Supply and Demand Chain Executive: 2024 Pros to Know Special Edition

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TOP SHIPPER CHRIS BAHR

Cheers to the best in the business.

Congratulations to all the Pros to Know winners, especially CHEP’s own Frank Bozzo — Vice President and General Manager, CHEP Canada & Pallecon North America — on his lifetime achievement recognition. We’re proud of all you have accomplished for our customers, our employees and the industry over the past 20 years.

The supply chain has undergone massive changes in the decades since Frank began his career. Every day new advancements in automation and regenerative AI are increasing efficiencies and decreasing waste across the supply network. And under his leadership, CHEP has launched many value-added solutions to meet customers’ changing needs – like CHEP’s Automation Engineering Services. Our market expertise partners with customers and equipment suppliers to more sustainably and collaboratively increase throughput and reduce downtime.

More innovation. More collaboration. That’s what you can expect when you partner with CHEP.

Expect more with CHEP.

By Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief

PROS TO KNOW AWARD HONORS the Pioneers of Change, Growth, Efficiency

Many of today’s supply chain pros are more than just leaders within their space; they’re innovators, decision makers, pioneers of change and growth. They’ve spent the last year (and more) creating safer, more efficient supply chains. And the words used to describe many of this year’s winners range from passionate visionaries and influential mentors to strategic decision-makers and collaborative leaders.

They are the true pioneers of change, growth and efficiency.

NEW THIS YEAR: This year’s Pros to Know award was broken down into four distinct categories: TOP PROCUREMENT PROS, TOP SHIPPERS, RISING STARS AND LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT.

Recipients of this year’s award will be profiled in Supply

TOP SHIPPER

CHRIS BAHR

EVP & CIO, TA Services taservices.com

Chris Bahr is TA Services’ go-to authority for executing growth strategy, and has been a major strategic force behind many of TA’s growth initiatives. He is adept in operations, pricing, data analysis, sales, risk management, and integrating culture and systems for TA’s M&A activities. In 2023, Bahr was VP of brokerage operations for TA Services, before being promoted to his current position of EVP and CIO in June 2023. When TA Services acquired KPI Logistics, Bahr was instrumental in expediting and streamlining the process of integrating KPI into the TA Services’ network and organization. As part of his efforts, he transitioned KPI’s previous operations systems to TA’s McLeod TMS. Bahr began his career as a traffic coordinator at Transfreight in 2006, where he quickly climbed to project support and logistics coordinator. Then in 2008, he became a freight

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WHAT’S ALSO NEW THIS YEAR, we now have four overall winners, one for each category, whose application and their journey stood out above the rest.

Let’s first meet the four overall winners:

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consultant, then progressed to a national account manager for six years at Access America Transport. From 2014-2017, he served as senior sales representative at Coyote Logistics before joining the TA Services team in 2017.

What separates him from others is his passion and understanding for data. Thanks to measuring and monitoring data, Bahr aims to help TA Services reach $1 billion in revenue by 2025 through creating efficient and innovative systems and processes.

What’s ahead? Bahr would also like to revamp TA’s carrier vetting process and with a new carrier onboarding platform, streamline communications between desk level operators and the carrier services team, helping to mitigate risk, avoid potential shipping delays and “work smarter, not harder.”

TOP PROCUREMENT PRO

JOSEPH DICLEMENTE

Sr. Dir., IT Purchasing, Vendor Portfolio Mgmt., Internal Process & Strategy, Canoo Technologies | canoo.com

Over the past 12 months, Joseph DiClemente has played a pivotal role in steering Canoo’s IT landscape and operational efficiency. Serving as senior director of IT purchasing, vendor portfolio management, internal process and strategy, DiClemente is tasked with cultivating a positive influence within the automotive industry, shaping a collaborative and uplifting culture internally with stakeholders, promoting leadership and empathy throughout the company and educating and raising awareness about the benefits of electric vehicles. He previously served as VP, sales and quality assurance at RPM, where he helped shape the firm’s strategy. Prior to RPM, he held diverse positions at General Motors, where he managed $324 million-plus contracts.

