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Resilient Supply Chain is for supply chain, operations, procurement and technology leaders who need practical ways to manage disruption, reduce risk and keep business moving.
First launched in 2019 as Digital Supply Chain and later known as Sustainable Supply Chain, the podcast continues today as Resilient Supply Chain, with the same extensive archive of more than 525 episodes covering supply chain technology, resilience, logistics, procurement and sustainability.
Each Monday, technology and sustainability analyst, keynote speaker and former SAP Global VP Tom Raftery speaks with the executives, operators, founders and innovators redesigning how goods, information and decisions move through global supply chains.
These are candid conversations about what works in practice—not polished PR narratives or vague predictions. Guests explain how they are responding to supplier failures, geopolitical shocks, volatile costs, capacity constraints, changing regulations and rising pressure to improve both performance and sustainability.
The podcast examines:
- Faster planning and decision-making under uncertainty
- Supplier risk, sourcing strategy and business continuity
- AI, automation, visibility and operational intelligence
- Warehousing, logistics and fulfilment performance
- Scope 3 emissions, circularity and responsible sourcing
- The systems, incentives and organisational changes needed to turn data into action
The central question is simple: what helps a supply chain withstand disruption, adapt quickly and continue serving the business?
New episodes are published every Monday at 7am CET. Resilient Supply Chain+ subscribers also receive bonus analysis, highlights and briefings on emerging industry trends.
Follow Resilient Supply Chain for practical lessons from the people solving real operational problems—and building supply chains that perform when conditions do not go to plan.
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Send me a message Tariffs can turn a reliable supplier into the expensive option. A US foreign trade zone (FTZ) may preserve sourcing flexibility, but customs compliance adds costs and risk. In this episode I speak with Curtis Spencer, CEO of IMS Worldwide. He describes a customer he says preserved around $50 million in export sales through FTZs, not $50 million in avoided duties. We examine how those commercial gains compare with operational obligations. Listen to judge whether tariff relief...
Send me a message What should AI agents handle overnight, and what should be waiting for a person in the morning? Elon Salfati describes a workflow in which agents carry out tasks overnight and bring the decisions that need his input into one inbox. In his example, a thousand agent runs leave him with four decisions to make. In this episode I speak with Elon Salfati, CEO of Salfati Group, about how to divide work between AI agents and people. We look at how an overnight workflow can keep proj...
Send me a message A missed outbound load can begin long before anyone reaches the loading dock. A pallet in the wrong location or a trailer blocked behind others can drain labour, slow throughput and threaten delivery commitments. I’m joined by Phil Newsome, COO of Lazer Logistics, and Todd Boone, VP North America at Dexory. They bring complementary perspectives from yard operations and warehouse inventory, where incomplete information often hides problems until someone urgently needs the fre...
Send me a message When should a supply chain planner act before the forecast improves? If the likely error is small enough to manage and waiting would close the window to act, an earlier decision can be more valuable than a more accurate one a month later. In this episode I speak with Benji Price, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Wild Ducks, about how to put that idea into practice. We look at how planners can account for the consequences of a stockout, use signals such as rainfall and...
Send me a message AI can make supply-chain decisions faster. It can also scale the data problems people have been quietly correcting for years. Once machines start acting rather than merely reporting, inconsistent definitions, missing context and weak governance become operational problems. I speak with Sagar Paul, Chief Revenue and Growth Officer at The Modern Data Company, who brings nearly three decades across operations, enterprise data, manufacturing and supply chain. We look at what cha...
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