Transform Talks: The Supply Chain Transformation Podcast

#74 - Colgate-Palmolive’s Journey to Greater Agility, Resilience and Sustainability as shared by Kim Faulkner

Kim Faulkner, Vice President, Global Demand, Systems & eCommerce-Palmolive, joins us to discuss the outcomes of Colgate-Palmolive's 2020 supply chain agility strategy and what's in store for them in their 2025 reimagine strategy. Kim shares her advice on building agility into the supply chain, arguing agility results from understanding resiliency and where your supply chain's vulnerable spots are. Kim also highlights Colgate-Palmolive's recent sustainability achievements and how sustainability will continue being the front and centre of Colgate's business strategy as they advance.
 
About The Speaker
Kim Faulkner, Vice President, Global Demand, Systems & eCommerce of Colgate-Palmolive, joins us to discuss the outcomes of Colgate-Palmolive's 2020 supply chain agility strategy and what's in store for them in their 2025 reimagine strategy. Kim shares her advice on building agility into the supply chain, arguing agility results from understanding resiliency and where your supply chain's vulnerable spots are. Kim also highlights Colgate-Palmolive's recent sustainability achievements and how sustainability will continue being the front and centre of Colgate's business strategy as they advance.

#73 - Redefining Supply Chain in a Covid World: The Ecolab Case-Study as shared by Douglas Guilherme

In this session, Ecolab's Vice President of Supply Chain Global Markets, Douglas Guilherme, shares Ecolab's key learnings on virtually serving customers, reacting faster in the face of uncertainty, and ultimately redefining their supply chain in a Covid world. Douglas shares his perspective on the importance of balancing technology with end-to-end collaboration and the importance of hands-on benchmarking for personal growth.
 
About the Speaker
Douglas Guilherme is Vice President Supply Chain, International Markets Strategic Planning and Logistics for Ecolab, with the challenge of doubling the business in the coming five years while creating the culture and capability of the next decade. Before joining Ecolab, Douglas spent almost three years with Avon, five years in the Pharma business at Akzo Nobel, and 14 years at Procter & Gamble in Brazil, Panamá, and Colombia, managing manufacturing, logistics, procurement, innovation. Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Douglas holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy and biochemistry, a post-graduate diploma in operations, an MBA in business administration and management, and a masters degree in logistics.

#72 - Henkel Beauty Care‘s E2E Visibility Quest: Key Learnings as shared by Patrick Delsol

In this session, Patrick Delsol, Vice President Global Planning, Logistics, and Supply Chain Operations Europe for Henkel Beauty Care, tells us why digitalization is not merely another IT project. Based on Henkel's digital transformation experiences, Patrick gives us a glimpse of Henkel's key learnings, arguing the quest for getting closer to E2E visibility and how it can be a chaotic journey of discovery and one that requires a startup mindset.
 
About The Speaker
Patrick Delsol is a senior supply chain leader with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry with cross-regional leadership. Patrick is skilled in supply chain management, demand and supply planning, SAP ERP and APO, innovation management, and M&A divestment. In his current role as Vice President Global Planning, Logistics and Supply Chain Operations Europe Beauty Care, he is responsible for downstream logistics and end-to-end planning for Henkel's Europe Beauty Care business and the global planning and logistics programs, including digitalization of the supply chain. Patrick has been at Henkel for a year and a half with previous experiences in Reckitt Benkiser, JDE, Thomson Electronics, and Mars, covering most functional and leadership areas of supply chain.

#71 - Taking the Leap to Digital: Best Practice Advice from Anne-Queline Keller

In this session, Anne-Queline Keller, Director of Solution Marketing from Alteryx, joins us to discuss how supply chain leaders can best leverage AI and ML for optimal decision-making. Anne-Queline shares with us her best practice advice on where to embed automation and how best to do this amid all the hype and noise surrounding the use of AI and ML and the added complexity of modern-day disruption and uncertainty. The word 'automation' has negative connotations, but used in the right processes, for the right purpose, it can immediately generate colossal ROI. Anne-Queline shares a unique case-study of how an organization used the design-thinking approach and identified a million-dollar leakage in merely four days.
 
About The Speaker
Anne-Queline Keller is the Director of Solution Marketing for Alteryx. She leads the innovation, thought leadership, evangelism, go-to-market, commercialization strategy, planning, and execution for Alteryx's solutions in this role. She has over 20 years of prior enterprise software solutions and services launching validated architectures for companies such as Oracle, SAP, Cisco, and Vmware technologies.

