Supply Chain Revolution
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Supply Chain Revolution®: Sustainability, Innovation, Technology
The supply chain podcast where sustainability, AI, and global trade strategy collide. If you run supply chains, set procurement strategy, or lead enterprise transformation, this is the show that connects the dots others miss.
Hosted by Sheri Hinish, the Supply Chain Queen, each episode tackles the questions keeping executives up at night: how tariffs and trade disruption reshape sourcing and supplier networks, where agentic AI and automation are actually delivering ROI in supply chain planning, what reshoring and nearshoring mean for sustainability commitments, how to operationalize ESG and Scope 3 reporting without destroying margins, and why the companies building circular economy and regenerative supply chains are outperforming those that are not.
Guests include senior leaders from Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Amazon, Starbucks, Unilever, MIT, TerraCycle, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and the most ambitious climate technology companies in the world. These are not scripted talking points. These are real operators, real decisions, and real outcomes.
Whether the topic is autonomous supply chain planning, digital twins, supply chain cybersecurity, trade compliance, sustainable procurement, carbon data transparency, or the talent pipeline for next generation supply chain leaders, every episode delivers frameworks you can use Monday morning.
Built for chief supply chain officers, heads of procurement, sustainability leaders, operations executives, technologists, policymakers, and graduate students in supply chain management, operations, and sustainability. If your role touches global supply chains, this show was made for you.
Sheri Hinish is an award winning executive strategist, board advisor, and global thought leader in supply chain transformation, sustainability, and AI. She is the Founder of Supply Chain Revolution Global and previously led sustainability consulting at EY and IBM. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Economist, and Forbes. Named the number one Global Supply Chain Leader and Top 250 Leaders in Sustainability. She speaks regularly at COP, New York Climate Week, Reuters Events, and Gartner Supply Chain Symposium.
Show notes and resources at supplychainqueen.com
Full episodes on YouTube at youtube.com/@supplychainqueen
Follow Sheri on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/supplychainqueen
Episodios 94
Women in Supply Chain: Why Access, Not Talent, Is the Real Career Gap with Ladies Who Logistic
Women in supply chain and logistics do not lack talent. They lack access. Harshida Acharya, co-founder of Ladies Who Logistic, explains how to close the gap.In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution …
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Women in supply chain and logistics do not lack talent. They lack access. Harshida Acharya, co-founder of Ladies Who Logistic, explains how to close the gap.
In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen) talks with Harshida Acharya, Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Fulfillment IQ and co-founder of Ladies Who Logistic, one of the newest community partners on the Supply Chain Queen and Supply Chain Revolution platform.
Harshida co-founded Ladies Who Logistic with Tori Deems and Amy Dai after the three of them kept finding themselves among the only women in decision-making rooms. When they asked on LinkedIn whether a community like this should exist, more than 130 women asked to join within a few hours. Two and a half years and 31 events later, the community has become career infrastructure rather than a networking club.
You will learn why the real constraint for women in logistics is an uneven distribution of social capital, how Chatham House rules create space for the questions people cannot safely ask at work, and why a Montessori-style model that mixes early-career, mid-career, and senior leaders accelerates learning for everyone. Harshida also shares the skill that will matter most in fulfillment over the next five years, the test that separates a useful community from a performative one, and a direct ask for leaders and allies.
This conversation is for women building careers in supply chain, logistics, procurement, and operations, and for the executives and allies who want to sponsor them.
Chapters
00:00 From networking to infrastructure: why Ladies Who Logistic exists
00:46 Meet Harshida Acharya and how Sheri and Harshida met at NY Climate Week 01:16 Fulfillment IQ, the eCom Logistics Podcast, and the origin of Ladies Who Logistic
04:06 The real gap for women in supply chain: social capital, not capability
07:20 Why authentic community beats traditional networking
08:51 The Montessori model: learning across every career stage
11:55 The skills women need in the age of AI and automation
12:29 Allies, not adversaries: the community's ethos
13:11 Staying grounded while AI changes everything
14:15 Why breadth matters: lessons from the book Range
14:53 Lightning round
16:47 Standing on the shoulders of giants
17:06 How to join Ladies Who Logistic and Harshida's ask for leaders and allies
17:56 Closing
Connect
Ladies Who Logistic: ladieswhologistic.com and the Ladies Who Logistic group on LinkedIn
Harshida Acharya on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshida/
Fulfillment IQ: fulfillmentiq.com
eCom Logistics Podcast: available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Sheri Hinish, Supply Chain Queen: supplychainqueen.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/supplychainqueen
YouTube (full episodes and clips): youtube.com/@supplychainqueen Instagram: instagram.com/supplychainqueen
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Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: MBXOZNDJNYNM1OGSClimate Week NYC 2026 Recap: What Supply Chain and Sustainability Leaders Should Do Next
Supply chain was rarely in the title at New York Climate Week 2026, but it was in every answer. In this Revolution Roundtable, recorded live on LinkedIn days after the week closed, Sheri Hinish brings together …
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Supply chain was rarely in the title at New York Climate Week 2026, but it was in every answer. In this Revolution Roundtable, recorded live on LinkedIn days after the week closed, Sheri Hinish brings together three practitioners to compare notes on what they saw, what felt real, what felt performative, and what executive teams should do differently on Monday morning.
Sandy Leyva, co-founder of Sustainability Decoded, is an engineer who works at the intersection of supply chain and sustainability. Wesley Herche, PhD, co-founder of Sustainability Decoded, is a former U.S. intelligence officer who now works across solar, battery storage, EV charging infrastructure, and on-site power. James George, founder of Provocative Human and a Supply Chain Revolution collaborator since 2020, spent 12 years as a Royal Navy clearance diver before moving into circular economy work with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. He now advises on critical minerals and rare earth supply chain risk in defense, aerospace, and automotive.
Each panelist names the week in one word: locked in, interdependence, economics, and access. The conversation then moves to the investor who told a room to stop framing climate action as an environmental choice, the quiet disappearance of net zero, the rollback of the Chief Sustainability Officer role and its cost to technical expertise and to women in the C-suite, and whether every job is now both a technology job and a sustainability job. An audience question brings the missing Scope 3 stakeholder into the room: the small and mid-sized supplier asked to fund the transition on margins that cannot absorb it.
The roundtable closes with three decisions for Monday morning: price volatility itself, put critical materials on the risk register with a named owner, and treat disruption as information.
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Welcome to the post-Climate Week Revolution Roundtable
0:57 Introductions: Sandy Leyva, Wesley Herche, James George
3:53 One word for Climate Week NYC 2026
6:10 "Stop telling me we're doing this for environmental reasons"
8:28 Supply chain was in every answer
10:03 The value was in the room, not on stage
11:44 What changed: net zero fades from the agenda
12:51 What felt performative: folding in the CSO role
14:19 The double loss: technical expertise and women in the C-suite
18:15 Is every job a technology job?
21:52 Is every job a sustainability job?
25:22 Audience question: the SME supplier missing from Scope 3
29:05 One decision for executive teams on Monday morning
31:37 Final word: circularity as a resilience discipline
Key Topics:
Climate Week NYC 2026, supply chain, sustainability, circular economy, critical minerals, material security, energy transition, price volatility, Chief Sustainability Officer, Scope 3, SME suppliers, just transition, ESG, AI, green jobs, Sustainability Decoded, Provocative Human
Connect and Learn More:
Sustainability Decoded (Sandy Leyva and Wesley Herche): sustainabilitydecoded.beehiiv.com
James George (Provocative Human): linkedin.com/in/james-george-20995b75
Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen): supplychainqueen.com
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Community Ownership in Circular Supply Chains: The Cooperative Model | CSCC Series Finale (5/5)
This is the series finale. Across five episodes, the Circular Supply Chain Coalition series has built the system around circular supply chains: coalition architecture, trusted networks, buyer-operator …
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This is the series finale. Across five episodes, the Circular Supply Chain Coalition series has built the system around circular supply chains: coalition architecture, trusted networks, buyer-operator alignment, enabling policy. Episode 5 asks who owns the infrastructure, who has agency, and who benefits when reverse supply chains are built.
Deirdre White is CEO of Pyxera Global with nearly 40 years in supply chain development and social impact, from oil and gas localization on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East to the Jiva program, a 10-year partnership with the John Deere Foundation in rural Rajasthan that transformed agricultural livelihoods, girls' education, and community governance. Deirdre frames community ownership as the opposite of extraction: local people building and retaining the assets that should be theirs.
Nancy Charaya leads circular economy work at Pyxera Global India, with a decade of experience across tire, textile, plastics, and critical minerals value chains. Nancy built the Pride Cooperative in Guwahati, Assam, a female-led waste worker collective organizing 160 informal workers into a cooperative with collective bargaining power and shared governance. India has 4 to 5 million waste workers, up to 80 percent women working informally with zero agency. The cooperative model gives them a seat at the table.
John Holm, SVP of Partnership Development at Pyxera Global, moderates and connects the five-episode arc, framing community ownership as the "Trojan horse" for circular supply chains at scale.
