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Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing - a chat with Mike Lackey

October 14, 2019 Tom Raftery / Mike Lackey Season 1 Episode 9
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Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing - a chat with Mike Lackey
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The Digital Supply Chain podcast
Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing - a chat with Mike Lackey
Oct 14, 2019 Season 1 Episode 9
Tom Raftery / Mike Lackey

My guest on this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast is Mike Lackey. Mike is the Global Head of Solution Management for Digital Manufacturing at SAP. So far on this Digital Supply Chain podcast series, we haven’t really talked about manufacturing, so I wanted Mike to come on the show to talk about this key aspect of the supply chain.


To set the context at 00:38 I asked Mike for his definition of a Digital Supply Chain


Then I asked Mike at 02:08 what is Smart Manufacturing


At 04:43 I asked Mike how all this automation affects factory workers 


And then at 08:46 I asked if all this automation justified people’s belief that the robots are coming to take all the worker’s jobs


At 11:56 I asked Mike if smart factory technologies were only for large global manufacturers, or if smaller organisations could also benefit


At 15:52 I asked Mike what are the biggest changes we will see in factories in the next 5-10 years 


At 2010 I asked Mike if there was any question I hadn’t asked, that he wished I had

If you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

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Show Notes

My guest on this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast is Mike Lackey. Mike is the Global Head of Solution Management for Digital Manufacturing at SAP. So far on this Digital Supply Chain podcast series, we haven’t really talked about manufacturing, so I wanted Mike to come on the show to talk about this key aspect of the supply chain.


To set the context at 00:38 I asked Mike for his definition of a Digital Supply Chain


Then I asked Mike at 02:08 what is Smart Manufacturing


At 04:43 I asked Mike how all this automation affects factory workers 


And then at 08:46 I asked if all this automation justified people’s belief that the robots are coming to take all the worker’s jobs


At 11:56 I asked Mike if smart factory technologies were only for large global manufacturers, or if smaller organisations could also benefit


At 15:52 I asked Mike what are the biggest changes we will see in factories in the next 5-10 years 


At 2010 I asked Mike if there was any question I hadn’t asked, that he wished I had

If you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.