Bicara Supply Chain (Bicara Supply Chain)

Guest Name: Sandeep Sreekumar, Founder and COO at IndustryApps, Language: English, Publication date: May, 16. 2022

Sandeep Sreekumar, Founder and COO (Chief Operating Officer) at IndustryApps, the World's first Appstore for Industry 4.0. Prior to this role, he has spent more than 17 years of experience in industrial digitalization driving large-scale Industrial programs across the globe. Former Global Digital Operations head for German DAX company. 

Here are some of the highlights from the podcast:

• What makes digital transformation particularly relevant in a VUCA world?
• What do you think is the biggest challenge when driving & acceralating a digital transformation?
• What approach would you suggest for companies looking to accelarate their digital transformation?
• What’s the future of digital transformation?

You can connect with Sandeep over on Linkedin. 

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Guest Name: Andreas Wieland, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Copenhagen Business School, Language: English, Publication date: Sep, 07. 2021

Andreas Wieland is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Copenhagen Business School, where he is the Program Director of the Graduate Diploma (HD) in Supply Chain Management. His current research is about resilience and transformation.  

His articles have appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of International Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. In addition, Andreas is also the European Co-Editor of the Journal of Business Logistics and Co-Chair of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ European Research Seminar. 

Visit his blog: scmresearch.org

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What are your views on conventional supply chain management, especially to how their capability, ability & agility face major disruptions like a pandemic of covid-19?
• We've seen this in your paper where you mentioned “dancing the supply chain”. Can you please describe it a little bit?
• How can a “Transformative supply chain” be different from a conventional supply chain? What is the difference between both of them?
• You probably might have a project or a case on how the business transforms its supply chain successfully. In relation to this topic, could you share this experience with our audiences?
• Some other key takeaways.

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaswieland/

Guest Name: Jonathan Kempe, CEO & Founder, VERIFAI .  Language: English, Publication date: May, 04. 2021

Jonathan is a technical Founder with over 20 years’ experience as a systems administrator across a broad array of disciplines. He has excelled in diverse roles: from senior positions in large corporates; founding and running several businesses; holding trusted positions in nationally accredited NFPs and NGOs and working in an Australian Defence Force endorsed satellite communications provider.  He is connected to Australian business advocacy groups, Government bodies and the Start-up scene, regularly contributing to innovation and industry forums in IoT, biometrics, protecting critical infrastructure to improve supply-chain outcomes. 

With a unique and creative vision, Jonathan leads the incredible team at Verifai. Verifai has a particular interest in maritime and intermodal supply-chain security, utilizing unique technologies to generate trustworthy data, provide provenance assurance, and secure assets at rest and in transit. The Verifai team has a diverse array of abilities: IoT hardware devices; full stack software and firmware engineers; leading practitioners in supply-chain management, manufacturing, operational excellence, senior academics, a biometrics expert, and internationally acclaimed cybersecurity luminaries. 

Jonathan is passionate about solving global problems, loves to work alongside creative entrepreneurs, and is dedicated to building real solutions that positively transform the world.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• Supply chain security;  what it means and how important is security in the supply chain?
• What are some security risks in the supply chain? How can we define, detect & assess it earlier as possible ?
• How can supply chain security be improved ?
• Can you share some success stories from your client about how they improved the security ?
• What sort of practical things can we change now to ensure that the business stays profitable and protected ?
• Some other key takeaways.

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-kempe/

Guest Name : Jason Breault,  Managing Director at LifeWork Search  Language : English, Publication date:  Feb, 27. 2020

Jason is a Managing Director at LifeWork Search. It is a recruiting organization specializing in the hiring of supply chain managers, directors and executives within the Consumer Products industry.  Jason’s recruiting career is built on a 12-year foundation serving ERP and Supply Chain needs in both domestic and international markets.  While at Siemens Business Services, he leveraged his engineering background and German fluency to solidify SAP consulting engagements with multi-national organizations. Visit the website : https://lifeworksearch.com/

Taking that beyond staffing, Jason helps to run the New England chapter of the Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF), an organization committed to advancing forecasting and S&OP practices globally.  He has also spoken at several APICS and IBF events. 

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbreault/

Highlighted:

• Current trends in supply chain's career for next 5 years to 10 years from now.
• A new perspective of millennial with supply chain's career.
• What are some ways to attract millennial to supply chain management careers?
  

Guest Name : Julien Brun,  Managing Partner at CEL Consuting  Language : English, Publication date:  April, 16. 2020

Julien is a Managing partner at CEL Consulting. Additionally, he is also Co-Founder of Vietnam Supply Chain, Chairman of EID a start-up accelerator in South East Asia, Board member of the French Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Vietnam. Over the past 20 years, Julien has developed an insightful understanding of emerging market dynamics and cultural influences. With a particular focus in developing countries in Asia, Africa, South America, Julien has specifically been involved in the field of supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, sourcing, and retail sectors and in specific technology applications in these industries.

About the CEL Consulting: It is a consulting firm specialized in delivering strategic and operational advisory and training services to multinationals and local groups in ASEAN. Visit the website on: https://www.cel-consulting.com/

Key takeaways :

• What disruptions are being seen in various sectors of industry & what are the difficulties companies are currently facing now?
• How supply chain people can cope with the current volatility of demand and also uncertainty around logistics & transportation? Are there other supply risk that may appear in coming weeks?
• How Asian and Western supply chains will  reshape after the crisis?

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julienbrun/

Guest Name : Wolfgang Lehmacher,  Board member, advisor and business angle.  Language : English, Publication date:  April, 18. 2020

Wolfgang is a recognized thought leader and practitioner in supply chain and logistics, member of the Logistikweisen, an expert committee and think tank under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry BMVI, participant in the World Economic Forum global expert network, and founding member of the Centre of Excellence for Global Emerging Supply Chain Technologies, Singapore. The book author is FT, Forbes, Fortune, BI, Nikkei contributor. 

He was Director, Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum, Partner and Managing Director (China and India) at strategy consulting firm CVA, and President and CEO of GeoPost Intercontinental at France’s La Poste. Prior to La Poste, he was Head of Eastern European and Mediterranean Regions, and Country General Manager Switzerland at TNT. 

Key takeaways :

• View on current trend a global trade and its correlation on supply chain. How does a Covid-19 impact to the business-supply chain globally.
• The opportunity we do have in designing a better and more effective supply chain (i.e people, process etc.)
• Building a synchronized global trade in supply chain
• How the business leaders step forward to be more agile and adaptable in facing a global trade supply chain.
  

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfganglehmacher

Guest Name: Peter Schram, Advisor (ex-Gartner analyst)  Language: English, Publication date:  Feb, 11. 2021

Peter Schram works as an independent adviser at Breakthrough advisory, a firm he recently founded. Breakthrough advisory helps organizations deliver business results by unlocking the full potential of operational, tactical, and strategic planning. It provides best in class insights for solving planning issue based on deep expertise and external insights. 

Until April 2020, Mr. Schram worked as a Senior research director in the Gartner supply chain research group. Mr. Schram's research areas focused on sales and operations planning, demand, supply, and inventory planning. He specialized in S&OP transformation programs and event-driven demand management. At Gartner, he worked with > 300 organizations across multiple industries to improve their supply chain maturity. Prior to joining Gartner in 2018,  he has worked for Philips/Signify, Paccar/DAF Trucks, and IG&H consulting. 

Some of the highlights from the podcast:

1. What are your observations on the current journey of supply chain planning digital transformation? What is the current state of digital planning?
2. In the context of the Covid19 pandemic where organizations have to adopt a new norm. How is that impacting digital planning transformations?
3. What advice can you provide to the CEO  and top leaders' position in driving the transformation? In other words, what are the top priorities, and what is the role of leadership in the journey?
4. Some other key takeaways.

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schrampeter/

Guest Name: Sara Iacozza, Chief data officer, UX Researcher and Co-founder R-ladies Italy Language: English, Publication date: Sep, 01. 2021

Sara Iacozza holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and she loves data because it gives her the chance to better understand people's behavior. She enjoys taking the time to explore the possible narratives data fit into and design information for her audiences in a strategic manner. Data is a medium, it's the story hidden behind that matters to her.

Sara works in Digital Attitude (Milan, Italy) as Chief Data Officer and User Experience Researcher, where she helps design digital products that can help people acquiring new professional skills. She is interested in diversity & inclusion, especially gender equality in the data science ecosystem, as such she is co-founder of R-Ladies Italy, a national community that focuses on empowering women and gender minorities pursuing jobs in data science.

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What is data storytelling?
• Why is data storytelling so important for the business at a recent date?
• What are the key elements of great data storytelling?
• What advice would you give to the business leader on how to build a data-driven company?
• Could you please share some examples of impactful data storytelling in business?

Connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-iacozza/

Guest Name : Kwame Christian,  Director at American Negotiation Institute  Language : English, Publication date:  Oct, 07. 2020

Kwame Christian is the Director of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI) where he conducts training that empower professionals to persuade, lead, and resolve conflict more effectively. In addition to his role at ANI, Kwame is a business lawyer at Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP. Kwame represents businesses in a broad scope of legal needs including contract negotiation, business formation, and structuring, finance, transactions (including acquisitions and contract preparation and analysis), employment, and general business and legal counseling.

A host of the world's most popular negotiation podcast, Negotiate Anything, Kwame is dedicated to empowering others through the art and science of negotiation and persuasion. 

Kwame's TEDx Dayton talk, Finding Confidence in Conflict, was also the most popular TEDx Talk on the topic of conflict in 2017, and has been viewed over 120,000 times. His book, Nobody Will Play With Me: Finding Confidence in Conflict, is an Amazon Best-Seller and has helped countless individuals overcome the fear, anxiety, and emotion often associated with difficult conversations through a branded framework called Compassionate Curiosity.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The supply chain is a ground for the conflict where each function has its own perspective.
• Why is a formal process for conflict resolution required in the context of supply chain management?
• What other things need to be considered when establishing a formal process for conflict resolution?
• "Win-win" in the context of conflict resolution.

Connect Kwame on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamechristian/

Guest Name : Dr. Martin Kotula,  Global VP & Head of Value Advisory for Spend Management Language : English, Publication date:  May, June 10. 2020

Dr. Martin Kotula is a Global VP and Head of Value advisory for spend management at SAP. In a current role, he is leading a global team and being part of SAP's Center of Excellence for Spend Management. Helping companies and colleagues to drive digital transformation across the source-to-pay processes. Thought Leader, Presenter, Moderator and Evangelist. Prior to this position, Martin was Chief Value Advisor Strategic Customers and previously was Senior Director - Network Value Engineering MEE & EMEA-South at a same company (SAP). Visit more on: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap/about/

Highlighted-questions from the Show Include:

• Brief on what is intelligent spend management ; what advice can you offer to procurement leaders when they wanted to start this journey ?
• The benefits of having intelligent spend management and why it matters for the business ?
• How can this tool tackle current issues on spend & procurement management ?  (i.e Best practices on implementation)

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-martin-kotula/

Guest Name : Dave Hudson,  Executive Business Coach at S.A Coaching   Language : English, Publication date:  March, 09. 2020

Dave is an Executive business coach where he focuses on the supply chain and operations environments. His specialization including: Systems thinking, Lean manufacturing, Project management, Theory of constraints and World class manufacturing. He is founder and CEO for consulting firm called "SA Coaching", based in South Africa. He hold several professional certification such as: CPIM (APICS) and Demand Driven Planner Endorsed Instructor. Visit the website at: https://sacoachingcom.wordpress.com/

Connect Dave on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davebhudson/

The conversation focuses on the following questions:

• Why is coaching important skills for supply chain leaders ?
• How coaching supports leaders for driving a supply chain transformation?
• What are the best system-approaches in developing coaching skills and ability ?
• How coaching takes their position on reshaping the supply chain ?

Guest Name : Ken Titmuss - CEO, Principal Consultant and Educator, Kent Outsourcing Services. Language : English, Publication date:  Dec, 26th. 2019

Ken is the CEO, Principal Consultant and Educator from Kent Outsourcing Services. His expertise mainly in Operations and Supply chain management where he spent many years in this area.  He is also a member of VCARE’s Education and Research Executive Board (EREB), Canada.

