Supply Chain Revolution®

The most underrated skill in sustainability leadership right now? Knowing your audience's love language. Christine Goulay, Founder of Sustainabelle Advisory Services, has spent 20 years watching sustainability initiatives stall — not because of strategy, but because of language. Stop saying ESG. Say resilience. Stop saying sustainability. Say risk reduction. Speak to the KPIs of the person across the table. Show them how it helps them. That is the conversation that moves boards, unlocks budgets, and gets initiatives off the slide deck and into execution. Full episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast — in partnership with Innovation Forum — link in comments. 🗓️ Join us at the Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA | NYC | June 3–4 Register: https://buff.ly/fj2WvbK #SustainableApparel #SupplyChainLeadership #ESG #Resilience #Sustainability #SupplyChainRevolution #SupplyChainQueen #InnovationForum #Procurement #FashionSustainability #ChangeManagement #SupplyChainStrategy

They went bankrupt. In a simulation. The lesson? Stop saving the day and start solving the real problem, toegther. Sound familiar? Rada Lazarova from Inchainge described this on the Supply Chain Revolution® podcast, and it is one of the most powerful learning moments in supply chain education. Participants take over a virtual company as VP-level leaders, start fixing everything they can see wrong in their own function, and watch the entire business crater because they optimized in isolation. The pattern is nearly universal. Students do it. Fortune 500 executives do it. The human instinct is the same: firefight, fix your own problems, assume the whole system will benefit. It does not. This is why Inchainge's simulations, which are used by more than 40% of the world's top 100 manufacturers and nearly half a million learners globally, are so effective. You can lose millions in a sandbox. You can bankrupt a company with no consequences and in that failure, the lesson lands in a way that no lecture, PowerPoint, or certification ever could. The real insight: maybe the the supply chain talent gap is not a skills gap. It is a context gap? Professionals understand the frameworks. What they lack is the experience of making decisions in cross-functional complexity where every choice creates a handoff, a trade-off, and a cascading consequence. Experience teaches us this - judgement, consequence, hard-earned lessons. In an age of chatGPT and Claude prompting, this is what's lacking...context. What's your hard-earned lesson in understanding tradeoffs and handoffs across supply chains? Full conversation on Supply Chain Revolution wherever you stream or on Youtube https://lnkd.in/eqfaHnux . #supplychain #manufacturing #education

Your supply chain team doesn't have a knowledge problem. They have a silo problem. And no certification, framework, or training deck is going to fix that. Sheri R Hinish sat down with Rada Lazarova from Inchainge — the company behind The Fresh Connection and The Blue Connection, used by over 40% of the world's top 100 manufacturers — to talk about why simulation is the missing layer in supply chain talent development. Here's what actually happens when you drop someone into a VP role inside a virtual supply chain: They optimize their own function. They fix their own mess. And they bankrupt the entire business. That's the lesson. And it lands harder in a simulation than any lecture ever could. They also get into: → Why students and Fortune 500 executives behave almost identically in these environments → How sustainability thinking only sticks when every decision is tied to impact metrics → The AI tutor that responds with more questions — not answers → And the one thing every supply chain leader should unlearn: stop saving the day. Start solving the problem. 🎧 New episode of Supply Chain Revolution is live now. Link in comments. #SupplyChainRevolution #SupplyChain #Inchainge #SupplyChainTalent #ExperientialLearning #Circularity #AI #LeadershipDevelopment #SupplyChainQueen

T-MINUS ONE WEEK! The Innovation Forum has spent over 30 years convening the conversations that actually moveindustries forward. No scripts. No jargon. Chatham House rules. Radical honesty. On June 3-4, The Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA arrives in New York City, bringing 230+ leaders across brands, retailers, suppliers, innovators, and policymakers for two days of practical, off-the-record problem solving. The agenda includes the California Textile Recovery Act (a Q&A with CalRecycle), the Fashion Act and its timeline, creative financing to scale sustainable production, textile-to-textile recycling economics, and nature-positive strategies for true circularity. In the lead-up to the event, Sheri R Hinish sat down with Christine Goulay, a 20-year veteran of sustainability in fashion, for a conversation on where brands actually stand, not where their marketing says they stand. Find the links to the full episode in the comments! Sustainable apparel is not a niche concern. It is a supply chain systems challenge that requires the same rigor, collaboration, and design thinking as any major operational transformation. See you next week in New York.

Africa keeps getting described as a continent full of potential. That word — potential — does a lot of quiet damage. It positions Africa as something not yet realized. A future asset. A place the world is still waiting on. But what if that framing has it exactly backwards? Clean minerals. Abundant renewable energy. The fastest-growing population on earth. These aren't inputs waiting to be unlocked by outside capital. They are the most strategically valuable assets in the entire clean energy transition — and the players who need them most (Europe, the US, the East) are negotiating from a position of dependency, not generosity. The question was never whether Africa had leverage. The question is whether the people making decisions on behalf of Africa are asking for what that leverage is actually worth. James Mnyupe joined Supply Chain Revolution to reframe the whole conversation — and it's one of the most clarifying takes on the geopolitics of the energy transition I've heard. What would change if Africa stopped negotiating like a supplier and started negotiating like a strategic partner? 🎧 Full episode on Spotify + Apple Podcasts: Spotify: https://buff.ly/CfTmJUR Apple Podcasts: https://buff.ly/eZT0dL1