RISING STAR

CASEY SMOCK

Southeast VP, XPO | xpo.com

As a new VP of the Southeast region at XPO, Casey Smock has spearheaded transformative initiatives to elevate his region to new heights. Rising from humble beginnings as a dockworker at FedEx at the age of 21, Smock climbed the ranks, transitioning from a supervisor of operations to becoming a manager of a service center all before the age of 26. Since joining XPO in 2020 as a service center manager, Smock quickly became senior district director in 2021 and moved into his current role in mid-2023.

But, it’s his focus on growth, optimization and strategy that separates him from the others. For the past 12 months, Smock has ensured XPO had the capacity to better serve the area, especially after a major player exited the market. He oversaw operations in 12 service centers, and by the end of 2023, expanded his oversight to 20 service centers across three states. In doing so, he deployed staff to

What separates DiClemente from the others though is his ability to save the company and its customers money. DiClemente has executed over 350 contracts, resulting in $225 million in savings. He’s reduced vendor count from 150 to 85 by championing internal MVP discussions and applying lean principles. He also achieved 100% improvement in meeting deadline commitments within just 4 months, and established and led a Process Improvement Steering Committee comprising 12 members, resulting in $1 million return on investment.

What’s ahead for DiClemente? He aims to achieve cost savings of $3 million in the IT budget, implement effective vendor payment management strategies, develop and deploy an automated renewal tracker for IT contracts and more.

struggling facilities, assigned metrics/KPIs to owners to drive improvements, and communicated clear messages to ensure consistent service and support across each service center. Simultaneously, he oversaw three size adjustments of service centers and managed changes in employees, tonnage, and shipment count without any disruption. He also approached XPO’s COO about reweighing hazmat shipments for enhanced accuracy in billing, regulatory compliance, and safer transportation. Just one week after Smock’s proposal, the company announced the adoption of this idea, empowering XPO to handle hazmat shipments with heightened efficiency.

In 2024, Smock’s growth plan entails supporting the opening of a new 60-door service center in Lakeland, Fla., finding ways to encourage his team to excel at their roles and be better leaders and continue to stay connected to his workforce, from dock to door.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

MATT RENDALL

CEO & Co-Founder, OTTO Motors by Rockwell Automation | ottomotors.com

In 2009, Matt Rendall and three of his university friends built robots in a basement with just $200 in their pockets. This eventually led to the creation of OTTO Motors, which, in 2023, was acquired by Rockwell Automation, allowing Rendall to provide the company with a long-term home. In 2023, under Rendall’s leadership, OTTO Motors launched two new AMRs to the market, and unveiled the OTTO Certified Dealer Network to provide high-quality service and support locally throughout North America.

But it’s Rendall’s determination to help people solve problems with autonomous technology and his passion for mobile robots that separates him from the others. Rendall has spent his entire career cultivating an extensive

understanding through continuous learning and working companies to educate them on implementing AMRs into their operations at different paces. As part of Rockwell Automation, his goal for 2024 is to help customers unlock the full potential of their facilities with an end-to-end autonomous production logistics solution. Rendall doesn’t take “no” for an answer. His journey over the past 15 years has been filled with new industries, new products and new hurdles, but within just a decade and a half, his leadership took OTTO Motors from a group of friends building robots in a basement to the autonomous material handling solution of today.

HANNAH KAIN

President & CEO, ALOM | alom.com

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Lifetime Achievement

When CEO Hannah Kain founded ALOM in 1997, the company initially served the software duplication and distribution needs of Silicon Valley’s high-tech firms. Today, ALOM can fulfill orders to 85% of U.S. zip codes in 48 hours or less by ground delivery. Under her guidance, work is currently underway to build and outfit a new 169,000-square-foot facility in California. Kain also continues to advocate and invest in operational and technology measures that will enable ALOM to achieve 80% carbon neutrality by 2030 and 100% neutrality by 2033. Kain also led teams to optimize ALOM physical location service levels, establishing a larger new facility in a lower cost area to consolidate capacity from two smaller facilities in a higher cost area. Also under Kain’s leadership, ALOM has experienced record annual revenue growth averaging 23% over the past 5 years. Goals are in place for 2024 to continue nearsourcing the ALOM supply base to move 5-10% more of its supply base to within 100 miles of less of an ALOM production and fulfillment facility. ALOM reduced its greenhouse gas emissions in 2022 by 37% over the previous year, and in 2024, Kain plans to push teams to meet or exceed the 37% goal.