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Introduction: from enabling policy to community ownership
1:05 John Holm: community benefit as the missing layer in circular supply chains
2:03 Deirdre White: 40 years of supply chain localization, from Sakhalin to CSCC
5:41 Jiva: 10 years with John Deere in rural Rajasthan
7:08 Why the changes held two years after the program ended
7:54 "Fall in love with the problem, not the solution"
8:25 India's waste sector: 4-5 million workers, 90% informal, 60-80% women
9:27 Pride Cooperative: 160 waste workers, collective bargaining, government access
10:26 The smart dustbin story: waste worker knowledge vs. high-tech design
11:21 Cooperatives in the global north: Land O'Lakes and hidden scale
12:37 Community-owned business: keeping equity local in reverse supply chains
14:44 Building trust: 36 person-weeks of listening in three villages
16:11 Pride as a female-led cooperative: agency and collective voice
17:15 Lightning round: misconceptions, capabilities, optimism
19:34 Series close: the complete blueprint for a circular economy
Key Topics:
Community ownership, cooperatives, circular supply chains, reverse logistics, waste workers, informal economy, critical minerals, cooperative governance, Pyxera Global, CSCC, Pride Cooperative, Guwahati, MSMEs, female-led enterprise, global south innovation
Connect and Learn More:
Circular Supply Chain Coalition: circularsupplychain.org
Pyxera Global: pyxeraglobal.org
John Holm: [email protected]
Deirdre White: linkedin.com/in/deirdre-white
Nancy Charaya: linkedin.com/in/nancycharaya
Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen): supplychainqueen.com
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Circular Economy Policy: How New Mexico and the EU Are Building Reverse Supply Chains | CSCC (4/5)
Circular supply chains do not scale on corporate pilots alone. They require enabling policy: state-level incentives, workforce alignment, environmental regulation, capital pathways, and cross-border investment …
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Circular supply chains do not scale on corporate pilots alone. They require enabling policy: state-level incentives, workforce alignment, environmental regulation, capital pathways, and cross-border investment structures that make reuse-based business models viable. This is episode four of a five-part series with Pyxera Global and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition, exploring what the enabling environment looks like when policy moves from aspiration to implementation.
Secretary James Kenney leads the New Mexico Environment Department, where he has built one of the most ambitious state-level circular economy strategies in the US. Under Governor Lujan Grisham, New Mexico offers free education from pre-K through university and trade school, universal child care, a 50-year water action plan backed by $400 million in annual investment, and PFAS legislation that listed discarded PFAS as hazardous waste with a consumer-facing label accessible to every New Mexican. The department created economic development positions whose only metric is jobs created and net income generated.
Manuel Carmona Yebra is Deputy Head for Global Issues and Innovation at the EU Delegation to the United States. He has led EU-US circular economy engagement at the state level, engaging governors including Governor Wes Moore (Maryland), Governor Hobbs (Arizona), and Governor Lujan Grisham (New Mexico). His work has revealed that circular economy is bipartisan because it addresses economic development, environmental protection, employment, and supply chain security simultaneously.
John Holm, SVP of Partnership Development at Pyxera Global and CSCC representative, frames the enabling environment strategy and explains why the coalition focuses on governor-level alignment rather than federal solutions. Together they unpack why states are laboratories for policy that scales and why the EU Circular Economy Act is expected to require 25% of critical minerals supply from recycling.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction: the enabling environment
1:00 John Holm: enabling environment in practice
1:33 Security economy framing
2:38 Why CSCC focuses on states and governors
3:42 Secretary Kenney: New Mexico's model
4:45 Free education, child care, workforce transition
5:46 50-year water action plan
6:19 Waste to marketplace: critical minerals
7:48 PFAS legislation and the consumer label
9:25 Consumer access to information about PFAS
10:08 Secretary Kenney on trade association lawsuits
11:12 EU Circular Economy Act and competitiveness
12:26 25% of EU critical minerals from recycling
13:04 EU-US state engagement
14:18 Why the EU engages US states directly
15:04 Circular economy as bipartisan
17:48 Replicability and interstate symbiosis
19:55 Sovereign supply chains, Mexico border corridor
21:01 How to engageTopics: Circular economy policy, PFAS, EU Circular Economy Act, critical minerals, economic development, workforce transition, bipartisan policy, reverse supply chain
Connect:
New Mexico Environment Department: env.nm.gov
Manuel Carmona Yebra: linkedin.com/in/manolo
CSCC: circularsupplychain.org
Pyxera Global: pyxeraglobal.org
John Holm: [email protected]
Supply Chain Queen: supplychainqueen.comSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you listen.
Circular Sourcing & Procurement: Critical Minerals Recovery w/ ABTC and Cummins | CSCC Series (3/5)
This is episode three of a five-part series produced in partnership with Pyxera Global and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition. Recovering a material is only the beginning. For circular supply chains to scale …
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This is episode three of a five-part series produced in partnership with Pyxera Global and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition. Recovering a material is only the beginning. For circular supply chains to scale, operators must understand what buyers can qualify and use, while buyers must create credible demand signals and procurement pathways for secondary materials. This episode covers the matchmaking layer: how the CSCC connects reverse supply chain operators with industrial buyers.
Ryan Melsert is the co-founder and CTO of American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), which operates a battery recycling facility selling approximately one thousand tons per month of critical minerals back into the market. Ryan's career spans Tesla (where he helped design and build the first gigafactory) and the company is now BASF's exclusive battery recycling partner for all of North America. Rafael Vasquez Lombardo leads sustainability strategy and customer solutions at Cummins, a 100+ year industrial manufacturer with global remanufacturing operations. Anita Schwartz returns as CSCC co-founder.
Together they unpack what it takes to move from collecting battery feedstock to producing materials that industrial buyers can evaluate, qualify, and integrate into established supply chains. Rafael outlines the performance-cost-trust triangle that governs sourcing decisions at scale, and Ryan explains why the qualification process will never get shorter (consumers demand zero tolerance for component failure). They close with a lightning round where Rafael delivers the episode's defining line: stop talking about circular sourcing, this is just sourcing.
Chapter Markers:
0:05 Introduction: buyer-operator matchmaking in reverse supply chains
1:19 Meet Anita Schwartz (CSCC co-founder)
2:06 Meet Ryan Melsert (ABTC): Tesla, gigafactory, battery recycling
3:47 Meet Rafael Vasquez Lombardo (Cummins): engineering to circular economy strategy
6:33 From convening to active matchmaking: what changes
7:50 Operator perspective: from feedstock to buyer-ready supply
9:10 BASF partnership: becoming their exclusive North American battery recycling partner
10:51 Buyer perspective from Cummins: performance, cost, trust
15:04 After the introduction: what happens day-to-day
16:59 Data exchanges, audits, and the high-trust environment
17:33 Validation steps from pilot to production
20:07 Lightning round: what to stop, what data matters, optimism
Key Topics:
Reverse supply chain, buyer-operator matchmaking, battery recycling, critical minerals, Cummins, ABTC, BASF, circular procurement, secondary materials, supply chain qualification, remanufacturing, performance specs, supply chain trust, CSCC, Pyxera Global
Connect and Learn More:
American Battery Technology Company: americanbatterytechnology.com
Cummins: cummins.com
CSCC: circularsupplychain.org
Pyxera Global: pyxeraglobal.org
Sheri Hinish: supplychainqueen.com
Circular Economy Network Building: Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Automotive Suppliers, and the Architecture of Reverse Supply Chain Collaboration | CSCC x Pyxera Global Series (2/5)
This is episode two of a five-part series produced in partnership with Pyxera Global and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition. If episode one was the origin story, episode two is the architecture layer: who is …
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This is episode two of a five-part series produced in partnership with Pyxera Global and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition. If episode one was the origin story, episode two is the architecture layer: who is showing up, which networks matter, and why convening existing conveners is more powerful than starting from scratch.
Featured Guests:
Danielle Holly leads the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in North America. Kellen Mahoney is the executive director of the Suppliers Partnership for the Environment, an automotive industry leadership forum. John Holm returns as CSCC co-founder. Together they unpack how the CSCC network model creates value through pre-competitive collaboration, why tech companies are showing unprecedented eagerness to collaborate on supply chain resilience, and why the automotive industry needs alignment beyond its own value chain.
Danielle reveals that the critical minerals market is $770 billion and growing, that e-waste is the fastest growing waste stream with critical minerals embedded in it, and that secondary markets for critical minerals are now necessary because extraction alone cannot meet demand. Kellen outlines what automotive suppliers actually want: clarity, consistency, and an open lane of two-way communication.
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Introduction: the architecture layer
1:09 Meet Danielle Holly and Kellen Mahoney
2:07 Why convening conveners matters
4:02 Speed to trust through existing ecosystems
5:11 Target industries: automotive and technology
6:12 What suppliers want: clarity, consistency, communication
7:28 Unprecedented pre-competitive collaboration in tech
8:14 CSCC model: invite-only working groups, buyers consortium
11:59 Critical minerals: $770B market, e-waste as fastest growing waste stream
14:30 Data sharing, trust, and clarity of roles
17:29 Alignment on North Star over structure
20:09 Lightning round: myths busted
21:44 How to engage
Key Topics:
Circular economy, network architecture, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Suppliers Partnership, pre-competitive collaboration, critical minerals, EV battery, automotive supply chain, e-waste, convening conveners, trust, CSCC, Pyxera Global
Connect and Learn More:
Ellen MacArthur Foundation: ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
Suppliers Partnership: supplierspartnership.org
CSCC: circularsupplychain.org
Pyxera Global: pyxeraglobal.org
Sheri Hinish: supplychainqueen.com
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Circular Supply Chain Strategy: How to Build Circular Economy Infrastructure from Coalition to Community | CSCC x Pyxera Global Series (1 of 5)
This is episode one of a five-part series produced in partnership with Pyxera Global and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition (CSCC) to explore how to build a circular economy from coalition to community. The …
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This is episode one of a five-part series produced in partnership with Pyxera Global and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition (CSCC) to explore how to build a circular economy from coalition to community. The series covers origin story, network architecture, buyer-operator matchmaking, enabling policy, and community ownership.
About CSCC:
Anita Schwartz spent over ten years at Waste Management before building out the zero waste and circular economy practice at WSP. John Holm cut his supply chain teeth in Central and Eastern Europe before leading Pyxera Global's circular economy practice. They connected at a GreenBiz panel in 2021 and realized their complementary perspectives could form the architecture for something the market was missing: a coalition that convenes the entire value chain around reverse supply chains.
