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Newest podcast series focuses on supply chain technologies

In part 2 of its 4-part series, Supply Chain Quarterly and CSCMP explore 8 supply chain technologies that are changing the supply chain landscape.

What’s new in supply chain technologies? To find out the answer to that question, please join Supply Chain Quarterly and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professional’s second podcast series where industry guests will discuss eight supply chain technologies that are changing the way supply chains are doing business today. Those technologies include artificial intelligence, digital twins, digitalization in distribution, digitalization in transportation, internet of things, machine learning, and robotics and automation.

The new series, sponsored by DHL Supply Chain, will begin the last week of June and will run for eight consecutive weeks every Tuesday. Subscribe or follow by visiting www.supplychainquarterly.com/podcasts and clicking on your favorite podcast service.


Haven’t had a chance to listen to the first podcast series, Supply Chain in the Fast Lane? This eight-part series, sponsored by HERE, explores the 2022 outlook for all the major supply chain industries including inventory, ocean, parcel, trucking, warehousing, air, rail, and third-party logistics. To listen to the episodes, visit www.supplychainquarterly.com/podcasts and click on the episode you’d like to listen to. Or click on your favorite podcast service and search for Supply Chain in the Fast Lane.

As we head further into 2022, the collaboration continues with part 3 and part 4 of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and Supply Chain Quarterly’s podcast series. The third podcast series will focus on labor and the fourth series will center on jobs of tomorrow. 

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