Sustainable Supply Chain

Refurbishment, Recycling, And Data Analytics In Supply Chain - A Chat With Sagent CEO Gordon Smith

Sep 6, 2021

26:22

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The Refurbishment of Consumer Devices

02:35

Are You Providing Predictive Failures?

02:28

Sagin, Is There Anything You Wish I Had Not Mentioned on the Podcast?

03:22

Introduction

2min

Is There a Third Party Elements in Your Business?

3min

The Refurbishment of Consumer Devices

3min

How to Avoid 30% of All Repairs in a Networked Environment

4min

Dev Interrupted - The Podcast About Engineering Problems and How to Solve Them

4min

Is It a Natural Progression of Markets?

2min

Using Data Analytics to Reduce Outage Outages

3min

Are You Providing Predictive Failures?

2min

Sagin, Is There Anything You Wish I Had Not Mentioned on the Podcast?

3min

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Recycling and refurbishment are two topics we don't discuss enough on this podcast so I thought I'd change that with this episode.

Sagent is a service provider to the telco space and it helps divert large amounts of communications equipment out of the waste stream. I invited Gordon Smith, President, and CEO of Sagent to come on the podcast to tell me how they achieve this.

We had a truly fascinating conversation and, touching on recycling, refurbishment, and the rising importance of analytics in supply chains. As is often the case, I learned loads, I hope you do too...

Here are links to some of the articles Gordon mentioned on the podcast:

https://sagent.net/the-green-market-for-network-and-it-hardware-how-to-take-full-advantage/ (ESG / Green Market)
https://sagent.net/how-to-move-your-network-equipment-into-the-circular-economy/ (ESG / Green Market)
https://www.sdcexec.com/sustainability/article/21497232/sagent-what-if-supply-chain-sustainability-is-a-data-problem (ESG + Analytics)
https://www.bbcmag.com/technology/the-key-to-boosting-network-resilience-its-in-the-data (Data Analytics / Sagent Insights)
https://sagent.net/just-launched-sagent-insights-network-data-reporting-and-a

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