Together they unpack why a single company cannot resolve the reverse supply chain on its own (the cost and impact of individual reverse logistics footprints negate the benefit), why everything after point of sale is "the dark side of the moon" with zero data visibility, why the CSCC frames circular economy as security economy rather than sustainability, and why 70 to 80 percent of the world already lives on reuse behavior. They close with a lightning round where Anita names the biggest misconception about circular economy (it is recycling) and John names the one thing companies should stop doing when they talk about circularity (lying).
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Introduction: five-part series overview
0:31 Meet Anita Schwartz and John Holm: co-founders, CSCC
1:02 Anita's origin: Waste Management, WSP, and the reverse supply chain gap
2:35 John's origin: Central and Eastern Europe to Pyxera Global
4:01 Enabling environment: policy, subsidies, communities, and systems change
5:44 What was broken: why operators need shared infrastructure
7:50 The dark side of the moon: zero data after point of sale
8:46 The CSCC blueprint: coalition building at scale
12:45 What happens when companies try to build reverse supply chains alone
15:21 Competitors collaborating: specialty chemicals and cross-sector parallels
16:41 Aligning organizations with different incentives and timelines
17:46 What to expect from the full five-episode arc
20:00 Lightning round: biggest misconception, what to stop doing, optimism
21:01 How to engage with the CSCC
Connect and Learn More:
Circular Supply Chain Coalition: circularsupplychain.org
Pyxera Global: pyxeraglobal.org
John Holm: [email protected] | LinkedIn
Anita Schwartz: LinkedIn
Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen): supplychainqueen.com
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Key Topics:
Circular supply chain, reverse supply chain, coalition building, circular economy, waste as resource, security economy, critical minerals, reuse, urban mining, local procurement, systems change, data visibility, post-consumer waste, infrastructure, CSCC, Pyxera Global
Supply Chain Career Growth: How to Build Community, AI Skills, and Confidence with Liz Raman, Supply Chain Gals Founder | Forbes 30 Under 30
Supply chain is no longer a hidden career path. It is where strategy, technology, operations, consumer behavior, product management, data analytics, and resilience meet. In this episode of the Supply Chain …
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Supply chain is no longer a hidden career path. It is where strategy, technology, operations, consumer behavior, product management, data analytics, and resilience meet. In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish sits down with Liz Raman, founder and CEO of Supply Chain Gals, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (Transportation and Mobility, 2025), MIT and Georgia Tech alum, and senior product manager in tech.
Liz built Supply Chain Gals because the community she needed early in her career did not exist. Starting as a transportation analyst, she navigated her way to becoming one of the youngest supply chain directors at Nike by age 26, ran a multibillion-dollar third-party sales division at Amazon, and founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional network that now connects over 20,000 women across career stages through workshops, mentorship circles, networking nights, case competitions, and a Slack-based membership with 120+ active members.
Together, they explore why supply chain is the ultimate connector career for professionals who get bored easily and love learning new things, how Supply Chain Gals is building AI and technology fluency through hands-on workshops with leaders from Microsoft and Accenture, why community is career infrastructure (not just a nice-to-have), and how case competitions simulate executive-level decision-making that early-career professionals rarely get to experience. Liz closes with a lightning round that includes one of the most important career messages: go before you are ready.
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Introduction: supply chain as the career
0:51 Meet Liz Raman: Forbes 30 Under 30, MIT, Georgia Tech, Supply Chain Gals
1:07 The gap: why Supply Chain Gals was built
2:48 Supply chain as a connector field: twenty careers in one domain
4:28 Every job is a sustainability job, every job is a technology job
5:08 Community as career infrastructure: workshops, mentorship circles, Slack
7:11 Building AI fluency: Microsoft and Accenture workshops
8:56 Case competitions as executive simulation
10:08 Lightning round: misconceptions, skills, talent, and going before you are ready
11:17 Where to find Liz and Supply Chain Gals
Key Topics:
Supply chain careers, women in supply chain, Supply Chain Gals, community building, career development, mentorship, Forbes 30 Under 30, AI literacy, technology fluency, supply chain talent, career infrastructure, case competitions, next generation leaders, supply chain education, professional networking, career growth
Connect and Learn More:
Liz Raman: @itsLizRaman on Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn
Supply Chain Gals: supplychaingals.com
Become a member and join the Slack community at supplychaingals.com
Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen): supplychainqueen.com
Subscribe to Supply Chain Revolution on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you listen.
The AI Energy Reckoning: From Mega Data Centers to Small Local Models with IDC's Dan Versace
AI workloads are forcing a reckoning. The mega data centers being built today will impact communities tenfold more than coal mines did during the Industrial Revolution, and most organizations still cannot …
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AI workloads are forcing a reckoning. The mega data centers being built today will impact communities tenfold more than coal mines did during the Industrial Revolution, and most organizations still cannot answer a basic question: what is the carbon cost of their compute? In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish sits down with Dan Versace, Senior Research Analyst for ESG Business Services at IDC, for a conversation about energy intelligence as the new operating discipline for AI, sustainability, and enterprise growth.
Dan brings an uncommon origin story to corporate sustainability. He started in environmental science, studying the effects of large operations on watersheds in New Hampshire. He then moved to the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee to conduct invasive species and climate change research, where he spent a year working in a single four-square-mile plot. When he asked when they would move to the next area, the answer was ten years. That was the moment he decided to scale his impact, earned a sustainable innovation MBA from the University of Vermont, and joined IDC to lead their sustainability strategy and services research.
Together, they unpack the cynical and the hopeful answer for why AI is forcing enterprise leaders to rethink energy and infrastructure. Dan explains why sustainability linked to business value operates on two axes (brand and market cap on one side, operational efficiency gains on the other), why the talent retention argument for sustainability is underappreciated, and why the measurement gap for data center energy consumption remains one of the biggest obstacles to credible sustainability commitments. He makes the case for small local models (SLMs) as a counterweight to cloud-dependent AI, argues that sustainability subject matter experts need to be physically present in data centers, and delivers a lightning round that includes one of the most important metrics enterprise leaders should understand: energy consumption per rack.
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Introduction: energy intelligence as a new operating discipline
0:43 Meet Dan Versace: from environmental science to IDC sustainability research
2:40 Where organizations are connecting sustainability to business value
3:38 Two axes: brand/market cap and operational efficiency gains
5:38 The talent retention argument for sustainability
6:29 AI, automation, and the race for sustainability unicorns
8:40 Why AI workloads are forcing a rethink of energy and infrastructure
9:22 Mega data centers, community impact, and grid resiliency
10:18 Energy security, energy inequity, and social license to operate
10:42 Tenfold the Industrial Revolution: data centers in communities
11:37 Small local models vs. cloud: a sustainability pivot point
12:12 The measurement gap: why energy data is not granular enough
14:16 Cross-functional accountability: who owns energy intelligence?
14:54 Sustainability SMEs in the data center
16:56 Lightning round: biggest misconception, energy metrics, and optimism
18:14 Where to find Dan and the United in Green podcast
Connect and Learn More:
Dan Versace: linkedin.com/in/danielversace
IDC Sustainability Research: idc.com
United in Green Podcast (sustainability + soccer): available on podcast platforms
Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen): supplychainqueen.com
Subscribe to Supply Chain Revolution on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you listen.
Key Topics:
Energy intelligence, AI sustainability, data center energy consumption, AI workloads, grid resiliency, energy equity, small local models SLM, ESG, sustainability ROI, talent retention, carbon measurement, energy consumption per rack, IDC, sustainable digital transformation, community impact, cloud sustainability, embodied carbon, Dan Versace, United in Green
#1 Industry 4.0 Thought Leader on What Manufacturers Get Wrong About Digital Transformation | Insights with Jeff Winter (Belden)
Industry 4.0 is not a tool set you buy. It is a business transformation that requires the right strategy, storytelling, change management, and credible execution across both business and the plant floor. That …
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Industry 4.0 is not a tool set you buy. It is a business transformation that requires the right strategy, storytelling, change management, and credible execution across both business and the plant floor. That is the thesis Jeff Winter has been refining for years, and it is why he has been ranked the number one global thought leader for Industry 4.0 by Onalytica, named the number one global influencer in manufacturing by Manufacturing Digital Magazine, and has amassed over 100 million views across more than 1,300 LinkedIn posts.
In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish sits down with Jeff, now VP of Commercial Strategy at Belden, for a conversation about what it actually takes to make Industry 4.0 real inside a manufacturing organization. Jeff traces his career from sales engineer to safety PLC turning point to the moment he stopped selling products and started selling visions, and how LinkedIn and storytelling transformed not just his career but his identity.
Together, they unpack why manufacturers struggle to turn proven technologies into a clear path forward (most start with nouns like AI and IoT when they should start with verbs like reduce, accelerate, and standardize), the five prerequisites that must be true inside an organization before technology creates value, and the emerging concept of the "two factories" model where a physical factory makes the product and an AI factory produces the intelligence that runs it. Jeff also shares his framework for understanding Industry 4.0 as both an era and a destination, why every plant thinks it is special (and why that kills scale), and what connected intelligence looks like when done right.
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Introduction: making Industry 4.0 real
1:03 Meet Jeff Winter: origin story and career arc
2:07 LinkedIn, storytelling, and 100 million views: building a movement
3:41 The safety PLC turning point: from selling components to selling the safe machine
8:40 Selling the product vs. selling the problem vs. selling the vision
10:21 Industry 4.0 defined: era vs. destination (and why both are right)
13:32 Why manufacturers struggle: starting with nouns instead of verbs
14:17 Cross-functional value, functional budgets, and the ownership gap
15:20 Industry 5.0 vs. 4.0: is 15 years enough for an industrial revolution?