This is part of DDMRP Series where Ken would be explaining the second and third components of DDMRP, namely DDMRP Buffers and Buffer Profiles as well Dynamic Buffer Adjustment

Connect with guest at: Linkedin - Ken Titmuss, contact him at: ktitmuss@mweb.co.za

Key highlighted:

• List some of the factors to be considered when constructing DDMRP buffers.
• Understanding the ADU or Average Daily Usage and how to determine it.
• A key issues onDynamic Adjustment : Recalculated Adjustments and secondly, Planned Adjustment Factors
  

Guest Name : Justin Goldston, PhD,  Professor in project and supply chain management at Penn State University Language : English, Publication date:  Aug, 25. 2020

Justin Goldston, PhD is a Professor in project and supply chain management at Penn State University.  He obtained the Doctor of Philosophy in Management (Leadership & organizational change) from Walden University.  His specialization focuses on Supply chain management,  Agile project management, ERP and Blockchain implementation.  With his love for technology and his passion to make a positive impact on social change, Dr. Goldston has made it his mission to bring technological knowledge and capabilities to the people. He is also a member of The Blockchain Council, The World Blockchain Association, and The Government Blockchain Association.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• How does the blockchain disrupt supply chain businesses?
• What are the technology & capabilities required for taking a benefit from a blockchain?
• In the recent eras where the supply chain faces complex challenges, what are to be a key priority when implementing a blockchain?
• A few examples from a real-cases study where a company/organization has successfully led a project in the implementation of blockchain and then gain a competitive benefit).

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-goldston/

Guest Name : Canda Rozier,  President at  Collabra consulting.  Language : Indonesian, Publication date:  May, 19. 2020

Canda is a former Chief Procurement Officer at multiple global companies, who lead the formation of the global sourcing and procurement organizations, and drove P2P transformation. She currently is  President of Collabra Consulting, which focuses on sourcing and procurement projects.  In 2019 Canda was awarded the SIG Sourcing Star award for thought leadership in strategic sourcing, procurement, and supplier management.  She known as a proven leader in designing and executing sustainable process and operational improvements and has an extensive experience in acquisition due diligence and integration, divestiture of operating units, and sourcing synergies. Connect with her on : https://www.linkedin.com/in/csrozier/

Highlighted questions:

• What are negotiation process in procurement; and why does it play a critical role in today’s business?
• What are key success factors for an effective procurement negotiation?
• What advice can you offer to the procurement professional to improve their negotiation skills ? Can you please tell us any tips and techniques for winning the negotiation ?

Guest Name: Eugenia Ceballos Hunziker, Group Head of Sustainable Procurement at Holcim, Language: English, Publication date: Oct 27. 2021

Eugenia coordinates the Group’s efforts to deploy responsible sourcing practices across the supply chain, in the 70 markets where Holcim operates. Her main role is to lead the “Supply chain due diligence“ and “CO2 - Scope 3” programs in the Group. In addition to this role, she manages the Holcim’s Integrated Profit & Loss statement and represents the Group in the newly formed non-for-profit “Value Balancing Alliance”: a cross-sector initiative aiming to standardize and scale-up impact measurement and valuation.

Eugenia holds a MBA from ETH Zürich, a master executive in supply chain management from EOI Spain and a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from UTN Argentina. She is also CPSM certified (Certified Professional Supply Management by ISM USA) and she is graduated with an executive diploma in sustainable business from University of St. Gallen and Lausanne Business School.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast include:

1. What is sustainable procurement and why does it matter?
2. As a procurement professional, what does sustainability really MEAN to you?
3. How can we apply sustainability in the procurement process of the business? Can we take a look a little bit from the experience you might have with Holcim?
4. What are key success factors to drive sustainability in procurement?

Connect with Eugenia on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenia-ceballos-hunziker-94261318/

Guest Name : Leza Klenk - Entrepreneur and CEO at SC Beauty Network Pte Ltd  . Language : English, Publication date:  Jan, 27. 2020

She is currently the CEO of SC Beauty Network, managing operations in more than 14 countries. She has also authored several books, and appeared in multiple media newspapers & books. In 2014, she lead an empowering women campaign with Singapore Committee of UN Women, as well as becoming the face to Shiseido in the same year. In 2014, she (then 28) was acknowledged as Singapore Youngest Business Guru and her story told in a publication "The Lady Boss" available in book stores. 

In 2019, Leza bagged the award as "Asia Greatest CEO 2019" awarded by URS and Asia One. She has invested and incubated several companies including a baking studio, beauty academy, tuition centers, art schools, baby goods marketplace and photo studio.

Key highlighted from today's episode:

• Understanding a basic needs on why SMEs has to consider to implement a supply chain.
• Some benefits for having a supply chain in SMEs's operations
• How to empower the SMEs in improving their supply chain process
• Leza's success story

Connect him on Linkedin: Leza Klenk

Guest Name: Bernard Gracia,  Dean and Director of European Institute of Purchasing Management.  Language: English, Publication date:  Nov, 11. 2020

Bernard is currently Dean and Director at European institute of purchasing management (EIPM). It is a pioneer in purchasing training in Europe and today stands as the leading Global Centre in Executive Procurement and Supply Management Education. With branches in Geneva and Shanghai and partnerships in Brazil, Dubai, India, Mexico, North America, Poland and South Africa, the Institute has developed a complete range of solutions to meet the training needs of its large base of international clients in all sectors of industry and service.

EIPM promotes Procurement and Supply Management as strategic functions with a key role to play in economic transformation. Learn more about EIPM here: https://www.eipm.org/

In this episode, we ask the following key questions:

• How do you see the role of purchasing in the recent date where almost every organization faces challenges in their businesses?
• What are some key skills in purchasing that will be valuable in the coming years? 
• What advice can you offer to the leader on how to improve their purchasing organization skills? How can the professional body such as EIPM (and others which have a similar program) play a significant role in this space?

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardgracia/

Guest Name: Anthony Clervi,  Managing partner at UNA  Language: English, Publication date:  Oct, 16. 2020

Anthony is an investor, sourcing hero advocate, and managing partner at Una.  As a group purchasing organization, Una partners with the best suppliers to provide businesses access to unbeatable savings on essential products and services. Learn more here: https://una.com/

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What is a GPO (Group purchasing organization) and why should companies care about it?
• How can they help procurement professionals make procurement cool?
• How do GPOs work within a procurement strategy?

Connect Anthony on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyclervi/

Guest Name: Sofia Rivas Herrera, Supply chain Ambassador.  Language: English, Publication date:  Feb, 23. 2021

Sofia is an Industrial Engineer from Tecnologico de Monterrey University, Campus Guadalajara class of May 2019. Graduated from MIT’s Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (GCLOG) as one of the Top 3 performers in 2020. Currently working as Sr. Staffing Analyst within the S&OP team in Mexico at the biggest eCommerce company in Latin America: Mercado Libre. Responsible for DC operation optimization, demand planning, and capacity analysis. Sofia self-identifies as Supply Chain Ambassador, sharing her passion for the field in her daily life, and has been recognized as an upcoming thought leader in the field.

Some of the highlights from the podcast:

• What made you choose supply chain as a career?
• Can you share some stories about how to start a career in the supply chain?
• What are the top skills needed for supply chain management?
• Some other key takeaways?

Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofia-rivas-herrera-18aa99183/

Guest Name : Paul Denneman,  Senior Consultant at Mutatis Mutandis    Language : English, Publication date:  Feb, 29. 2020

Paul is a senior consultant at Mutatis Mutandis. The focus of Mutatis Mutandis Consulting is on changing complex supply chains in environments where regulations or legislations are major constraints. The company is founded in 1993 by Paul Denneman.

Although Paul is mostly active as an independent senior project manager/consultant in supply chain transition processes, his professional passion is in transferring his knowledge to others too. In the past two decades Paul trained over a 1000 supply chain professionals in over 100 companies.  Paul holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences of Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) and is a qualified APICS® Master Instructor. To complete his professional background he is CPIM®, CLTD®, CSCP®, Prince2® and ITIL® certified and has experience in the high-tech, pharmaceutical and medical devices industry.

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauldenneman/

Highlighted:

• How does inventory management affect the supply chain?
• What are the best approach in managing the inventory ?
• What's view on Using Technology to Improve Inventory Management ?

Guest Name: Dwiwahyu Haryo Suryo, EVP & Chief supply chain officer at Paragon Technology and Innovation. Language: English, Publication date: Aug, 30. 2021

Haryo is currently the EVP (Executive Vice President) and CSCO (Chief Supply Chain Officer) at Paragon Technology and Innovation (PTI), an Indonesian beauty company with the purpose of creating a greater good for the society through innovation. With more than 10,000 personnel all over Indonesia and an annual production of around 185 million pieces, Paragon has now become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in Indonesia. Learn more about Paragon here - Paragon Technology and Innovation (paragon-innovation.com)

Prior to this role, Haryo was the Vice President of Supply Chain at Danone Waters in Indonesia. He also spent over 19 years at Unilever, where his last position was as the Group Customer Service Excellence - Planning Director, for AAR (Asia-Africa-Russia) region at Unilever Asia Private Ltd., Singapore. 

Haryo holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He is passionate about people, innovation, and continuous learning.

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What has the hardest thing been  for you & what do you like about your role at PTI, Indonesia?
• What does leader & leadership mean to you?  
• How does leadership add value to supply chains?  
• How to grow as leader in the space of supply chain? Could you please share some success stories  with us?

Connect with Haryo on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwiwahyu-haryo-suryo-91214220/

Guest Name : Stephany Lapierre - CEO at Tealbook.  Language : English, Publication date:  Feb, 12. 2020

Stephany is the founder/CEO of Tealbook, a highly coveted supply chain thought leader, and one of the most influential minds in emerging data technologies. She has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain, and her company, Tealbook, has both been named a Top 50 company to watch by Spend Matters and won the Cool Vendor Award by Gartner. Prior to Tealbook, Stephany spent 10 years building a successful strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm focusing on large scale sourcing optimization projects. Given her experience and visibility into the data issues crippling procurement she has made it her mission is to deliver a ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ to an ever-growing eProcurement space. Currently, Tealbook is the only Big Data company that provides a self-enriching and self-maintaining mechanism to fix enterprise supplier data, forever.

Connect Stephany on her Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tealbook/ and Tealbook website: https://tealbook.com/

Highlighted:

• What are the essential attributes of strategic supplier partnerships ?
• Why do we need to manage a good relationship with a supplier ?
• What is the best way to keep supplier be engaged and build a supply chain effectively ?

Guest Name : Yogesh R - Head of Innovation @ Kerry Logistics, EMEA

Language : English, Publication date : Aug 14th. 2019

I interviewed Yogesh, Head of Innovation for Kerry Logistics, EMEA.

Key take-aways from the discussion:

• Term innovation basically means that you do the same things in a different manner.
• It is extremely important that whatever customer centric what you're doing in terms of innovation has to be focused on the customer centric.

Thanks for listening.

Guest Name : Agung Ektika - Supply Chain Manager @ Cargill Indonesia

Language : Indonesian, Publication date : July 28th. 2019

Era VUCA, salah satunya ditandai dengan "serba ketidakpastian". Simak penjelasan singkat di edisi kali ini Bersama dengan Agung Ektika. Beliau memberikan tips, VUCA+I; yang harus dimiliki oleh setiap leader.

Apa itu VUCA+I? 

Selamat mendengarkan.

Guest Name: Joost de Kluijver (Founder and CEO, Closing the Loop), Language: English, Publication date: Nov, 18. 2021

Joost started a company that won the Dutch Circular Award in 2018. He works with companies, municipalities, governments and the technology sector in turning circular ambitions into appealing results. His company is known for its work in emerging markets, for its customer centric approach towards circularity and the fact that it got some of the leading telecom brands on board for the path towards a closed loop industry.

Joost has been an entrepreneur for 10 years and worked for Accenture and the Global Reporting Initiative in the past.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast include:

• What is a closed-loop supply chain? And why is it so important nowadays?
• What are the major challenges of electronic-waste management & how do you see the future trends?
• How can businesses handle electronic waste management and turn a challenge into a business advantage?

Connect with Joost on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdekluijver/

About Closing the Loop - Closing the Loop services focus on waste compensation of IT devices organizations use. That means that we collect an equal amount of electronic waste in emerging countries, to compensate for the current use of the devices and turning them waste-free. The one-for-one methodology. Learn more here - https://www.closingtheloop.eu/

Guest Name: Jort Meijer, Supply chain & procurement expert, KPMG.  Language: English, Publication date: March, 13. 2021

Jort is a supply chain & procurement expert, having more than 25 years experience in helping customers to create and implement value in Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement and Operational Excellence. Primarily in Consumer Goods, Material life science & ENR Industry.

He is currently Associate director at KPMG, based in Netherlands. Prior to this role, he spent for many years in various consulting industries. Jort obtained a Master of Engineering from DUT (Delft University of Technology).

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast:

• What is the key to value creation?
• Could you please share some of possible approaches for the supply chain value creation ?
• In the context of supply chain value, how do you see the role of a new technology ? particularly when it comes to the stages of design and implementation ?
• About a global pandemic of Covid-19 which is probably changing the way of seeing the supply chains. In your personal view, what are the priorities of actions (could be a short / a long term) that a business leader need to be considered ?

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jortmeijer/

Guest Name: Michael van Keulen, Chief Procurement Officer at Coupa Software, Language: English, Publication date: Sep, 04. 2021

Passionate and seasoned procurement evangelist with a comprehensive track record of driving value through business transformation at global companies. 

