Leveraged Supply Chains

Leveraged Supply Chains is the podcast for manufacturing and distribution leaders who want less firefighting and more foresight. Each episode features candid conversations with operators and technologists driving AI-powered procurement, supplier performance, and supply chain visibility. Hosted by the team at Leverage AI, we deliver practical strategies to cut costs, improve on-time delivery, and turn supply chain chaos into competitive advantage.

Leveraged Supply Chains is a technology podcast hosted by Leverage AI, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Leverage AI hosts Leveraged Supply Chains, a technology show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  Episode 10: Your SIOP Is Only as Good as Your Supplier Data (w/ Lisa Anderson, LMA Consulting Group)

  Apr 27, 202633 minS0

  <p>Your SIOP process looks airtight on paper. The S&OP meetings are running. The demand signals are flowing. And your ERP is telling you exactly what you planned to order six weeks ago.</p><p>What it's not telling you is whether your supplier confirmed it, when they actually plan to ship it, or whether that lead time you're planning against was last validated before inflation hit.</p><p>In this episode of Leveraged Supply Chains, Andrew Stroup sits down with Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting Group and one of the most recognized voices in mid-market manufacturing operations...

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  Episode #9

  Episode 9: The SaaSpocalypse Is Here — Why AI Breaks the Old Procurement Playbook (w/ Dr. Elouise Epstein, Kearney)

  Mar 16, 202649 minS0

  <p>Your inbox is full of AI pitches, but your team is still living in email, spreadsheets, and an ERP that hasn't changed how work gets done. So what happens when the old SaaS playbook actually breaks?</p><p>In this episode of Leveraged Supply Chains, Andrew Stroup sits down with Dr. Elouise Epstein, Partner at Kearney, author, and one of the sharpest critics of procurement technology. Elouise built the spider maps that became a public service for anyone navigating the procurement tech landscape. She's now retired them, and the reason why is the thesis of this episode.</p><p>...

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  Episode #8

  Episode 8: Procurement Systems That Stick: Master Data, Adoption, and the Messy Middle (w/ Steve Andrews)

  Jan 24, 202633 minS0

  <p>Most procurement teams don’t lose time in big, strategic decisions — they lose it in the messy middle: PO acknowledgements, promise dates, pricing mismatches, follow-ups, and exceptions that turn the inbox into the real system of record.</p><p>In this episode of Leveraged Supply Chains, Andrew Stroup sits down with Steve Andrews, a supply chain and procurement leader with deep experience across strategic sourcing, ERP-adjacent system implementations, and PE-backed operational scaling.</p><p>Steve breaks down why procurement systems fail after launch — and what makes them stick six to twelve months later. We dig into the two failure modes...

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  Leveraged Supply Chains

  Episode 7: Freight Tech Without the Hype: A Mid-Market Buying Playbook (with Eric Johnson, JOC)

  Jan 2, 202640 minS0

  <p>If you’re a mid-market manufacturer or distributor, your inbox is full of “AI for logistics” and freight-tech pitches — but your team is still living in email threads, spreadsheets, PDFs, and clunky portals. This episode is about closing that gap between the slide deck and what actually works on the ground. </p><p>Andrew Stroup sits down with Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor at the Journal of Commerce (JOC) and host of LogTech Live and the LogTech Letter. Eric spends his days talking to shippers, forwarders, 3PLs, carriers, and software vendors, giving him a rare “meta-operator” view into what really creat...

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  Episode #6

  Episode 6: AI X-Ray Vision for Your Supplier Network (w/ Rob Handfield, NC State + SCRC)

  Dec 8, 202526 minS0

  <p>Most teams still manage risk one supplier at a time. They only see tier-1, they fight fires in email, and they call it “resilience” when they update a slide once a year. In this episode, we zoom out to the network level and ask: how can AI actually give us X-ray vision across the whole supplier base?</p><p>Andrew Stroup sits down with Professor Rob Handfield, Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) at NC State, to break down how AI, data, and “disciplined imagination” can be u...

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