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Resilient Supply Chain — How Leaders Keep Business Moving

by Tom Raftery
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  • When the Right Supply Chain Decision Arrives a Month Late

    October 19, 2026 · 33 min

    Send me a message A supply-chain decision can be perfectly correct, and still be useless if it arrives too late. Better forecasts matter, but the harder problem is turning uncertain, fragmented information into action while that…

  • Supply Chain AI Can Scale the Data Problems Humans Used to Fix

    October 12, 2026 · 40 min

    Send me a message AI can make supply-chain decisions faster. It can also scale the data problems people have been quietly correcting for years. Once machines start acting rather than merely reporting, inconsistent definitions, missing…

  • The Supply Chain Workarounds That Can Stop a Production Line

    October 5, 2026 · 37 min

    Send me a message A production line can go down because two people are passing an Excel file back and forth with no audit trail. That is the uncomfortable reality behind this episode: some of the biggest supply-chain risks sit inside…

  • 98% Isn’t Enough: AI, Human Judgement and Mission-Critical Operations

    September 28, 2026 · 28 min

    Send me a message A 98% response rate sounds excellent—until the missing 2% includes police and ambulance calls. That is the problem with judging automation by averages when the exceptions carry the greatest operational risk. My guest is…

  • Supply Chain Labour Planning: Saving Today Can Increase Churn Tomorrow

    September 21, 2026 · 31 min

    Send me a message Cutting labour when demand dips can look like smart cost control. But if workers respond by finding more reliable work elsewhere, today’s saving can become tomorrow’s churn, hiring cost and capacity problem. My guest is…

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  • Why More Supply Chain Visibility Doesn’t Guarantee Greater Resilience

    September 14, 2026 · 39 min

    Send me a message More supply-chain data does not automatically produce better decisions. Digital systems can expose risk, but they can also reproduce the same governance failures, blind spots and weak assumptions already embedded in the…

  • AI Job Cuts Could Leave Your Supply Chain Short of Future Leaders

    September 7, 2026 · 30 min

    Send me a message AI can cut routine supply chain work and reduce payroll costs. But eliminating entry-level roles could leave your business short of experienced leaders when the next disruption demands judgement. I’m joined by Friddy…

  • The Hidden Resilience Risk Inside Your Automated Warehouse

    August 31, 2026 · 33 min

    Send me a message Warehouse automation can increase throughput while quietly creating a new failure point: maintenance that has not kept pace. When critical assets fail, the consequence is not an engineering inconvenience. It is downtime…

  • Buying 120% to Serve 100%: The Supply Chain Cost of Food Waste

    August 24, 2026 · 37 min

    Send me a message If you’re buying 120% of the food required to serve 100% of your customers, you don’t have a waste problem. You have a forecasting, procurement and margin problem. My guest is Olaf van der Veen, co-founder of Orbisk…

  • Hydraulics Waste 75% of Energy - Inflating Heavy Equipment Electrification Costs

    August 17, 2026 · 39 min

    Send me a message Heavy equipment electrification has a hidden problem: the machinery itself can waste most of the energy you put into it. That means bigger batteries, higher capital costs and a weaker business case before the machine has…

  • Dashboard Theatre: Why More Supply Chain Visibility Still Fails at Execution

    August 10, 2026 · 48 min

    Send me a message Supply chains have more operational data than ever, yet warehouses still miss carrier cut-offs, misallocate labour and react too slowly when conditions change. The problem is often not seeing what is happening. It is…

  • Supply Chain AI Needs Better Sensing, Not Smarter Models

    August 3, 2026 · 32 min

    Send me a message AI models are getting smarter at an astonishing pace. But if they can't reliably sense what's happening across your supply chain, they'll still make poor decisions. The real bottleneck may not be intelligence at all, it…

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About the show

Resilient Supply Chain is for supply chain, operations, procurement and technology leaders who need practical ways to manage disruption, reduce risk and keep business moving.Each Monday, technology and sustainability analyst, keynote speaker and former SAP Global VP Tom Raftery speaks with the executives, operators, founders and innovators redesigning how goods, information and decisions move through global supply chains.These are candid conversations about what works in practice—not polished PR narratives or vague predictions. Guests explain how they are responding to supplier failures, geopolitical shocks, volatile costs, capacity constraints, changing regulations and rising pressure to improve both performance and sustainability.The podcast examines:Faster planning and decision-making under uncertaintySupplier risk, sourcing strategy and business continuityAI, automation, visibility and operational intelligenceWarehousing, logistics and fulfilment performanceScope 3 emissions, circularity and responsible sourcingThe systems, incentives and organisational changes needed to turn data into actionThe central question is simple: what helps a supply chain withstand disruption, adapt quickly and continue serving the business?New episodes are published every Monday at 7am CET. Resilient Supply Chain+ subscribers also receive bonus analysis, highlights and briefings on emerging industry trends.Follow Resilient Supply Chain for practical lessons from the people solving real operational problems—and building supply chains that perform when conditions do not go to plan.