Manufacturing Insights Podcast

Learn from today’s leading experts in design, sourcing, cost engineering, and executive management how they get the insights they need to decide how to make it and where to make it.
June 5, 2025
should cost panel speakers

Should Cost Panel

Wendy Sifuentes & Ashok Kaliyaperumal — Team Leads at Signify and Danfoss
Should-cost models are only powerful if they're credible, actionable, and collaborative. Learn how two experts turn cost data into real negotiation outcomes.
April 9, 2025
Ron Crabtree sourcing and supply chain expert

How Will Tariffs Change Your Supply Chain?

Ron Crabtree — CEO, MetaOps
Most supply chains will need to change as a result of tariffs. How well you adapt depends on the data you have and your ability to act quickly.
March 26, 2025
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Mitigating the Impact of Tariffs – Your Questions Answered

Marie Magro​ and April Guenet​ at aPriori — Senior Consultant and Product Marketing Manager
Tariffs hitting your margins? Learn how to aPriori can show you the impact of tariffs on your costs, so you can make fast, data-backed sourcing decisions in real time.
March 12, 2025
Spencer Penn, LightSource CEO

The Risks of Doing Procurement As Usual

Spencer Penn — CEO, LightSource
Procurement teams can't solve today's challenges of changing tariffs, rising materials prices, and shrinking time windows, if their best tool is email and excel.
February 25, 2025
Chris Jeznach interviews Spencer Penn

What Stops Sourcing and Engineering Teams from Achieving ROI together?

Spencer Penn — CEO, LightSource
Cost savings get trapped in disconnects between engineering and procurement and between procurement and suppliers. To bridge the gap, you need insights that start conversations on the right foot.
February 26, 2024
Digital Thread is a precondition for supply chain tracking and sustainability

The Digital Thread Makes Supply Chain Sustainable

Andrea Aranguren — CEO, MineHub
Digitization makes it possible to analyze carbon footprint across the supply chain. So why are only 50% of manufacturers ready with a digital thread?
February 1, 2024
Peter Zeihan shares in this interview why the end of the world is just the beginning for manufacturing

Peter Zeihan: Is it the End of the World for Manufacturing?

Peter Zeihan — Bestselling Author of "The End of the World Is Just the Beginning"
Peter Zeihan brings a unique perspective on how geopolitical risks are re-shaping the world economy, and what that means for global manufacturing.
April 20, 2023

Supplier Collaboration

Donald Stamets — Supply Chain Relationships Manager
Supply chain disruptions and the fluctuations in raw materials prices mean that unless you have collaborative supplier relationships, you’re not going to have any. Learn how collaboration efforts pay off in win-win profits.
April 13, 2023

Supply Chain Carbon Footprint

Mark Reisig — Sustainability Consultant, CIMdata
Calculating the carbon footprint of your supply chain is key to reducing the environmental impact of your products.
March 9, 2023

Supply Chain Strategy

Abe Chaves — Principal Applied Services Consultant, aPriori
In the age of materials shortages and supply chain disruptions, a good supply chain strategy means partnering with suppliers to share vital information. A former supplier turned consultant shares how.
December 8, 2022

Best of Supply Chain 2022

Leah Archibald reviews 2022 with Rob Lidster, Craig McLeod, Lily Thomas, and Bernard Hensey — bringing expertise from GE, GM, Baker Hughes, and Boeing
What did 2022 teach us about supply chain management? Four podcast all-stars share how to collaborate more effectively with suppliers and adapt quicker to disruptions – all lessons manufacturers need to take into 2023.
October 27, 2022
Todd Drouillard

Offshore, Nearshore, or Reshore: an Architect’s Perspective

Todd Drouillard — Sector Leader, HED
How does architectural sustainability impact your decision to offshore, nearshore, or reshore? According to an architect, if you’re not future-looking when you plan your buildings, you’re not going to build products that meet the future’s needs.

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