In this classic crossover episode from our "This Week in Business History" podcast, host Scott W. Luton dives into what has become a subject of global fascination: the Suez Canal. Do you know the history of this modern engineering marvel? Scott shares 10 things that you may not know about the Suez Canal in this episode.Additional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- What Running a Data-Driven Supply Chain Means to Evenflo: http://bit.ly/3Zvun3fThis episode is hosted by Scott Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/business-history-crossover-things-know-suez-canal-1103

Additional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2WEBINAR- What Running a Data-Driven Supply Chain Means to Evenflo: http://bit.ly/3Zvun3fThis episode is hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/great-supply-chain-awakening-gartner-1102

In this episode of Good News Now, your host Scott W. Luton covers a variety of items: business lessons we can learn from the game of baseball; to an uplifting message from a recent successful political campaign; and even to the power of music, and how it can teach us key leadership lessons. There's always good news, if you're willing to go looking for it.Additional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2WEBINAR- What Running a Data-Driven Supply Chain Means to Evenflo: http://bit.ly/3Zvun3fThis episode is hosted by Scott Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/good-news-now-1101

In February of 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. A citizen resistance that was only expected to last days has held for over a year… and the fight goes on. Vector Global Logistics launched an effort almost immediately to channel the collective desire to help. ‘Leveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine’ brings together like-minded individuals around the world that are determined to use their resources and expertise to make a difference for the people of Ukraine.In this special crossover episode of Logistics with Purpose, Kristi Porter and Maureen Woolshlager are joined by a panel of motivated, caring individual that represent purpose-driven organizations to discuss the ongoing effort to support the people of Ukraine:Christopher Hussaini, Senior Sales Manager, Hapag-LloydAnia Hyman, Executive Vice President, Fundacja Koper Pomaga - Copernicus GroupVicki Bachmann, Vice President of Business Partnerships, MatterYaroslav Hnatusko, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Restore UkraineLee Scheumann, Executive Director, Hand in Hand TogetherAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- The Unified Supply Chain – A Platform Approach: http://bit.ly/3EH8fepWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2WEBINAR- What Running a Data-Driven Supply Chain Means to Evenflo: http://bit.ly/3Zvun3fThis episode is hosted by Kristi Porter and Maureen Woolschlager. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/logistics-purpose-crossover-update-effort-leverage-logistics-ukraine-1100

Most people have a job or a profession, but only a lucky few have a mission. The difference between a job and a mission is that when unexpected things happen and you’re on a mission, you recognize that you are starting the next leg of your journey. Circularity and ESG guide Lorraine Jenks is one of the lucky few.Lorraine is the Founder and CEO of Hotelstuff/Greenstuff, online non-profit directories of eco-friendly products. She is also a TEDx speaker and a green procurement, supply chain, and circularity specialist. Her professional journey through the sustainability movement has brought her into relationships with Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, the Environmental Protection Agency, and more. Her personal mission is to find an ecologically friendly version of every product and service in her purchasing manual.In this session, part of the Supply Chain Leadership Across Africa series, Lorraine joins hosts Scott Luton and Jenny Froome, Chief Operating Officer at SAPICS, to discuss:• Having conversations about ‘green’ business in the earliest days of the movement• Why frustration is what gives her the energy she needs to keep pushing forward• How she connects with people in industries like hospitality, mining, banking, and more to help them understand how to operationalize the principles of sustainability and circularityAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- The Unified Supply Chain – A Platform Approach: http://bit.ly/3EH8fepWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2This episode is hosted by Scott Luton and Jenny Froome. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/doing-right-thing-right-reasons-1099

The Supply Chain Buzz is Supply Chain Now’s regular Monday livestream, held at 12n ET each week. The show focuses on some of the leading stories from global supply chain and global business, always with special guests – the most important of which is the live audience!This week’s edition of The Buzz, hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White, opens with the guys acknowledging that nearly everyone’s March Madness brackets are now broken – just in time to soothe the pain by celebrating International Whiskey Day.In this livestream, created in collaboration with a live Supply Chain Now audience, Scott and Greg discussed some of the week’s top stories:• A Wall Street Journal report that while ‘green’ freight options are more available than ever, shippers have yet to embrace and pay for them• Amazon’s ongoing struggle to meet the FAA’s regulatory requirements for their drone delivery program• Why Footlocker is taking 2023 as a ‘reset year’ and closing mall locations as they explore different concept models and deepen their partnership with NikeAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- The Unified Supply Chain – A Platform Approach: http://bit.ly/3EH8fepWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2This episode is hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/supply-chain-buzz-sustainability-feasibility-1098

