The SupplyChainBrain Podcast
Bob Bowman
The SupplyChainBrain Podcast features in-depth conversations with industry practitioners, academics, consultants and other experts on every aspect of supply-chain management and international trade. Available for streaming or downloading.
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Jan 7, 2021 • 15min
The Real Reason for Product Shortages? Not Enough Packaging
Many of the supply-chain shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic have one thing in common: a lack of plastic and cardboard containers to put them in.
Dec 3, 2020 • 19min
Bridging the Generation Gap in U.S. Manufacturing
If U.S. manufacturing is to compete with cheap overseas production, it needs to attract a younger workforce with technology chops.
Nov 19, 2020 • 20min
Supply-Chain Finance: A Life Preserver for Small Suppliers?
Nov 11, 2020 • 20min
Out With Conveyors, In With Autonomous Mobile Robots
The humble conveyor is no longer the symbol of warehouse automation. The robots are here.We’ve seen countless iterations of technology for automating warehouses and factories over the decades, but somehow the conveyor remained the essence of that evolution. Until now. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are increasingly supplanting conveyors in the warehouse. They’re far more flexible and varied in the tasks they can perform, and more suitable for meeting the demanding needs of omnichannel retailing. On this episode, we discuss the development of AMRs with Wes Reid, senior vice president of products and operations with IAM Robotics. We learn how these units are serving warehouses large and small. And we tackle the question of whether humans will have a role to play in the increasingly automated warehouse of the future. Hosted by Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief of SupplyChainBrain.This episode is sponsored by IAM Robotics.Show notes: A blog post from IAM Robotics: “The Rise of Autonomous Mobile Robots.”
Nov 5, 2020 • 22min
Are There Positive Signs of Economic Recovery?
Oct 29, 2020 • 20min
A U.S. Producer Challenges China’s Dominance in Rare Earth Mining
The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is.
Oct 21, 2020 • 21min
Massive Changes Are Happening Across the Retail Landscape
Oct 14, 2020 • 21min
Strategies for Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S.
Easier said than done: that pretty well describes the task of shifting manufacturing out of China and back to the United States.
Oct 7, 2020 • 20min
Blockchain for the Supply Chain: In the Pandemic and Beyond
Easier said than done: that pretty well describes the task of shifting manufacturing out of China and back to the United States.
Sep 30, 2020 • 24min
Once, Nothing Was AI. Now, Everything Is.
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in global business today, especially in the supply chain. But what exactly is this thing called “AI”?