RICH WATSON

Director of Supply Base, ALOM | alom.com

Category: Top Procurement Pros

Rich Watson started his professional career as a print buyer/ broker and print sales representative for several Bay Area print and packaging companies during the 90s and 2000s. Watson joined ALOM in 2012 to establish and manage a worldwide network of specialty printers to support ALOM customers. His expertise in sourcing, negotiating, collaborating and onboarding new suppliers resulted in a promotion to his current role as director of supply base management. Present day, he sources high volumes of specialty materials to serve ALOM customer programs in the medical, utility/energy, technology and automotive

industries, and spearheads ALOM’s procurement sustainability program, resulting in new recycling and reuse initiatives, material sustainability requirements on all purchasing contracts, supplier sustainability compliance and commitment audits. Watson also spearheaded a supplier nearsourcing initiative, where 80% of all ALOM suppliers are now located within 100 miles of an ALOM production and fulfillment center, contributing to a 37% company-wide CO2 emission reduction in 2023. Watson is a champion of ensuring all suppliers are paid on-time and in-full and of extending customers’ supplier diversity spend into the Tier 2 and Tier 3 level. He also supports small to medium-sized diverse or minority- owned suppliers, and plans to refine and implement a new and improved vendor management system that integrates with supplier order intake and management systems to track order production and delivery status.

ANN MARIE JONKMAN Sr. Dir., Global Industry Strategies, Blue Yonder | blueyonder.com

Category:

Lifetime

Achievement

Ann Marie Jonkman maintains 20-plus years of experience leading teams in continuous improvement and consulting, as well as working with and for LSPs in distribution, e-commerce, transportation and shared services in the CPG and retail B2B/B2C operations. She currently serves as senior director, global industry strategies at Blue Yonder, where she counsels LSPs on industryleading best practices and technology advancements. She also collaborates with Blue Yonder’s product development and innovation teams to align on addressing opportunities for customers. Most recently, Jonkman was an integral part of Blue Yonder’s acquisition of Doddle, where she led the sales integration and go-to-market (GTM) efforts and worked closely with both companies to assess competitive intelligence and GTM strategies to propel growth. Most recently, Jonkman helped a global logistics client expand their portfolio to yard and labor tasking, which allowed the client to focus on educating LSPs on the benefits of connected solutions. Over the past 19 months, Jonkman revamped Blue Yonder’s Dynamic Price Discovery solution to a complete microservice, ensuring Blue Yonder’s order management solution expanded beyond retailers to LSPs. Jonkman has worked in several areas, from logistics and

manufacturing to consulting, venture capital and now in software.

BILL

MRZLAK President, ChainSequence, Inc. | chainsequence.com

Category:

Lifetime Achievement

Bill Mrzlak maintains 25 years’ supply chain experience, having shared his supply chain planning and sales and operations planning knowledge. As president and managing partner of ChainSequence, he has been driving the crusade to unite sound supply chain practices with goals-oriented S&OP programs as the most effective means to transforming a fragmented organization into a more centralized, agile and forward-looking 21st-century enterprise. In 2023, Mrzlak deployed programs that embrace sound supply chain practices as foundational building blocks. One such project was with a large international $1 billion pharmaceutical company. The initial S&OP process only covered 60-70% of the total product portfolio. The remaining 30-40% of the portfolio had diverse characteristics that required a different way to look at longer range strategic planning relative to the S&OP horizon. Over the course of several months, Mrzlak developed a similar but parallel S&OP process to account for the nuances of the remaining product portfolio. Mrzlak’s time-tested “people-process-technology” approach has improved operations and efficiency of supply chain planning organizations in many different industries worldwide.

