Resilient Supply Chain — How Leaders Keep Business Moving

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AI models are getting smarter at an astonishing pace. But if they can't reliably sense what's happening across your supply chain, they'll still make poor decisions. The real bottleneck may not be intelligence at all, it may be the quality of the physical data feeding it.
I'm joined by Doron Hazan, who leads AI at Wiliot, to explore why the next step in AI for supply chain isn't another model or agent, but a stronger data foundation connecting products, pallets and warehouses to real-time decision-making. We discuss why incomplete physical data creates misleading dashboards, slows operational decisions and increases the risks of automating the wrong actions.
We examine why AI in supply chain is fundamentally different from AI in the digital world, why many organisations are investing in AI before fixing the data beneath it, and what changes when individual items become continuous sources of operational data. We also explore where human judgement remains essential, how continuous sensing supports faster decisions at scale, and why better models alone won't solve supply-chain execution.
Listen now to understand what is really limiting AI in supply chain, and why the organisations that invest first in their data foundation will be better placed to make faster, more reliable operational decisions. 
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Carbon data is moving out of annual reports and into the transaction itself. If your product-level information is incomplete, market access, customer trust and supply-chain decisions can all suffer.
My guest is Stephen Jamieson, Chief Marketing Officer for SAP Sustainability. We examine why Scope 3 emissions, digital product passports and product carbon footprints are becoming operational requirements, not side projects, and what happens when procurement, finance and supply-chain planning rely on disconnected or average data.
We challenge the assumption that more AI automatically means better decisions. AI will optimise what the business measures well; if carbon, water, materials and supplier data are missing, it can simply accelerate the wrong outcome. We also look at why the real bottleneck is integration, how agentic AI could reduce the cost of product-level analysis, and where human accountability must remain.
Listen now to understand why carbon data is becoming a licence to sell—and what supply-chain leaders need to fix before compliance becomes a commercial constraint.
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Alicia Farag
Kieran Ognev
Gary Lynch
And remember you too can become a Resilient Supply Chain+ subscriber  - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to bonus episodes of topical, timely supply chain resilience analysis.

🎤 Looking for a keynote speaker on supply chain resilience, AI, and sustainability?
I help leaders understand the forces reshaping global supply chains, from geopolitical disruption and climate risk to AI and real-time decision-making. 
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Supply-chain mapping can now take five seconds. The harder problem is deciding which supplier risks matter, who owns the response, and whether procurement can act before the data creates paralysis.
I’m joined by Justin Dillon, founder and CEO of FRDM, whose work focuses on human-rights, geopolitical and sustainability risk beyond tier one. As import restrictions, tariffs and customer requirements reach deeper into supplier networks, weak due diligence is no longer just a compliance problem; it can interrupt supply, delay sourcing decisions and expose the business.
We challenge the assumption that full supply-chain visibility is necessarily expensive or difficult, examine why supplier surveys are starting to resemble fax machines, and look at what happens when companies suddenly receive more risk intelligence than their teams can absorb. We also discuss where AI in supply chain genuinely helps—and why technology still cannot decide which supplier conversation needs to happen next.
Listen now to understand why finding supplier risk is becoming easier, while turning that intelligence into faster, more defensible procurement decisions remains the real test.
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Alicia Farag
Kieran Ognev
Gary Lynch
And remember you too can become a Resilient Supply Chain+ subscriber  - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to bonus episodes of topical, timely supply chain resilience analysis.

🎤 Looking for a keynote speaker on supply chain resilience, AI, and sustainability?
I help leaders understand the forces reshaping global supply chains, from geopolitical disruption and climate risk to AI and real-time decision-making. 
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An autonomous truck does not create an autonomous yard. Without aligned decisions, reliable data and clear ownership, smart assets become expensive distractions.
I’m joined by Matt Yearling, CEO of YMX Logistics; Chad Fox, Manager and Delivery Lead at Miebach Consulting; and Kurt Neutgens, CEO and co-founder of Orange EV. Together, we examine why supply chain resilience still breaks down in the yard — a neglected part of logistics that can disrupt warehouse flow, transport performance and customer service.
You’ll hear how the biggest failures often sit in handoffs between inventory, warehouse, yard and transportation, where visibility exists but nobody owns the next decision. We break down why automation only works when the process is clear and dependable — and why an autonomous truck cannot coordinate the operation around it.
You might be surprised to learn that electrification may deliver the more immediate resilience gain. Kurt explains how moving from roughly 80% diesel uptime to 97–98% electric uptime can cut interruptions, remove fuelling downtime and improve fleet efficiency while reducing emissions.
The core question is simple: can your operation act on what it sees, or is the dashboard merely documenting the delay?
🎙️ Listen now for a practical look at supply chain visibility, sustainability, risk, data and the decisions required to turn technology into execution.
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Alicia Farag
Kieran Ognev
Gary Lynch
And remember you too can become a Resilient Supply Chain+ subscriber  - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to bonus episodes of topical, timely supply chain resilience analysis.

🎤 Looking for a keynote speaker on supply chain resilience, AI, and sustainability?
I help leaders understand the forces reshaping global supply chains, from geopolitical disruption and climate risk to AI and real-time decision-making. 
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What if your ERP only sees the supplier decision after the real battle is already over?
In this episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I’m joined by Spencer Penn, CEO and co-founder of LightSource, a direct procurement AI platform. Spencer brings a practical view from high-pressure hardware and autonomous systems environments, and we look at why procurement, data, visibility, and supplier risk now sit right at the heart of supply chain resilience.
You’ll hear how direct procurement can still run, quietly and expensively, across Excel, email, and institutional memory — even inside companies that believe they’ve digitised the function. We break down why that matters for manufacturing speed, cost control, sustainability, and the ability to move before disruption hardens into margin loss.
We also explore where AI agents may add real value first: not by replacing procurement teams, but by helping them manage the decisions that can create or destroy hundreds of millions in value. Spencer shares how better sourcing workflows helped one automotive programme shorten sourcing cycles by 25% and cut cost creep by 37%.
And you might be surprised by his analogy: procurement is like running water. Nobody notices it when it works. Everyone notices when it stops.
🎙️ Listen now to hear how Spencer Penn and LightSource are rethinking procurement, supplier visibility, and the next phase of resilient supply chains.
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Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous Subscribers:
Alicia Farag
Kieran Ognev
Gary Lynch
And remember you too can become a Resilient Supply Chain+ subscriber  - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent episodes like this one and give you access to bonus episodes of topical, timely supply chain resilience analysis.

🎤 Looking for a keynote speaker on supply chain resilience, AI, and sustainability?
I help leaders understand the forces reshaping global supply chains, from geopolitical disruption and climate risk to AI and real-time decision-making. 
Download my Speaker Pack: https://tinyurl.com/spkrpck

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If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to just send me a direct message on LinkedIn, or send me a message using this link.

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