women in supply chain

Women in logistics are slowly but surely becoming more common, but in what is traditionally a male-dominated industry, leadership positions still have quite a gender gap. Kristy Knichel is one of the leading ladies of logistics, as the owner of Knichel Logistics and a noted voice in the intermodal and 3PL spaces - and supply chain overall. Kristy joins hosts Kevin Baxter and InTek President Shelli Austin as we close out Women's History Month to talk about her unique background, the growth of her woman-owned business, her experience as a woman in logistics, the importance of mentorship, the evolution of the industry and the state of supply chains today. Learn more about Kristy and Knichel Logistics at https://www.knichellogistics.com/.

On our MercuryGate Minute, Traci discusses Carma - with a C. Learn more about InTek's MercuryGate TMS partnership at https://www.intekfreight-logistics.com/tms.

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In this episode we look at a very interesting HVACR company that is changing the industry perspective in many ways.  cfm Distributors is a dynamic company based in Kansas City, MO.  Today we talk with CEO Lauren Roberts about how this employee owned company has created such a wonderful customer centric environment and how it has impacted the continued success of the company.  "Their mission is helping customers be successful"

Also Lauren has broken barriers in what has been a predominantly male segment of industry.  She encourages the best person for the job and ensuring that the company is diverse in its acquisition of candidates for positions. 

Lauren describes 4 key attributes to customer centric success as well as new ways to build important diversity with in an organization to get the best results.
about Lauren Roberts on linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-roberts-38748ab/

Links:
https://www.womeninhvacr.org/
https://www.cfmdistributors.com/

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On this, the fourth edition of the Women in Supply Chain themed series of the Digital Supply Chain podcast, I spoke with Isabelle Leclerc. Isabelle has worked in Supply Chain for over 20 years in a number of senior roles, and currently she is Vice President Supply Chain at Cascades. Cascades is a $5bn packaging and paper products company based near Montreal, Canada and they are manufacturers of tissue products, container board, and specialty paper products.

I spoke with Isabelle initially about what the tissue paper industry supply chain looked like, and what challenges they addressed pre-covid. Of course, given the many news cycles that have been devoted to toilet paper, particularly at the start of the lockdowns globally, I had to ask Isabelle how this had impacted Cascades.

Isabell also mentioned several times how important sustainability is to Cascades, so I asked her to expand on the reasons behind that, and what followed was a fascinating story about why the company was founded.

We had great fun recording the podcast (and due to some technical difficulties, it took a number of calls to record the entire episode, so if you notice some inconsistencies in the audio quality, this is the reason), Isabelle is obviously deeply knowledgeable and she spoke to the importance of business planning, sustainability, and how the coronavirus impacted Cascades supply chain - listen for yourselves, and let me know what you think.

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