Michael van Keulen ("MVK") is currently the Chief Procurement Officer at Coupa Software, the global leader in cloud-based Business Spend Management software, where he is responsible for driving best-in-class procurement practices across the company, support business development and a source for peers looking to elevate and (digitally) transform procurement. He is Member of Sourcing Industry Group (SIG) Board of Advisors.

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What does procurement transformation mean to you?
• What are the elements of a successful transformation in procurement organization?
• How  does digital transformation influence procurement?
• Could you please share with us some stories where the procurement organization succeeded on their transformation journey?

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-v-0a31a43/

Guest Name: Ramit Maharjan, Head of Customer Service Experience IMEA at Henkel, Language: English, Publication date: March, 11. 2023

Ramit has over two decades of experience in various facets of Supply Chain leadership. He has led SCM operations in country clusters within IMEA/ APAC regions and has also worked in Europe managing global Business Transformation projects. 

He received Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification while working with GE and A3 certification at Henkel. He has exposure to multiple business cycles – growth, maturity and restructuring. Ramit is a published author and sought after speaker at various international forums. He is passionate about the topics of Leadership and Supply Chain.

A highlights questions:

• From the supply chain’s perspective, what is the meaning of customer service? And how do you see the evolution of customer service?
• How can we manage the CSE (Customer service expectation)? What are some key factors to be considered?
• How to use CS (Customer service) to enhance the performance of supply chain management?
• Talking a bit on tools & technology, what would you think about the role of technology in the customer service? 

Connect with Ramit on Linkedin here.

Guest Name: Kate Vitasek,  Faculty, Graduate & Executive Education University of Tennessee  Language: English, Publication date:  Nov, 20. 2020

In this episode, the discussion focuses on why organizations need to make the shift to relational contracting and [what] & how to begin to develop a relational contract.

Kate Vitasek is an international authority for her award-winning research and Vested ® business model for highly collaborative relationships. Vitasek, a Faculty member at the University of Tennessee, has been lauded by World Trade Magazine as one of the “Fabulous 50+1” most influential people impacting global commerce. Her work has led to 6 books, including: Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing, Vested: How P&G, McDonald’s and Microsoft Are Redefining Winning in Business Relationships and Getting to We: Negotiating Agreements for Highly Collaborative Relationships.

Vitasek is known for her practical and research-based advice for driving transformation and innovation through highly-collaborative and strategic partnerships. She has been appeared on CNN International, Bloomberg, NPR, and on Fox Business News. Her work has been featured in over 300 articles in publications like HBR, Forbes, Chief Executive Magazine, CIO Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Journal of Commerce, World Trade Magazine and Outsource Magazine. Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katevitasek/

Guest Name: Erik Valiquette, Co-founder and President of the Canadian Blockchain Supply Chain Association., Language: English, Publication date: Oct 19. 2021

Erik is the co-founder and president of the Canadian Blockchain Supply Chain Association. Through their core services of Advocacy, Collaboration and Education, they bring together like-minded professionals who want to explore Blockchain in their supply chain. The member-driven association's goal is to accelerate the adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology through dialog, to help shape policy with governmental agencies for improved services, and to help the community's voice to be heard. Learn more about the association here: https://www.cbsca.ca/about

With a 30 year career in logistics, he’s passionate about bridging the gap between technology and business needs and is a firm believer that Blockchain has the potential to bring global supply chain management to the next level by reducing waste. Erik is based in Montreal, Canada.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast include:

• How does blockchain technology improve the way companies do business?
• For the business leaders, what are the key things they really need to know about blockchain technology?
• What are opportunities around blockchain technology particularly in supply chain management (SCM)?
• Some other key takeaways.

Connect with Erik on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikvaliquette/ 

Guest Name : Nicolas Vandeput - Consultant and Founder, SupChains. Language : English, Publication date:  Jan, 13. 2020

Nicolas is a Supply Chain Data Scientist specialized in Inventory Optimization & Demand Forecasting. He is founder, SupChains and wrote a book called "Data Science for Supply Chain Forecast" in 2018. Live in Belgium.

A key discussion from today's topic:

• The essential of inventory optimization
• A structured-approach for implementing an effective inventory planning
• The benefits for having inventory optimization

Connect him on Linkedin: Nicolas Vandeput

Guest Name: Zsofia Agnes Nagy, Supply chain expert and CE Ambassador,  Language: English, Publication date: Aug, 18. 2021

As a supply chain professional, Zsofia offers an objective pair of lenses and a rich, experience-based knowledge to help the client find the right solution and execute it successfully based on over 19 years working in industry and consulting roles.

As a functional expert, she is passionate about embedding sustainable supply chain methods and practices and helping companies become circular in nature, while remaining profitable. Beyond her daily work, she is a Circular Economy Ambassador and help people around her to understand how they can change their lives to reduce their footprint and eventually lead a circular life.

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

1. What are future trends in circular supply chains?
2. Many experts say that collaboration is one of the key pillars of the circular economy and circular supply chains.  What is your opinion on this topic ?
3. What kind of relationships and collaboration practices enable creation of circular flows?
4. Can you please provide a few examples of how it works? 
5. Some other key takeaways.

Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zsofianagysupplychainadvantage/

Guest Name: John D. Reiser, EVP, Global Supply Chain, The Cannon Group Inc, Language: English, Publication date: Aug, 20. 2022

John is an experienced global supply chain executive with a demonstrated history of creating a best-in-class supply chain department. He works in the e-commerce, wholesale, distribution and manufacturing industries. John has experience at privately owned and private equity backed companies with strong Operations, Sourcing, Negotiation, Import, Logistics, Supplier Development, Supplier Rationalization, Planning, Team Building, M&A, P&L and SIOP skills. In addition, John has lived in Shanghai, established overseas offices and global distribution centers throughout the USA, China and the EU.

John is currently EVP, Global Supply Chain at The Cannon Group Inc,.

Here are some of the highlighted-questions from the podcast:

• I’m curious your thoughts on global supply chains. What are the biggest changes in a post pandemic-world?
• Some expert says that this is a good time to swicth the supply chain sourcing strategy from centralized structure into a decentralized. What is your take on that? Is that a good idea?
• I wonder what you advice would be on how to deals and responds the supply chain disruption? 
• Talk a bit about leadership in supply chain crisis - What have you seen the most sucessful supply chain-leader do? What do they have in common in their approach to maximizing their impact?

Connect with John on LInkedin HERE

Guest Name: Ashish Gadnis, Co-founder / CEO at BanQu Inc.,  Language: English, Publication date: Aug 05. 2021

Ashish Gadnis is the Co-founder / CEO of BanQu, which was named to the TIME Magazine 2019 Innovators and 2020 Meaningful Business Leaders List. In February 2021 BanQu was named one of the top innovation for circular economy by World Economic Forum and Accenture.

BanQu is the first ever non-crypto blockchain (patented) Supply Chain Sustainability platform that global brands like Coca-Cola, IsSB and Anheuser-Busch use everyday to enable end-to-end transparency, traceability and certification of contracts, raw materials, finished goods, and recycled packaging to meet ESG goals and EPR compliance requirements. BanQu is being used in 45+ countries and almost 2 million last-mile-first-mile beneficiaries today.

Prior to his current engagements, Mr. Gadnis was the founder and CEO of multiple technology startups, the last one of which was acquired by a $1.5 billion global consulting firm in 2012.

Over the past 25 years Ashish has been recognized for his private / public sector contributions with awards such as – MIT Innovate for Refugees (Syrian refugees) award, Young Global Leader (World Economic Forum), Minority Business Leader (Twin Cities Business), 40 under 40 (Business Journal), Change-Makers Innovator Award (Coding Schools in Refugee Camps in East Africa) and Battery Ventures Innovation Award – Democratic Republic of Congo (for Asili: a mobile / cloud-based business focused on reducing infant child mortality, improving maternal health and increasing livelihood in conflict zones).

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

1. What is your general view on the current state of blockchain technology?
2. Right now, the authenticity of brands is an issue in the sustainable goods industry. How does blockchain assist with this issue? and why blockchain is vital to boosting sustainability?
3. Could you please share with us some successful examples of blockchain implementation in the industry where it helped in improving sustainability? 
4. Some other key takeaways.

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishgadnis/

Guest Name: Eric Wilson, Director of Thought Leadership at The Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF).  Language: English, Publication date: April, 07. 2021

Eric Wilson is an award-winning predictive analytics and business planning innovator, author, and speaker. He is the Director of Thought Leadership at The Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF). He is the recipient of the Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning award as well as a Supply-Demand Chain Pro to Know. 

Eric is a Certified Professional Forecaster (CPF) with over 25 years’ experience with various global organizations and industries and considered a visionary in his field both as a practitioner and for his research.  Eric is a frequent speaker and panelist for many executive forums and professional conferences, and has written numerous articles in publications, peer reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers and the author of multiple books including his new book Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting (Link is available here: https://ibf.org/books/predictive-analytics-for-business-forecasting-and-planning-111)

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What is predictive analytics ? And how does it differentiate with a traditional business forecasting ?
• How do we use predictive analytics to solve forecasting issues & drive an overall business value ? Could you please share some success stories about how it works ?
• What is your recommendation to the business leaders on how to start to use a predictive analytics approach ?
• Some other key takeaways. 

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilsondemand/

Guest Name : Vinardo Susanto - ERP Solutions Manager @ Amcor Specialty Cartons Indonesia

Language : Indonesian, Publication date : July 30th. 2019

Diskusi singkat dengan Vinardo Susanto, ERP Solutions Manager di salah satu PMA Packaging. Beberapa key-takeways dari obrolan singkat kali ini:

• Bisnis proses di Supply chain dan standarisasi proses
• Adopsi "the best practices" melalui tiga fase utama
• Sustainability proses itu sendiri.

Selamat mendengarkan.

Guest Name : Helen Mackenzie,  Principal Advisor at Procurious  Language : English, Publication date:  Aug, 05. 2020

Helen is a Principal Advisor at Procurious where she is responsible for supporting the development of CPO Roundtables in the UK and Europe, webinar and podcast products, and grow the Procurious community. In addition, she is also supporting the delivery of Procurious 2.0. Prior to this role, she was Head of Procurement and Exchequer Services at Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, UK.

Procurious (procurious.com) is the world’s first online business community dedicated to procurement and supply chain professionals. With over 40,000 members from around the globe, Procurious aims to empower procurement leaders to connect, collaborate, and take a more innovative professional outlook. To learn more about Procorious, please visit the website: https://www.procurious.com/

In this episode, we ask Helen the following questions:

• What are the challenges of leaders in the new supply chain world? 
• Why is the field of SCM lagging behind in choosing women as leaders?
• What are the impacts of women leadership in a variety of SC roles?
• What is the future of women's leadership in SCM?

Connect Helen on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/superstarhelen/

Guest Name : Susan Walsh,    Founder at The Classification Guru.  Language : English, Publication date:  May, 10. 2020

Susan is a founder at The classification guru. She has years of experience in classifying data; working with multiple taxonomies. She’s worked at the core of data classification, and has managed, trained and developed large teams of data classifiers. Prior to that, she had the first business, a women's clothing shop, and before that she spent a decade in sales and account management in FMCG organisations, which gives her the unique position of observing the data from both a technical and corporate perspective.

The classification guru helps businesses and procurement professionals solve the problem of getting reliable insights from their spend data in order to save money and make better business decisions that they can deliver back to their organisation faster and more cost-effectively than using large consultancies or spend analytics providers. See the details on : https://www.theclassificationguru.com/our-services

The following questions were being asked :

• How do you see the importance of data strategy in a procurement’s role?
• What advice can you offer to the procurement leaders on how to build a more “clean” and “structured” data, so that they can be beneficial for supporting the spend-management and other purposes in procurement’s role?
• What are key success factors in building a data strategy ?
• Many leaders say that the future of procurement is data driven. What are your thoughts on this ? Do you see any correlation with building a data strategy which we’re talking about ?

Connect her on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanewalsh/

Guest Name: Jeanette Nyden,  Contracts expert and Author. Language: English, Publication date:  Oct, 20. 2020

Jeanette is a recognized, international expert in the contracting field having authored and/or co-authored a number of white papers, articles, and books.  With more than 20 years of experience drafting and negotiating a variety of agreements, Jeanette guides contract professionals as they negotiate complex performance- and outcome-based agreements. With her assistance, clients enhance their skills at drafting, negotiating and managing complex contracts. 

Since 2003, she has been providing tactical, customized mentoring, coaching, consulting and training programs to companies as small as 60 million in revenue, as large as Fortune 500 powerhouses, and state governments. Before that Jeanette was a practicing attorney. For more information visit www.jnyden.com

In this episode, we'll learn:

• What is meant by the agile process in the context of contract management ?
• What are some benefits of agile contract management ? 
• What is the recommendation on how to create an agile contract management (CM) ?
• How to retain flexibility in the context of contract management (CM) to capture opportunities for learning and change to ensure we actually build the right thing.

Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanettenyden/

Guest Name: Vasudha Jaiswal, Supply Chain Director, PT Johnson & Johnson Indonesia, Language: English, Publication date: Aug, 31. 2022

Women are uniquely positioned to create tomorrow's supply chain organizations. Female supply chain executives at the helm of large organizations, such as Johnson & Johnson's supply chain organization, have fostered a more balanced perspective by leading with empathy, cooperation, and collaboration.

Questions: How are women "making an impact" in supply chain roles, and how can "business leaders help women" succeed in these roles?

Listen to this Podcast to hear Vasudha Jaiswal, Supply chain director at Johnson & Johnson Indonesia, share her thoughts on this fascinating topic.

Vasudha Jaiswal is an End to End Supply Chain Professional with 15+ years across roles of Demand Planning, Regional Supply Planning, Integration, Inventory Optimization, Customer Service, Warehouse and Distribution, and Digital Tools. She is currently the Supply Chain Director at PT Johnson & Johnson Indonesia. Connect with Vasudha on Linkedin HERE.

Guest Name : Doug Dedman,  President at DBM Systems Inc.  Language : English, Publication date:  Sep, 30. 2020

Doug is a President at DBM System Inc. He has been working in S&OP in various capacities for over 10 years, but his career working with manufacturers started well before then. He played an instrumental role in developing and growing the S&OP practice that has become the focus of DBM today. Visit the DBM's website: https://www.dbmsys.com/

Doug also has taught at Conestoga College in the School of Business, and taught various APICS courses as part of the CPIM program.  He is a frequent speaker at local APICS chapters as well at International Users Conferences.

Doug received his Honours BA in Economics from the University of Waterloo, and his MBA from University of Windsor.  He is also certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) with APICS.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What does an effective S&OP mean?
• What are the most challenges in S&OP and how to overcome them?
• What is the role of an executive in S&OP?
• How to get the support from the CEO ?
  

Connect Doug on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-dedman-7a21b010/

Guest Name : Harry Purwoko,  Director at Sembada Pratama, The school of supply chain Language : English, Publication date:  June 13. 2020

Harry purwoko is a Director at Sembada pratama, the school of supply chain based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In addition, he is Director for the company call "Gok Perdana Solusindo" where focuses on providing a business coaching & boosting the profitability. Prior to this role, he has worked for several logistics companies including : Damco and DHL when he was appointed as director of national sales. He also been teaching the subject of logistics and supply chain at Institut Transportasi dan Logistik Trisakti, Indonesia. Connect him on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-purwoko-b991418/

Highlighted-questions from the Show Include:

• The customer accommodation and it's position in a supply chain process-flow.
• A key elements of customer accommodation
• What advice can you offer to a supply chain leader when they wanted to start & empower this a customer accommodation ? 

Guest Name : Sami Bin Ghanem - Book Author, Founder of Procurement Excellence

Language : English, Publication date:  Dec, 16th. 2019

Sami bin Ghanem has been working in Procurement field for over two decades with profound experience in managing the procurement of multi enterprises’ various & complex commodities such as manufacturing, construction projects, logistics projects, IT, services ,etc.

His achievements of transforming procurement from random operation to systematic (Policy, Process, KPIs, Plan), traditional to strategic (Strategic Procurement Management, Organization structure), manual to automated (eProcurement through ERP full implementation ).

He is founder of Procurement Excellence and published a several book in procurement such as : The Journey to Supplier Relationship Management (the New Generation of Procurement) and Strategic Procurement Management. 

A key highlighted from today's episode:

• The importance for having a SRM in place
• Key success factor for implementing the SRM; a main indicators
• Tips for dealing with difficulties in applying the SRM.

Connect him on Linkedin.

Guest Name: Rohit Sathe,  Chief Procurement Officer at Sunrise Medical, Language: English, Publication date:  Jan, 02. 2021

Rohit is a supply chain and procurement leader. He is Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at Sunrise Medical where he leads the global procurement organization with a mandate to transform and build a world-class operation spanning distribution in 130 countries and 15 manufacturing centers worldwide.  Sunrise Medical is a world leader in the development, design, manufacture, and distribution of manual wheelchairs, power wheelchairs, motorized scooters, and both standard and customized seating and positioning systems.

Prior to this role, Rohit spent his career at several multinational-corporations such as: Cooper Standard, Federal-Mogul holding corporation, Electrolux and AIESEC. His specialization focus on Procurement & Supply Chain Transformation, Strategic Sourcing, Business Strategy, Private Equity, Sustainability and Responsible Sourcing. Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitsathe/

Some of the highlights from the podcast:

• The Year 2020 has become a challenging time and the Covid-19 crisis puts a lot of pressure on procurement and supply chains. Can you please share with us some of the success stories of how you managed supply chains within the company during this period?
• How is the covid19 transforming global supply chains?
• what are some reflections in 2020 and how does the company prioritize the supply chain’s strategy for 2021?

Note: Opinions expressed are solely his own and do not express the views or opinions of his employer.

Guest Name: Andy Vargoczky, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing Asia Pacific, at Agility.  Language: English, Publication date: March, 20. 2021

An all round transport industry executive, having worked for airlines, ground handling agents, general sales agencies, charter brokerage firms as well as logistics companies. The positions previously held were both General Management type roles holding a P&L as well as direct Sales and Account Management roles in locations around the world, namely New Zealand, Australia, Russia, Austria, India, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and currently based in Singapore.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast:

• Agility just released the report called "Agility emerging market logistics Index - 2021". What is the index telling about?
• What are some key findings of the Index? 
• About covid-19: How significantly has the logistics industry sector been affected by the covid-19 pandemic, particularly in the emerging countries? 
• The index tells clearly that "No global recovery in 2021" which is a very provocative statement. How did the Index come up with these conclusions? 
• In the context of actions, what are the top priorities in 2021? 

Access the Logistics Index 2021 here: Agility-Emerging-Markets-Logistics-Index.pdf

Connect with Andy on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-vargoczky-54811425/

Guest Name: Bindiya Vakil, CEO and Co-founder at Resilinc.  Language: English, Publication date: June, 19. 2021

Bindiya Vakil is CEO and co-founder at Resilinc, the world leader for supply chain visibility and resiliency intelligence and analytics. She is a recognized thought leader in the area of supply chain risk management. She is also a member of the Advisory board, MIT Transportation and Logistics; a Board member at Healthcare transparency initiative, and Charter member at TiE silicon valley.

Ms. Vakil has a master’s degree in supply chain management from MIT and an MBA in Finance. Learn more about Resilinc. here: https://www.resilinc.com/

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What are supply chain risks? And What are the types of risks global companies face in managing their supply chains?
• How do we identify supply chain risks? What are tools for risk identification?
• How can the risk of supply chain disruptions be reduced? What is the best way to mitigate the risks?
• How do I prepare for a major supply chain disruption?

Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bindiya-vakil-resilinc/

Guest Name: Valkyn Clive Dmello, Logistics and shipping expert, Language: English, Publication date: Sep, 28. 2021

Valkyn Clive Dmello, Indonesian citizen, was born in 1977. Valkyn started his career as a trainee in the Maersk academy (Denmark) with stints in vessel operations, yard and port operations, trade lane pricing and capacity management in India (1998 to 2001), followed by stints in China (2002 to 2004) and Indonesia (2005 to 2008) heading the logistics side of the business. Since then Valkyn has had myriad roles and projects with Accenture (Russia and India), bulk shipping across Indonesia, agency, and logistics (Sinarmas group, Louis Dreyfuss, Inchcape).

Currently, Valkyn is on the Indonesian Advisory board / Commissioner with PSA Singapore, Ezyhaul (digital), Atlantic Shipping India (agency) and Admiral Lines / Indonesian Navy commercial arm  (for their container agency).

In this episode, Valkyn shares his view on macro-perspective of logistics infrastructure development in Indonesia and some other topic around connectivity, port and future of Indonesia's logistics.

Connect with Valkyn on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valkyn/

Guest Name: Izin Akioya, Editor and managing partner at Supply Chain Africa, Language: English, Publication date: Feb, 12. 2022

Izin Akioya is a Multidisciplinary Consultant & Entrepreneur. She is a fellow of the royal society of arts, manufactures and commerce, non-profit vice president marketing and board executive, co-host of the Africa Futures podcast and editor at Supply Chain Africa.

A Nigerian native, maximalist fashion and travel lover, she is obsessed with her life’s mission: change through transformative, empathic and sustainable contributions.

Here are some of the highlights from the podcast:

• What is your view on Africa's position in the global trade market? Have you seen any major developments in the last few decades?
• In march 2018, African countries signed a landmark trade agreement, the African continental freetrade agreement (AfCTA); What is the objective of AfCTA ? 
• How can the African countries take advantage of the benefits for the trade agreement?
• Are there any opportunities to leverage e-commerce and digital goods for competitiveness?

Connect with Izin at : http://izinakioya.com/

Guest Name : Julien Robineau,  Head of Supply chain planning at VITRA  Language : English, Publication date:  April, 13. 2020

Julien is a supply chain professional and having work for 15 years in variety of business mostly in logistics, planning and supply chain field. Currently, he is Head of supply chain planning at Vitra where he takes the responsibility for managing a strategic product portfolio planning and based in Germany.  Hold a master degree on logistics and supply chain planning from the Universite De Montreal, Canada. Prior to work at Vitra, he has worked for SR Technics Group, Jet Aviation and Bombardier Transportation. 

Key takeaways :

• A cultural challenges on the global level
• Managing a cultural response is taking very important roles in contributing to a success of supply chain management 
• Build a harmonized global supply chain culture where everyone respects local culture without disrupting the company’s culture

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-robineau/

Guest Name : Nurhadi - Founder @ Bicara Supply Chain, Language : Indonesian, Publication date : July 12nd. 2019

Bicara Supply Chain is a platform where you will be able to get insights from experts and leaders in the field of supply chain.   Proudly presenting in association with the VCARE Academy Inc, we focus on presenting guidance for solving complex supply chain challenges which help you transform your cost chain into the profitable value chain.  

At Bicara Supply Chain, we driving global perspectives to embrace technological adaptation in improving process efficiencies.

Guest Name : Andreas Kemmner,  CEO A&K-Group.  Language : English, Publication date:  May, 29. 2020

Andreas is the CEO for Abels & Kemmner (A&K) Group, specialized in the design, the  implementation and the optimization of market synchronized supply and  production chains and the automation of all related planning processes. He has been working in logistics for over 25 years, managed more than 250 national and international projects, concerning the optimization of supply chains regarding cost, inventory, delivery readiness and lead time.

Abels & Kemmner was founded in 1993 as a spin-off from the  Institute for Industrial Management (FIR eV) at the RWTH Aachen  University by the two engineers and economists Dr. Götz-Andreas Kemmner  and Dr. Helmut Abels. Today, Abels & Kemmner focuses on two areas: Supply chain and  logistics optimisation as well as restructuring and productivity  improvement. This linkage of specialist knowledge with general management issues characterises the work of all A&K  consultants. In 2005, A&K opened an office in London to focus specifically on the UK market. Abels & Kemmner is one out of 23 German consultancy which has been awarded TOP Consultant for the German Mittelstand in 2013, 2014/15 and just recently 2016. Visit more on: https://www.ak-online.de

In this episode, we cover:

• How to manage and control the cost within a supply chain
• Finding the cost's opportunity and a few example of the quick-wins of optimizing a supply chain cost.
• Internal vs. external cost's opportunity and how to overcome them.

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kemmner/

Guest Name : Ken Titmuss - CEO, Principal Consultant and Educator, Kent Outsourcing Services. Language : English, Publication date:  Feb, 5th. 2020

Ken is the CEO, Principal Consultant and Educator from Kent Outsourcing Services. His expertise mainly in Operations and Supply chain management where he spent many years in this area.  He is also a member of VCARE’s Education and Research Executive Board (EREB), Canada.

This is part of DDMRP where Ken explains the 5th component of DDMRP, namely Visible and collaborative execution as well as comparing the extra benefits of DDMRP buffers to reorder point with safety stock systems. The sixth and last podcast in this series will focus on DDMRP impacts on scheduling and work-in-progress management.

Connect with guest at: Linkedin - Ken Titmuss, contact him at: kktitmuss@mweb.co.za

Guest Name : Stephan de Barse,  Executive vice president at o9 Solutions Inc.  Language : Indonesian, Publication date:  May, 23. 2020

Stephan is a EVP (Executive vice president) at o9 Solutions where he is responsible for driving digital transformation with some of the leading fortune-500 companies. He holds a BSc and MSc in Accountancy and an Executive Master of Finance and Control from Nyenrode Business University (The Netherlands). In addition, Stephan holds an Executive MBA degree at BI Norwegian Business School which comprises of modules at UC Berkeley Haas, California, USA and Nan Yang University of Singapore.

