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Drilling Deep: How to move off your antiquated supply chain systems

Also on the podcast: The missing diesel price benchmark

John Kingston
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Karon Evanoff is the vice president of the global supply chain for a major manufacturer of audio equipment. A few years ago, she was saddled with out-of-date systems that weren’t keeping up with the latest developments in supply chain software and visibility.

She joins host John Kingston on Drilling Deep to talk about her company’s supply chain transformation and what it took to change direction to a cloud-based approach that is current with the most cutting-edge technology. She discusses what a company needs to do to get there.

Also on the podcast, Kingston talks about the missing data from the Energy Information Administration that so many in trucking rely on every week. What happened to it?


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John Kingston

John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. He created the Dated Brent benchmark, now the world’s most important crude oil marker. He was Director of Oil, Director of News, the editor in chief of Platts Oilgram News and the “talking head” for Platts on numerous media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and Canada’s BNN. He covered metals before joining Platts and then spent a year running Platts’ metals business as well. He was awarded the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2015. In 2010, he won two Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill, an extremely rare accomplishment, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.