Healthcare supply chain teams can’t allow critical items to go out of stock, and it is not as simple as substituting another brand. While healthcare organizations historically relied upon suppliers much larger than themselves, the pandemic challenged them to mature quickly and pick up best practices from other industries.Bill Selles is the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain for Corewell Health, a $14.7 billion not-for-profit integrated health system based in Michigan. Under his leadership, the Corewell Health supply chain team has saved over $100M, centralized their procurement activity, launched a supply chain analytics department, and created a system-level value analysis structure.In this Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Series interview, Bill speaks with host Scott Luton about:• Lessons that healthcare companies learned from supply chains in retail, automotive, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) to make it through the toughest days of the pandemic• What he sees as the key to all innovation, and why Corewell Health’s commitments to resilience, sustainability, and supplier diversity are important to their overall mission• How he manages his team and their stakeholders through times of change, balancing the need to move forward with active empathyAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- Supply Chain Agility in an Ever-Changing World: https://bit.ly/41zl0BUWEBINAR- The Unified Supply Chain – A Platform Approach: http://bit.ly/3EH8fepWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2This episode is hosted by Scott Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/uniquely-significant-purpose-healthcare-supply-chains-1097

The Supply Chain Buzz is Supply Chain Now’s regular Monday livestream, held at 12n ET each week. The show focuses on some of the leading stories from global supply chain and business, always with special guests – the most important of which is the live audience!This week’s edition of The Buzz included hosts Scott Luton and Greg White as well as special guest Delaney White from Deel. As Greg’s daughter, she was on hand to discuss the impact of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and to celebrate his birthday!In this livestream, created in collaboration with a live Supply Chain Now audience, Delaney, Scott, and Greg discussed some of the week’s top stories:• Analysis of the good news / bad news from sustainable shoe and apparel company Allbirds, from the exciting introduction of a new plant-based leather to terrible sales results: down 13% year over year, and down 60% in their retail locations• A quick series of takes: Kroger’s use of driverless vehicles for ‘middle mile’ transport from fulfillment centers to retail locations, PepsiCo’s decision to stop purchasing palm oil from an Indonesia-based supplier based on allegations of human rights abuses, and the feasibility of Canada as a replacement source for rare earth minerals• The destabilizing impact of the Silicon Valley Bank failure, and the concerns faced by corporate account holders who scrambled to cover payrollAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- Supply Chain Agility in an Ever-Changing World: https://bit.ly/41zl0BUWEBINAR- The Unified Supply Chain – A Platform Approach: http://bit.ly/3EH8fepWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2This episode is hosted by Scott Luton and Scott Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/supply-chain-buzz-1096

With unpredictable market forces likely to continue through 2023, it is time for supply chains to counteract them by acting differently. Moving beyond day-to-day tactics to build long-term goals is an essential approach for any organization that wants to achieve their highest potential financial performance.Paul Tedford is the CEO of Synergy, an ERP consulting and implementation company, and 30-year industry veteran Shannon Vaillancourt is the Founder and President of RateLinx, a shipping, logistics, and payment platform. In this livestream-based episode, Paul and Shannon share how companies can offset the escalating costs associated with the top 3 negative market variables with better technology integrations.They offer their advice with Scott Luton, Greg White, and a live Supply Chain Now audience about how to solve for:• Labor shortages at all levels of the organization, and the teams that are being spread thin because of them• Inflation costs that in many cases cannot be passed along to customers for fear of losing market share• Longer lead times for raw goods that make it difficult to plan production schedules efficiently and reliably• And how to neutralize all of their effects by integrating your TMS and ERPAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLearn more about RateLinx: https://www.ratelinx.com/multimedia/ratelinx-transportation-management-systems/RateLinx Success Story: https://www.ratelinx.com/use-cases/fortune-100-saves-millions-annually-with-ratelinx-freight-payment-solution-2/Leveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- Supply Chain Agility in an Ever-Changing World: https://bit.ly/41zl0BUWEBINAR- The Unified Supply Chain – A Platform Approach: http://bit.ly/3EH8fepWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2This episode is hosted by Scott Luton and Greg White. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/3-supply-chain-pains-solved-ERP-TMS-1095

The Supply Chain Now community is so professionally ambitious that the team regularly fields questions about what people can do to make the most of their career in supply chain management. Who better to ask for input than Mike Griswold?Mike Griswold is the Vice President of Research at Gartner, specializing in retail with a particular focus on forecasting and replenishment. He is responsible for Gartner’s annual Top 25 Supply Chain ranking and joins Supply Chain Now on a monthly basis to discuss the latest in retail supply chains from an analyst’s perspective.In this episode, Mike shares his best supply chain career advice with co-hosts Scott Luton and Jenny Froome from SAPICS:• Making sure you and your current organization are a good fit in terms of work/life balance expectations• Why a well-managed career often includes a broad collection of behaviors and experiences• The importance of active connection building inside of your company, and for your team if you are a manager• Reasons for anyone working in supply chain to encounter as many sub-disciplines as they canAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3emdLcKSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeJoin the NOW Community: http://bit.ly/41kpUSOLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q4 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- 5 Tips for Creating Effective Digital Content: http://bit.ly/3xvkXchWEBINAR- Supply Chain Agility in an Ever-Changing World: https://bit.ly/41zl0BUWEBINAR- The Unified Supply Chain – A Platform Approach: http://bit.ly/3EH8fepWEBINAR- Supply Chain Planning: How to go beyond S&OP in 2023: http://bit.ly/3ZTfmJ2This episode is hosted by Scott Luton and Jenny Froome. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/4-ways-optimize-supply-chain-career-gartner-1094