Adventures in Supply Chain

Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to present this video episode of the "Coronavirus and Supply Chain Series" with Chris Richards, International Sales Manager at Steam Logistics, one of the fastest growing companies in accordance to Inc. Magazine's List of America's Fastest Growing Companies

In this episode, we talked about:

- What is involved in international logistics? What are the elements that need to be considered?

- What are the top trends, opportunities, and challenges?

- What is the impact of COVID-19? What are the major changes in ocean and air freight?

- How can companies be more prepared for these challenges?

- What is the importance of technology and data on international logistics? How can you have visibility and react immediately when issues arise considering that there are different companies in the supply chain?

- What are your thoughts or how do you see the Holiday Season and Chinese New Year from an international logistics perspective? How is going to be different?

This episode is sponsored by USM Supply Chain. USM stands for Unstoppable, Scalable, Mindful Supply Chain. Check us out at usmsupplychain.com to scale up your profits together with your supply chain.

Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to present this video episode of the "Coronavirus and Supply Chain Series" with Procurement Doctor Karthik Rama.

Procurement Doctor Karthik Rama, one of the top global thought leaders and influencers in procurement, chats with us on how procurement can find alignment with finance and work together in a business.

Karthik shares strategies on how to structure different levels of your organization with a drive towards technology and innovation as well as the roadblocks of transforming business processes to digital procurement.

Lastly, he discusses how to determine the right procurement tool to create efficiency and collaboration within an organization.

Karthik is all about Procurement Transformations, with over 16+ years of experience in helping organizations from varied industries, from all over the world.

He is inquisitive to understand the subtle differences in industries and regions and has a complete grasp of the Source to Pay cycle.

Karthik has worn multiple hats over the years, right from being the Procurement guy to the IT guy deploying the Procurement System – this gives him an edge when speaking the language of technology to the IT teams and Procurement teams.

This episode is sponsored by USM Supply Chain. USM stands for Unstoppable, Scalable, Mindful Supply Chain. Check us out at usmsupplychain.com to scale up your profits together with your supply chain.

Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to present this video episode of the "Coronavirus and Supply Chain Series" with Rajiv Gupta, Procurement nerd, and a lifelong learner in Procurement, supply chain, finance, and all things digital!

Rajiv Gupta is the founder of Procurement League, a technology platform for professionals of all levels in Procurement and supply chain practice to connect, exchange knowledge, learn and grow!

His experience includes sourcing and procurement leadership roles with focus on Source to Pay at Infosys, Ariba, Zycus, and Whirlpool, among others.

In this episode, we talked about:

- Source to pay - How is that different from procure to pay?

- When is a good moment for an organization to start looking at source to pay?

- How do you build a business case?

- What technologies are available? What are the critical aspects to look at?

- Where do you start with a source to pay implementation?

- What are the critical factors for success and how finance, procurement, and IT can work together?

This episode is sponsored by USM Supply Chain.

USM stands for Unstoppable, Scalable, Mindful Supply Chain.

Check us out at usmsupplychain.com to scale up your profits together with your supply chain.

Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to present this video episode of the "Coronavirus and Supply Chain Series" with James J Curtis III, Supply Chain and Technology Account Executive at One Network Enterprises.

In this episode, we talked about connecting supply chains end to end with digital business networks leveraging intelligent agents (AI). JJ addresses questions such as

• What are the different technologies; for instance, AI, Internet of Things, Blockchain... How do they relate to the Control Tower concept?
• How are they different from an ERP? And do we need both?
• Which companies would benefit the most with these technologies? 
• If a company is on the fence - still uncertain whether to proceed or not - what would you tell them to look at? What are the triggers?

This episode is sponsored by USM Supply Chain. USM stands for Unstoppable, Scalable, Mindful Supply Chain.

Check us out at usmsupplychain.com to scale up your profits together with your supply chain.

Topic: We talk about how Finance and Supply Chain can work together to Deliver Results.

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Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to present this video episode of the "Coronavirus and Supply Chain Series" with Neel Augusthy, Managing Director at VADN Group, based out of Singapore.

In his current role, Neel helps companies with business growth strategies, market access and expansion, strategic investment plans, process improvement; and valuation, analysis, and due diligence of acquisition targets.

In his career, Neel held the position of CFO SEA at Medtronics. Neel also had the following roles during his almost 8-year tenure at Johnson & Johnson:

- CFO Customer Logistic Services APAC

- CFO Supply Chain Medical APAC

- CFO R&D / BD APAC Medical

- APAC CFO Cordis Medical - Finance Director Medical

Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to present this video episode of the "Coronavirus and Supply Chain Series" with Team Lead, Covergirl Trade Marketing at Coty, Leanne Hug.

