Supply Chain Innovators

🌐 Supply Chain and Venture Capital: A Unique Journey 🚀 | Courtney Lipkin

We had the pleasure of hosting Courtney Lipkin, a partner at Susa Ventures. Courtney shared her unique venture capital journey, from her initial career in law to her exploration into academia and urban planning at Stanford. Her path eventually led her to the world of venture capital.
 
⏳  How the supply chain tech space still has plenty of space for technological progress, holding substantial untapped opportunities
💣  How venture companies are looking for strong, visionary teams who can be enriched when you have the right guidance
🚀  What types of companies in the supply chain space pique her interest

Shaping Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Leaders with Dr. Pedro Reyes 🚀

Dr. Pedro Reyes Highlights:
Future-Focused: Students are now being taught not just to predict the future, but to shape it. They’re the pioneers of the next era of supply chain.
Education Evolving: They're reshaping curricula to ready students for an unpredictable future in supply chain. Emphasis on real-world scenarios and embracing volatility.
Making Mistakes: Dr. Reyes stressed the power of learning from real world errors and teaches it in his classroom. 🌟
Tech in Teaching: From utilizing tools like ChatGPT for insights to immersing students in realistic supply chain challenges.
Looking Ahead: The integration of IoT, AI, and blockchain means tomorrow's professionals must be tech-savvy, adaptable, and always learning.
Education is no longer just about the ‘what,’ but the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ Exciting times ahead for the next wave of supply chain professionals! 🌊📘

Research, Classroom & Industry: A Conversation with Dr. Muhammad Azmat on Technology and The Future

On today’s episode of Supply Chain Innovators, we spoke with the Dr. Muhammad Azmat, an esteemed assistant professor and deputy program director at Aston University, known for his expertise in disruptive technologies, consumer perspectives, and innovative business applications. Join us as we explore his journey, the impact of technology on supply chain evolution, and his passion for empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), while offering valuable advice to students seeking to shape the future of supply chain.

E-commerce Last Mile Delivery Magic for the Shopify Age | PrettyDamnQuick

We had the pleasure of interviewing Avi Moskowitz, CEO and co-founder of PrettyDamnQuick. PrettyDamnQuick helps brands provide clear delivery promises on checkout, assigning every order to the carrier that will deliver it on time for the lowest rate. With a focus on last-mile delivery innovation, optimizing speed, cost, and eco-impact while tailoring delivery promises based on customer factors, PrettyDamnQuick aims to provide a realistic and clear delivery promise to customers for better customer retention, higher conversion rates, and lower shipping costs.

Navigating the Cannabis Supply Chain: Lessons from Lucid Green

Lucid Green was founded in 2018 by Paul Botto and Larry Levy with the mission of creating trust and transparency in the cannabis space. They have created a QR code that is embedded into compliance labels of any cannabis product which resolutes to a consumer page providing information such as dosage recommendations, reviews, certificate of analysis related to that exact batch etc.
Lucid Green also helps brands create loyalty programs through their unique codes on packages, allowing them better data insights for decision making. Prior to this technology companies had an extremely manually intensive process trying to manage all documentation leading up label production with lots of wasted time and potential mistakes throughout the value chain.

Robotics to Automate Repetitive Manual Tasks

This episode of the "Supply Chain Innovators" podcast featured Kacper Nowicki, Co-Founder and CEO of Nomagic, a company that is working towards revolutionizing the way e-commerce retailers manage their warehouses through the use of robots. Nomagic's solution involves automating the manual tasks in warehouses using robots. The company offers a full-service solution with remote operators, including monitoring and maintenance.
 
Chapter 1: Introduction
 Host introduces the show and guest (0:00-0:49)
Chapter 2: Guest's Background
Guest shares his background (0:55-1:21)
Chapter 3: Robotics and Automation in Warehousing 
Guest discusses the potential for robots to interact with humans in the physical world (2:42-3:27)
Guest talks about the need to automate tasks in warehousing and how their company offers robots as a subscription service (5:27-7:08)
Guest discusses the importance of coverage and autonomy for their robots as well as the evolution of warehousing and the need for automation (7:45-11:51)
Chapter 4: Picking Use Case
Guest explains the use case for picking items from bins and completing orders (15:02-16:41)
Chapter 5: Monitoring and Maintenance
Guest discusses the importance of monitoring and maintenance for their robots (17:34-18:45)
Chapter 6: Future of Robotics and Automation 
Guest talks about the exciting potential for robots to handle certain tasks in warehouses (19:16-21:23)
Guest discusses the company's plans for expansion and improving coverage (23:36-24:44)
Guest emphasizes the importance of society and changes in the industry (25:31-26:12)
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Host thanks the guest and provides information on where to find updates (26:53-27:12)

The Reinvention of the Shipping Container

David Baur and Naik Londono are the founders of AELER, a company that is reinventing shipping containers and the entire ecosystem around them. David is from a microengineering background and Naik has experience in biotechnology as well as industrial IoT companies.
They admire Procter & Gamble for their willingness to test new technology, that creates change in the industry.
AELER's main offering focuses on efficiency, sustainability, and transparency by using state-of-the-art technology embedded within their containers to offer full visibility during transport. The goal of this technology is to provide customers with flexibility and peace of mind when shipping goods across different countries.

Procurement, Inventory, and Logistics to Manufacture Electronics Faster

Summary:
In this podcast interview with Matthew Haber, CEO and Co-Founder of Cofactr, he explains that it’s commonly known that it is easier to scale a software product than a hardware product, but it really doesn't have to be this way. Cofactr solves this problem by taking care of the logistics and procurement that happens before the factory. They provide software, and infrastructure for hardware teams so that they can focus on what they need to have happen. Cofactr's typical customers are high growth hardware startups in higher compliance industries such as Rocketships, medical devices, robots. Cofactr takes care of many of the compliance issues for its customers and prides itself on being low risk, secure, and low effort for the customer.
 
🖱Links:
Check out Cofactr
Check out Supply Chain Innovators
 
👋 Follow:
Linkedin: Matthew Haber
Linkedin: Cofactr
Linkedin: Taylor Camarena
LinkedIn: Supply Chain Innovators
 

Building Live Digital Twins of Real-World Operations | Worlds

The podcast discusses a new 4D infrastructure for building the industrial metaverse that enables companies to incorporate AI-based automation into their operations. The platform promises to solve supply chain problems by identifying blind spots and providing data-driven insights. The company creates live digital twins that sync all sensors, people, and processes together in space and time, offering frictionless measurement of real-world environments. The podcast also touches on the idea of artificial intelligence cannibalizing itself, and the importance of mindset and pursuing perfection in entrepreneurship.
 
🖱Links:
Check out Worlds.io
Check out Backbone Social
 
👋 Follow:
Linkedin: Dave Copps
Linkedin: Worlds.io
Linkedin: Taylor Camarena
LinkedIn: Supply Chain Innovators

The Yelp For Government Procurement | Procurated

On today’s episode of Supply Chain Innovators, we spoke with the Vice President of Community Engagement for Procurated, Jennifer Doherty. Procurated is a company that takes care of vendor performance management, vendor directory and vendor evaluation, three procurement challenges in one solution.
 
You will hear:
✔️ How Procurated is helping your taxpayer dollars be of good use 
✔️ The top two trends Jennifer is seeing in procurement that are changing the industry
✔️ How reviews are helping people across the country improve the quality of the suppliers they choose