FRANK BOZZO

VP & GM, CHEP Canada & Pallecon North America | www.chep.com

Category:

Lifetime Achievement

Frank Bozzo has served as VP and general manager, CHEP Canada & Pallecon North America since February 2022, where he’s played a key role in improving Pallecon’s gross profit and underlying profit in fiscal year 2023, as well as improving CHEP’s NPS and on-time delivery scores. With more than 20 years of industry

experience, Bozzo champions industry-wide sustainability improvements, actively coaches and guides rising talent, is engaged with CHEP North America’s mentorship programs and challenges his teams and colleagues to think innovatively and test the status quo. With the news of combining CHEP North America and CHEP Latin America to create the CHEP Americas region, Bozzo will help create a U.S.-wide strategy to best support customers and retail partners for the CHEP Canada & Pallecon businesses. Over the last several years, he’s established both businesses for success by driving customer experience and incorporating innovation at every level. This includes helping lead a culture shift toward ensuring CHEP always provides a best-in-class customer experience.

BRIAN TUPPER Director, Asset Control, CHEP USA | www.chep.com

Category: Rising Stars

Brian Tupper, who serves as CHEP’s director, asset control, has dedicated the past few years to ensuring empty pallets are promptly collected from non-contracted distributors by CHEP’s Low Volume Recovery (LVR) fleet, a program he’s grown from a pilot with less than five people since 2019 to a nationwide collection engine. At the beginning of 2023, CHEP’s LVR fleet had roughly 90 team members across the continental U.S. and Hawaii. During the past 12 months, the fleet has grown to a team of roughly 140 people and doubled the total number of assets collected, from 2 million in 2022 to 4 million in 2023. This growth included the addition of a specialized team focused on customer engagement and one that brought full truckload capabilities in-house. Tupper continues to oversee both fleets by combining best-in-class transportation with asset control strategies. He also expanded his team to increase collaboration with the Global Asset Productivity and Digital teams at Brambles (CHEP’s parent company), leveraging technology to deliver customer benefits such as an increased capacity to serve, improved on-time performance and agility to accommodate last-minute collections. Tupper has also seen significant traction with the LVR fleet’s Transportation Safety & Compliance Team, a team he developed to address gaps in knowledge around the DOT Compliance as well as Transportation and

Material Handling Safety. Finally, Tupper and his team developed a roadmap to help CHEP establish its target of equipping roughly 50% of all internal fleets with zeroemission vehicles by 2030.

BRITAIN PAVLIC

Director of Transportation Technology, enVista | envistacorp.com

Category:

Lifetime Achievement

With a professional tenure spanning three decades, Britain Pavlic, director of transportation technology at enVista, has excelled in various management roles, demonstrating expertise across supply chain strategy, customer service, carrier sourcing, technology implementations, and solutions architecture and design. Over the past year, Pavlic and her team have been developing an online TMS training platform tailored uniquely to suit the needs of each organization. Previously, she served as director of 3PL implementations at MercuryGate International, where her strategic guidance culminated in $7 million in new business development that fiscal year. Another notable role as director of logistics for a large shipper was her integral involvement in developing a comprehensive inbound freight management program, which catalyzed a substantial growth from 39% to 52% of company-managed freight over two years and propelled a surge in freight allowance revenue, from $720K to $4.1 million annually. Additionally, Pavlic and her team implemented comprehensive carrier sourcing strategy enhancements, which resulted in a 15% increase in truck utilization, 30% reduction in negative freight spend, and a 20% decrease in overall freight volume.

PATRICIA J. MOSER

Principal & Owner, i3 Advantage Inc. | i3advantage.com

Category:

Lifetime Achievement

Patricia Moser has continued to do in the last 12 months what she has done for the last three decades, and that is working with companies to help demonstrate the possible. Currently serving as principal and owner of i3

Advantage, Inc., she has provided companies a roadmap to transformation by focusing on the organizational construct, how to create a dynamic governance structure, how to use technology to streamline processes and reduce cycle time, determine which metrics support the advancement of the lean agenda, how training of clients and vendors is the cornerstone of an effective/efficient supply chain and how a marketing plan focused on enhancing the brand image of procurement ensures added value. Moser started in supply chain back when it was referred to as materials management. She started in marketing as a management trainee for a vaccine manufacturer, before moving over to production planning and inventory control. From there, she worked into various roles in supply chain and in diverse industries such as international development, infrastructure, information technology, telecommunications, government, banking, distribution, NGOs and healthcare. In 2015, Moser joined the UN as a CPO for a large agency, where she moved the agency from a paper-based procurement function to one of procurement excellence.