According to the UNEP, the apparel industry generates more emissions than international aviation and shipping combined, accounting for up to 10% of global carbon dioxide output. Yet the majority of brands still have no credible plan to change that. Most fashion brands still cannot tell you where their cotton was grown. That is not a sustainability gap. It is a supply chain failure. Your favorite brand’s sustainability report probably has more marketing copy than verified data. Circularity in fashion is a trillion-dollar opportunity that almost no one is operationally prepared for. This is why convenings like the Innovation Forum Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA matter. Not for the panels, for collaborative problem solving. Regulatory pressure is accelerating. The California Textile Recovery Act is live. The Fashion Act is gaining momentum. EPR frameworks are expanding across states. The brands that are building traceability, circularity, and verified supplier data into their operations right now are not just staying compliant. They are building competitive advantages that late movers will not be able to replicate. On June 3 to 4, 230+ leaders across brands, retailers, suppliers, innovators, and policymakers will be in New York City for two days of practical, off-the-record problem solving under Chatham House rules. The agenda covers the California Textile Recovery Act, creative financing for sustainable production, textile-to-textile recycling economics, and nature-positive strategies for true circularity. In the lead-up to the event, I sat down with Christine Goulay, a 20-year veteran in sustainable fashion, for a conversation on the Supply Chain Revolution® podcast about where brands actually stand, not where their marketing says they stand. That episode is live now and is the perfect preparation for anyone planning to be in the room. I’ll include the link 🔗 in the comments. Sustainable apparel is not a niche concern. It is a supply chain systems challenge that requires the same rigor, collaboration, and design thinking as any major operational transformation. Do you agree? Show your support and like, comment or reshare this to spread awareness. See you in New York. Registration link and details in the first comment. #SustainableFashion #SupplyChain #Sustainability #EPR #CircularEconomy

Three numbers that explain why sustainable apparel is the most consequential supply chain story of 2026. 20 years. How long France has operated textile EPR. The eco-modulation model is proven. The regulatory infrastructure exists. The results are measurable. 70¢. The eco-modulation bonus France returns per garment to brands using certified materials — and cumulative bonuses for certified materials and durability can reach €1. The average baseline EPR cost? A few cents. That is regulation being financially engineered to reward the right behavior. 250+. The number of active Extended Producer Responsibility schemes already operating across Europe. The regulatory tidal wave is not coming. It is already here — and it is moving stateside. Christine Goulay, Founder of Sustainabelle Advisory Services, put it plainly on the Supply Chain Revolution podcast: stop looking at the profit and loss on the first product sale. Look at the total cost of ownership across the entire product lifecycle. That is where the business case lives. Produced in partnership with the Innovation Forum ahead of the Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA, NYC, June 3–4. Register here: https://buff.ly/fj2WvbK 🎧 Full episode → link in comments. #EPR #SustainableFashion #France #CaliforniaTextileRecoveryAct #TextileRegulation #SupplyChain #Circularity #SupplyChainRevolution #SupplyChainQueen #InnovationForum #Procurement #SupplyChainLeadership #DPP #Sustainability #CircularEconomy

Episode 6 of Student Voices is live: Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Building a Supply Chain Career. In this episode, Sheri R Hinish speaks with Isabella Chavez, a Supply Chain Management student at the University of Arkansas and member of WISE, about what it takes to build real-world career readiness before entering the workforce full-time. What this conversation brings to the surface: 🔧 Hands-on experience helps supply chain finally click 💪 Grit matters when students are navigating learning curves and new environments 🤖 AI can be used as a thought partner, double checker, and tool for working through data 🤝 Communication, professionalism, and relationship-building are core supply chain skills 🌐 Building a network early can shape career opportunities and confidence Bella also shares lessons from retail supply chain, her experience with Nestlé and Walmart, and how WISE helps students develop both technical and people-centered skills. If you care about supply chain talent development, student leadership, retail execution, analytics, and building stronger pathways from campus to career, this episode is worth a listen. Find the link in the comments! #SupplyChainRevolution #StudentVoices #SupplyChainCareers #SupplyChainLeadership #RetailSupplyChain #WISE #UniversityOfArkansas #BusinessAnalytics #AIinSupplyChain #CareerDevelopment

A container. Shipped every day. 40% empty. Why? "That's what the customer requested. That's what the supplier indicated in the procurement team." Constantine Komodromos, founder of VesselBot and Time 100 Award winner, on what happens when you actually go and ask the question nobody asked. The supplier had no restriction. The customer had no restriction. Nobody had ever connected the two. So the container kept sailing, 40% empty, every single day. The fix: fewer shipments, fuller containers, less cost, less emissions. For everyone. This is what precision data makes visible. And this is why decarbonization is not a technology problem -- it is a collaboration and visibility problem. Full episode -> link in comments. #Decarbonization #SupplyChainLeadership #LogisticsOptimization #MaritimeShipping #Sustainability #SupplyChainRevolution #SupplyChainQueen #SupplyChainManagement #GreenLogistics #DataDriven #SupplyChainStrategy #ESG https://buff.ly/roKhwJQ https://buff.ly/3bpeRvA

Most university clubs are built around one department. One major. One lane. Tehreem Abrar Haider saw that — and built something different. Because supply chains don't work in silos. They never have. Every sector depends on them. Every function touches them. Every type of professional works within them. The community around supply chain should reflect that too. Full episode → link in comments. #StudentVoices #SupplyChainRevolution #SupplyChain #YoungFounders #WomenInSupplyChain #SupplyChainCommunity #EarlyCareer