{"podcast":{"title":"Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast","slug":"great-question-a-manufacturing-podcast-6380597","podcast_index_feed_id":6380597,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/thetoolbelt/feed.xml","website_url":"https://thetoolbelt.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4283355/Security_5__rb8fg5.jpg","author":"Endeavor Business Media’s Manufacturing Group","episode_count":412,"summary":"Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast offers news and information for the people who make, store and move things and those who manage and maintain the facilities where that work gets done. Manufacturers from chemical producers to automakers to machine shops can listen for critical insights into the technologies, economic conditions and best practices that can influence how to best run facilities to reach operational excellence. Contributing to the podcast are 14 seasoned manufacturing journalists from Endeavor Business Media’s Manufacturing Group","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T16:18:29.963390+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-question-a-manufacturing-podcast-6380597"},"episode":{"title":"How Jabil Drives Revenue with Procurement and Supply Chain (IndustryWeek)","slug":"how-jabil-drives-revenue-with-procurement-and-supply-chain-industryweek","published_at":"2026-05-28T06:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-question-a-manufacturing-podcast-6380597/how-jabil-drives-revenue-with-procurement-and-supply-chain-industryweek","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-question-a-manufacturing-podcast-6380597","url":"https://thetoolbelt.podbean.com/e/how-jabil-drives-procurement-supply-chain-as-a-cost-driver-industryweek/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cnqw6dcwwee9hqxs/Great_Question_Putre_Jabil_5286sok7.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Great Question, IndustryWeek Senior Editor Laura Putre talks with Frank McKay and Graham Scott, Supply Chain Officer and Chief Procurement Officer at Jabil respectively, about how they transformed procurement to a cost driver at the global contract manufacturer—offering their own optimized supply-chain technology to customers as a service. They also discuss how they’ve tackled recent procurement challenges—such as tariffs and memory constraints in the AI market—and built a pipeline to develop procurement talent.","meta_description":"In this episode of Great Question, IndustryWeek Senior Editor Laura Putre talks with Frank McKay and Graham Scott, Supply Chain Officer and Chief Procurem…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2017,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/great-question-a-manufacturing-podcast-6380597/episodes/how-jabil-drives-revenue-with-procurement-and-supply-chain-industryweek/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-question-a-manufacturing-podcast-6380597/how-jabil-drives-revenue-with-procurement-and-supply-chain-industryweek.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}