RAJ MAHALINGAM

Supply Chain Data Scientist, Intel Corporation | intel.com

Category: Rising Stars

Raj Mahalingam serves as supply chain data scientist at Intel Corporation, where he developed an automated system that provides real-time tracking and allocation. This solution delivered efficiency improvement of 416 hours annually for the procurement team and avoided an estimated $300,000 in operating costs. Previously, he worked at Cardinal Health, where, in 2022, he developed a drug supply disruption optimization project that leverages historical data and machine learning to forecast product restocking times. Mahalingam also pioneered the supply disruption tool for predictive holdouts, which automates the process of identifying alternative pharmaceuticals during supply disruptions, and played a pivotal role in transitioning Cardinal Health’s supply chain operations’ technological infrastructure to a cloud computing environment. Mahalingam also completed courses on blockchain, financial risk modeling, design thinking for innovation and Lean six sigma yellow belt for process improvement and operational excellence.

SARAH BARNESHUMPHREY Founder, Let’s Talk Supply Chain | letstalksupplychain.com

Category: Lifetime Achievement

Sarah Barnes-Humphrey serves as founder of Let’s Talk Supply Chain and Blended Pledge, a non-profit designed to give grants to cover travel expenses so that 3-4 under-represented voices in the supply chain could travel to a conference to speak. The Blended Pledge initiative gives a platform and opportunity for supply chain leaders to feel seen and heard and connect with one another on hard topics. The application-based grant program has created an affordable membership community with exclusive content that includes best practices from some of the biggest supply chain leaders and provides life changing/ career-changing opportunities to learn, network, mentor, move careers forward and bring the supply chain community together. In fact, Blended Pledge partnered

with the Women in Supply Chain Forum to fully cover travel expenses for two attendees. The need to help others stems from Barnes-Humphrey’s journey, when in 2017, she lost everything pertaining to her original podcast program. So, she taught herself graphic design, social media and website design, and in 2018, rebranded to Let’s Talk Supply Chain. In January 2018, she launched her Women in Supply Chain series, and continues to advocate for women and diversity in the supply chain.

DAVID MILLER Senior Director, The Marino Group

| mrs-cmc.com

Category: Rising Stars

David Miller, senior director for The Marino Group, has spent the past 12 months working with his team to open new state-of-the-art depots in Houston, Texas, and Mobile, Ala.; championing

Maureen Sullivan Global Head of Supply Chain Finance

and implementing The Marino Group’s home-grown Terminal Operating System; and developing 24Safety, a safety and risk management program that works toward keeping employees, partners, customers and vendors safe in the workplace. He currently serves as the youngest board member for the West Gulf Maritime Association and is the youngest senior director for The Marino Group. His goals for 2024 and beyond entail achieving zero lost time accidents, expanding operations nationwide and recruiting, coaching and retaining young talent. Miller was also named a recipient of Food Logistics’ 2024 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award.

NICK BANICH

Chief Revenue Officer, Miebach Consulting | miebach.com/us/en

Category: Rising Stars

Nick Banich, chief revenue officer for Miebach Consulting, plays a pivotal role in sponsoring and supporting a number of client transformation engagements, including guiding a specialty retailer through the redesign of its distribution network and assessing its facility automation feasibility. Internally, Banich was instrumental in supporting the expansion of Miebach’s parental leave policy in the United States and Canada to include benefits for both primary and nonprimary caregivers. He also led the team in a new branding strategy and upcoming launch of Miebach’s sub brand, Miebach Digital, to support the needs of clients looking to harness the power of data to unlock supply chain potential. In the next 12 months, Banich plans to introduce Miebach’s solution capabilities for the North American airport and baggage handling systems industry. When he joined the Miebach Group almost 9 years ago, he was the youngest partner ever nominated in the company’s history.