As the market leader in decision management software, o9 Solutions helps the world's best companies in Consumer Products & Goods, Retail & Apparel, and Industrial Manufacturing. With solutions that cover integrated business planning, revenue management, and supply chain management, we service our customers on their terms — mobile, laptop, email — by connecting all of the information used in a company, both internal and external.  Visit the website on: https://o9solutions.com/

In this episode, we cover:

• The IBP process is a key component for any organization to remain competitive and streamline operations accordingly.
• Current trends of IBP and a few key challenges on the implementation
• The next generation of IBP can helps the organization to manage the complexity of demands.
• Advice to the business leader in improving the maturity levels of IBP.
• A few case study - best practices

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-de-barse-driving-digital-transformation/

Guest Name : Hannah Kain - President and CEO at ALOM Technologies   . Language : English, Publication date:  Jan, 20. 2020

Hannah is a Global supply chain executive and President / CEO for ALOM Technologies;  A global supply chain, contract packaging and fulfillment company with a footprint on five continents and 16 locations. ISO 9000, ISO 13485 and TL 9000 certified, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. ALOM serves Fortune 100 and leading customers worldwide in the technology, medical, automotive, telecommunications and government sectors. Website : https://alom.com/. She is also a Board member of WBNEC (The Women's Business Enterprise National Council), US.

A highlighted from today's episode:

• A position of Women in Supply chain and Leadership's role.
• How to grow and empower a women in Supply chain
• Skill set between Women and Man in work-force and how does it brings value to the company focuses on Supply chain 

Connect him on Linkedin: Hannah Kain

Guest Name: Andrea Stefano Patrucco, Assistant Professor at Florida International University - College of Business.  Language: English, Publication date: July, 20. 2021

Andrea Stefano Patrucco is Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Management at Florida International University . His main research interests are in the field of Supply Chain and Purchasing Management, focusing on performance management and organizational design in Public Procurement, and management of collaborative Supply Chain relationships. Access his paper on Google scholar here: Link

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What is the linkage between HRM and SCM?
• How do individual relationships and skills of sc professionals contribute to supply chain growth ?
• What advice can you offer to the supply chain leader to grow their team-members skills?

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-stefano-patrucco-175a3239/

Guest Name: Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Professor in Transport Geography, Language: English, Publication date: Jan, 18th. 2022

Jean-Paul Rodrigue received a Ph.D. in Transport Geography from the Université de Montréal (1994) and has been at  Hofstra University since 1999, initially at the Department of Economics & Geography and then at the Department of Global Studies & Geography.

Dr. Rodrigue sits on the international editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography, the Journal of Shipping and Trade, the Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics,  and the Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport. Dr. Rodrigue was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Manufacturing (2011-2016). In 2013, the US Secretary of Transportation appointed Dr. Rodrigue to sit on the Advisory Board of the US Merchant Marine Academy, a position he held until 2018. 

Dr. Rodrigue has authored 5 books, 32 book chapters, more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, numerous reports, and delivered more than 150 conferences and seminar presentations, mostly at the international level. Another his new book (With Co-authors: Theo Notteboom, Athanasios Pallis) "Port Economics, Management and Policy" just been released this year. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary port industry, showing how ports are organized to serve the global economy and support regional and local development. Learn more here.

Here are some of the highlights from the podcast:

• What are the major trends in e-commerce industry for the last five years, particularly in the U.S and worldwide?
• What exciting development of logistics footprint do you see in the future?
• The footprint of retail sector is shifting from commercially-accessible locations toward the transportation-accessible location. Tell me a bit about it?
• What are the key factors that determine the success of Amazon's logistics network?

Connect with him on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-paul-rodrigue-30780511/

Guest Name : Dr. Muddassir Ahmed,  Founder at SCMDOJO .  Language : English, Publication date:  April, 25. 2020

Dr. Muddassir Ahmed is founder at SCMDOJO. This is a platform for learning and sharing with the intention to enable supply chain professionals & supply chain team to solve the problems they face in their jobs & business. The enablement will come by proving relevant and best in class knowledge bank (ebook, guides, training & talks, courses, videos) and self-assessment tools to solve the problems faced by the supply chain professionals. SCMDOJO now has more than 55,000 of visitors and 77,000-page views a month. With 21,700 active Newsletter subscribers, and a tribe of over 46,000 social media followers who mostly supply chain professionals. Visit the website on: https://www.scmdojo.com/

Dr. Muddassir Ahmed is a Manufacturing Operations, Procurement and Supply Chain leader from international multi-site manufacturing experience in Electrical, Hydraulics and Internet industries. He has received a Ph.D. in Management Science from Lancaster University Management School, an MSc. in Management of Production from the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden and a B.E. in Textile Engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.

Key takeaways :

• How the supply chain leaders can begin to identify and re-visit their supply chain strategy in meeting the business competitiveness.
• The essential of  4-pillars of supply chain strategy which are: people, process , system and execution
• What's the first step a supply chain leader should take to start applying the advice you offer in the pillars of supply chain strategy ?

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-muddassir-ahmed/

Guest Name: Rachel Lemos, Director, Corporate procurement at Canadian Western Bank (CWB), Language: English, Publication date: Sep, 21. 2021

Rachel is a strategic and highly results-oriented procurement leader with over 20 years’ experience in international companies in the North and South America. Rachel has a diverse background, experienced in large organizations, well versed in various processes associated with private and public procurement, strategic sourcing and supply chain operations management.

Rachel has worked for Canadian public corporations both in the Provincial and Federal levels, has led staff in complex environments, including unionized settings. Rachel stands out as an inspirational leader, closely coaching and developing her teams, as well as with her ability to engage stakeholders in various levels with her passion, empathy and diplomacy.

She is a problem-solver, passionate for process improvement, automation and an active ESG ambassador advocating for the urgent environmental causes. She is the Co-Chair of the Public Procurement Chapter at the Sustainable Procurement Pledge (SPP). Rachel possesses exceptional academic credentials with an MBA in Purchasing and Logistics, Bachelor in International Relations, a professional designation as a CSPM, Executive Leadership certification and Lean Six Sigma Green & Black Belt certification.

-—— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• How do you see the role of procurement in organizations?
• In view of procurement, how does automation help businesses to be more effective?
• What are some top challenges in implementing a process automation ?
• Some other key takeaways.

Connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachellemos/

Guest Name : Rio Reynaldo - Manager @ Kelly Services Indonesia

Language : Indonesian, Publication date : July 17th. 2019

Bersama dengan Rio Reynaldo, Kelly Services Indonesia.  Mengulas outlook karir industry di Jatim.

Guest Name: Pratima Amonkar, Microsoft's APAC Leader for Cloud and AI business strategy. Language: English, Publication date: Aug, 24. 2021

As Microsoft's APAC Leader for Cloud and AI business strategy, Pratima spearheads the work Microsoft does to empower customers, partners, governments, and citizens to digitally transform their businesses and lives with the power of Cloud and AI.

In this role, she is focused on supporting countries' s sustainable economic growth through digital transformation. She leads the strategy, planning and programs to collaborate with customers, governments, industries, and communities to leverage the world’s largest and most trusted cloud infrastructure network. Over the past 20 years, Pratima has held leadership and P&L responsibilities at various technology companies like Rational Software, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. She has built and led technical teams that have delivered high growth cloud revenues at emerging and developed global markets.

Pratima an active technology mentor to some promising APAC startups, social entrepreneurships, and women founders. She chairs the APAC Microsoft Diversity and Inclusion Council for Accessibility and Assistive Technology.

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

1. Could you please tell us about Microsoft’s commitment to diversity & inclusion?
2. How does diversity & inclusion drive business value? More specifically in the tech industry.
3. What advice can you offer to the business leader on how to make the tech sector more inclusive?
4. Some other key takeaways.

Get a full script of this podcast by accessing this link --- https://www.vcare.international/post/dibdti

Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratima-amonkar-a8a2283/

Guest Name: Ednilson Bernardes,  Professor, Supply Chain Management at West Virginia University;  Language: English, Publication date:  Nov, 27. 2020

Dr. Bernardes is a supply chain Professor at West Virginia University (WVU). His primary research focuses on competitive dynamics and innovative practices in supply network operations and integration and innovation in buyer-supplier relationships. He started the Global Supply Chain Management Program at WVU and has been its Program Coordinator.

He has served as a guest speaker and delivered talks and seminars to various organizations and countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He has co-authored multiple books, including Digital Supply Network: Transform Your Supply Chain and Gain Competitive Advantage with Disruptive Technology and Reimagined Processes. Connect him on Linkedin - Learn more his book on Amazon.

In this episode, we ask the following questions:

• How do you see the trends of digitization in supply chain & what potentially challenges in the next years from now?
• Help me to understand more about these digitization in the context of supply chain. How does it help to gain a supply chain visibility ? 
• What advice can you offer to the business on how to implement the supply chain digital tech. in an affective ways?
• What additional guidance do you think importance in this space ?

Guest Name : Peter Schram,  Independent Advisor  Language : English, Publication date:  April, 08. 2020

Peter is an independent advisor and recognized as subject matter expert in Supply Chain with almost 20 years of experience and has a specialization on: Demand and Supply Planning, Long Range Planning (LRP), Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Sales and Operations Execution (S&OP), Even-Driven Demand Planning, Supply Chain Organization Design, Supplier Management and Planning and Performance Management.

He has been worked for leading organizations like Gartner, Philips/Signify, Paccar/DAF Trucks and IG&H consulting. And also a broad international experience in supporting Fortune 500 companies in multiple industries including Manufacturing, CPG, Healthcare, Aerospace, Energy & Utilities and High Tech.

The discussion focuses on the following topics:

• The Covid-19 and how it does change the supply chain globally especially on the demand and supply side.
• Overcome the challenges on supply disruptions.
• Anticipating the disruption and how company does the Supply chain mitigation risks.

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schrampeter/

Guest Name: Renard Siew , Sustainability & climate change specialist, Board of Advisor to CENT-GPS, Language: English, Publication date: Oct 06. 2021

Dr Renard Siew is Board of Advisor to CENT-GPS where he is responsible for advancing the organization's work in the field of climate change and sustainability.

He is the Founder of Accelerating Climate Action and has served as Co-Chair of the Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management Working Committee and UNEP-FI’s Collective Commitment on Climate Action. In 2020, he was appointed an SDG Champion-Climate Action by the World Economic Forum (WEF). He is a member of the WEF Expert Network Group, serves on the WEF Global Future Council, a Community Champion for Southeast Asia and a Global Lead for the Global Shapers Climate & Environment Steering Committee. He was accepted into the Forbes Fellowship Programme and attended the inaugural UN Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019. Renard is part of the facilitation team at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL). He has also lectured and been appointed Advisor for various universities.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What is difference between sustainability vs. CE (circular economy) and why sustainability now is becoming a trend?
• How to get started with sustainability?
• How to promote sustainability in the workplace? and can you give a few example of ways to be sustainable in every day life?
• Some other key takeaways. 

Connect with Renard on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-renard-siew-4515524/

About CENT-GPS: The Centre for Governance and Political Studies (Cent- GPS) is a KL based political science and social behavioral research firm. Cent-GPS was set up on the belief that there is an urgent need for an interdisciplinary research center, bridging the fields of economics, political science, sociology, business and law, which focuses on the problems and challenges raised by the current political developments and economic transformations. Learn more here: https://centgps.com.my/

Guest Name: Charlie Saffro, Founder & President, CS Recruiting, Language: English, Publication date: Oct, 12. 2022

Charlie has over 14 years of direct recruiting experience within the Logistics, Transportation and Supply Chain space and started CS Recruiting from the ground up over a decade ago. Today, she leads a team of over 40 and manages a multi-million dollar organization. As the President and Founder of CS Recruiting, she focuses on making meaningful connections to empower others to discover their full potential. 

Charlie is a dedicated yogi and encourages her clients and team to practice mindfulness in the workplace and beyond. She is also the mother of three boys and active in her community, volunteering with organizations to help women in the workforce. Connect with her on Linkedin here.

Some of the questions we asked Charlie during our conversation:

• How do you see the current supply chain challenges? and will there be any significant differences in the coming years?
• What’s the best way to manage the team in an uncertain situation?
• [Working from home or remotely is now a common phenomenon with Covid. However, we have seen that it is a difficult situation]. Is there going to be any new ways of working or collaboration tools?
• What are your top three supply chain leadership qualities?

