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Supply Chain - Unfiltered

Supply Chain - Unfiltered

Institute for Supply Management® 76 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

Supply Chain — Unfiltered, presented by the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®), is a podcast that delivers 20-to-30-minute episodes covering everything about end-to-end supply chains. It features industry experts discussing the profession's impact on financial markets, geopolitics, and world trade. The show aims to provide raw and transparent insights into how supply chains function and their critical role in keeping the world operational, as highlighted during the 2020 pandemic. Listeners gain a new perspective on the global economy and their contributions to it.

Episodes

Relationship Fundamentals In An AI-First World
Relationship Fundamentals In An AI-First World Oct 14, 2026 1795 AI is moving fast, but customer loyalty still gets built the slow way: one real interaction at a time. We sit down with Jason Milen, principal and keynote speaker at Milen Growth Partners, to talk about the fundamentals of customer retention that don’t break when technology, markets, and expectations shift.We dig into what “relationships” actually looks like in day-to-day business, from the smalle
What Supply Chain Automation Feels Like In 2035
What Supply Chain Automation Feels Like In 2035 Sep 30, 2026 1583 Picture walking into a warehouse, factory, mine site, or solar field in 2035 and realizing the biggest shift is not a single shiny robot, it is the feeling that operations are finally steady. Staffing gaps stop derailing throughput. Dangerous tasks get handled without putting people in harm’s way. And “automation” stops being a pilot and becomes part of how work gets done.We sit down with Leo Ma,
Louisiana’s Port System Shows What Resilience Looks Like
Louisiana’s Port System Shows What Resilience Looks Like Sep 16, 2026 1384 A single river corridor in Louisiana helps move a staggering share of America’s exports, and when it hiccups, the ripple hits farmers, factories, retailers, and consumers. We sit down with Harrison Crabtree, Executive Director of the World Trade Center New Orleans, to unpack what keeps the South Louisiana port system resilient when trade rules shift and nature refuses to cooperate.We get specific
Closing the Procurement and Production Gap
Closing the Procurement and Production Gap Sep 2, 2026 1784 The next supply chain disruption will not wait for your dashboard to refresh, and it definitely will not wait for a two-year implementation plan. We sit down with Antonio Gonzalez, CEO and co-founder of Vallor, to talk about a problem procurement teams feel every day but rarely name out loud: the answers to “what are our options?” are often already negotiated into our contracts, yet the data is no
How To Build A High-Trust Procurement Data Organization
How To Build A High-Trust Procurement Data Organization Aug 19, 2026 1817 Your procurement team can’t automate what it can’t trust. When supplier names duplicate, dashboards sit unopened, and every “simple” request turns into an Excel fire drill, AI doesn’t fix the problem, it exposes it.We sit down with Laura Beth ("LB") Hirt-Sharpe, Data Offerings Leader for IBM Procurement and an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award recipient, to get specific about w
3PL’s Gray Area, From Planning to Implementation
3PL’s Gray Area, From Planning to Implementation Aug 5, 2026 1932 The supply chain doesn’t break in the obvious places, it breaks in the gray areas: the assumptions inside contracts, the handoffs between shipper and 3PL, and the gaps between a plan and the real world. We sit down with Sandy Hodes, Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement and Corporate Development Officer at Ryder System, to unpack how third-party logistics providers navigate supply chain vola
Sustainable Procurement Under Pressure
Sustainable Procurement Under Pressure Jul 22, 2026 1659 Sustainability can feel like a moving target when elections, tariff headlines, and shifting regulations keep rewriting the rules. We sit down with Kris Spriano, former Vice President of Programs and Development at the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) and current Product Materials Manager at Arista Networks, to get honest about what’s really happening inside procurement teams and wh
How to Be the Change Agent Who Redefines Resiliency
How to Be the Change Agent Who Redefines Resiliency Jul 8, 2026 1656 Change is easy to describe and brutally hard to deliver, especially in supply chain and procurement where every shift touches customers, suppliers, systems, and frontline teams. We sit down with Manish Kapoor, founder and CEO of Growth Catalyst Group, to get honest about what separates a thought leader from a true change agent and why execution is the part that tests your leadership the most.We di
Why The Need for Speed Dictates Decision-Making
Why The Need for Speed Dictates Decision-Making Jun 24, 2026 1908 Stability is the word we all want to hear in supply chain, but Lucas Cunha thinks we should stop waiting for it. The pace of AI, the churn in global trade, and the squeeze of nonstop deadlines are pushing logistics, procurement, and operations teams into a new reality where adaptability is the real baseline for survival. We dig into what that means on the ground when you are trying to keep materia
How Procurement Teams Turn Data Into Value
How Procurement Teams Turn Data Into Value Jun 10, 2026 1442 Data is quietly becoming the most negotiable asset in business and the easiest one to misuse. We sit down with Charlotte de Brabandt, Ph.D., an expert in procurement, digital transformation, and AI-driven sustainability, to make sense of what it means to treat data like an economic engine rather than a pile of reports.We walk through Charlotte’s AI data economy model and the four forces it balance
Data Management Is a Dirty Job But Everyone Has to Do It
Data Management Is a Dirty Job But Everyone Has to Do It May 27, 2026 1392 76% of leaders say data-driven decision making is the goal, but most people still don’t trust the data they’re looking at. That contradiction is not just frustrating, it’s expensive. We talk with Susan Walsh, founder of The Classification Guru, about what actually breaks procurement data and supplier master data over time, and why “just add AI” won’t fix a messy foundation.We get practical about d
Hyper Agility
Hyper Agility May 13, 2026 1690 Disruption isn’t a phase you “get through” anymore. It’s the environment, and it’s forcing supply chains and organizations to evolve beyond classic agility into something bigger: hyper agility. We sit down with Dr. Charlotte de Brabandt to unpack what hyper agility really means and why she sees it as a true superpower for teams that need to sense change early, respond fast, and still stay grounded

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