MAUREEN SULLIVAN

Mng. Dir., Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, MUFG | mufgamericas.com

Category:

Lifetime Achievement

Maureen Sullivan was appointed global head of supply chain finance and co-head of working

capital solutions at MUFG in 2023, maintaining full P&L responsibility for the Supply Chain Finance (SCF) practice and leading a team of more than 150 subject matter experts who provide corporate clients with products that optimize working capital and provide early payment options for their suppliers. During Sullivan’s tenure, the MUFG SCF franchise has experienced threefold growth, delivering value-added solutions to hundreds of clients. During the past year, Sullivan led the expansion of MUFG’s SCF business to cover clients also based in Europe, and launched SCF to Asian-based clients with new transactions booked in MUFG’s Singapore regional hub. She also played a critical role in the sale of Union Bank to U.S. Bancorp by leading the transfer of the Trade Payables Services technology platform from Union Bank to MUFG. She also developed a sustainability component within SCF structures, with an S&P-accredited SCF program called Transition SCF Financing, which allows the client to select suppliers who can provide sustainable improvements as they transition to a greener business model. Over the past 30 years, Sullivan has held senior roles with MUFG, HSBC, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citi, while providing trade and SCF to banking clients, including buyers, suppliers, and distributors.

JAGAN REDDY

Mng. Partner, Netlogistik | netlogistik.com

Category:

Lifetime Achievement

Jagan Reddy, managing partner of Netlogistik, has been in the supply chain industry since 1995, working with customers to understand their issues and challenges, then creating solutions to help meet those issues, today and in the future. Reddy has led Netlogistik to implement solutions from Blue Yonder, SAP, Honeywell and others, and has helped the company streamline its integration offerings between the WMS and partnering with warehouse automation providers. This past year, Reddy added 100 employees to the U.S. marketing team and almost doubled revenue from last year. Reddy maintains 20-plus years’ experience in strategy, transformation and P&L management in enterprise software businesses ranging from a $30 million SaaS provider to a $1 billion supply chain/retail software company. His core competencies include strategic vision and planning, strategy management, GTM strategy and

planning, product strategy and development, product marketing, SaaS and platform business models, global business development, M&A due diligence/integrations and global account management.

JASON THAM

Co-Founder & CEO, Nulogy | nulogy.com

Category: Lifetime Achievement

Jason Tham, co-founder and CEO of Nulogy, is not just an executive sitting behind a desk. He has sat in the seats of many of his customers, having worked in manufacturing, packaging and contract manufacturing. Over the past year, he’s launched new products, including Moonshot, an innovation pipeline of products for collaboration between trading partners within a supply chain network. Under Tham’s leadership, Nulogy established key partnerships with other industry software

leaders, empowering customers to leverage best-of-breed solutions to their unique supply chain challenges. He also helped launch Nulogy’s Supplier Collaboration Solution, which provides shared transparency into the deep transactional data of the supply ecosystem. Other key achievements include leading a $20 million CAD funding raise; growing its presence in Europe; winning new customers in emerging markets; and experiencing tremendous growth in under-served regions. Additionally, Tham was instrumental in hiring more senior female executives; helping establish an education fund for all employees; helping support tech entrepreneurs through programs focused on capital, talent, technology, and customers; and working with local colleges to create partnership programs.

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HUGO FUENTES

CEO, The Owl Solutions | theowlsolutions.com

Category:

Top Procurement Pros

Hugo Fuentes maintains 25 years’ experience in supply chain across North and South America. Prior to founding The Owl Solutions, he served as VP of global planning and procurement for Factors Group of Companies, where his insight into the inefficiencies plaguing supply chain operations began to crystallize. In 2018, Fuentes established The Owl Solutions, and as CEO, emphasizes the importance of transforming data into meaningful insights and insights into tangible corrective actions. Over the past five years, The Owl team, under Fuentes’ leadership, has assisted mid-sized manufacturers in enhancing their supply chain performance, including one instance that resulted in a +10 basis points improvement in on-time-in-full metrics, and another that resulted in a 90% reduction in time spent on low value-added activities for clients. By evaluating existing processes, he identifies what works and what doesn’t, and then implements solutions to provide clear insights into the supply chain. Over the next year, Fuentes aims to empower mid-sized manufacturers, revolutionize procurement practices, streamline and simplify day-to-day tasks, integrate innovative technologies, and implement tools that help make jobs easier.

