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Supply Chain Optimizers

Supply Chain Optimizers

Written by: Desteia
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 Are you grappling with bottlenecks, skyrocketing costs, or digital transformation in your supply chain? Supply Chain Optimizers equips you with proven tactics and candid perspectives to turn complexity into competitive advantage. Each episode delivers real-world stories and data-driven insights from the biggest innovators and disruptors - think UPS, Amazon, and beyond - unpacking bold, sometimes controversial approaches that challenge the status quo. Subscribe now to stay ahead of the curve and unlock the full potential of your supply chain.opyrights © 2025 All Rights Reserved by Desteia Economics Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • How to Turn Global Turmoil into a Competitive Supply Chain Advantage

    How to Turn Global Turmoil into a Competitive Supply Chain Advantage
    Nov 20 2025
    What if geopolitics is no longer background noise in your supply chain, but the defining factor of your competitive advantage? In this episode of Supply Chain Optimizers, host Diego Solorzano speaks with Maria Villablanca, transformation advisor, and three-time founder, HBR Advisory Council Member, and CEO of Villablanca Consulting Ltd, about how trade policy, AI, and regional shifts are redefining competitive advantage in supply chains. Maria shares a powerful three-question framework for cutting through crisis noise, the mindset shift needed to thrive amid disruption, and why today’s supply chain leaders must think like economists, strategists, and geopoliticians to stay ahead.
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    32 mins
  • Global Logistics Across Borders: Navigating Clinical Trials, Compliance, and Complexity

    Global Logistics Across Borders: Navigating Clinical Trials, Compliance, and Complexity
    Oct 30 2025
    What makes shipping a single clinical sample across borders harder than moving thousands of packages globally? In this episode of Supply Chain Optimizers, host Diego Solorzano speaks with Ben Taylor, Director for Logistics at Precision for Medicine, to explore the messy, complicated, and often overlooked challenges of truly global supply chains. Their conversation reveals why Amazon's distribution model is fundamentally different from international logistics, why geography matters more than algorithms, and how building trust across cultures is perhaps the most underrated leadership skill in global operations.
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    46 mins
  • How to Avoid Chokepoints and Build Supply Chain Resilience

    How to Avoid Chokepoints and Build Supply Chain Resilience
    Oct 16 2025
    What happens when a single chokepoint threatens to upend the entire global supply chain? Join host Diego Solorzano as he welcomes Jonathan Colehower, Managing Director of Global Supply Chain Practice at UST, to unpack the realities of navigating today’s volatile trade environment. From the strategic risks of the Strait of Hormuz to opportunities in Trans-Arctic shipping routes, Jonathan shares his decades of insights and strategies on scenario planning, private trading networks, and building supply chain resilience. Listeners will discover how leading companies can move beyond prediction and develop actionable playbooks that transform disruption into competitive advantage.
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    30 mins
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