11 episodes

The supply chain world moves quickly—new technologies, processes, and global forces drive constant change across the industry. Supply Change, presented by Tradeshift, explores what’s shaping the modern supply chain and the impacts of this transformation.

Supply Change Tradeshift

    • Technology
    • 4.7 • 3 Ratings

The supply chain world moves quickly—new technologies, processes, and global forces drive constant change across the industry. Supply Change, presented by Tradeshift, explores what’s shaping the modern supply chain and the impacts of this transformation.

    The supply chain of higher ed: an interview with Dr. Ross Aikins of Penn GSE

    The supply chain of higher ed: an interview with Dr. Ross Aikins of Penn GSE

    If we’re to consider higher education as a supply chain, what would it’s output be? There are a lot of really important supply chains to consider in higher education, whether the supply chain of books and lab materials, or the whole host of materials a mini-city like a university needs to feed and house thousands of students.

    But in this episode, we explore an entirely different supply chain of higher education: the supply of students entering into the university and all the challenges and complexity that come with that.

    Ron Volpe sat down with the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Ross Aikins to discuss the implications of tuition, inequality, admission hurdles, and medication on the supply chain of higher ed.

    • 31 min
    The supply chain of modern risk: an interview with Carlos Casanova

    The supply chain of modern risk: an interview with Carlos Casanova

    Global trade is hard enough in stable time periods. But when it’s disrupted by trade wars, protests, political upheavals, and natural disasters, global trade can seem nearly impossible to navigate. So if you’re doing business in a region struggling with unstable markets, what do you do?

    We sat down with Carlos Casanova, Coface’s regional economist for the Asia Pacific region to discuss what’s affecting global trade and how businesses can protect themselves from unstable regional and global markets.

    • 21 min
    The supply chain of design: an interview with Barry Katz

    The supply chain of design: an interview with Barry Katz

    The philosophy behind design thinking can be best summed up by Steve Jobs’s quote, “design is not the way it looks, design is the way it works." And it’s popularity rose hand-in-hand with the rise of Apple. But it’s founding is much more than Steve Jobs and much more than just a methodology to make sleek designs for new technology.

    Our host, Ron Volpe, sat down with Barry Katz, professor, IDEO fellow, author, and pre-eminent design thinking scholar to discuss the rich history of design thinking and how it influences the way companies use design to solve problems and design products with their users in mind.

    • 25 min
    The supply chain of marijuana: an interview with Steve Albarran

    The supply chain of marijuana: an interview with Steve Albarran

    Around the U.S., in more and more states, entrepreneuring farmers, scientists, and retailers are building supply chains to cash in on an untapped and lucrative market. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build an entirely new industry.

    There are just a few problems. It’s cash only, there’s no infrastructure, and it’s federally illegal.

    We’re talking, of course, of the legal marijuana trade.

    Ron Volpe, Chief Supply Chain Evangelist and Global Vice President Apps Business Development at Tradeshift, met with Steve Albarran, co-founder and CEO of Confident Cannabis at the National Cannabis Industry Association trade show in San Jose to talk about the complicated case of the cannabis supply chain.

    • 30 min
    The competitive imperative of change

    The competitive imperative of change

    In this episode, we’re exploring the impact these technologies will have on the people within supply chains today. How are jobs changing? Who will be impacted? And how quickly will these changes come?

    • 21 min
    Technology’s role in the modern supply chain

    Technology’s role in the modern supply chain

    So what is the role of technology in the modern supply chain? Is it all a bunch of hype, or do the big buzzword techs actually have real-world use-cases? We’ll explore blockchain, artificial intelligence, digitization, and the Internet of Things and how they solve for supply chain problems.

    • 17 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

EarlyAdopter'ish ,

Timely human perspective on transformation

Engaging, grounded in industry experience, important discussion about what’s here and to come from digital transformation.

Interesting to hear Roy and Ron unpack the human perspective of digital transformation, change management, and how procurement and supply chain tech is positively impacting organizations and people.

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