19:27 What real digital transformation requires: five prerequisites
21:25 Every plant thinks it is special (and why that kills scale)
23:21 The next manufacturing operating model: from connected equipment to connected intelligence
24:51 Jensen Huang's two factories: the physical factory and the AI factory
25:14 Making intelligence operational: the real competitive advantage
26:19 Final words and how to find Jeff on LinkedIn
Key Topics:
Industry 4.0, digital transformation, IT/OT convergence, manufacturing strategy, smart manufacturing, physical AI, connected intelligence, NVIDIA two factories, Belden, change management, human centricity, cross-functional KPIs, manufacturing operating model, automation, IoT, digital twin, business case for transformation, plant floor to enterprise, operational technology, Jeff Winter
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Belden: belden.com
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From Silos to Systems Thinking: How Inchainge Is Rewiring Supply Chain Skills for the Age of AI and Circularity with Rada Lazarova
Simulation is the missing layer in supply chain talent development. That is the thesis of this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, where Sheri Hinish sits down with Rada Lazarova from Inchainge, the …
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Simulation is the missing layer in supply chain talent development. That is the thesis of this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, where Sheri Hinish sits down with Rada Lazarova from Inchainge, the company behind The Fresh Connection and The Blue Connection, the world's leading supply chain business simulations used by over 40% of the world's top 100 manufacturers and nearly half a million learners across more than 100 countries.
Rada, based in Utrecht in the Netherlands, brings a perspective shaped by her own journey from Bulgaria to Wisconsin to the Dutch experiential learning ecosystem. She explains why traditional supply chain education falls short: it teaches theory without context, creating professionals who understand frameworks but freeze when confronted with the cross-functional complexity of real supply chain decisions. Inchainge's simulations drop participants, whether university students or Fortune 500 executives, into virtual companies where they take on VP-level roles and discover, often painfully, that optimizing their own function can bankrupt the entire business.
Together, they explore why silos are the root cause of supply chain underperformance, how the human behaviors of students and C-suite executives are remarkably similar when placed in simulation environments, why sustainability thinking only takes hold when every decision is linked to impact metrics, and how Inchainge's new AI tutor responds like a teacher (with more questions, not answers) rather than a chatbot. Rada closes with a challenge to every supply chain leader: stop saving the day, start solving the problem.
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Introduction: simulation as the missing layer in supply chain talent
0:24 Meet Rada Lazarova: from Bulgaria to Wisconsin to Inchainge
1:29 Why traditional supply chain education falls short
2:21 Inside the simulation: VP-level roles, cross-functional decisions, and sandbox failure
3:58 The power of going bankrupt with no consequences
4:33 Context engineering in the age of AI and automation
5:08 Silos as root cause: how one client restructured their KPI system after training
5:57 40% of the world's top 100 manufacturers: students vs. executives in the simulation
8:06 Recovery in a simulation vs. recovery in the real world
8:26 New AI and circularity capabilities on the Inchainge platform
9:12 The sustainability hands-up moment: before and after the simulation
11:00 Circular metrics: return on material, circularity of inputs, alternative revenue models
11:52 The AI tutor: why it asks questions instead of giving answers
13:35 Rapid fire: the biggest misconception about supply chain talent today
14:18 What every supply chain leader should unlearn
15:29 Rotate, explore, get your hands dirty: career advice
15:39 What excites Rada most about the next five years of supply chain education
Key Topics:
Supply chain talent development, simulation-based learning, experiential learning, Inchainge, The Fresh Connection, The Blue Connection, supply chain skills gap, cross-functional KPIs, silo breaking, supply chain education, AI in education, circularity simulation, supply chain sustainability training, core skills, context engineering, supply chain gamification, workforce development
Connect and Learn More:
Rada Lazarova: linkedin.com/in/radalazarova
Inchainge: inchainge.com
The Fresh Connection (supply chain simulation): inchainge.com/learning-solutions
The Blue Connection (circular economy simulation): inchainge.com/learning-solutions
Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen): supplychainqueen.com
The State of Sustainable Apparel: What North America Needs to Know with Christine Goulay | Innovation Forum Partnership
In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, produced in partnership with the Innovation Forum, Sheri Hinish sits down with Christine Goulay, founder of Sustainabelle Advisory Services in Paris …
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In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, produced in partnership with the Innovation Forum, Sheri Hinish sits down with Christine Goulay, founder of Sustainabelle Advisory Services in Paris. Christine brings 20 years of experience at the intersection of sustainability and fashion, including operational roles at Pangaea and the Kering Group (the luxury conglomerate behind Gucci and Balenciaga), advisory work with UNEP and the Textile Exchange, and board positions with traceability and materials startups including Fairly Made.
Together, they unpack the honest state of sustainable apparel in 2026. Christine identifies three distinct tiers of brand behavior: the core leaders who are integrating sustainability as a risk reduction and customer engagement strategy, the compliance hedgers who are calculating whether to invest now or pay fines later, and the silent majority waiting to see which way the regulatory wind blows.
She explains why regulation was the decisive differentiator in scaling reuse in France, why the same dynamic is now playing out with the California Textile Recovery Act and Digital Product Passport requirements in the EU, and why simply checking the compliance box builds adequate supply chains, not extraordinary ones.
Christine introduces a powerful framework: the love language of sustainability. Borrowed from Gary Chapman's 1992 book, the concept is that sustainability leaders must speak the language of their audience, replacing terms like ESG with resilience when talking to procurement, framing impact as risk reduction for CFOs, and embedding sustainability KPIs alongside financial metrics so sourcing teams can make balanced decisions without career risk.
She shares how France's EPR eco-modulation bonus returns 70 cents per garment for certified materials versus a five-to-seven cent average EPR cost, and how forward-thinking brands are embedding CO2 emissions data directly into RFPs.
Connect with our guest: Christine Goulay, Founder, Sustainabelle Advisory Services LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinegoulay/
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Key Topics: sustainable apparel 2026, textile regulation, EPR Extended Producer Responsibility, California Textile Recovery Act, Digital Product Passport DPP, circularity textiles, traceability, supply chain transparency, Kering Group, Sustainabelle, Innovation Forum, Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA, fashion supply chain, supplier de-risking, impact KPIs, love language of sustainability, Fairly Made, eco-modulation, total cost of ownership, procurement sustainability
Energy Is Not a Line Item; It is an Operating System: Rethinking Supply Chains on Earth Day with Wes Herche, co-founder of Sustainability Decoded
In this special Earth Day episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish sits down with Wesley Herche, Director of Energy and Sustainability Solutions at Prologis and co-founder of the …
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In this special Earth Day episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish sits down with Wesley Herche, Director of Energy and Sustainability Solutions at Prologis and co-founder of the Sustainability Decoded newsletter. Wesley brings one of the most unconventional career paths in the sustainability world, from civilian intelligence officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and deployment to Iraq, through BCG and Amazon, to his current role at the world's largest logistics real estate company.
Wesley's thesis is as provocative as it is precise: there is no difference between GDP and energy. Every supply chain decision that appears to be about cost, resilience, or emissions is fundamentally an energy decision. He argues that organizations must stop treating energy like a procurement line item and start treating it as the operating system on which their entire supply chain runs.
Together, they unpack why the discovery of fossil fuels created the sharpest inflection point in human development history, how Pakistan added 25 gigawatts of rooftop solar (most of it through DIY TikTok tutorials) to build energy resilience now larger than all other generation combined, and why the Strait of Hormuz crisis is revealing what has always been true: energy logistics are the invisible substrate of the global economy.
Wesley breaks down the three energy services every business actually consumes (heat, propulsion, and electricity), how to evaluate alternative generation architectures across onsite solar, battery storage, green tariffs, and offsite renewables, and why treating emissions like product specs transforms procurement from a cost function into a strategic weapon. They close with the announcement of Sustainability Decoded as a new Supply Chain Revolution community partner.
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Key Topics: Earth Day 2026, energy supply chains, energy as operating system, renewable energy strategy, Prologis, Sustainability Decoded, Strait of Hormuz, electrotech, Scope 1 2 3 emissions, supplier decarbonization, onsite solar, battery storage, energy resilience, Pakistan solar revolution, GDP and energy, supply chain sustainability, green tariffs, climate strategy
The Strait of Hormuz Playbook: Navigating the Biggest Supply Chain Crisis Since COVID with Sam Achampong, CIPS
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has become the largest disruption to global energy supply since the 1970s oil embargo, with ship transits collapsing by over 95% and an estimated 230 loaded oil tankers stranded …
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The Strait of Hormuz crisis has become the largest disruption to global energy supply since the 1970s oil embargo, with ship transits collapsing by over 95% and an estimated 230 loaded oil tankers stranded inside the Persian Gulf. Fertilizer exports through the strait have plummeted by more than 90%, threatening global food production heading into planting season. So what does the recovery playbook actually look like for supply chain and procurement leaders whose operations run through the Gulf?
In this episode, Sheri Hinish sits down with Sam Achampong, Regional Director for CIPS across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, live from Dubai in the middle of the crisis. Sam brings over 18 years of experience operating in the Gulf region and offers an unvarnished, on-the-ground perspective that transcends the headlines.
Together, they unpack how business continuity plans are holding up (and where they are falling short), why organizations are renegotiating payment terms with strategic suppliers to fund local sourcing pivots, and how the cash-flow circularity strategy is helping companies stabilize operations in real time. Sam shares hard-earned lessons on supplier relationship management, the critical difference between transactional and strategic partnerships, and why the best procurement leaders never become famous.
They also explore the talent gap, the underinvestment in people skills relative to technical capabilities, and why context engineering is the true differentiator for AI-enabled supply chain decision-making. Sam closes with a powerful historical parallel: CIPS itself was founded in response to the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1930s, proving that procurement professionals have been navigating geopolitical disruption for nearly a century.
