Supply Chain - Unfiltered

About Supply Chain - Unfiltered

Supply Chain — Unfiltered, presented by the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®), is 20-to-30-minutes of everything you want to know about end-to-end supply chain but were afraid to ask. Our podcasts put supply chains front and center where they belong. Supply chains work 24/7 to keep people and places functioning and thriving. Without supply chains’ effectiveness — our world stops. (Remember the 2020 pandemic?) You’ll hear from industry experts sharing elements of the profession and their impact on financial markets, geopolitics and world trade. It’s real, raw and transparent. The more you tune in to Supply Chain — Unfiltered, perspective shifts about how you see the world and the ways you contribute to its livelihood. We invite you to be part of the ISM® community.

Publisher

Institute for Supply Management®

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2023

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

81 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   What Supply Chain Automation Feels Like In 2035

   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, founder and CEO of RoboForce, to make that future concrete. Leo shares how his 15-year journey ...

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Louisiana’s Port System Shows What Resilience Looks Like

   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 about the forces pressing on port operations and supply chain planning: tariffs and trade barri...

3. 

   2 Sept 2026

   Closing the Procurement and Production Gap

   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 not visible when it matters most. We unpack why vendor management modernization keeps stalling eve...

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