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THOMAS MOORE

CEO & Founder, ProvisionAI | provisionai.com

Category:

Lifetime Achievement

Tom Moore is CEO and founder of ProvisionAI and Transportation Warehouse Optimization, which ProvisionAI just acquired, and founder of AutoScheduler.AI, which is now run by his son, Keith Moore (who was also named a winner of this year’s Pros to Know award). Moore maintains over 40 years of experience in the supply chain industry, starting in operations research. In the past year, he’s focused on helping the Top 25 CPG companies recognize savings in their supply chain processes. Prior to founding his businesses, he ran warehouses, truck fleets and production and supply planning. In the last year, he ramped up the implementation of LevelLoad, a next-generation

transportation scheduling tool that fixes replenishment. Working with a team, he developed the original optimization algorithms for AutoScheduler.AI, ProvisionAI, and Transportation Warehouse Optimization to help businesses make data-driven decisions that lead to more efficient and cost-effective supply chain operations. His goal in 2024 is to remove 188,000 trucks off the road by deploying more Auto02 load-building systems and transportation planning systems.

ANYA SKOMOROKHOVA

Co-Founder & COO, PorterLogic | porterlogic.com

Category: Rising Stars

Anya Skomorokhova is co-founder and COO of PorterLogic, tasked with GTM strategy and execution, business development, finance and operations, and boosting PorterLogic’s profile and brand awareness. Since joining PorterLogic last summer, she has been driving all GTM and commercialization efforts, including business development, finance, and operations. In 2023, she built a $3 million direct sales pipeline and sourced $1 million of additional partner opportunities within a year, resulting in 300% revenue growth and doubling the size of its partner ecosystem and the size of the team. Also in 2023, Skomorokhova worked to help create the most impactful low-code supply chain solutions possible, all while making an impact as a woman in the supply chain. Going into 2024, Skomorokhova plans to continue growing the PorterLogic customer base, expanding the customer pipeline and brand awareness and giving supply chain teams the systems they need to maintain their competitive advantage.

JONATHAN PORTER

CEO & Founder, PorterLogic | porterlogic.com

Category: Rising Stars

Jonathan Porter is the founder and CEO of PorterLogic, leading the team through a year of growth. In the past year, he’s guided a team that’s grown revenue by 300%, doubled the size of its partner ecosystem, and quadrupled the size of the team. He also built engineering and customer success teams and continues to spearhead both product development and

customer implementation projects, including launching PorterLogic’s largest-to-date customer. After graduating with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2015, where he was also a Denning Technology and Management scholar, he started his career working with supply chain and business intelligence software at Manhattan Associates, before working at startups and boutique consulting firms. After years of seeing how companies need more flexible and modern software to streamline their operations and costs, Porter built the low-code application platform that in November 2020, became PorterLogic. Going into 2024, Porter plans to continue growing the PorterLogic team, especially on the engineering side as well as supporting current customers and developing the PorterLogic platform to equip more supply chain teams with software that helps connect the procurement, warehousing and demand planning functionality.

BINDIYA VAKIL CEO & Co-Founder, Resilinc | resilinc.com

Category: Lifetime Achievement

For the past 19 years, Bindiya Vakil, CEO and co-founder of Resilinc, has focused her efforts on analyzing and enhancing supply chain risk management. Nearly 13 years ago, she founded Resilinc to fortify global supply chains, emphasizing resilience, sustainability, transparency, and security. Throughout the past year, Vakil devoted considerable time to traversing diverse cities and nations, sharing her wealth of expertise and thought leadership with various government leaders. She’s also lent her insights to collaborative forums uniting semiconductor industry stalwarts, government officials and automotive industry leaders. Vakil has also offered her expertise on several national broadcasts, including CNBC and Bloomberg; orchestrated a substantial funding round from Vista Equity

Partners in May 2023; and committed supply chain initiatives and collaboration between Resilinc and government/defense agencies, healthcare systems, and critical infrastructure. Vakil boasts an extensive 23-year career focused on the supply chain industry, and was named Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s first overall Women in Supply Chain winner.

