Building a global supply chain from Tasmania with Adam Blake, Joint Chief Executive, Blundstone

In this episode, host James Scotland ask Adam Blake: ‘How do we, in Australia, build resilient and sustainable supply chains in and from Australia’. Blundstone Australia is a 150-year, family-owned, Hobart-based, globally-successful boot and apparel manufacturer. The company sells over 3 million pairs of boots annually to multiple markets in over 70 countries. It has a well-structured brand story and complex supply chain across the world. James and Adam address many meaty topics in this wide-ranging and insightful conversations including: • Achieving successful rapid international growth using innovative business design and organisational structures. • Breaking all the rules to achieve stunning global reach and success from a traditional Tasmanian manufacturing business. • Redesigning the business to become truly consumer-centric. • Managing seasonal global demand, highly-variable supply requirements and ‘lumpy’ cash flow challenges. • The excitement of ever-increasing Black Friday 4-day online sales, and why not to visit the Distribution Centre. • The lessons of ESG, the digitalisation of the business, implementing new ERP systems, managing global pandemics and riding the roller coaster of constant rapid growth. • The future of the business and the challenges ahead. • Sponsoring V8 supercars and the Hobart Stadium. • And much more... Adam is a leading global supply chain and brand design specialist, and an engaging and insightful conversationist. This is an episode not to be missed.

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Building a global supply chain from Tasmania with Adam Blake, Joint Chief Executive, Blundstone is an episode from Ai Group Podcasts by Australian Industry Group.

This episode is 00:58:37 long.

This episode was published on Aug 9, 2024.

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