Leanne has been recognized as one of Path to Purchase IQ’s People to Watch of 2020, being nominated by the leadership at Coty and selected amongst many other bright individuals in the CPG industry.

We talk about the following:

- Collaboration among Marketing, Planning, Procurement, and Logistics

- Challenges in Cross-functional Collaboration

- Role of Technology and Data

- Impact of COVID on Team Work

- Advantages and Disadvantages of Working Remotely

- Advice to Business Leaders

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Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to present this video episode of the "Coronavirus and Supply Chain Series" with Katie Johnson and Leslie Venetz from Procurement Leaders.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in London, Procurement Leaders is a global network serving major corporations and procurement, sourcing and supply chain executives by providing independent procurement intelligence, professional development and peer to peer networking.

Katie Johnson is the Director of Account Management, Americas. In her role, Katie has impressive accomplishments including:
- Customer Obsession Award winner 2019 - Elected by Executive Leadership Team
- Developed and implemented a global account health scoring and cadence methodology to identify and reduce risk sooner, ensuring more value for our customers

Past experience of Katie includes different positions at CEVA Logistics, Business Implementation and Development Manager at NDLI Logistics, and Business Analyst at Waterpik, Inc.

Leslie Venetz is the New Business Development Director, Commercial Accounts, Americas at Procurement Leaders. In her role, Leslie has gone beyond delivering results to be a Member of the PL Curiosity, Sustainability & Giving Back Pillars; being the Commercial Voice for Women Procurement Leaders Diversity Community and being Nominated by CEO to represent PL on World50's Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

Leslie is a motivated and dedicated sales leader, with a powerful history of success in new business development. Her expertise has been in event sales for Fortune 1000 senior-level executives, consultative sales, and SME sales.

In addition to sales expertise, Leslie has in-depth knowledge related to public speaking, fundraising, and non-profit events.

Past experience of Leslie includes Vice President, Sponsorship Sales, Business Development and Strategic Planning at Carpathia Marketing LLC; Head of Sales American Expansion at PHMG Worldwide, and Director, National Accounts at Marcus Evans Group.

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Laura Dow is the Business Director at China Performance Group – a leading company with over 40 years of experience in Sourcing from China.

In her role, Laura leads international business development, creates or adjusts processes to reach optimal potential, identifies new business opportunities and leverages existing ones while building and maintaining rapport with prospects and clients.

Laura holds a master’s degree in international studies, Politics, from The John Hopkins University – Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. This program was conducted in Mandarin Chinese. 

Laura’s Bachelor’s degree is in Economics, Legal Studies from University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Laura also has great volunteer experience including her work for the Peace Corps as an English Teacher. Other volunteering causes are children activities through Kiwanis International and park restoration activities through New York cares.

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Adventures in Supply Chain podcast is pleased to have Sarah Barnes-Humprey, host of Let's Talk Supply Chain, to talk about Supply Chain Opportunities and Challenges.

Who doesn’t know Sarah Barnes-Humphrey? Sarah is:

🎯 Top 100 most influential Women in Canadian supply chain

🎯 Top 100 Women Leaders in Supply Chain

🎯 Host of the top-ranked podcast Let’s Talk Supply Chain

🎯 and industry leading content creator

To know Sarah is to know that supply chain is in her blood, growing up in a household of entrepreneurs building a shipping company really set her path in motion.

For years logistics was spoken about at the dinner table, then she was fortunate enough to spend 20 years of her career helping to build that company whether she was in operations, sales, or running the sales and marketing teams.

Sarah’s mission is to create value and also to disrupt international shipping.

As CEO for Shipz Inc, Sarah is bridging the gaps between shipping providers and mid-market importers and exporters in a trusted marketplace so everyone wins.

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THEME: HOW TO BUILD A PURCHASING DEPARTMENT FROM THE GROUND UP

It’s our pleasure to introduce Vivek Sengupta – the head of procurement at ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN is a key facilitator in the global discussions around evolving internet policy.

Vivek is a dynamic and trusted procurement professional having over twenty years of experience across varied industries such as Internet, Technology, Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Entertainment.

With his strong interpersonal skills, Vivek has great experience in leading diverse, cross-disciplinary teams in matrix organizations. He got his MBA from Indiana University - a top 20 US business school - with concentrations in Strategy and Supply Chain. Vivek is ISM Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) and certified Six Sigma Green Belt.