Guest Name: Jillian Carson-Jackson, President at The Nautical Institute.  Language: English, Publication date: March, 01. 2021

Jillian is an experienced Maritime Technical Advisor, Presenter, and Chairperson with a passion for communications technologies, education and training, and vessel tracking. She is currently a President at The Nautical Institute, an international representative body for maritime professionals. Learn more about the Insitute: https://www.nautinst.org/about-us.html

Jillian commenced her career in the Canadian Coast Guard, graduating from the Canadian Coast Guard College as a navigation officer. With over three decades in the industry, Jillian has worked both afloat and ashore in the CCG, including 10 years as an instructor at the CCGC.  Following an active role at IALA in the development of VTS Training, she moved to France to work with IALA as Technical Coordination Manager. She then moved to Australia to work with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) as Manager of Vessel Traffic and Pilotage Services.

In 2016 Jillian left AMSA to set up her own consultancy, focusing on maritime technical advice and education. In May 2020 Jillian was appointed a Director of GlobalMET. Jillian represents The Nautical Institute at IALA as chair of the Emerging Digital Technologies Working Group (ENAV Committee) and the Personnel and Training Working Group (VTS Committee).

Some of the highlights from the podcast:

• Some of the supply chain risks in relation to the security
• The role of technology, data, equipment, regulations, and other key factors in ensuring a secure supply chain, particularly in the maritime industry.
• Security and risks management: Protecting our supply chains.
• Some other recommendations when designing well-protected supply chains.

Connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillian-carson-jackson/

Guest Name : Deborah Dull,  Circular nomad, Principal: Manufacturing product management at GE Digital Language : English, Publication date:  Aug, 31 2020

Deborah Dull is a Principal, Manufacturing product management at GE Digital where she leads continuous improvement and optimization of industrial production processes . Prior to this role, she has worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as Program Officer, Health supply chains and before that she spent about 6 (six) years at Microsoft as Senior Manager, Retail Channel Operations. She obtained a Master of science in Supply chain and operations management from University of Liverpool with thesis focused on the digital supply chain.

She enjoys the travel, solves for circularity and loves supply chain. Visit her website on: https://www.circularnomad.com/

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What is circular in a supply chain ? and what does a supply chain need in a circular economy ?
• What are steps to build a circular supply chain?
• How the business leader shall adopt the changes in circular supply chain?

Connect Deborah on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/circularnomad/

Guest Name : Chris Sims - CEO @ Harmony Applied Insights.

Language : English, Publication date : July 28th. 2019

Interviewed Chris Sims, a CEO for Harmony Applied Insights,  a consultancy and Big Data ventures firm that helps a clients capitalize on their investments in technology and produces bottom-line driven roadmaps for capitalizing on the era of  the Intelligent Enterprise.

Chris explained the essential of the TOC and how it brings the value into a Supply chain.

The Theory of Constraints is a methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor (i.e. constraint) that stands in the way of achieving a goal and then systematically improving that constraint until it is no longer the limiting factor. In manufacturing, the constraint is often referred to as a bottleneck.

The Theory of Constraints takes a scientific approach to improvement. It hypothesizes that every complex system, including manufacturing processes, consists of multiple linked activities, one of which acts as a constraint upon the entire system (i.e. the constraint activity is the “weakest link in the chain”).

Guest Name: Hannah Kain,  President and CEO of ALOM, Language: English, Publication date:  Dec, 22. 2020

Hannah is a President and CEO of ALOM. Prior to founding ALOM in 1997 in Fremont, California, she held various management and executive positions dating back to 1983, with a wide range of experience in the packaging industry since 1990. Ms. Kain’s unwavering focus is on customer commitment and quality while challenging her team to deliver a competitive advantage for the customer. This focus led to ALOM receiving ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001 and TL 9000 certification and expanding the ALOM footprint to five continents. 

She is a board member of the National Association of Manufacturers and former board member of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), part of the WBENC Forum Leadership Team and a current board member of WBEC-Pacific. In addition to being active with several community-based non-profit organizations, Hannah Kain’s accomplishments include awards and recognition for community involvement, leadership, management and business, including: 2020 Business Insider Top 100 People Transforming Business, 2020 SDCE Women Leaders in Supply Chain, 2020 SDCE Supply Chain Pro-to-Know, 2019 WBEC-Pacific Pinnacle Award of Excellence, 2019 NAWBO-SV Lifetime Achievement Award, and 2017 Gold Woman of The Year in Manufacturing Stevie Award. Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahkain

Some of the highlights from the podcast:

• What advice can you offer to the business leaders; how to make a supply chain be more resilience post the covid-19 ? Can you please share some of your client’s success story and how did you helped them ?
• How do you see the role of digital technology in the context of creating resilience supply chains
• What is your observation in regard to the future supply chains in the next year of 2021
• Some of key-takeaways.

Guest Name: Richard Martin, Founder & CEO, Thinking Machine, Language: English, Publication date: Oct, 01. 2022

Richard is the founder and CEO at Thinking Machine, it's a new breed of expense management focused on savings and consolidated billing where he created a special system with machine learning and AI technology dedicated to making complex contracts and billing reporting simple and accurate. With close to US$1M in funding by 2021, and experience working with invoices and contracts from 26 countries in 18 languages, Thinking Machine is rapidly becoming a must have solution for telecom companies and enterprises with large annual spend on Telco and IT services. Prior to this role, Richard was a Business Intelligence Lead at Tesla for over a decade. 

Some of the questions we asked Richard during our conversation.

• What are the most common leaks that procurement overlooks when looking for cost savings?
• How can a better CM (Contract management) improve savings?
• If I were a founder of a new SME (Small business-entreprise), Will you still recommend using "the technology" to manage CM (Contract management)
• What is the ideal CM (Contract management) in one sentence?

Connect with Richard on Linkedin by clicking here.

Guest Name: Kai Costantini, Expert in biomimicry Design and circular process, Ambassador at The Circular Economy Institute, CEC.  Language: English, Publication date: April, 23. 2021

Kai Costantini has been active in circularity and as a Biomimicry practitioner since 2016. Kai founded the local Calgary Circular Economy Club chapter in 2017, and now leads the CEC Winnipeg chapter in Manitoba, Canada. She is an Ambassador for the Circular Economy institute and collaborates with CEI on developing certification. Kai works as a Business Consultant , advising on strategy, innovation, talent and capability building in startup and SMEs. Kai operates at nodes which can leverage large scale systemic change often in an open and distributed manner fostering networked capabilities, like the CEC (Circular Economy Club) global network, She engages as Advisor in matters of CE with the Natural Systems Engineering group at INCOSE (International Council of Systems Engineering) and is on the Advisory Board of the Alberta Biomimicry Chapter.

Kai is a former Executive Search Professional specialized in Life Sciences. She held positions as IT Systems Manager and as IT Project Coordinator for multi- country ERP migration. She has a Ba In Combined Studies of Arts, studied European Integration in, Paris, France and specialized in Human Capital Strategy. Today Kai refocuses on strategic talent acquisition to foster circular bioeconomy capabilities. Kai is an invited speaker at Biomimicry Lecture series, MIT Bio Community and other events.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• How do you see a shifting-trends globally from a linear economy to circular economy ?
• What the business leaders must-to-do in securing that they are moving into the right direction ?
• Coud you please share your thought on what are probably major obstable happened in creating the global circular economy ?
• Some other key takeaway

Connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/intersections-kdc/

Guest Name : Rodney Apple,  Founder and managing partner at SCM Talent group.  Language : Indonesian, Publication date:  May, 27. 2020

Rodney Apple serves as the Managing Partner of SCM Talent Group which he  founded back in August of 2004 in Atlanta, GA. He has been completely  specialized in end-to-end supply chain recruitment since 2001 when he  joined The Home Depot (Fortune 13 at the time) to lead the recruitment  for their very first supply chain department. Rodney went on to lead all  professional and executive supply chain recruitment for The Coca-Cola  Company for 6+ years followed by a few other clients that included  Kimberly-Clark, Cummins and PWC.

Rodney’s passion for the field of supply chain management is evident  through his involvement within the industry and various supply chain  associations. He has presented at CSCMP and APICS global conferences,  has been serving as the Career Coach for ASCM (formerly APICS) since 2014, and in 2017 became an APICS Magazine Department Author, contributing articles under “Professional Development”. Rodney also authors the Supply Chain Talent Blog where he shares best practices in supply chain recruiting, leadership  development, job search strategy, resume optimization, interviewing  techniques and related topics. Visit more on: https://www.scmtalent.com

In this interview, Rodney explains why mentorship matters in a supply chain career:

• The benefits of mentorship program
• Advise to the leader for starting the mentorship program in their organization
• Do's and Don'ts for a mentors and mentees

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scmtalent/

Guest Name: Sujit Singh,  Chief  Operating Officer (COO) at Arkieva, Language: English, Publication date:  Jan, 11. 2021

Sujit is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Arkieva. Founded in 1993, Arkieva is a supply chain software and services company with headquarters in Wilmington, Del., and European operations in Antwerp, Belgium. Arkieva software helps manufacturers better plan demand, manage inventories, plan production and replenishment, and schedule operations. See more details: www.arkieva.com

Sujit is a recognized subject matter expert in demand planning, forecasting, and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). He is a certified fellow in production and inventory management (CFPIM) and a certified supply chain professional (CSCP) by APICS, the Association for Operations Management. In 2010, Sujit was named as a “Pro-to-Know” by Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine. Hold MS from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur. 

Some of the highlights from the podcast:

• The importance of supply chains collaboration
• The tools used to support planning and collaboration in the supply chains
• Question on Collaborative supply chain planning: What advice can you offer to the supply chain leaders on how to make it happens?
• Some other key takeaways. 

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujitsingh/

Guest Name : Briant Silvano - Senior Manager, Procurement @ Tasma Bioenergy Indonesia

Language : Indonesian, Publication date: Sept 13rd. 2019

Episode 016 is out !

Edisi kali ini Bersama dengan Briant Silvano, Senior Manager (Procurement) di Tasma Bioenergy Indonesia, dimana Beliau bertanggungjawab dalam hal strategic procurement pengadaan biomass dan aktivitas procurement di tingkat corporate.  Bapak Briant juga ketua IPS (Indonesian Procurement Society) Chapter Jawa Timur.

Key-takeways:

• Mengapa organisasi harus mengubah aktivitas procurement, dari cost center menjadi profit center?
• Apa saja elemen penting yang harus diperhatikan dalam rangka transformasi ini ?
• Sharing best-practices.

Selamat mendengarkan.

Guest Name: Joanne Flinn, Business author and Sustainability advisor, Language: English, Publication date: July, 21. 2022

Joanne Flinn is an award-winning business author and advisor. Her most recent book, Greensight ~ The Sustainability Handbook for Company Directors helps executives, Boards and the C-suite address the twin challenges of growth and ESG. She works with Boards and C-suite teams to align strategy and culture for sustainable results.  You can connect with Joanne over on Linkedin here.

Here are some of the highlights from the podcast:

• What specifically motivated you to focus on sustainability and then just also released a new book - Greensight: the sustainability guide for company directors?
• I’d love to hear more about sustainability in business. What does it mean?
• As a leader, how should we think to get everyone on board for the sustainability transition? What are actually the essential things in this space?
• What advice can you offer to the business leader on how to ensure that we have the right attitudes, culture, and governance in place to thrive, not just survive, in the world of tomorrow?

Guest Name: Masoud Talebi Amiri, Co-founder at Ponera Group, Language: English, Publication date: Dec, 03. 2021

Masoud co-founded Ponera Group in 2019. They are provider of a modular and digitally enabled industrial packaging solution to replace single-use pallets and crates. Their vision is to transform such consumable packaging material into intelligent assets, orchestrating an effective sharing economy and providing activity-based digital services to users from diverse industries, increasing the efficiency of processes linked to industrial packaging and shipment.

He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Throughout his research, he worked on design, modelling and development of sustainable processes to help industries move towards greener operations. Since 2017 that he started his entrepreneurial journey, he co-founded two startups with the focus on decarbonization of logistics sector.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast include:

• What is meant by green logistics and how does it work?
• Why is green logistics matter today?
• What is the possible action that the company can start the initiative of green logistics?  Probably you can share your experience in the past when successfully delivered this project with Ponera Group?
• In a bigger portion, sustainable logistics is no longer optional. It's a necessity and becomes the norm. How do you see this statement?

Connect with Masoud on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masoud-talebi-amiri/

About Ponera Group - Ponera Group was incorporated in Switzerland on April 2019 by two colleagues and friends who believe that eco-friendly solutions are necessary to shape the future of the fast-growing world.  Ponera Group has developed a unique logistic solution based on an innovative design of pallets’ system which decreases packing costs by minimizing the transport inefficiencies. The flexibility of this innovation makes it applicable to wide range of industries.

Guest Name:  Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus - CEO, Founder @ EDUSCM

Language : Indonesian, Publication date: Aug 28th. 2019

Yeah, Episode 014 is out !!!

