September 6, 2023
31 min Listen
Vineet Khanna shares his perspective on the pivotal role supply chain leaders play in unlocking the full potential of the business.
The world of today and the years ahead presents a cocktail of unprecedented challenges to business leaders. Sustained delivery of growth and profitability has become more complex considering challenges of climate, inflation, geo-political risks, and the imperative to drive sustainability while building resilience and agility. The good news – this sets the ideal stage for supply chains to rise to the occasion and operate at their full potential as strategic differentiators that impact the triple bottom line.
But realizing this state requires supply chain leaders to move beyond “a seat at the table.” Instead, they need to lead it.
In this episode of Masters of Digital Transformation, host Caleb Masters is joined by Vineet Khanna, former SVP and Global Head of Supply Chain at Nestlé, to explore:
- His career journey, progressing from management trainee to Global Head of Supply Chain at Nestlé.
- The pivotal role of supply chain leaders in driving high-performing teams to surmount today's unique business challenges and satisfy customer demand.
- The broader societal responsibilities of successful businesses beyond merely meeting demand and securing a profitable bottom line.
- How to leverage technology to align culture investments with tangible business outcomes.
About the authors
o9
The Digital Brain Platform
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence.
