Marisa Parabaugh is the SVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer at AdventHealth. AdventHealth is a very large healthcare provider with 80,000 employees serving 6 million-plus patients every year with 51 hospital campuses operating in nine states in the US. And Marissa generously decided to share a couple of interesting case studies with us on the way they run their supply chain.Discover more details here.Some of the highlights of the episode:Marisa’s career as an industrial engineerDifference between the supply chain in manufacturing and healthcareManaging supply chain disruptions in healthcareStory of how the team moved over 40,000 pallets of PPE in about 40 days during the pandemicAdventHealth’s sustainability initiatives and signing the HHS pledgeCareer path inside AdventHealth - cross-training, talents, and internship programsFollow us on:Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Wba8v7Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WeulzXLinkedin: http://bit.ly/2w9YSQXFacebook: http://bit.ly/2HtryLd

Nada Sanders is a distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. She also served as a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard Business School. She teaches and has educated lots of people across many years in the field of supply chain management, with a particular focus on strategic supply chain design, demand management, and technology adoption. She has also written several books and writing the second edition of the Humachine book.Discover more details here.Some of the highlights of the episode:Nada Sanders’ career journey- from mechanical engineering and business school to supply chainDiving into forecasting and the advantage of having a technical backgroundThe second edition of the book- Humachine, and working with AIReskilling and learning based on the new realityHow important soft skills are to survive the new ageIntroduction to the 4i ModelFollow us on:Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Wba8v7Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WeulzXLinkedin: http://bit.ly/2w9YSQXFacebook: http://bit.ly/2HtryLd

David Simchi Levi is a well-known figure in the world of supply chain and engineering. He is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. He founded a few companies over the course of his career in the realm of supply chain data analytics. He is an expert in the fields of supply chain management, operations, and business analytics. And he has published several books on the topic that are being read worldwide. There are a lot of people that have found inspiration in the work that Professor David has done.Discover more details here.Some of the highlights of the episode:Leading MIT’s data science lab and building a company that later on became part of IBM's technology infrastructure.Being ahead of the curve - prioritizing supply chain resiliency and business analyticsImportance of data analytics to supply chain and the business as a wholeInteresting projects David is currently working onReinventing supply chain and looking end-to-endFollow us on:Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Wba8v7Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WeulzXLinkedin: http://bit.ly/2w9YSQXFacebook: http://bit.ly/2HtryLd

Mourad Tamoud joined Schneider Electric in 1997 as Supply Chain & Logistics Manager. In 2012 he became Senior VP of Global Supply Chain China, a post in which he had oversight of manufacturing and distribution operations for the region, and was responsible for safety, quality, customer satisfaction, procurement, and supply chain.Mourad was first appointed to the position of Executive Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations for Schneider Electric in June 2016. As of January 2019, Mourad added Procurement to his responsibilities and served as Chief Supply Chain Officer overseeing the end-to-end supply chain: including Procurement, Industrial Operations, Logistics & Network Design, and Planning, as well as driving the strategic agenda for the entire Supply Chain organization. He is also a member of the Schneider Electric Executive Committee.Discover more details here.Some of the highlights of the episode:From engineering school to supply chain and logisticsChallenges Schneider Electric faced during the pandemic and how they addressed itSTRIVE and the Zero Carbon ProjectThoughts about artificial intelligenceHow to hire right and key advice for the futureFollow us on:Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Wba8v7Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WeulzXLinkedin: http://bit.ly/2w9YSQXFacebook: http://bit.ly/2HtryLd

Tim Drury is the Chief Supply Chain Officer of Americana Foods, which he joined in 2021. Prior to that, Tim had spent 20+ years with Unilever. During his long journey there, he spent time managing their supply chains across Europe, Asia, and Africa. In his last role there, he had leadership responsibility for more than 30,000 employees across the Middle East and Africa. Discover more details here.Some of the highlights of the episode:Career journey- 25 years with Unilever and transition to Americana FoodsAmericana Food’s KPI-driven assessment processWorking with suppliers for sustainable packaging solutionsFive key skills and competencies for supply chain: Empathy, Decisiveness, Enthusiasm, Creativity, and DriveFinding the balance between being a supply chain leader and being an athleteFollow us on:Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Wba8v7Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WeulzXLinkedin: http://bit.ly/2w9YSQXFacebook: http://bit.ly/2HtryLd