Wawancara singkat saya dengan Bapak Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus, atau akrab dipanggil "Pak Efrata". Beliau ini dikenal sebagai trainer bidang Supply chain, sekaligus Founder EDUSCM.  Kapasitas kompetensi beliau khususnya di area Sales and Operations Planning, CPFR, Inventory Management, Integrated Sourcing Planning, Demand-Driven Manufacturing Requirement Planning (DDMRP), dan juga telah Certified Supply Chain Analyst (CSCA), Certified Supply Chain Manager (CSCM) dan Certified Demand-Driven Planner (CDDP).

Key takeaways episode kali ini:

• Perkembangan industri Supply Chain dan kesiapan SDM (Sumber Daya Manusia) Indonesia
• Minat FG (Fresh Graduated) terhadap profesi Supply Chain
• Bagaimana profesi supply chain memberikan kontribusi "Added-value" kepada organisasi dan perusahaan.
• Jenis profesi Supply chain dan Career-path
• Tips berkarir di Supply Chain.

Full-version episode ini bias didengarkan via Anchor, Spotify dan Google Podcast.

See you in the next episode & bye !

Guest Name : Bob Pojasek,  Managing director at Center for Corporate Performance & Sustainability (CPS)  Language : English, Publication date:  July, 22. 2020

Bob Pojasek is sustainability and sustainable development consultant, doing business as Pojasek & Associates LLC. He teaches an online, action-learning course in organizational sustainability at Harvard University. This course has been offered online to students from 50 countries over the past 18 years at Harvard University. He recently became a Member of the Education and Research Executive Board (EREB), the “leaders onboard with VCARE.”

In the past four months, Bob worked with some of his past students to launch The Center for Corporate Performance & Sustainability. CPS offers competency-based courses on the international “high-level structure” for organizational sustainability by leveraging ISO standards and risk management frameworks. This structure is used by a large corporation, its operating facilities, and its supply chain to create a program that leverages the new and revised ISO management system standards. Focus areas at the Center include sustainable development, social responsibility, resource productivity, pollution prevention, and risk management. The Center is looking forward to offering its first four courses in early September.  Visit more on https://centerforcps.com/

In this episode, we discuss:

• The popular standards that can be used to further improve the ability of organizations to create world-class organizational sustainability programs.
• ISO 9004, that is a quality standard that helps companies provide quality management that is used for the sustained success of the organization.
• Adding organizational resilience to the organizational sustainability program.

Connect Bob on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobpojasek/

Guest Name : Lutfi Jamili - Managing Director @ Neuvolt Consulting 

Language : Indonesian, Publication date : July 26th. 2019

Supply chain sustainability, khususnya di bidang pertanian organik. Ngobrol ringan dengan beliau, Lutfi Jamili - Praktisi operations dan Supply chain pertanian organik.  

1. Pengalaman menjalankan pertanian organik, yang dimulai dari Bali

2. Peluang dan tantangan, khususnya di Indonesia

3. Benefit bagi petani dan pasar global yang masih sangat terbuka.

Guest Name : Ken Titmuss - CEO, Principal Consultant and Educator, Kent Outsourcing Services. Language : English, Publication date:  Jan, 10th. 2020

Ken is the CEO, Principal Consultant and Educator from Kent Outsourcing Services. His expertise mainly in Operations and Supply chain management where he spent many years in this area.  He is also a member of VCARE’s Education and Research Executive Board (EREB), Canada.

This is part of DDMRP Series where Ken would be explaining the fourth components of DDMRP, namely demand driven planning.

Connect with guest at: Linkedin - Ken Titmuss, contact him at: ktitmuss@mweb.co.za

Key highlighted:

• The changing of DDMRP planning from replenishing items based on inaccurate forecasts to replenishing buffers based on accurate orders or actual demand.
• The NET FLOW equation.
• The new methodology of distribution at DDP (Demand driven planning).

Guest Name: Saum Sharma, Procurement director at Airgas.  Language: English, Publication date: May, 22. 2021

Saum sharma is currently Procurement director at Airgas: an Air Liquide company, based in the U.S. He has has 16 years of multi-industry experience in Procurement Strategy, Working Capital Optimization, Supply Chain and Management Consulting.   

Has led cross-functional transformation projects in Americas, Europe and Asia. He believes that Collaboration is the seed for any successful Procurement Strategy, with AI and Automation being the next frontier that will help Procurement and Supply Chain elevate their the value proposition.

Prior to his current role, Saum held several managerial positions with the Coca Cola Company, CGN & Associates and IET Inc. He has completed his Master of science in Engineering management from Western Michigan University.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What is collaboration; why is it an important ingredient for successful procurement ?
• How does collaboration work in procurement ?
• Could you please share some success stories when you developed a collaboration in procurement ?

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumsharma/

Guest Name : Bram Desmet, CEO at Solventure and Adjunct Professor in Operations and Supply chain at Vlerick Business School.  Language : English, Publication date:  Jan 7th. 2020

Bram Desmet is CEO of software vendor Solventure and also Adjunct Professor Operations & Supply Chain at Vlerick Business School. He recently published a book titled Supply Chain Strategy and Financial Metrics: The Supply Chain Triangle of Service, Cost and Cash.

Connect him on Linkedin: Bram Desmet Website: https://www.bramdesmet.com

Key highlighted from today's episode:

• The balancing a three key area (service, cost and cash) is the essence of supply chain management.
• The traditional organization creates tension in the triangle.
• How to creates the align targeted. Strategic trade-offs.
• Balancing the triangle is about optimizing the return on capital employed (ROCE).

Guest Name: Johannes Kern, General Manager at Xiezhi Supply Chain Consulting, Language: English, Publication date: Dec, 21. 2021

Johannes Kern is an Affiliated Professor of Supply Chain Management at Tongji University and General Manager of Xiezhi Consulting, China. His research focuses on Supply Chain Management and International Management, particularly on Digital Transformation and on the impact of cultural influences on Buyer-Supplier relationships. 

He teaches MBA and Master's students from around the world in Digital Transformation, Supply Chain Management, and International Management. His practitioner-oriented research is published with the OECD, Harvard Business School Publishing, and in books from Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley. Johannes supports international companies in China to improve their decision-making and increase their performance along the whole supply chain. Prior to that, he worked in various purchasing and logistics functions at the Bosch Group in Asia-Pacific, where he led teams and managed strategic projects in China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, and India. Johannes holds a Ph.D. from Technical University Darmstadt in Germany.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast include:

• Why are skills in SCM a vital topic now?
• What skills in SCM are most important now and how to build up these skills?
• For a young supply chain professional, what advice you can offer to them to keep staying agile in response to the recent challenges?

Connect with Johannes on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanneskern/

About Xiezhi Supply Chain Consulting - is a boutique consulting firm that helps German companies in China to optimize the whole Supply Chain, including Sourcing, Transportation, Warehousing, and Production. As a spin-off from TU Darmstadt and Tongji University, a systematic and analytical approach, incorporating state-of-the-art research is used. Xiezhi blends German quality with an understanding of the Chinese market and intercultural competency.

Guest Name: Amadou Diallo, Chief Executive Officer Middle East & Africa, DHL Global Forwarding.  Language: English, Publication date: March, 09. 2021

Since June 2017 Amadou Diallo is CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Middle East & Africa. He is the founder of Saloodo! GmbH. He was previously CEO DHL Freight, CEO Africa and South Asia Pacific DHL Global Forwarding and prior to this Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Post DHL Logistics Divisions and Managing Director for the integration of Exel and DHL. Mr. Diallo has more than 25 years of experience in the tourism, banking, express and logistics industries. 

He is Senegalese and is fluent in several languages including English, German, French, Fulani, Wolof and Spanish. Mr. Diallo is Chairman of Amref in Germany and in the boards of Welthungerhilfe, Africa 2.0, Schiller International University.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast:

• What are key challenges facing today and how do you see a current trends in 2021 and next five or ten years from now?
• What advice would you offer to the business leaders how to convert the challenges into the profitable opportunity ?
• Can you please share some stories about how you set the expectations for productivity and support the team's well being particularly in the pandemic ?
• What are other recommendation to stay competitive at the global logistics' s challenges ?

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amadou-diallo-963975a/

Guest Name : Patrick Rigoni, Ph.D,  Founding Partner at SmartChain International LLP .  Language : English, Publication date:  April, 28. 2020

Patric Rigoni is Founding partner at SmartChain International LLP, a team specializing in delivering sustainable change through the application of innovative solutions to business problems and a strong focus on change management. Patrick has a long career in operations and operational excellence and has held positions in global teams in Johnson & Johnson and Mylan Pharmaceutical where he was responsible of leading major transformations in the area of operations management, supply chain and S&OP. He is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Lean Assessor and he is a endorsed Master Instructor with the Demand Driven Institute. Visit the website on: https://smartchainllp.ch/

Key takeaways :

• Why is the supply chain agility becoming an essential in today's environment?
• What are the major challenges to achieving supply chain agility and how to overcome them ?
• What advice can you offer to help business leaders to take the first step when they want to implement agility in the supply chain?

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickrigoni/

Guest Name : Bob Pojasek,  Managing director at Center for Corporate Performance & Sustainability (CPS)  Language : English, Publication date:  July, 02. 2020

Bob Pojasek is a sustainability and sustainable development consultant, doing business as Pojasek & Associates LLC. He teaches an online, action-learning course in organizational sustainability at Harvard University. This  course has been offered to online to students from 50 countries over the past 18 years at Harvard University. He recently became a Member of the Education and Research Executive Board (EREB) , the “leaders onboard with VCARE.”

In the past four months, Bob worked with some of his past students to launch The Center for Corporate Performance & Sustainability. CPS offers competency-based courses on the international “high-level structure” for organizational sustainability by leveraging ISO standards and risk management frameworks. This structure is used by a large corporation, its operating facilities and its supply chain to create a program that leverages the new and revised ISO management system standards. Focus areas at the Center include: sustainable development, social responsibility, resource productivity, pollution prevention, and risk management. The Center is looking forward to offering its first four courses in early September.  Visit more on: https://centerforcps.com/

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is organizational sustainability
• What international management systems are use with the “high-level structure” to create a basic organizational sustainability program at the supplier level?
• What is the six pillars of  an organizational sustainability program that is consistent with the “high-level structure”?
• How does this structure differ from the current sustainability programs ?

Connect Bob on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobpojasek/

Guest Name : Lars Kuch Pedersen - Founder of LeanLinking supplier solutions.
Language : English, Publication date:  Nov 21. 2019

Lars is Founder and CEO for LeanLinking. A company which provides the supplier management solutions including:  Supplier relationship, Supplier performance, Supplier quality, Supplier compliance and Supplier data-sharing.  Prior to that, Lars has been worked for various companies in a Sourcing and Supply chain management roles. He is living in Denmark.

In this episode, Lars explained the importance of supplier's management and common mistake in procurement.

Connect with guest at: Linkedin -  Lars Kuch Pedersen  

Key takeaways:

• The importance of supplier's management
• A mistake in procurement which become a NUMBER ONE's mistake
• The supplier management by objective (SMBO); How does it work ?
• The benefits of SMBO

Guest Name: Johann Robette, Customer success manager at VEKIA, Language: English, Publication date: Sep, 14. 2021

Johann Robette is Customer Success Manager for key accounts at Vekia, an innovative SaaS software company that he joined in 2009. Vekia provides an APS solution that combines probabilistic demand planning, cost optimization, and automation. With a background in computer science and a deep passion for data analysis and supply chain, he initially took on technical and functional roles in the product development team.

Graduating from the Stanford Center for Professional Development's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program in 2015, Johann then took on different business-oriented roles at Vekia. In addition, Johann supports Supply Chain courses at several French universities and is actively involved as a volunteer in an educational and charitable organization.

-—— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

• What is the purpose of forecasting?
• How does forecasting contribute to the business and what makes a good forecast?
• I have just read your article about a different approach to forecasting called “Decision Impact”. Could you please tell us a bit about the DI ("Decision Impact")?
• Some other key takeaways.

Connect with him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johann-robette/

Guest Name : Suuchi Ramesh, Founder and CEO at Suuchi Inc.,  Language : English, Publication date:  Sep, 07. 2020

Suuchi Ramesh is a Founder and CEO at Suuchi Inc.  It is a next-generation supply chain management platform. Suuchi's software, the Suuchi GRID, allows businesses to manage their entire supply chain from product ideation through distribution in a single system while collecting valuable data to make informed business decisions. Prior to Suuchi, Inc., she worked at VC-backed tech unicorns. She believes technology is the answer to reinventing a legacy industry.  Learn more on https://www.suuchi.com/

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What is the data in supply chain and why is it so important?
• How can data improve the supply chain operations moving forward?
• How to organize the data operations in alignment with the supply chain strategy?
• A few examples of how supply chain platforms help companies to manage their entire end-to-end supply chain by elaborating on the role of data?

Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suuchi-ramesh-219480111/

Guest Name : Benard Odote,  Co-founder at TTP Procurement Foundation.  Language : Indonesian, Publication date:  May, 2. 2020

Benard is a procurement executive. He is a co-founder at TTP procurement foundation, it’s a not-for-profit (NGO) to pioneer 4th industrial revolution technologies providing scalable and sustainable solutions to the benefit of all participants. Additionally, he is Advisory Board at the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance & Birmingham City University (CCEG-BCU) 4IR Research Centre and Director at  FURSA supplier discovery portal.

TRANSNATIONAL TRANSPARENT PROCUREMENT (TTP) FOUNDATION; TTP Foundation pledge is to create a better future through resource management using the latest 4th industrial revolution technologies of AI, Blockchain and IoT to equip young professionals for growth and impact the wealth of their organizations, their communities, and ultimately their nations; the resource management of everything that has intrinsic value to society such as natural sustainable riches, intellectual assets and even financial instruments including procurement spend. Visit more on: www.ttp.center;  www.hop-global.com; www.fursa.africa

In this episode, we cover:

• Supply chain's performance and future challenges on demand complexity
• Improving the bottom-line performance
• A quick wins

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttp-procurement-foundation/

Guest Name : Rebecca Howard,  Director at ADR International. Language : English, Publication date:  May, June 02. 2020

Rebecca is the Director of Learning for ADR International and has over 20 years’ experience of designing and delivering local, regional and global procurement training. She works closely with procurement executives and capability managers to design and build their procurement academies to close the capability gap. Typically, academies use a mixture of offline and online content to provide a blended learning experience that delivers a sustainable improvement in purchasing team performance. Prior to this role, she was a senior consultant at KPMG and previously was a senior buyer at the British airways.  Connect her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccahowardprocurementleadership/

Highlighted-questions from the Show Include:

• What actually defines a leader? And how can procurement professionals work towards asserting themselves as leaders in their sector?
• What are the essential skills and capabilities that differentiate high performance from the average of procurement professionals ?
• How can I become a good procurement leader ? What leads to being a successful leader ?
• What is the impact of a good leadership in procurement to the organization and business ?

Guest Name : Roddy Martin,  Chief Digital Strategist at Tracelink  Language : English, Publication date:  Aug, 21. 2020

Roddy Martin is a Chief digital strategist at Tracelink where he brings more than 36 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, technology  and digital transformation.  Prior to this role, he has worked for several a leading global companies such as :Global SCM Cloud Product Marketing Oracle, SME SCM Transformation Projects ; Zinata Inc., (Retired) Partner / Managing Director Accenture SCM Strategy, SVP AMR Research / Gartner - Global SC Research, Best Practices and Benchmarking, Trusted SC Advisor to Leading Global Chief SC Officers, and others. Roddy is also known as an independent thought leader, coach and mentor.

About Tracelink:  is the leading digital platform company for the life science supply chain, bringing hundreds of thousands of pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations together for the greater good of the patient. TraceLink's digital solutions bring the precision, agility and visibility necessary for all members of the pharmaceutical ecosystem to thrive in a world where unplanned events and business disruptions are the "next normal."

In today's episode, we cover the topic on "Why supply chain network operating models need new digital technology platforms" where our discussion focuses on: What's driving supply chain transformation, How does the transformation help company to improve their end-to-end supply chain's visibility ?, How platforms transform and what's capability ?

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roddymartin/

Guest Name : Ken Titmuss,  CEO at  Ken Outsourcing Services.  Language : Indonesian, Publication date:  May, 21. 2020

Ken is a Supply Chain, Operations and Manufacturing consultant. He has run his own business, Kent Outsourcing Services, and has worked with well over 200 companies assisting them in all aspects of their manufacturing planning and control systems and providing their employees with education courses to raise their level of understanding of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Ken has been very involved with SAPICS for last 30 years from running the Cape Town Chapter, to being on the Board of Directors and holding the position of President for two terms of 2 years.

Ken is an APICS Master Instructor for the CPIM, CSCP, CLTD, Principles Series, Lean Program as well as for the APICS Instructor Development Programs. He is also Member of VCARE’s Education and Research Executive Board (EREB), Canada.

In this episode we cover the top ten reasons that contribute to Inaccurate Inventory; starting from education and training, cycle counting, Policies, Procedures and Computer Work Instructions, Housekeeping, Receiving, Warehouse Security, Visible Performance Measures, Shipping, Discipline, Continuous Improvement.

Connect him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-titmuss-4408341/

Guest Name: Eva Lianne Veldkamp, IMO Policy Coordinator, The Commonwealth of Dominica Maritime Registry, Language: English, Publication date: June, 22. 2022

Presently Ms Eva Lianne Veldkamp serves as an IMO Policy Coordinator representing the Commonwealth of Dominica Maritime Registry at the International Maritime Organization. Ms Veldkamp believes that mariners and seafarers are the real assets of our industry and will always stand tall in support of the human element.

Ms. Veldkamp leads a working group for the Center for Ocean Policy and Economics - COPE° on Psychological Safety and Sexual Assault and Harassment in the Maritime Sector. Translating talk into action addressing the psychological welfare and safety of today’s mariner. 

In addition Ms. Veldkamp is connecting maritime professionals globally, in order for them to benefit from the online learning simulators, training, examination and certification platforms NEMO° and HALO° developed by Northeast Maritime Institute. Serving as dual-licensed maritime officer, Eva Lianne Veldkamp started her career by crossing the many oceans of our globe on large container vessels.

Here are some of the highlights from the podcast:

1. In term of human element aspects of diversity, equality, equity and inclusion; what’s your view on the current situation in maritime sector? What are the most critical issues impacting the seaferers?
2. We learned that IMO (The international maritime organization) is currently working on creating a more safe-working culture by developing a model course which includes the aspect of personal safety and social responsibility. Tell us a bit about the project and how importance is this for supporting the welfare and safety culture in maritime sector?
3. What are the possible actions that businesses / stakeholders can do to empower women in maritime community?

Check out our other podcasts DIRECTORY here. You can connect with Eva over on Linkedin.

Guest Name : Lourdes Coss, MPA, CPPO,  Principal Owner at M.L. Coss and Associates, LLC  Language : English, Publication date:  June 26. 2020

Lourdes is an author, executive coach, professional speaker, consultant and trainer who specializes in procurement, personal development, leadership, and transformation. She is the principal owner at M.L. Coss and Associates, LLC.  Before running her own business, she held Chief Procurement Officer  (CPO) and executive level positions in some of the largest government organizations in the US. She dedicated most of her career to successfully leading procurement transformations resulting in multi-million financial and operational efficiencies. Visit her website on: https://www.lourdescoss.com/

In this episode we discuss:

• How does procurement reduce cost
• What are the basic steps in the procurement cost savings
• How to develop the strategy in procurement to be inline with a cost savings target
• What’re other considerations for procurement savings ? And any specific areas we should focus on ?

Guest Name: Juli Lassow, Owner & Principal, JHL Solutions, Language: English, Publication date: Sep, 24. 2022

Retailers and brands should look to the circular economy to advance their business goals while simultaneously creating products and supply chains that are more economical, sustainable and adaptable for a changing world and a warming planet. Listen to this Podcast to hear Juli, Owner and Principal at JHL Solutions, share her thoughts on this fascinating topic where we asked her a few questions during our conversation.

• When and how should retailers and brands begin the initiative to contribute to the circular economy?
• Despite recent developments in circular economy, it seems that implementation of  circular economy still keep very challenging. What exactly is the problem?
• In a one-sentence; Why should everyone look into CE?

Juli Lassow, owner & principal @ JHL Solutions – committed to elevating private label retail partnerships, working as a consultant, speaker, and aspiring planet-saver. Connect with Juli on Linkedin HERE.

Guest Name: Mathan Kumar, Founder and CEO at Sealog, Language: English, Publication date: May, 28. 2022

Mathan is the Founder and CEO at Sealog. It is a last-mile delivery platform that provides delivery services by using bicycle and cargo bikes. The main goal is to be the replacement for fossil fuel-based vehicles in Indonesia. So far they have achieved 130,000KM deliveries and saved 1400 KG CO2.

You can connect with Mathan over on Linkedin here and on his website.

Here are some of the highlights from the podcast:

• Companies are now taking significant steps to reach a global goal of becoming climate positive by 2030. Particularly in Indonesia & SEA, how do you see the recent days? Have you seen any development by far?
• We observed that you have an exclusive partnership with Decathlon in delivering their eco-design sports product. Tell us, what’s this project?
• In our personal life, what are a few things we can do to reduce our contribution to climate change?

Check out our other podcasts DIRECTORY here.

Guest Name :Mike Mortson,   Founder and CEO at Supply Chain Game Changer.  Language : English, Publication date:  May, 07. 2020

Mike is a founder and CEO at Supply Chain Game Changer.  It is  Supply Chain Blog for Transformative Change. A Forum for sharing experiences and expertise in Supply Chain, Operations, Business Management, Logistics, Distribution, Procurement and Change Leadership. Prior to this role, he was a Vice President, Supply chain at Indigo and then Celestica. Visit the website on: supplychaingamechanger.com

His specialties focus on: All Aspects of Manufacturing, Warehouse Operations, Aftermarket Operations, Retail Supply Chain management, as well as Supply Chain, Inventory and Freight/Logistics Management 

Key takeaways :

• How do you see the disruptive technologies with respect to supply chain? What're a major changes looks like in the next 5 to 10 years from now?
• What are the biggest risks facing supply chain leaders with regards to the digitization in supply chain?
• What skill mix required to overcome the challenges in digital supply chain ?

Connect him on LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-mortson-5864511/

Guest Name: Francisco Cervantes, Recruitment Manager - Supply Chain & Procurement at Volt - International, Language: English, Publication date: Feb, 18. 2022

Francisco is currently a Recruitment Manager - Supply Chain & Procurement at Volt - International, and based in Singapore. His mission is to add-value to both candidates and clients in the Supply Chain & Procurement practices.

Before moving into Recruitment, Francisco worked as a Sourcing Buyer for the world's largest EMS organisation. At this position, he liaised with electronic components’ manufacturers, distributors, prospective and active clients, in competitive bids to serve a variety of prospective clients within the medical device, industrial equipment, and consumer electronics markets.

Volt (an Innova Solutions Company) is a multi award-winning, global workforce solution provider. Volt propels businesses and careers forward with expert momentum. Volt’s 35,000 employees work across 85 offices worldwide to provide workforce management and talent acquisition solutions to businesses and job placement services. Visit the website : https://www.voltinternational.com/

A highlights questions:

• Generally, in SEA regions (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand & others….), how do you see current trends & markets for supply chain & procurement roles? 
• Which industry do you believe will continue to perform well in terms of job demand?
• This is a bit technical, but I wanted to know your advice about skills & competencies; What are the most important skills for supply chain professionals?
• For the C-level & executive positions, have you observed any significant changes in the company's or organization's supply chain and procurement roles?
• What advice would you give to supply chain professionals looking to advance their careers? Probably you have some "MAGIC WORDS" here?

Connect with Francisco on Linkedin here

Guest Name : Rudy Sangian - Key Account Manager @ SGS Indonesia

Language : Indonesian, Publication date: Aug 20th. 2019

Yeaaahy !

Episode 012 is out ! I had a chance to speak with Rudy Sangian , a port management expert who has more than 14 years in Indonesian port and Customs environment.  He is currently also serving as Key Account Manager (KAM) for SGS Indonesia where he undertaken research and study of Indonesian Port Reformation, which started from Port as just loading & discharge and transformed into Industrial Port using technology become Smart Port in  the realm of Port Logistics Chain.  

A few highlights from today episode (Bahasa Indonesia):

# A recent situation of Port's management in Indonesia ?

# Key success factor in bringing a competitive port in relation with Port Logistics Coordination?

# "The three-level of Port" and how to convert the conventional port into a "world-class port". 

Thanks for listening us and see you in the next episode. 

Guest Name : Greg Schlegel - Founder at The Supply Chain Management Risk Consortium.  Language : English, Publication date:  Feb, 10. 2020

Greg has been a supply chain executive for over 30 years with several Fortune 100 companies and spent seven years as an IBM supply chain Executive Consultant. He has presented papers on and has managed consulting engagements in supply chain management, Risk Management, Lean/Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints throughout the US and around the globe. Greg is then founded the The Supply Chain Management Risk Consortium; The Consortium has grown to include (22) companies who bring unique core competencies in supply chain risk. These range from education, insurance risk quantification, Simulation/Modeling, Business Continuity Planning, Supply Chain Mapping and much more.

Connect Greg on his Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schlegel-cpim-csp-jonah-4163951/

Highlighted:

• Learn on why is risk management an important part of supply chain management ?
• How to identify a supply chain risks ? Is there any systematic-approach on how to identify the risks ? 
• Global issues on corona-virus : Supply chain management risks's perspective