#70 - Supply Chain with a Purpose with Donzel Leggett

Diversity and inclusion are not new topics. In this podcast, we hear from Donzel Leggett from General Mills about the correlation between diversity and corporate performance/bottom line. How well are you performing in this area?
 
About the speaker
Originally from Key West, Florida, Donzel holds both Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees in Industrial Technology from Purdue University, where he was an Academic All-America and three-time Academic All-Big Ten football player. He also holds an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. Before joining General Mills, Donzel spent almost four years with the Quaker Oats Company, where he was an Industrial Engineer, Process Improvement Engineer, and Cereal Processing Department Manager. Donzel has dedicated over 20 years to General Mills and is currently Vice President, Global Manufacturing Excellence, Global Platforms, and Asia/LATAM Supply Chain. As a passionate advocate of equality and anti-racism, Donzel ran for State House Seat in SD 47B to bring progressive values-based leadership to the State Capitol and build a prosperous Minnesota. In July 2020, he founded 'ARCC' The Anti-Racism Commitment Coalition, a group of dedicated people committed to eradicating racism and spreading anti-racism globally.

#69 - Diversity by Design with Dirk Holbach

Building Supply Chain resilience is pivotal to thriving during times of crisis and disruption. In this episode, we speak with Dirk Holbach, CSCO and Corporate VP of Laundry and HomeCare at Henkel, about creating the type of teams that can help a supply chain leader in the Covid era. Given the pace of change and the amount of disruption, it is essential to have adaptable, flexible, and emotionally intelligent leadership and teams. Here we discuss the skills needed and how to hire and retain the right people. 
 
 
About the speaker
Dirk Holbach has more than 20 years of experience in supply chain, operations, organizational development, network optimization, purchasing, and sales. He has held various roles on a local, regional and global level at Henkel. He is currently the Chief Supply Chain Officer and Head of World-Wide Supply Chain (manufacturing, planning, logistics, EHS, quality) for Laundry & HomeCare with net sales of 7 billion EUR. His responsibilities include overseeing 6,500 employees in 33 factories and 47 logistic centers in North/Latin America, Western/Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East Africa, Asia-Pacific. Dirk was responsible for the definition and execution of the 2017 - 2020 transformation plan for global footprint with on-going rationalization in mature markets and expansion in emerging markets, including M&A. At the forefront of Henkel's digital transformation journey from 2011-2020, Dirk has been concerned with transforming their global supply chain operations into an Industry 4.0 digital-enabled supply chain. 

#68 - Compassionate Leadership and Crisis with Marian Temmen, Liesbeth Geels and Stephanie Crowe

This episode focuses on the role that compassionate leaders play inside the organization. Why is it crucial for leaders to understand the bigger picture and lead their teams with humanity and compassion rather than managing and imposing change? Creating a culture of trust, where collaboration and interaction with one another are pursued on a daily basis, will help your organization thrive through times of uncertainty and crisis. Sharing with us their take on compassionate leadership and personal experiences are Liesbeth Geels, VP EMEA Supply Chain at Starbucks, Stephanie Crowe, Head of Global Learning at Worldline, and Marian Temmen, Sourcing and Supply Chain Executive at PVH Corp (Co-founder of Craekker at the time of recording).
 
About the speakers
Liesbeth Geels is a hands-on, improvement-driven, and committed leader who believes developing people and building relationships are the cornerstones for success. She is experienced in enabling growth, leading transformation, continuous improvement, creating and sharing a vision, coaching people, and positively influencing performance to accomplish tangible results. Liesbeth has devoted over 18 years to Starbucks and is currently VP EMEA Supply Chain. 
 
Stephanie Crowe leads leaders to multiply the impact of their people for 10x ROI. As Global Head of Learning at Worldline, her teams employ creative learning methods to fire up talent from the front line through executive leadership so they can multiply their talent. Steph helps the business thrive in disruption by leveraging the enormous potential of its greatest asset: its people.
 
Marian Temmen is a progressive change agent at heart and has been working at the intersection of global supply chain, procurement, and value chain optimization for the last 15 years. He has been steering major transformational turnarounds and M&A integrations across Europe and Asia, translating complex commercial needs into high-performance and agile solutions in dynamic environments. Marian is particularly passionate about a compassionate and emotionally intelligent leadership culture of empowerment and is keen on driving this new agenda into the future. 

#67 - Embedding Customer-Centricity into your SCM Culture with Stuart Whiting

In this episode with Stuart Whiting, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain - Logistics & Planning at Schneider Electric, we discuss the essential role that customers play in shaping supply chain decisions. Do you truly know what your customers want? Have you thoroughly mapped out their buying behaviors? And have you put the organization in the eye of the customers? We answer these questions and explore the impact of customer-centricity in the new era of disruption.
 
