and instructions in the hands of new employees in a way they can understand and act upon. For everyone interested in how today’s and tomorrow’s workforce will learn new skills, capabilities, processes, and best practices, give this episode a listen!
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Andrew Knez
CEO
Covalent Networks
Andrew Knez has several years of work experience in various roles and industries. Andrew is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Covalent Networks, a company that specializes in workforce operations in complex manufacturing environments. Prior to this, Andrew worked as the Chief of Staff at NatureBox from 2013 to 2016. Andrew also served as an Associate at General Catalyst Partners from 2011 to 2013. Additionally, they worked in marketing at FanSnap for a brief period in 2010 and interned at the Boston Scholar Athlete Program in the same year. Andrew began their career as an Analyst at KAYAK in 2009.
Andrew Knez attended Williams College from 2007 to 2011, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree in History. Andrew then pursued further education at Harvard Business School from 2016 to 2018, obtaining a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree.
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Covalent Networks Inc.
Covalent’s enterprise SaaS platform enables technical training programs in complex industrial environments. It replaces all paper training and evaluation forms.
In doing so, it auto-generates real-time Workforce Intelligence for frontline leaders, including skill matrices and audit trails. Our clients further operationalize this data for coverage planning and process control. Our shared goal is to increase labor productivity and decrease the cost of poor quality (COPQ). Customers include Fortune 500 jet engine, automotive, and chemical manufacturers.
Mickey Desai of The Nonprofit SnapCast — Being a Doer, a Donor, and a Door-Opener for the Causes that Matter to You
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07/23/24 • 26 min
For today’s episode, we want to do something a little different. Mickey Desai is a podcast host whose show, The Nonprofit SnapCast, talks about some of the challenges and opportunities unique to not-for-profit organizations. It’s a terrific series that is going to be of interest to many of our listeners who sit on boards or otherwise contribute to charitable organizations, community associations, NGOs, and other not-for-profit groups. In this wide-ranging conversation we myth-bust some common misconceptions about serving on the board of a nonprofit, talk about some of the differences HR and Finance leaders have to keep in mind when volunteering for charitable causes, and talk about the future of not-for-profit organizations and leadership in our current age of disruption. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!
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Mickey Desai
Founder, Nonprofit Snapshot
Producer & Host, Nonprofit SnapCast podcast
Producer & Co-Host, The Thing About Cars podcast
Mickey Desai, a seasoned entrepreneur and host/producer of the Nonprofit SnapCast podcast, is dedicated to enhancing nonprofit organizations’ effectiveness. He pioneered The Nonprofit Snapshot, a revolutionary micro-assessment and dashboard tailored for nonprofits. Desai’s ongoing commitment to the nonprofit sector is evident through his podcast production and consultancy services.
With academic credentials from The University of Denver and Stetson University, Mickey Desai brings a wealth of expertise, insight, and a distinctive viewpoint to every engagement. His passion lies in advocating for clients, ensuring their narratives are accurately represented while respecting organizational nuances.
Driven by a deep-seated curiosity and empathy cultivated through academic pursuits and diverse professional experiences, Desai excels in fostering inclusive dialogues and facilitating problem-solving. He firmly believes that attentive listening is paramount to meaningful conversations, consistently prioritizing understanding and empathy in his interactions.
EHS and Sustainability — A Conversation with Stephen Molen of Cority
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10/12/23 • 12 min
At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we sat down with Stephen Molen, the Chief Revenue Officer of Cority, to talk about how more and more Environmental Health and Safety professionals have seen their company's Sustainability performance become part of their role. Why is that a natural fit for so many organizations? How does it change the existing EHS function? What should business leaders understand about this trend to help their EHS people better gather, document, and report on ESG performance? How is technology helping these people broaden and deepen their capabilities and skillsets? We discuss all this and more. Give this episode a listen!
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Stephen Molen has held several progressively senior Sales leadership positions with Navex Global, Clinicient, and Viewpoint. Stephen was a key part of the team at Navex Global that grew the company to $200 M in revenues. Stephen’s original company, EthicsPoint, was acquired by Navex Global along with three other companies. Stephen was a key part of the team that integrated the sales teams and companies. During Stephen’s 2+ years at Viewpoint, they grew revenues from $100 M to $200 M, growing EBITDA margin from 30% to 50%. Stephen’s sales team grew net new sales bookings from $6 M to $30 M, at which point Viewpoint was acquired by strategic investor, Trimble. Stephen has worked with Private Equity firms Vista, Riverside, Catalyst, and Bain Capital and with his companies’ Boards of Directors.
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Cority is the global enterprise EHS software provider that develops industry leading technology. We make it easy to harness the power of our software to create higher levels of operational and sustainable performance and help organizations ensure their data is accurate and auditable. Our global enterprise platform unites the full spectrum of powerful solutions to empower healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable outcomes that fulfill today’s business imperative—creating a better enterprise for tomorrow.
Cority has the industry’s highest levels of client satisfaction and has received many awards for its strong employee culture and outstanding business performance.
www.cority.com
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