The FMCG Guys

Efrain & Daniel outline what's to come on the Podcast in 2022.

Thanks all for following the podcast in 2021! You'll find here a brief announcement of a big change coming to the Podcast in 2022.

One of the main challenges in the corporate world is connecting the top levels with the nitty gritty, day to day, operations and details, which ultimately can make the business win. John Bauer has led big teams at the highest levels of organizations like Target, Starbucks and TJX. In this discussion, I hope to understand how a Supply Chain C-Level leader can get involved in business execution, for example by leveraging technology.

Fiona McDonnell is a well known executive who has led teams and P&L in companies like NIKE, McCormick and Amazon. She recently temporarily stepped out of the corporate world to write “Two Mirrors and a Cheetah”, a book that aims to empower professionals by gaining self awareness and bringing their full self to the workplace.

Where to follow Fiona and find the book:

www.fionamcdonnell.com

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Mirrors-Cheetah-Differently-Yourself/dp/1739926307

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Over 50% of consumers changed brands over Covid. That made a lot of brand marketers ask themselves: “What do I need to do to build and maintain brand loyalty from consumers?”. On this episode, host Daniel Torres is joined again by co-host Efrain Rosario to speak with Filiberto Amati, a Growth Consultant who works with some of the top consumer goods companies worldwide. In this episode you’ll learn more about how to position a brand for success today, with a special focus on purpose and brand architecture.

The office, the traditional place where we go to work, has been put in question in the last months. Will offices cease to exist? Will everyone work remote? Or, how can we build the right office for our employees? These questions are very relevant, especially now that offices are reopening.

Hannah Nardini is a Workplace Consultant who works with blue chip companies globally helping them design the workplace of the future. We had the pleasure to have her on board with us to better understand what the workplace of the future will look like.

The global Supply Chain issues that we are seeing are having an  impact on the Consumer Goods and Retail, especially their bottom lines. We invited two experts to discuss the topic. One is Fabio Grazioli, VP at BSH, who we already had the opportunity to have on the podcast months back. The second is Federico Marchesi, from Brembo. 

In this episode, we review the current state of the global Supply Chain and its current issues but also a look into the future.

Ecommerce, DTC and new routes to market were on an unstoppable growth path that only accelerated with COVID 19. But building this type of capability is not as easy as meets the eye. A solid business case, Influencing internally to find resources and, finally, executing and finding a fit with the “traditional” business model.

To understand this challenge better, we invited Matthew Dean, Senior Vice President eCommerce at Hugo Boss.

Also we have the pleasure to be joined by a co-host: Efrain Rosario, former Coca-Cola Executive and currently Partner at Grounded.World, an award-winning and certified B-corporation social impact, sustainability, and nonprofit brand activation agency.

"Many companies are busy these days in either updating their strategies or completely changing their plans and business model to cater to a new post COVID world. More digital, more sustainable and more eCommerce driven".

This post was shared on Linkedin by Rasmus Calmann-Hinke, who headed up Strategy globally for Arla Foods and also worked for top tier strategy consulting firms like EY and Booz & company.

That’s why we decided to have him as a guest to better understand what best in class strategic planning should look like today.

Supply Chain has been gaining influence in the last decade, and the recent eCommerce push is further pushing this momentum. We invited BSH's VP Supply Chain Fabio Grazioli to further understand this dynamic and how the S&OP process is a paradigm of this trend.