Key Topics: Strait of Hormuz crisis, Middle East supply chain disruption, procurement recovery playbook, business continuity planning, supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing, energy supply chain, petrochemical trade disruption, fertilizer supply crisis, AI in supply chain risk, talent development, CIPS, geopolitical risk management
How This CEO Built a $100M Business From Garbage and Redesigned the Circular Supply Chain | TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky
What if the $2.6 trillion in materials the world throws away every year is not a waste problem, but a supply chain design problem? What if there was a way to capture that value and build a 9 figure empire? In …
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What if the $2.6 trillion in materials the world throws away every year is not a waste problem, but a supply chain design problem? What if there was a way to capture that value and build a 9 figure empire?
In the Season 3 premiere, Sheri Hinish sits down with Tom Szaky, the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a company operating in 20 countries that has recycled over 8 billion items the traditional waste system refused to touch. Tom dropped out of Princeton to build a business around garbage. Twenty-five years later, TerraCycle generates nearly $100 million in annual revenue and just announced a Reg A $75 million investment offering to scale its operations further.
In this episode, Tom breaks down why 95% of products have no viable recycling pathway (and why it has nothing to do with technology), why everything is getting less recyclable over time as products get cheaper, how Loop cracked the code on reusable packaging in France while it stalled in the US, and why waste is the least innovative industry in the world, making it the biggest blue ocean for entrepreneurs.
Sheri and Tom share insights on frameworks for circular supply chain design, extended producer responsibility, and the role of supply chain leaders as planetary systems architects. Whether you lead procurement, operations, logistics, or sustainability, this episode reframes waste as a competitive strategy conversation, not an environmental afterthought.
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Terracycle.com + Tom on LinkedIn + Learn more invest.terracycle.com
Topics covered: circular economy, circular supply chain, waste economics, waste management, recycling, reuse, Loop, extended producer responsibility (EPR), packaging, zero waste, supply chain innovation, TerraCycle, regenerative supply chains.
Designing for Access: How Supply Chain Thinking Can Fix AI + the Talent Gap
Join Sheri Hinish for the launch of Student Voices, a new curated conversation within the Supply Chain Revolution pod spotlighting standout student and early-career leaders shaping the future of supply chain …
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Join Sheri Hinish for the launch of Student Voices, a new curated conversation within the Supply Chain Revolution pod spotlighting standout student and early-career leaders shaping the future of supply chain, sustainability, and innovation. In this debut episode, Sheri sits down with Yaseen Ahmid, founder of Luna, to explore how more human-centered systems can unlock overlooked value in people, communities, and markets.
This conversation moves beyond resumes. Yaseen shares why he sees talent access, circular economy, and Africa-centered systems leadership as part of one larger operating philosophy: redesign the flow, restore agency, and build pathways to opportunity that are more inclusive by design.
Listeners will hear how Luna responds to an increasingly automated and impersonal hiring landscape, why human judgment still matters in talent development, and how supply chain thinking can help leaders rethink access, resilience, and value creation at scale.
Key Insights
• Why Yaseen views careers, circularity, and regional development as one connected systems challenge
• How Luna was built to restore agency in a job-search process that often feels automated and generic
• Why access should be treated as infrastructure, not as a matter of chance
• What global leaders still misunderstand about African markets, innovation, and supply chain potential
• How circular thinking applies not only to materials, but also to where value is created, captured, and shared
• What employers, students, and operators can do now to build pathways that are more fair, practical, and future-ready
What Listeners Will Learn
• How a supply chain lens can strengthen talent systems, sustainability strategy, and community impact
• Why personalized guidance can outperform one-size-fits-all career support when the stakes are identity and opportunity
• How young leaders can balance execution, systems thinking, and ecosystem building
• What it means to design opportunity systems that are both human-centered and scalable
Why This Conversation Matters
The episode frames opportunity as a design question. Rather than treating career access, sustainability, and regional development as unrelated topics, it shows how thoughtful system design can surface value that traditional models often miss.
Who Should Listen
Ideal for students, early-career professionals, hiring leaders, supply chain operators, sustainability advocates, and anyone interested in building more inclusive systems of opportunity.
About the Guest
Yaseen Ahmid is the founder and CEO of Luna, a personalized resume review service designed to help students and young professionals communicate their strengths with clarity and confidence. Across his broader work in consulting, circular economy, and student leadership, he brings a consistent focus on access, agency, and system redesign.
About the Series
Student Voices is a new curated conversation within the Supply Chain Revolution pod featuring emerging leaders whose stories, ideas, and operating philosophies can help shape the future of supply chain.
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Decarbonizing Transportation with Precision Data - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
What if the emissions hiding in your transportation network could cost your company millions in regulatory exposure — and you didn't even know? In this final episode of the Supply Chain Revolution's 10 Big …
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What if the emissions hiding in your transportation network could cost your company millions in regulatory exposure — and you didn't even know?
In this final episode of the Supply Chain Revolution's 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future, hosts Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen) and co-host James George close the series with a conversation that ties it all together: end-to-end decarbonization powered by precision data.
Their guest is Constantine Komodromos, founder of VesselBot and a Time 100 Award honoree, who built his company after a visit to the Parthenon in Athens changed everything. What began as a maritime optimization platform evolved into a mission-critical data infrastructure company helping shippers understand — in real time — the emissions their carriers are generating, and what it's actually costing them.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why spend-based emissions accounting creates dangerous blind spots for large organizations
- How one automotive customer discovered €300K to €1M+ in preventable cost exposure from 160,000 tons of emissions they didn't know they had
- Why 40% container utilization is a fixable problem that saves money and carbon simultaneously
- How real-time vessel data — including Suez Canal rerouting and fuel consumption shifts — gives shippers an edge in volatile geopolitical environments
- Why sustainability embedded into daily operations is more durable than compliance-driven initiatives
Sheri connects Big Idea 10 to themes across the series: James Mnyupe's case for CBAM as a business ROI lever (Big Idea 9) and Sophie Beckham's packaging taxation insights (Big Idea 7), reminding listeners that data literacy at every node of the value chain is what makes regenerative transformation real.
Ideas 1 through 6 asked us to envision what's possible. Ideas 7 through 10 showed us how to execute. This is the one that brings it home.
Nothing's stopping us now.
Episode Tags: supply chain, decarbonization, emissions data, maritime logistics, transportation sustainability, VesselBot, EU ETS, CBAM, regenerative supply chain, supply chain queen, circular economy, data-driven sustainability
How Clean Energy Powers African Industrialization: Sovereignty, Partnership, and the New Value Chain - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
"Be careful about trying to solve 2050 problems with 2025 technology," says James Mnyupe, former Namibia Senior Economic Advisor and Green Hydrogen Commissioner. Join Sheri Hinish, the Supply Chain Queen®, and …
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"Be careful about trying to solve 2050 problems with 2025 technology," says James Mnyupe, former Namibia Senior Economic Advisor and Green Hydrogen Commissioner. Join Sheri Hinish, the Supply Chain Queen®, and co-host James George for Big Idea 9 of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast exploring how clean energy actually powers industrialization in practice.
This episode is part of the 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future series and reveals the structural choices, systems thinking, and policy frameworks that determine how African nations own the value chains they create in clean industrialization revolution happening now in the global south.
Featuring James Mnyupe, Senior Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa at ThyssenKrupp Uhde. James brings rare perspective having architected Namibia's green industrialization blueprint from the government side and now scaling the model across 49 African nations through a European industrial platform. His work spans everything from fertilizer and food security to mineral beneficiation, mobilizing fit-for-purpose capital while ensuring African ownership of technology, data, and manufacturing capacity. His TED Talk on economic diplomacy and industrial policy has inspired leaders globally to rethink development partnerships.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction to Clean Energy and Industrialization
00:15 - Navigating Geopolitical Tensions in Clean Energy
06:45 - Blueprint for African-Led Clean Industrialization
14:19 - Redefining Bankability in African Terms
25:22 - African Sovereignty and Global Partnerships
29:11 - Looking Ahead: The Future of African Industrialization
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Regenerative Work Systems: Bridging Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Skills to Transform Organizations - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
Join the Supply Chain Queen® and James George with Namuun Purevdorj—a leader who bridges two powerful knowledge systems that together can create transformation neither achieves alone. Namuun brings an …
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Join the Supply Chain Queen® and James George with Namuun Purevdorj—a leader who bridges two powerful knowledge systems that together can create transformation neither achieves alone.
Namuun brings an extraordinary blend of experiences: born and raised in Mongolia's deeply communal, nature-centered culture, MIT-trained in supply chain management, and seasoned across consulting, Amazon operations, and retail leadership. As someone who grew up learning that wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of people and nature around you - persevering through -40°C winters and seasonal apprenticeships—she offers a unique lens on building regenerative organizations.
Currently leading the eyewear category at Amazon Retail US, Namuun's journey spans sourcing, supplier development, packaging sustainability, network design, and procurement decarbonization. Throughout her career, she's discovered that Mongolian worldviews of interdependence, stewardship, and dialogue pair naturally with analytical training and technical skills. One helps understand people, relationships, and long-term impact. The other helps design mechanisms and make data-driven decisions.
For anyone feeling the pressure to find perfect AI-powered answers, Namuun's story is permission to progress without perfection, to trust in timely human action, and to see supply chains as living networks.
Key Insights:
- The Bridge Between Worlds: How indigenous wisdom about community resilience and long-term stewardship complements modern capabilities in data, AI, and digital transformation
- Progress Over Perfection: The Mongolian saying "even muddy water can put out fire"—why timely human action matters more than waiting for perfect solutions
- Seasonal Discipline as Systems Thinking: How growing up with nomadic rhythms—spring for growth, fall for preparation, winter for protection—builds natural understanding of adaptive networks
- Building Capability, Not Just Output: Why the most regenerative solutions focus on strengthening people and systems, not just delivering projects
- Co-Creation at Scale: How to build solutions with the people who will own them after implementation—from Amazon's supplier-facing teams to retail operations
- The Interdependence Question: "Who else needs to thrive for this work to succeed?"—a frame that widens perspective and reveals the true system
- Cultural Translation in Corporate Settings: Navigating the tension between communal, nature-based values and P&L-driven global logistics operations
- Resilience as Foundation: How harsh climates and seasonal adaptation build the perseverance required for systems transformation
About Namuun Purevdorj:
Namuun is Category Leader for Eyewear at Amazon Retail US. Previously, she led procurement decarbonization initiatives at Amazon, building tools and training for thousands of supplier-facing teams. Her background spans consulting, logistics, and procurement, an MIT master's in supply chain management, and early career work in international economics.
