Sustainable Supply Chain Using weather related data to increase supply chain resilience - a chat with IBMs Paul Walsh
Weather has a huge impact on supply chains - whether it is last month's cold snap in Texas, the drought in Taiwan and it's effect on the semiconductor industry, or simply rainy vs sunny days impact on the sale of umbrellas or ice cream, so I thought it was time to see what we could do about that.
I invited IBM's Global Director, Enterprise Weather Strategy Paul Walsh to come on the podcast to discuss ways we can use weather related data to our advantage in supply chains.
Paul mentioned at one point a story about how Walgreens teamed up with Pantene in a promotion and used weather / analytics information to move from defense (the "weather excuse") to offence. You can check out a Wall Street Journal write up of that campaign here.
We had an excellent conversation and, as is often the case, I learned loads, I hope you do too...
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