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 Jennifer de Souza, VP of Energy Solutions, Supply Chain and Leasing for Raymond Corporation and one of the winners of this year’s Pros to Know award, expects to see more companies reshore, move away from single and sole sourcing and bring manufacturing back to the United States in 2023.

Tomasz Jamroz, head of technology and operations of Roadrunner and one of the winners of this year’s Pros to Know award, encourages the youth of today to take up coding and learn how to work with data and numbers because the supply chain is so sophisticated.

Andrew Sobko, CEO of CDL 1000, one of this year’s Top Tech Startups winners, sits down with Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief, to discuss the company’s seamless pricing structure that’s designed to bring some kind of standard solution with visibility.

L.I.N.K. podcast managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant sits down with Frank Dreischarf, Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions at R2 Logistics, to discuss the background of TMS and the outlook for 2023.

L.I.N.K. podcast managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant sits down with Frank Dreischarf, Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions at R2 Logistics, to discuss how continuous improvements through data and supply chain visibility affect logistics.

L.I.N.K. podcast managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant sits down with Frank Dreischarf, Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions at R2 Logistics, to discuss ways to incorporate a diverse and influential company culture into the industry and why it’s important.

Susan Estes, Senior Supply Chain Consultant, Client Services for Open Sky Group, details how studies show that a more gender-diverse workplace environment produces higher performance and that showing women there’s a place in the industry is a good start to recruiting –and retaining—more women in supply chain.

Tracy Black, Partner at NewRoad Capital Partners and one of this year’s Women in Supply Chain award winners, talks about what it means to be nimble, flexible and a problem solver and how partnering with HR to create leadership development programs paves the way for success.

Supplier diversity is extremely important in today’s supply chain in not only an ethical standpoint but also from a business standpoint. PepsiCo has 40 years of supplier diversity under its belt and managing editor Brielle Jaekel gets an inside look at how that works with an executive from the program as well as the executive director of the National Black Growers Council.

Coca-Cola recently announced a partnership with Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) Foundation to drive awareness for a commercial truck driving program and to inspire interest in truck driving careers. Managing editor Brielle Jaekel sits down with vice president & chief people officer of Coca-Cola GianettaJones to talk about the partnership and why it is so important to invest in these jobs right now during the trucking shortage.