Supply chain resilience

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you are in the world.

Welcome to episode 140 of Resilient Supply Chain, stories and strategies that keep business moving.

I'm your host, Tom Raftery.

My guests today are Lara Schilling, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Technical University of Denmark, and Professor Stefan Suehring, who has spent more than 25 years researching sustainable supply chains.

There's a whole like opportunity out there and it will be interesting to see if like what TFL are doing with the tube network, they're slowly overhauling all Eurostar will take the opportunity to put some investment back into the quality of its carriages improving them from not only just like a consumer comfort perspective but also from an environmental perspective a sustainability perspective as well and kind of gain leverage in that space and also with the changing kind of I guess space sustainability side of things the regulations around that are changing quite vastly as well so um they may need to kind of keep up with whatever that is saying

when looking up this project i guess two of the key phrases that you'll hear are climate resilience and supply chain resilience

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what what do those mean and why are they front and center when talking about this project

whose work explores one of the defining questions of our time.

How do we build a future where technological progress, economic growth, and planetary well-being reinforce rather than undermine one another? For more than two decades, Tom has worked at the intersection of business transformation, artificial intelligence, climate technology, energy systems, and supply chain resilience.

through his Climate Confidence and Resilience Supply Chain podcasts.

He has interviewed hundreds of executives, researchers, founders, and policymakers, giving him a unique vantage point from which to identify patterns that often remain invisible when viewed through a single industry.

Today, we are going to explore AI, sustainability, energy, the future of work, resilience, and how businesses can navigate an era defined by rapid technological change and growing environmental challenges.

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you are in the world.

Welcome to episode 137 of Resilient Supply Chain, stories and strategies that keep business moving.

I'm your host, Tom Raftery.

I'm still taking a little time off this week, so I wanted to bring you another crossover from my other podcast, Climate Confident.

We also get into what happens when organizations optimize the wrong cost, why combining human judgment with AI can outperform either on its own, and how better operational data can turn waste from a vague sustainability concern into a measurable business problem.

If you enjoy this episode, do check out and follow Climate Confident as well for more of the same.

And I'll be back next Monday, the 31st of August, when regular Resilient Supply Chain episodes resume with Asim Akram, CEO of Multisensor AI.

For now, though, here's my conversation with Olaf van der Veen.

Navigating customs has never been easy, and now increasingly strict compliance regulations is making it even trickier.

Add to that an increasingly heavy data component and suddenly logistics is a foundational part of supply chain resilience, or its weakest link.

When logistics runs smoothly, goods keep moving.

However, when logistics breaks, it can take down the rest of the organization.

Thank

you.

There's a lot of conversation around supply chain resilience, and I think that's one of your areas of expertise.

And maybe we can start just by talking about what you see as some of the misunderstandings around the way leadership is approaching supply chain.

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you are in the world.

Welcome to episode 137 of Resilient Supply Chain, stories and strategies that keep business moving.

I'm your host, Tom Raftery.

This week's episode is a little different.

My guest is Hiten Sonpal, CEO of Rise Robotics, and one of the ideas I found particularly interesting is that the barrier to electrifying heavy equipment may not actually be the battery, it may be the inefficient machinery we're asking that battery to power.

There's also a fascinating discussion later about why industrial AI may be getting ahead of itself because before machines can be truly autonomous, they first need to become digital enough to generate the data AI needs.

So I think there's plenty here for resilient supply chain listeners.

If you enjoyed the conversation, do check out and follow Climate Confident as well.