6 Tools for Doing It Better

“I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist." - Ginni Rometty, former chairman & CEO of IBM

Good Saturday morning all and welcome to this edition (No. 27) of "With That Said" (WTS), a LinkedIn newsletter powered by your friends here?at Supply Chain Now .

Change, improvement, leadership: it's all hard, right? And it's certainly not for the faint of heart. Hey, we've got your back and want to provide valuable insights, expertise & tools to help you & your teams push forward successfully & effectively.

Today we are focused on sharing a variety of tools & resources from recent Supply Chain Now programming. These resources stem from our podcasts, our livestreams, our webinars & more. Let's dive right in.

Tool #1 - Caleb Nelson , aka The James Webb of Global Supply Chain, joined Scott Luton & Greg White back in December. He & the Sifted team offered up this ebook entitled "10 Ways to Future Proof Your Business". Click here for the ebook and click here to check out Caleb's conversation via on-demand webinar.

Tool #2 - Michael Conley , who has given us probably the best & most entertaining answer to any of our fun, warm-up questions in history (let's just say he's a BIG "Seinfeld" fan!) - - well, Michael joined us for a webinar discussion, where he & the Wolters Kluwer & CCH? Tagetik team's offered up a resources focused on "5 Ways Finance-Forward Supply Chain Planning Improves Business Outcomes". Click here for the resource & click here to check out Michael's conversation via on-demand webinar.

Tool #3 - Tanya Roach, SCMP with Federated Co-operatives Limited & Vishal Patel with Ivalua joined us for a webinar discussion focused on the balancing act that leaders must do when it comes to things like cost, risk & sustainability - - as we navigate this continued uncertain environment. Check out this neat tool from Ivalua on how to reduce the environmental impact of your spend (click here) and check out the full webinar discussion on-demand here.

Let's pause to celebrate this message related to National Puppy Day that was last week (check out a few pups that are part of the SCN fam here):

Tool #4 - Diana Eagen with Esker joined Scott & Greg for an intriguing livestream discussion back a month or so ago. The main theme was focused on how automation can improve customer communication, employee experience & bottom-line supply chain performance. Check out this ebook from the Esker team on "Augmenting Customer Service: Providing Your Team with AI Tools That Unleash Their Superpowers": click here. And view the livestream discussion on-demand via YouTube here.

Tool #5 - Allen Jacques from Kinaxis was among a lively webinar discussion a few weeks ago that also included business leaders from Bio-Rad Laboratories & IBM . The focus of the conversation was how Bio-Rad has been successfully transforming & re-imagining its supply chain. Allen & the Kinaxis team offered a couple of resources, including an ebook entitled "Thinking Differently About Supply Chain Planning: The Case for Concurrency" (click here to download). We invite you to check out the webinar discussion via this on-demand link here.

Tool #6 - "Who isn't creating content these days?", as Scott likes to ask. In this unique webinar discussion, Scott & Greg focused the discussion on "5 Ways to Create Successful Digital Content" - - and we featured two dynamos: Brandi Boatner with IBM and Ursula Ringham with SAP . You will NOT want to miss Brandi & Ursula's thought leadership & perspective on how do create content that resonates & matters! Check out the webinar via this on-demand link here. And if you want to produce webinars that win, be sure to check out Supply Chain Now's ebook entitled: "The Step-by-Step Guide to Great Webinars" (click here to download).

BTW: we'd like to give a shout out to one of the webinar attendees: Andrea Fimian , who helps organizations with their supplier diversity efforts & initiatives. Andrea shared that she "loved all your advice & insights on digital content!". ??

A few other items to share with our global fam:

• Scott's weekly Good News message from yesterday focused on music that feature winning leadership themes. What tunes would you add? click here
• If you are attending the "Innovation & Solutions World Conference" this upcoming week, be sure to hear Greg's panel: click here
• Upcoming webinar on 3/30: "Supply Chain Agility in an Ever-Changing World" featuring business leaders from Coupa Software & 毕马威 : click here for more information
• Upcoming webinar on 4/6: "The Unified Supply Chain - A Platform Approach" featuring business leaders from Manhattan Associates : click here for more information
• Have you subscribed to our podcast yet? We drop a new episode every Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your #podcasts: click here

Have a wonderful weekend all.

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