Carlee McGowan presently serves as the Supply Chain Director - APAC at Pernod Ricard Pacific, where she has also held a seat on the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) Board of Advice for ten years. With a wealth of experience spanning over three decades in the realm of consumer Supply Chains, Carlee is driven by a fervent commitment to uncovering novel and inventive methods to enhance not only her own life, but also the lives of those around her.
What you’ll learn:
How has supply chain and logistics evolved over the last decade?
How Pernod Ricard Pacific is involved with the ITLS Board of Advice
What does the future of our supply chains look like?
Quotes:
“what is really increased now has been the ability to track things through your supply chain and the ability to have better tools to make decisions. If I look at where we were years ago, you would be putting in an order or putting in a customer delivery, and then you just hope that would get there on time and you would call various numbers of people to make sure that it got there on time. Now you've got tracking all the way through and then the systems can actually have really good data, which can then prepare you for a much better ability to do contingency planning or make decisions a lot further out so that you can actually get the rest of the supply chain prepared for the outcomes of either the stock coming early or not coming at all.”
“if we look at the consumers now, you will see over the coming years that there's a lot more of the QR codes that are appearing on the products. And those QR codes will eventually replace barcodes at your supermarkets. But in the meantime you can also then grab the QR code and it will tell you a whole lot of information that you haven't been able to put on the products themselves because you literally run out of space on the label.”
“I see [A.I. and Machine Learning] as almost the biggest disruptors since the Internet.”
“I get a lot out of the board because I get to learn about what are the new projects and the new studies and so forth that the students and the university are doing. And I and I get to stay on top of what's there.”
“I actually think the power [of the ITLS board] is with the calibre of members that we actually have on the board and the mixture of members that we have in the board. We have a mixture of both academics, public industry and private industry. And I think that that gives a really good balance into the perspectives of the entire board.
“Going forward, you will be finding that balance of local versus global supply chains, and then it's making sure that you can really leverage the global plus the local sourcing that you do have.”
Links:
Pernod Ricard's Website
Pernod Ricard Winemakers via Linkedin
Connect:
Connect with Carlee via Linkedin
Connect with Emily via email: emily@compassiot.com.au
Connect with Byte Size via LinkedIn
Connect with Compass IoT (the producer of this podcast) via our website
Stability with Agility: Building Resilient Supply Chains