VEE SRITHAYAKUMAR

Product Manager, Tecsys | tecsys.com

Category: Rising Stars

Vee Srithayakumar’s tenure as a product manager at Tecsys has been marked by significant contributions to the evolution of WMS, leveraging his deep understanding of warehouse operations. His hands-on experience in managing multiple warehousing environments has positioned him to develop user-centric solutions that address real-world challenges in the supply chain. Over the past 12 months, Srithayakumar developed and released an automated wave planning solution that streamlines operations and enables warehouse users to allocate resources more strategically. Srithayakumar also introduced a flexible replenishment feature, which allows for customizable prioritization and enables supply chain entities to rapidly respond to rush orders. One of his key strategies involves direct on-site engagement with users, where he can provide informed recommendations, and fostering a culture where listening is a priority.

CORINNA HOAG

Senior Product Line Manager, Tecsys | tecsys.com

Category: Lifetime Achievement

Corinna Hoag has been a positive influence in the supply chain and logistics sector for over 30 years, primarily through her role as a senior product line manager for Tecsys. In this capacity, she actively communicates with supply chain users and leaders to extract valuable insights about their challenges and experiences with their supply chain tech stack. Using this information, she then crafts a visionary end-to-end roadmap for product development, focusing on creating solutions that address these market needs.

Hoag’s responsibility is to ensure that the interplay and handoff of supply chain responsibilities across different stakeholders is both seamless and efficient. Over the past year, Hoag collaborated with Workday to integrate a supply chain management solution for the healthcare sector, offering tailor-made, enterprise-wide visibility specifically designed for healthcare settings. Her focus revolves around ensuring consistency across applications and facilitating seamless data transfer, particularly in scenarios where crossdocking adds on layers of complexity. She is also involved in pioneering work for Consolidated Pharmacy Service Centers by providing global visibility and traceability of every pharmaceutical within a health system.

NICK YETSKO

VP, Midwest Region, XPO | xpo.com

Category: Lifetime Achievement

Nick Yetsko was promoted to regional VP in 2023, tasked with turning around three underperforming service centers in the Rocky Mountain region. In just under a year, under his leadership, all three service centers saw holistic improvements, spanning quality, service, operational KPIs, and overall profitability. One of the centers even earned recognition as the No. 1 Class 1 service center. Yetsko also played a vital role in navigating and optimizing XPO’s organizational landscape over the past year, where he instituted personnel changes that bolstered trust among specific customer groups. He also established mutually beneficial relationships with other companies, customers, and DOT entities, and through external mentorship programs, promoted over 45 of his reports.

ERIN GOHEEN VP, Technology, XPO | xpo.com

Category: Rising Stars

Over the past 12 months, Erin Goheen, VP, technology for XPO, has spearheaded multiple transformative projects within the pricing, linehaul, and operations sectors for the data science team. Collaborating with data engineering, she’s helped develop workflows to store the output of data science

models, subsequently utilized by the business intelligence team to craft insightful dashboards. Goheen introduced Dynamic Pricing, a system that adjusts shipment pricing based on real-time demand and supply dynamics. Her strategic approach enables the fine-tuning of data science models to adapt to varying business and market conditions. Also under her guidance, XPO’s tech team developed a framework for calculating freight left behind at every site, identifying potential sites where capacity is being hit and potential reasons for that freight being left behind.

KEVIN FLYNN

VP, National Sales, XPO | xpo.com

Category: Top Shippers

Over the past 12 months, Kevin Flynn, VP, national sales for XPO, helped create and oversee the company’s business development team in the national channel, working cross-functionally with internal business partners to build out a team that

would secure national level customers. Flynn plays a major role in many of the company’s annual renegotiations with key customers, looking for new solutions that benefit both parties. He is a true “student of the industry,” advocating for a sales culture that puts the customer front and center in all internal conversations.

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