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Subscribe for the full "10 Big Ideas" series exploring how to transform supply chains for a regenerative future. Follow the Supply Chain Queen on LinkedIn for additional insights and resources.
Forest Positive Transformation: Designing Supply Chains That Regenerate Nature - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
Join Sheri Hinish, the Supply Chain Queen®, and co-host James George for Big Idea 7 of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast all about Forest Positive Supply Chains. This episode is part of the 10 Big Ideas to …
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Join Sheri Hinish, the Supply Chain Queen®, and co-host James George for Big Idea 7 of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast all about Forest Positive Supply Chains. This episode is part of the 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future series and explores how global supply chains can evolve from deforestation free compliance to forest positive regeneration.
Featuring Sophie Beckham, Chief Sustainability Officer of International Paper and one of the world’s most respected leaders in forestry and biodiversity stewardship, this conversation reframes forests as living infrastructure that underpins long term business resilience, economic value, and climate stability.
Drawing on decades of experience across forest management, conservation partnerships, and large scale industrial operations, Sophie shares how supply chains that depend on forest systems must move beyond short term optimization toward multi generational regeneration. Forests are not interchangeable inputs. They are place based systems that require trust, data, collaboration, and long horizon thinking.
In this episode, you will learn why deforestation free is only the starting point, how forest positive supply chains actively enhance biodiversity, water quality, and ecosystem health, and why nature must be treated as a core stakeholder rather than an externality. The discussion spans landowner trust, regulatory uncertainty on EUDR, data and GIS enabled transparency, climate volatility, and the role of fiber based packaging in keeping forests standing.
Key themes include how forests function as living infrastructure that cannot be relocated, why regenerative forestry does not require economic tradeoffs, how early data driven interventions create positive outcomes on the ground, and why nature is the silent guarantor of all other forms of capital.
This is not a theoretical sustainability discussion. It is a practical, business grounded exploration of how supply chains can become regeneration catalysts that strengthen operations, protect assets, support communities, and restore biodiversity at scale.
Perfect for supply chain leaders, sustainability and ESG executives, risk and resilience leaders, operations and procurement teams, and anyone responsible for long term sourcing, infrastructure, or climate adaptation strategies.
What You Will Learn
- Supply chains can act as catalysts for forest regeneration.
- The European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) poses challenges for businesses.
- Technology is essential for bridging gaps in forestry management.
- Understanding the interconnectedness of forest ecosystems is crucial.
- Nature should be viewed as a key stakeholder in supply chains.
- Balancing commercial viability with sustainability is a complex challenge.
- Adapting to climate change is vital for forestry management.
- Consumers play a significant role in promoting sustainable packaging.
- Forests have the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation.
- The future of forestry lies in sustainable and regenerative practices.
Sound Bites
- "We should lean into unsentimental valuation."
- "What can the average consumer do?"
- "How do we deliver sustainable outcomes?"
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction to Supply Chains and Regeneration
02:07 - Understanding the European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
06:08 - Technology Bridging Gaps in Forestry Management
09:32 - The Interconnectedness of Forest Ecosystems
12:04 - Nature as a Stakeholder in Supply Chains
15:01 - Balancing Commercial Viability with Sustainability
18:14 - Adapting to Climate Change in Forestry
21:22 - Consumer Responsibility in Sustainable Packaging
25:36 - Looking Ahead: Future of Forestry and Sustainability
Keywords
supply chain, forest regeneration, sustainability, EUDR, technology in forestry, biodiversity, climate change, consumer responsibility, packaging, carbon sequestration
Infrastructure as a Service: Rethinking Logistics, Circularity, and Ownership in Regenerative Supply Chains - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
What if the most transformative infrastructure for regenerative supply chains was the one you never notice? In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, hosts Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen) and …
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What if the most transformative infrastructure for regenerative supply chains was the one you never notice?
In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, hosts Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen) and James George sit down with Sandra Leyva Martinez, Head of Sustainability for CHEP Americas at Brambles—the world's largest circular asset pooling company. Sandy brings extraordinary experience from leading transformation at Amazon, managing sustainability across 40,000 suppliers, and building the first sustainability hub for Amazon's 2.5 million selling partners.
Together, they explore how circular distribution infrastructure serves as the invisible backbone for regenerative communities, moving beyond basic sustainability to systems that actively restore ecosystems and create distributed economic opportunity.
Key insights from this conversation:
- Why seamless integration makes circular supply chains invisible—and why that's exactly the point
- How data analytics and traceability enable collaborative decision-making across stakeholders
- The strategic shift from planting trees by units to measuring impact by hectares for biodiversity
- Why creating your own sustainable timber source makes business sense in a world of certified forest scarcity
- How "infrastructure as a service" forces companies to rethink ownership and access
- The role of local repair hubs in decentralizing logistics and creating community employment
- Why the best use of AI combines data processing with human quality oversight
- Sandy's "nothing is stopping us" philosophy—it's about strategic timing, not barriers
- How to reduce empty miles and pilot alternative fuels through partnership models
- The urgent need for innovation hubs to address electronic waste infrastructure gaps
Sandy shares CHEP and Brambles' journey from pioneering circular economy models in 2017-2018 to today's regenerative ambitions, revealing how efficiency, resilience, and business continuity create the perfect conditions for transformation.
This is Big Idea 6 in our series on transforming supply chains for a regenerative future. The message is clear: start now.
Connect with the Supply Chain Revolution: Subscribe for the full "10 Big Ideas" series exploring how to transform supply chains for a regenerative future. Follow the Supply Chain Queen on LinkedIn for additional insights and resources.
Guest: Sandra Leyva Martinez, Head of Sustainability, CHEP Americas (Brambles)
Hosts: Sheri Hinish & James George
Series: 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
The Global South’s Supply Chain Revolution: From Decolonizing Resilience to Regenerative Frontiers - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
The next transformation in global trade isn’t being written in boardrooms — it’s being built in the Global South. In this episode of The Supply Chain Revolution®, host Sheri Hinish (The Supply Chain Queen) and …
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The next transformation in global trade isn’t being written in boardrooms — it’s being built in the Global South.
In this episode of The Supply Chain Revolution®, host Sheri Hinish (The Supply Chain Queen) and co-host James George are joined by Professor Gautam R. Desiraju, one of India’s most distinguished scientists and co-author of India’s Supply Chains in a World at War. Together, they uncover how supply chains — once designed for efficiency and control — have become tools of conflict and power.
But within this chaos lies a blueprint for regeneration.
Through stories spanning semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, energy, and even extraterrestrial logistics, this conversation explores how nations like India are leveraging strategic autonomy, capability building, and cultural wisdom to create supply chains that regenerate economies, ecosystems, and communities.
💡 What You’ll Learn:
• Why “decolonizing resilience” may be the most important shift in global supply chain strategy
• How the Global South is rewriting the rules of economic power
• The emerging science and policy behind regenerative development
• What companies can learn from India’s approach to sovereignty, cooperation, and innovation
This is more than an episode — it’s a journey from conflict to cooperation, from extraction to regeneration, and from efficiency to equity.
🎧 Tune in to learn how the future of global supply chains will be written by collaboration, capability, and regeneration.
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Planetary Intelligence Revolution: Making Earth Systems Your Competitive Advantage - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
Join the Supply Chain Queen and James George with Julia Armstrong D'Agnese, Co-Founder and CEO of Earth Knowledge, for a groundbreaking discussion about making nature a measurable stakeholder in business …
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Join the Supply Chain Queen and James George with Julia Armstrong D'Agnese, Co-Founder and CEO of Earth Knowledge, for a groundbreaking discussion about making nature a measurable stakeholder in business operations.
In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution's "10 Big Ideas" series, you'll learn how Julia's team has pioneered Integrated Planetary Intelligence™—a platform that translates the complexity of Earth's natural systems into actionable business insights to build regenerative supply chains. As a top Microsoft partner serving Fortune 500 companies and now featured on NASDAQ DataLink with 800,000 users, Earth Knowledge is transforming how companies understand their planetary dependencies.
Key Insights:
- The Five Critical Planetary Dependencies: Water availability, soil health, biodiversity, energy demands, and agriculture/food vulnerabilities—and why supply chains are blind to these risks until crisis hits
- Digital Twin Technology: How Global Twins (1km resolution, forecasts from 1900-2100) and Regional Twins (250m resolution with daily forecasts) enable both strategic planning and real-time operational decisions
- From Compliance to Competitive Advantage: Why planetary intelligence transforms environmental data from reporting burden to profit driver
- Real-World Applications: How companies use daily forecasts to optimize inventory, protect infrastructure, and adapt agricultural sourcing ahead of climate impacts
- The $7 Trillion AI Opportunity: Balancing data center growth with water and energy availability—why site selection now requires planetary intelligence
- California's Climate Whiplash: How atmospheric rivers delivering "two Amazon rivers" require 10-day forecasts for emergency preparedness and groundwater recharge
- Integration Strategy: Why Earth Knowledge plugs into existing platforms (Microsoft Fabric) rather than requiring new infrastructure
What You'll Learn:
- How extreme weather events costing $1 billion+ now occur every three weeks instead of every four months
- Why $44 trillion of economic value (over half of global GDP) depends on nature's services
- How Fortune 500 companies are shifting from transition risk to physical asset risk assessment
- The difference between managing water like a "bank account" vs traditional approaches
- Why inventory decisions based on last year's sales are being replaced by planetary forecasts
- How wine and agriculture companies use long-term forecasts to identify optimal growing regions decades in advance
Julia shares compelling examples of companies discovering that planetary intelligence isn't just for compliance—it's needed across risk management, real estate, site selection, business continuity, supply chain operations, and strategic planning.
