Supply chain technology, grounded in operational reality.
Supply Chain Radio treats logistics as both a systems problem and a business pressure point. Its conversations move from DOM and OMS optimization to disruption, global returns, PLM, partner data, and the human choices behind risk planning.
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Supply Chain Radio treats the supply chain as a living network of technology, people, partners, inventory, and cost decisions. Its conversations are grounded in enterprise operations rather than abstract trend language. Distributed order management, for example, is discussed as more than routing and execution. The show frames it around optimization: inventory visibility, fulfillment options, labor costs, shipment costs, and the margin impact of sending work to the wrong node. Manufacturing episodes widen the lens beyond the four walls of a company. They return to data quality, partner connectivity, EDI limits, collaboration pilots, and the long path from descriptive insight toward more automated orchestration. Retail is another steady thread. Episodes examine the pressure created by e-commerce expectations, free shipping, free returns, global fulfillment, and the psychology behind conversion and abandonment. Those conversations do not treat returns as a footnote. They show how policy, customer trust, reverse logistics, and channel complexity can reshape the economics of a sale. The show also connects headline events to operational planning. Brexit appears not as a political debate, but as a supply chain challenge involving tariffs, medicine stockpiling, carrier capacity, regulations, and the shortage of ordinary physical assets like pallets. Risk discussions take a similar approach. Disruption may come from policy, human decisions, supplier exposure, or changing trade conditions, so the show keeps returning to stress testing, contingencies, and resilience. Product lifecycle management adds another layer, with attention to discrete manufacturing, process components, AI, mobile access, cloud tools, and the way old workflow exceptions can harden into daily friction. The register is plainspoken and technically fluent. Hosts and guests use enough humor and consumer examples to make the operational stakes feel tangible. Supply Chain Radio suits a listener who wants technology talk tied to fulfillment, margins, collaboration, and disruption planning rather than buzzwords alone.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows supply chain, retail, manufacturing, logistics, or enterprise technology and wants practical conversation over slogans. It also fits operators who think in tradeoffs: cost, speed, data quality, fulfillment, and resilience.
What sets it apart: The show connects technical systems to visible business consequences, from order routing and PLM to returns and disruption. Its strength is translating supply chain complexity into concrete operational choices.
Tune in to conversations on cloud technology, collaborative networks, and supply chain innovation with insights from the industry's most well-versed professionals. Topics will include supply chain visibility, finance, transportation and logistics, B2B networks, data quality, planning & execution, and global commerce best practices.
Brexit comes down to pallets, and suddenly your contingency plan needs a contingency plan.
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Matt Gunn's farewell episode connects supply chain visibility to customer expectations that leave little room for failure.
Supply Chain Radio's Matt Gunn farewell returns to the show's first-episode idea from 2010: connectivity beyond the four walls. With Guy Cortin and Jenny Reese, Gunn uses that starting point to frame a wider discussion about visibility, expectations, and the choices customers…
Brexit reaches the pallet stack, where a small logistics constraint can reveal a much larger disruption.
The episode frames Brexit less as a headline argument than as a practical operations problem. Uncertainty moves past tariffs and trade policy into inventory choices, carrier capacity, export planning, and even the availability of pallets.
Free returns look simple to shoppers, but this episode shows the operational cost behind the convenience.
Returns are the point where ecommerce convenience stops being a clean promise and starts showing its back office. Supply Chain Radio frames that tension through Matt Gunn's conversation with Brian Burke of Seco Logistics and David Schulhoff, CEO of Red Hot Penny.
A practical look at supply chain risk as a test of human judgment, contingency planning, and inventory discipline.
Supply Chain Radio looks past the obvious supply chain shocks, from severe weather to factory trouble, and settles on a quieter source of exposure: people, planning habits, and assumptions left untested.
Healthcare supply chain, from policy to bedside.
Logistics oral history, from a host who insists it's boring.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Tim Nelson describes DOM’s shift from cross-channel order execution to optimization across stores, warehouses, and partners.
Supply Chain Radio closes with Matt Gunn, Guy Cortin, and Jenny Reese revisiting the first episode recorded in 2010 and the networked supply chain idea.
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Supply Chain Radio's Matt Gunn uses Shop Talk as the backdrop for a discussion of returns, e-commerce logistics, and the consumer power shift in retail.
Matt Gunn and Guy Cortin examine human-driven supply-chain disruption through Brexit, the U.S.-China tariff conflict, Venezuela, and recurring yellow-vest strikes in France.
Supply Chain Radio host Matt Gunn interviews Kurt Cavanaugh, founder of TradeCard, about two decades of supply-chain technology and his departure from Infor.
Interview with Eric Kaiser, CEO of Orderful, discussing EDI and B2B trading challenges for suppliers.
Discussion on the financial side of supply chain, focusing on procure-to-pay processes for direct and indirect goods.
An interview discussing the role of third-party logistics providers in global supply chains and digital transformation.
A discussion at the Retail Supply Chain Conference about the reinvention of retail supply chains for the digital future, with a focus on 3PLs and logistics providers.
A discussion on supply chain visibility and the role of IoT in providing real-time data granularity.
Discussion on how consumer packaged goods companies are adapting to e-commerce and changing retail dynamics.