Future-ready your workforce on The Rebound Podcast.

On this episode, Ashok Viswanathan details the steps required upskill your workforce for the digital supply chain.


On this episode of The Rebound, Ashok Viswanathan, director of supply chain analytics at Best Buy and an adjunct professor at Rutgers University, outlines the four steps of his roadmap to future-ready your workforce. ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi and SCMR Editorial Advisor Bob Trebilcock host.

Digital transformation is no longer a nice to have. It’s an imperative. The part that gets far less attention is the impact of digitalization on the workforce. Afterall, if the pandemic taught us anything it’s that people are still essential.

According to Ashok Viswanathan, a supply chain executive at Best Buy and adjunct professor at Rutgers University, the trick to a sustainable digital transformation is upskilling the workforce in areas like digitalization, automation, artificial intelligence and analytics. For most, the question is:  Where do I start, and how do I get there? Where’s the roadmap?

On this episode of The Rebound, Viswanathan shares his four-point roadmap to upskilling the workforce to get the most from your organization’s digital transformation.

Be sure to listen wherever you get your podcasts.

You can also click here and here to read more from Viswanathan on SCMR.com.


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Bob Trebilcock
Bob Trebilcock is the executive editor for Modern Materials Handling and an editorial advisor to Supply Chain Management Review. He has covered materials handling, technology, logistics, and supply chain topics for nearly 30 years. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at 603-852-8976.
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