In this episode, host John Abrams meets with Clay Nicholas, Founder and CEO of Vibronyx - a supply chain analytics and services company. Although complete end-to-end visibility is not yet present in supply chain, John and Clay discuss how analytics can be utilized to drastically improve an organization's data processes, and why developing technology is improving logistics and resilience across a variety of industries ..read more

 In this episode of Rethinking Supply Chain, guest Greg White of Supply Chain Now and Kubera Venture Capital returns to discuss the changing nature of supply chain technologies with John Abrams, CEO of Venzee, and Diana Chen. Greg begins by addressing the misconception that most aspects of the supply chain are already digitized and identifies key areas where even small-scale disruptions in manual efforts (such as labor strikes or work-from-home orders) can impact processes far down the road. Greg and John identify a common mistake organizations make in their digitization efforts--they dig ..read more

In this episode of Rethinking Supply Chain, Venzee CEO, John Abrams, catches up with Diana Chen to get into some topics that were mentioned in previous guest episodes. They begin the conversation by looking back at swarm robotics and dark factories. John explains the basics of physical supply chain logistics, beginning in the warehouse. He describes cross-docks and how pallets get broken down for distribution. Traditionally, pickers scan deliveries in the cross-docks and then take them to the truck that will continue the supply chain. With swarm robotics and dark factories, the entire process ..read more

In this episode of the Rethinking Supply Chain podcast, Venzee CEO, John Abrams reconnects with Phil Renaud, Executive Director of The Risk Institute at the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, to continue their conversation about supply chain resilience. John starts the episode by bringing up three points that stood out to him while participating in a global conference that Phil’s organization hosted. First, resilience matters, second we’re generally lacking when it comes to planning for low-probability events, and third, nobody builds ‘just-in-case’ supply chains. In most cases ..read more

In this episode of Rethinking Supply Chain, Venzee CEO, John Abrams, hosts Scott Luton, Founder & CEO at Supply Chain Now, to follow up on their previous discussion regarding supply chain resilience. In their last discussion, Scott talked about supply chain fragility, which led John to muse over the importance of flexibility and resilience in supply chain. Flexibility is the key to remaining salient in the face of crisis. However, given today’s environment, flexibility isn’t enough. It needs to be fast, intelligent flexibility. The good news is that digitization is already making this a re ..read more

In this episode of Rethinking Supply Chain, Venzee CEO, John Abrams, and Diana Chen welcome back Johan Boström, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at inRiver PIM. They delve into branding and how future generations of consumers will affect change in retailers’ marketing strategies. Johan hails from Sweden, a content management hub, and now operates out of Chicago, a North American logistics hub, both physically and digitally. While inRiver’s offices established themselves in Chicago due to the availability of a transportation facility, the choice was a pleasant surprise for Johan as he dis ..read more

In this episode of Rethinking Supply Chain, Venzee CEO, John Abrams, and Diana Chen host Sarah Kirmis, formerly a member of the Venzee operations team and now working at AWS, and Matt Blattman, Marketing Intern at Venzee.  John begins the panel discussion by inquiring into Sarah’s experience so far at Amazon. As an employee of Amazon Web Services, Sarah works as a professional services consultant to help enterprise customers develop cloud computing solutions. As a partner of AWS, Venzee is able to infinitely scale massive amounts of data through the use of cloud computing. They then shift ..read more

In this episode, Venzee CEO, John Abrams, hosts Niki Founder, Hermann Fink, to continue their discussion on the future of supply chain management. The pair met when Hermann was working on graduate level supply chain management research prior to the pandemic, and now his studies are even more timely than they already were.  The Covid-19 pandemic has brought supply chain vulnerabilities to the forefront of ongoing discussions, so John asks Hermann why more research isn’t going on surrounding the supply chain. Despite a shift from 5,000 years of traditional linear supply chain management, we ..read more

In this episode of Rethinking Supply Chain, Venzee CEO, John Abrams, chats with Diana Chen about the future of supply chain management. John begins by differentiating between the traditional way supply chain operated and the newer, digital platform on which some supply chains operate today. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on supply chain logistics, many world leaders still don’t embrace digital transformation. For some companies today, their supply chain is still running on technology that is over 50 years old. Data is managed by people with clipboards, and with the technology available ..read more

In this all-new episode, John Abrams continues his conversation with Erik Severinghaus, EVP of Strategy and Business Development at Conexiom. John and Erik share their thoughts on the limitations of AI-based tech, which currently functions best when implemented for specific situations with clearly-defined targets. However, they also discuss the need for companies to re-evaluate their processes to determine how automation can best work for them and their own individual goals ..read more