🌐 Supply Chain and Venture Capital: A Unique Journey 🚀 | Courtney Lipkin
We had the pleasure of hosting Courtney Lipkin, a partner at Susa Ventures. Courtney shared her unique venture capital journey, from her initial career in law to her exploration into academia and urban planning at Stanford. Her path eventually led her to the world of venture capital.
⏳ How the supply chain tech space still has plenty of space for technological progress, holding substantial untapped opportunities
💣 How venture companies are looking for strong, visionary teams who can be enriched when you have the right guidance
🚀 What types of companies in the supply chain space pique her interest
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Shaping Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Leaders with Dr. Pedro Reyes 🚀
Dr. Pedro Reyes Highlights:
Future-Focused: Students are now being taught not just to predict the future, but to shape it. They’re the pioneers of the next era of supply chain.
Education Evolving: They're reshaping curricula to ready students for an unpredictable future in supply chain. Emphasis on real-world scenarios and embracing volatility.
Making Mistakes: Dr. Reyes stressed the power of learning from real world errors and teaches it in his classroom. 🌟
Tech in Teaching: From utilizing tools like ChatGPT for insights to immersing students in realistic supply chain challenges.
Looking Ahead: The integration of IoT, AI, and blockchain means tomorrow's professionals must be tech-savvy, adaptable, and always learning.
Education is no longer just about the ‘what,’ but the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ Exciting times ahead for the next wave of supply chain professionals! 🌊📘
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Research, Classroom & Industry: A Conversation with Dr. Muhammad Azmat on Technology and The Future
On today’s episode of Supply Chain Innovators, we spoke with the Dr. Muhammad Azmat, an esteemed assistant professor and deputy program director at Aston University, known for his expertise in disruptive technologies, consumer perspectives, and innovative business applications. Join us as we explore his journey, the impact of technology on supply chain evolution, and his passion for empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), while offering valuable advice to students seeking to shape the future of supply chain.
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E-commerce Last Mile Delivery Magic for the Shopify Age | PrettyDamnQuick
We had the pleasure of interviewing Avi Moskowitz, CEO and co-founder of PrettyDamnQuick. PrettyDamnQuick helps brands provide clear delivery promises on checkout, assigning every order to the carrier that will deliver it on time for the lowest rate. With a focus on last-mile delivery innovation, optimizing speed, cost, and eco-impact while tailoring delivery promises based on customer factors, PrettyDamnQuick aims to provide a realistic and clear delivery promise to customers for better customer retention, higher conversion rates, and lower shipping costs.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1: IntroductionTimestamp: 00:17-00:43
Chapter 2: Avi's BackgroundTimestamp: 00:50-02:08Avi shares his background in starting up companies and the challenges he faced with logistics, fulfillment, and delivery
Chapter 3: Innovation in LogisticsTimestamp: 05:25-07:10Avi explains the challenges of delivering in a matter of hours and the efficiencies that it introduces
Chapter 4: PrettyDamnQuickTimestamp: 08:45-10:33Avi introduces PrettyDamnQuick and explains how it helps brands formulate a clear delivery promise on Checkout
Chapter 5: OnboardingTimestamp: 27:23-30:14Avi explains the onboarding process and how brands can quickly benefit from the solution by starting with checkout
Chapter 6: Cost OptimizationTimestamp: 30:14-33:49Avi discusses how PrettyDamnQuick helps brands optimize costs by taking into consideration various factors like shipping location, delivery speed, and package weight
Chapter 7: Supply Chain TransparencyTimestamp: 35:37-37:14Avi discusses how supply chain transparency is a key part of success in every stage of the process
Chapter 8: ConclusionTimestamp: 38:16-39:06
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Navigating the Cannabis Supply Chain: Lessons from Lucid Green
Lucid Green was founded in 2018 by Paul Botto and Larry Levy with the mission of creating trust and transparency in the cannabis space. They have created a QR code that is embedded into compliance labels of any cannabis product which resolutes to a consumer page providing information such as dosage recommendations, reviews, certificate of analysis related to that exact batch etc.
Lucid Green also helps brands create loyalty programs through their unique codes on packages, allowing them better data insights for decision making. Prior to this technology companies had an extremely manually intensive process trying to manage all documentation leading up label production with lots of wasted time and potential mistakes throughout the value chain.
This is Supply Chain Innovators — the show that helps Supply Chain Leaders get ahead of the curve and prepare their organizations for the rapid trends that lie ahead.
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