 
About the speaker
Stuart is a senior supply chain executive with commercial, operational, and general management experience spanning country, regional, and global digital transformation roles within market-leading multinational corporations. He is currently the SVP, Global Supply Chain at Schneider Electric. Stuart is a proven leader in strategy formulation, alignment, and operational execution of complex transformations in parallel to day-to-day enterprise management. Such leadership has seen Stuart deliver continually improved customer and employee satisfaction results and a reputation as an inspiring, challenging, but fair people leader who believes strongly in his team members' coaching and support.
 
Awards
2006 Best Marketing Paper – Anzam Awards co-authored with Dr. John Gattorna.
2018 Gartner SCM Power of the Profession Awards Winner for Customer Innovation "How buying behavior, advanced analytics and digital capabilities help build a customer-centric logistics platform."
2020 Gartner SCM Power of the Profession Awards Winner for "Business Win of the Year" and "Supply Chain Breakthrough of the Year" for SMART Logistics.

#66 - Driving Excellence through Diversity with Beth Morgan, Allison Bales and Dirk Holbach

The creation of a diverse, supportive, and stimulating work environment is critical for every business's success. In this episode, we discuss the topic of diversity with Beth Morgan, Founder and CEO of boom!, the global community for aspiring and experienced female supply chain professionals, Dirk Holbach, CSCO of Laundry and HomeCare at Henkel, and Allison Bales, Senior Manager Supply Chain & Strategy Development, Laundry and HomeCare, Henkel. What role do women play in driving transformation projects? How do you create a diverse environment? Progress has been made, but much still needs to be achieved. 
 
About the speakers
Allison Bales
Allison began her career with Henkel in 2010 as an intern. After graduating in 2012, Allison was hired into the purchasing division in Arizona as a purchasing manager. In 2015, she relocated to Henkel's Global Supply Chain Office in Amsterdam and took over the role of Global Category Lead for Bleach, Enzymes, and Amines. Changing positions once again, in 2018, Allison moved into the Laundry and HomeCare Supply Chain as Senior Manager of Strategy and Development, focusing on organizational effectiveness, people development/training, and project management. Allison holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Arizona State University, and she is originally from Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
 
Beth Morgan 
Beth Morgan is CEO and Founder of boom!, an online network connecting a cross-industry community of female supply chain professionals worldwide. Launching in September 2019, and with members spanning 40 countries, boom! provides inspiration, learning, and mentoring designed to help aspirational women develop their personal and professional skills and build the network they will need to become future leaders. For over two decades, Beth has worked in the supply chain sector, most recently as Research Vice President at SCM World, a Gartner community for global Chief Supply Chain Officers and their teams. 
 
Dirk Holbach
Dirk has more than 20 years of experience in supply chain, operations, organizational development, network optimization, purchasing, and sales and has held various roles on a local, regional and global level at Henkel. He is currently the Chief Supply Chain Officer and Head of World-Wide Supply Chain (manufacturing, planning, logistics, EHS, quality) for Laundry & HomeCare with net sales of 7 billion EUR. His responsibilities include overseeing 6,500 employees in 33 factories and 47 logistic centers in North/Latin America, Western/Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East Africa, Asia-Pacific. Dirk was responsible for the definition and execution of the 2017 - 2020 transformation plan for global footprint with on-going rationalization in mature markets and expansion in emerging markets, including M&A. At the forefront of Henkel's digital transformation journey from 2011-2020, Dirk has been concerned with transforming their global supply chain operations into an Industry 4.0 digital-enabled supply chain. 

#65 - Thriving Through Crisis: What’s Next in Supply Chain? with Yossi Sheffi

In this episode, we host Yossi Sheffi, MIT Professor and Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), to discuss his latest book: "The New (Ab)Normal." Defined as a must-read for Supply Chain Executives, we explore where the desire for writing this book came from and the advice that leaders can gain from it. What does the future of supply chain look like, and what are the significant trends that will characterize a now irreversibly-changed reality? 
 
 
About the speaker
Dr. Yossi Sheffi is Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT CTL. He is an expert in supply chain management and is the author of five award-winning books. He published his sixth and latest book, 'The New (Ab)Normal,' in October 2020. Under his leadership, MIT CTL has launched many educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, including the MIT SCALE network involving six academic centers worldwide. In 2016, MIT CTL launched the online supply chain management MicroMasters program, reaching more than 350,000 learners worldwide.