This isn't theoretical sustainability—it's practical guidance on using Earth systems data to build resilient, regenerative supply chains while improving business outcomes.
Perfect for: Supply chain leaders, sustainability executives, risk managers, operations professionals, and anyone responsible for long-term business resilience.
About Julia Armstrong D'Agnese: Co-Founder and CEO of Earth Knowledge, Julia brings decades of entrepreneurial experience including scaling a company from trailers to IPO in four years. Earth Knowledge's team includes five IPCC/National Climate Assessment authors, President Obama's former White House climate director, and pioneers in Earth systems science. Founded in 2003, Earth Knowledge was ahead of the market in understanding that businesses need integrated planetary intelligence to make decisions that serve people, profits, and planet.
Connect with the Supply Chain Revolution: Subscribe for the full "10 Big Ideas" series exploring how to transform supply chains for a regenerative future. Follow the Sheri Hinish on LinkedIn for additional insights and resources.
Episode Length: 28 minutes
AI - Powered Transformation for Regenerative Manufacturing - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
Join the Supply Chain Queen and James George with Teesee Murray, Group President of Turtle | CEO of TurtleX, for an eye-opening discussion about transforming manufacturing through AI-powered regenerative …
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Join the Supply Chain Queen and James George with Teesee Murray, Group President of Turtle | CEO of TurtleX, for an eye-opening discussion about transforming manufacturing through AI-powered regenerative systems.
In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution's "10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future" series, discover how companies are leveraging AI and exponential technologies to create regenerative manufacturing outcomes. Teesee, leading a fourth-generation, family-owned Certified Women's Business Enterprise with over 100 years of history, shares insights from navigating multiple industrial revolutions—from electrification through automation to today's AI transformation.
Key Insights:
- How to turn "transformation into trust" by inspiring people to embrace AI-driven change at the individual level
- Why growing power demands from AI data centers are driving innovation in sustainable energy solutions
- The role of microgrids, atmospheric water generation, and advanced battery technologies in creating regenerative systems
- How digital twins and IoT enable comprehensive Scope 3 emissions reporting across supply chains
- Why new market mechanisms are financing the energy transition beyond government subsidies
- The critical importance of systemic thinking: changes must benefit individuals, teams, companies, and customers
What You'll Learn:
- Practical approaches to enterprise-wide AI transformation that creates sustainability benefits
- How to manage cultural resistance when implementing exponential technologies
- Real examples of innovative solutions like utility-grade water-from-air generation coupled with renewable energy
- Why successful transformation requires augmenting individual skill sets and building appetite for change
- Technology solutions making regenerative manufacturing tracking and optimization possible
- The business case for resilience: how microgrids and energy independence create competitive advantage
Teesee shares compelling stories from the frontlines of AI transformation, including how companies are solving the "juice problem" in the grid through market-driven innovation and why the biggest risk with AI is ignoring it rather than embracing it thoughtfully.
This isn't theoretical sustainability talk – it's a practical guide to using AI and exponential technologies to build regenerative manufacturing systems while creating business value.
Perfect for supply chain leaders, manufacturing executives, sustainability professionals, and anyone interested in leveraging AI for regenerative transformation.
Connect with the Supply Chain Revolution: Subscribe for the full "10 Big Ideas" series exploring how to transform supply chains for a regenerative future. Follow the Supply Chain Queen on LinkedIn and James George for additional insights and resources.
About Teesee Murray: Teesee Murray is Group President of Turtle | CEO of TurtleX. Turtle is a global leader in electrical distribution, industrial MRO, automation, technology, supply chain solutions, and energy management. As a fourth-generation, family-owned Certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) with over 100 years of history, Turtle delivers mission critical solutions through radical collaboration, technical expertise, innovation, and sustainability. Visit www.turtle.com.
Circular Materials Economy: From Trillion-Dollar Waste to Business Value - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
Join the Supply Chain Queen and Dr. Garry Cooper, neuroscientist-turned-circular economy pioneer, for an eye-opening discussion about transforming the trillion-dollar waste economy into business value through …
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Join the Supply Chain Queen and Dr. Garry Cooper, neuroscientist-turned-circular economy pioneer, for an eye-opening discussion about transforming the trillion-dollar waste economy into business value through circular materials practices.
In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution's "10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future " series, discover how companies are moving beyond recycling to create true circular materials economies. Dr. Cooper, CEO and Founder of Rheaply, shares insights from 10 years of building one of the country's largest reuse networks, revealing why the global circularity rate has actually declined despite increased awareness.
Key Insights:
- Why there's literally a trillion-dollar economy of unused materials beneath our feet
- How businesses can generate immediate ROI from materials they're currently throwing away
- The infrastructure gap preventing circular economy adoption and how technology is solving it
- Why reuse and repair should come before recycling in the circular hierarchy
- The critical importance of designing products for multiple lifecycles from the start
- The mindset shift from seeing "waste" as problems to recognizing valuable assets
What You'll Learn:
- Practical KPIs that matter for circular materials implementation
- How leading companies are capturing value from products across multiple lifecycles
- Why designing for reuse from the start is essential for true circular materials economy
- Technology solutions making circular materials tracking and verification possible
- The business case beyond sustainability: faster sourcing, reduced costs, supply chain resilience
- Future trends: take-back programs, carbon accounting integration, and mainstream adoption
Dr. Cooper shares compelling stories from the frontlines of circular economy implementation, including how Northwestern University labs sparked a reuse revolution and why companies are paying millions to throw away materials that other projects desperately need.
This isn't theoretical sustainability talk – it's a practical guide to unlocking hidden value in your supply chain while building a regenerative future.
Perfect for supply chain leaders, procurement professionals, sustainability executives, and anyone interested in turning waste streams into revenue streams.
Connect with the Supply Chain Revolution: Subscribe for the full "10 Big Ideas" series exploring how to transform supply chains for a regenerative future. Follow the Supply Chain Queen on LinkedIn for additional insights and resources.
About Dr. Garry Cooper: Dr. Cooper is the CEO and Founder of Rheaply, a technology platform that enables organizations to track, manage, and exchange resources to reduce waste and create value. With a background in neuroscience and a passion for systems thinking, Cooper has spent over a decade building one of the country's largest reuse networks.
From Sustainability to Regeneration: A New Paradigm in Sourcing - 10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future
In Season 2, Episode 2 of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, hosts Sheri Hinish and James George delve into the concept of regenerative sourcing as a transformative approach to supply chains. They discuss the …
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In Season 2, Episode 2 of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, hosts Sheri Hinish and James George delve into the concept of regenerative sourcing as a transformative approach to supply chains. They discuss the shift from traditional sustainability practices to a regenerative mindset that aims to leave ecosystems better than they found them. The conversation covers systemic thinking, practical applications in agriculture and textiles, the role of technology in enabling regenerative practices, and future trends in supply chain sustainability. The episode concludes with a call to action for listeners to be curious and engage in learning about these critical topics.
Takeaways
-Regenerative sourcing represents a fundamental shift in supply chain thinking.
-The focus should be on creating net positive outcomes rather than just reducing harm.
-Systemic thinking is essential for understanding the interconnectedness of supply chain elements.
-Practical examples of regenerative sourcing can be found in agriculture and textiles.
-Technology plays a crucial role in enabling regenerative practices and data transformation.
-Future supply chain strategies must integrate regenerative principles to remain competitive.
-Consumer demand is shifting towards brands that prioritize sustainability and regeneration.
-Long-term strategies are necessary for meaningful change in supply chains.
-Engagement and collaboration are key to advancing regenerative practices.
-Being aggressively curious is vital for understanding and implementing regenerative sourcing.
Sound Bites
"We need to think about new and radical ideas."
"We need to think about it very differently."
"Be aggressively curious."
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Regenerative Sourcing
03:33 The Shift from Sustainability to Regeneration
06:27 Understanding Regenerative Sourcing
09:32 Practical Applications in Agriculture
12:34 Innovative Practices Across Sectors
15:35 The Role of Technology in Regenerative Sourcing
18:43 Future Trends in Supply Chain Practices
21:29 Closing Thoughts and Call to Action
About
The Supply Chain Revolution® isn't just a top-ranked podcast—it's a movement reimagining global networks as pathways of restoration. Host Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen), a globally recognized thought leader in sustainability and supply chain innovation, challenges the notion that we can only be "less bad." Instead, she explores how supply chains can actively regenerate our world.
In our groundbreaking new series "10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future," co-hosted with James George, former Ellen MacArthur Foundation leader, we move beyond incremental sustainability to explore transformative approaches that regenerate natural and social systems. From Regenerative Sourcing to Transparent Value Chains, each episode unpacks revolutionary concepts with world-class experts and provocative voices disrupting the status quo.
As a recognized pioneer and leader with a distinct point of view, Sheri brings unparalleled expertise in technology-enabled transformation, circularity, sustainability innovation and the most advanced 'sustainable' supply chain practices. This podcast delivers actionable insights where innovation meets impact—equipping professionals to design supply chains that heal rather than harm.
Join our vibrant community of Rebels who are forward-thinking practitioners and leaders committed to disrupting the status quo for positive transformation. Subscribe now to architect a world where business success and environmental prosperity grow together. Engage other Rebels in our community who share your passion and vision for a new world where people, planet, and business can thrive.
10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future - Meet the Hosts
Welcome to the new season of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, where hosts Sheri R. Hinish and James George discuss the launch of '10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future'. As they …
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Welcome to the new season of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, where hosts Sheri R. Hinish and James George discuss the launch of '10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future'. As they reflect on their previous conversations and emphasize the need for actionable change in the industry. The episode serves as an introduction to the new season, highlighting the personal motivations behind their work and the legacy they wish to leave for future generations. They outline the upcoming episodes focused on transformative ideas that can reshape supply chains for a better future.
Takeaways
- The conversation around sustainability is still lacking in action.
- Personal motivations, like family, drive the urgency for change.
- Supply chains can be a conduit for global change.
- It's essential to operationalize ambitious sustainability goals.
- Building resilience in supply chains is crucial for future success.
- The upcoming season will explore ten transformative ideas.
- Legacy and future generations are central to the discussion.
- Economic opportunities can arise from sustainable practices.
- The focus should be on doing more good, not just less bad.
- Innovation in sourcing is a key theme for the first episode.
Sound Bites
- "It's a legacy conversation."
About
The Supply Chain Revolution® isn't just a top-ranked podcast—it's a movement reimagining global networks as pathways of restoration. Host Sheri Hinish (Supply Chain Queen), a globally recognized thought leader in sustainability and supply chain innovation, challenges the notion that we can only be "less bad." Instead, she explores how supply chains can actively regenerate our world.
In our groundbreaking new series "10 Big Ideas to Transform Supply Chains for a Regenerative Future," co-hosted with James George, former Ellen MacArthur Foundation leader, we move beyond incremental sustainability to explore transformative approaches that regenerate natural and social systems. From Regenerative Sourcing to Transparent Value Chains, each episode unpacks revolutionary concepts with world-class experts and provocative voices disrupting the status quo.
As a recognized pioneer and leader with a distinct point of view, Sheri brings unparalleled expertise in technology-enabled transformation, circularity, sustainability innovation and the most advanced 'sustainable' supply chain practices. This podcast delivers actionable insights where innovation meets impact—equipping professionals to design supply chains that heal rather than harm.
Join our vibrant community of Rebels who are forward-thinking practitioners and leaders committed to disrupting the status quo for positive transformation. Subscribe now to architect a world where business success and environmental prosperity grow together. Engage other Rebels in our community who share your passion and vision for a new world where people, planet, and business can thrive.
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The Future of Work in Supply Chain, Exponential Technology, AI, and Chat GPT with Dr. Yossi Sheffi (MIT, Author)
In Episode 77, Dr. Yossi Sheffi, iconic thought leader and professor at MIT, innovator, and author of a new book ‘ The Magic Conveyor Belt’ chats with host Sheri Hinish about the future of supply chain …
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In Episode 77, Dr. Yossi Sheffi, iconic thought leader and professor at MIT, innovator, and author of a new book ‘ The Magic Conveyor Belt’ chats with host Sheri Hinish about the future of supply chain including the people, exponential technology, and disruptive themes that will shape the future of the profession. This book offers explanations to pressing supply chain topics and much more, with historical perspectives and modern examples. It covers contemporary issues of outsourcing and re-shoring, sustainability, resilience, regulations and the social, managerial, and policy issues resulting from technological innovations.
Additional topics covered in this episode include: how tech adoption has shaped and helped humanity, how technology has repurposed jobs, the digital divide, the impact of AI and ChatGPT on the future of work and automation, and freeform flow on sustainability, quantum, nuclear, and many other political, provocative topics!
In the Magic Conveyor Belt, Professor Sheffi lays the foundation for understanding supply chains and the characteristics that make them complex. In Part 1 of the book “The Global Dance,” he delves into the often-hidden intrinsic structure of supply chains to ground the reader in the challenges of managing the mammoth networks involved.
Part 2, “Further Complexity and Challenges,” shows how the last 50 years have added even more complexity to supply chains. This part covers the rising demand for goods, as well as the increasing consumer expectations for fast, perfect delivery services.
The relevance on technology creates a sobering thought around the digital divide. The digital divide is multifaceted and includes many factors such as access, affordability, quality, and relevance. As Michael Kende wrote, “the digital divide is not a binary.” These gaps in availability, affordability, interest, and digital literacy. The UN’s Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development estimates that nearly 3.6 billion people remain totally unconnected to the Internet by any measure. This means there are around 4.1 billion people online, about 53.6% of the global population.
What does the future hold for global supply chains and countries, economies, marginalized communities left behind in a technology infused world?
The capabilities and future roles of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence are changing and augmenting the jobs held by workers—covered in Parts 3 and 4. Elements of the book trace the implications of multiple trends in the operating environment for tomorrow’s global supply chains, as they change and augment the jobs held by workers.
While many of the new skills require technical knowhow, it is social skills, ironically, that may be a key for future human employment in an economy dominated by technology.
To learn more about The Magic Conveyor Belt, visit https://a.co/d/0mUVNYq
To connect with Yossi Sheffi on linkedin, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/yossi-sheffi-b38b731/
To connect with Host Sheri Hinish, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/supplychainqueen/
Transformative Sustainability with Trust in Action: Earth Day Exclusive with Jim Massey (CSO, Author)
In an exclusive Earth Day Special, Jim Massey lays out the case for why all progress in sustainability depends on trust - the basis of successful selves, teams, and systems. Sustainability is the path to …
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In an exclusive Earth Day Special, Jim Massey lays out the case for why all progress in sustainability depends on trust - the basis of successful selves, teams, and systems. Sustainability is the path to prosperity for humanity and businesses alike. Every April 22nd, stakeholders of all backgrounds come together to advance sustainability and climate action in commemoration of Earth Day.
Companies who’ve developed strong Environment Social Governance (ESG) standards are seeing better profitability, stronger financial performance, and happier employees. But this transformation isn’t just about transforming our economies, operating models, and supply chains, it is about transforming lives by putting people and trust at the heart of decisions we anchor in sustainable development.
When Can, Care, and Do come together, something interesting happens: trust is formed. Across regions, cultures, and languages, trust is a common currency - the connective tissue that makes all positive action possible. In an exclusive Earth Day Special, Jim Massey lays out the case for why all progress in sustainability depends on trust - the basis of successful selves, teams, and systems. In a time when many are rapidly losing trust in our institutions – whether in government, society, or finance – it’s more critical than ever that leaders cultivate their ability to build trust.
Episode 76 is the 3rd Earth Month feature celebrating provocative themes and people in sustainability, supply chain innovation, and circularity. Jim Massey is a Chief Sustainability Officer, Global ESG Expert, and former VP of ESG Sustainability, Ethics, and Compliance at AstraZeneca.
In our chat, Jim unpacks wisdom from Trust in Action, including:
* where will leaders have the greatest impact
* what is the “breakthrough” proven trust model for sparking action
* how can folks listening drive positive change in their organization
* what are some of the actionable repeatable approaches for working with teams to tackle today's toughest problems
* what words of wisdom can you give others leading or have the ambition to lead in sustainability?
This year, we rally behind the Earth Day theme “Invest In Our Planet”, which highlights the importance of dedicating our time, resources, and energy to solving climate change and other environmental + social issues. Our world needs transformation. Solving the environmental crisis calls for bold, creative, and innovative solutions and leadership. This will require action at all levels, from business and investment to city and national government. Investing in our planet is necessary to protect it and the best way to pave a path towards a prosperous future. When we Invest In Our Planet together, we are supporting healthy, happy, and thriving communities worldwide.
To learn more about Jim Massey and Trust in Action, visit https://www.jimmassey.co/
A World Without Waste Using AI + Better Math for Circular Supply Chains with Steve Pratt (CEO, Noodle AI)
Earth Month Exclusive featuring Steve Pratt (CEO of Noodle Al, Co-Founder of Infosys and Regenerative Ranch aficionado) + Supply Chain Revolution podcast to explore how better math and Al can enable circularity …
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Earth Month Exclusive featuring Steve Pratt (CEO of Noodle Al, Co-Founder of Infosys and Regenerative Ranch aficionado) + Supply Chain Revolution podcast to explore how better math and Al can enable circularity in a new supply chain planning paradigm.
The way supply chain planning has been done for the last 30 years has been under the assumption that computers were slow and data was expensive, and so they needed to make a lot of simplifying assumptions.. Very importantly, they ignore probabilities and complex pattern recognition that are all allowed by this more advanced mathematics.
To Learn more about Steve - visit https://noodle.ai/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-pratt-094b5916/
Circular economy is increasingly recognized as a better alternative to the dominant linear (take, make, and dispose) economic model. Circular Supply Chain Management (CSCM), which integrates the philosophy of the circular economy into supply chain management, offers a new and compelling perspective to the supply chain sustainability domain.
Two aspects that make a CSCM unique: 1) its restorative and regenerative cycles designed based on circular thinking; 2) the vision of a zero-waste economy that is inherent in the CE philosophy. This is CEO Steve Pratt + Noodle AI's mission - to build and design a world without waste. Steve also walks the talk as a farmer and student of nature, where he brings inspiration like the Noodle culture mantra BCHILL, and planting seeds of innovation for long-term value creation.
Steve is an O.G. Rebel and friend of the podcast, one of the original supporters. He is an incredible technical background and at every turn has pushed boundaries with tenacity and a 'people and planet first' north star. His journey in consulting started at Deloitte. He went on to start Infosys, had a brief stint at IBM, then founded Noodle with a lingering nudge 'there has to be a better way' and a vision of a world where nothing is wasted where technical, natural, and human systems exist in harmony.
About Noodle: Noodle.ai software uses some of the most advanced math on the planet to tame global supply chain chaos—so the right stuff gets to the right place at the right time with less drama. More importantly, Noodle's 'Value at Risk' shows you the hard money costs of each of the millions of errors made by your planning stack, for both demand and supply, across raw materials, production, and distribution.
This episode is packed full of lessons in big transformation, inspirational messages, and pragmatic reasons why circular supply chains provide the conduit for marrying the environmental, social, and economic benefits for change. Sectors and client examples highlighted are from CPG, Industrial and automotive. Everything we need exists NOW to build and empower better decisions for a circular and inclusive world.
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