Tag: OM podcasts

Our Top Five OM Podcasts of 2025

Our podcasts are gaining a wider and wider audience  and we are creating new ones every few weeks. In case you missed them, here are the top five of those that went live in 2025.

  1. OM Podcast #37:Global Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Professor Darrell Edwards at the U. of Tennessee shares his decades of industry experience.

  2. OM Podcast #34: An Inside Look at Tariffs  Bob O’Donnell, VP of Business Development of Life Sciences at East Coast Warehouse, who previously spent 13 years with Maersk, discusses tariffs and their potential impacts.

  3. OM Podcast #38: Editorial Leadership and the Future of  Operations Management Texas Christian University Prof. Tyson Browning  discuss Tyson’s six-year tenure as journal editor of the Journal of Operations Management, the evolving role of AI in research, and the future direction of the operations management field.

4. OM Podcast #32: Supply Chain Risk Management George Zsidisin, the Barringer Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Missouri – Saint Louis is author of several books on Supply Chain Risk.

5. OM Podcast #31: The Impact of AI on Jobs and the Environment  Charlie Render is President of Render Analytics, which helps businesses of all kinds implement AI.  He is also the creator of the popular job-search engine, Apply Genie (ApplyGenie.ai)

Have you subscribed to this podcast on Apple podcasts? Just go to your Apple podcasts app, search “Heizer Render Munson OM Podcast,” and subscribe to get all our podcasts on your mobile device as soon as they come out!

OM Podcast #28: Thanksgiving in the Cold Food Supply Chain

Happy Thanksgiving!  In our latest podcast, Barry Render interviews Cindy Parker, Director of Operations at Americold Logistics LLC, which offers innovative supply chain solutions and cold storage.  Cindy and Barry discuss the importance of the cold food supply chain, particularly around important events like Thanksgiving.

 

Transcript

A Word document of this podcast will download by clicking the word Transcript above.

 

Have you subscribed to this podcast on Apple podcasts? Just go to your Apple podcasts app, search “Heizer Render OM Podcast,” and subscribe to get all our podcasts on your mobile device as soon as they come out!

Instructors, assignable auto-graded exercises using this podcast are available in MyLab OM. See our earlier blog post with a recording of author and user Chuck Munson to learn how to find these, or contact your Pearson rep to learn more! https://www.pearson.com/en-us/help-and-support/contact-us/find-a-rep.html

OM Podcast #25: Global Supply Chain Disruptions

In our latest, very timely podcast Barry Render interviews David Panzera, Vice President of Purchasing for FXI, who has 30 years of experience in global supply chains.  Dave and Barry discuss disruptions to global supply chains, including increasingly common weather events and the lingering, long-term impacts they have.

 

 

Transcript

A Word document of this podcast will download by clicking the word Transcript above.

 

Did you know our podcast is now available on Apple podcasts? Just go to your Apple podcasts app, search “Heizer Render OM Podcast,” and subscribe to get all our podcasts on your mobile device as soon as they come out!

Instructors, assignable auto-graded exercises using this podcast are available in MyLab OM. See our earlier blog post with a recording of author and user Chuck Munson to learn how to find these, or contact your Pearson rep to learn more! https://www.pearson.com/en-us/help-and-support/contact-us/find-a-rep.html

OM Podcast #22: Continuous Process Improvement and Lean at Pearson Education

We are gearing back up for the fall semester with some new podcasts!  In this most recent podcast Barry Render interviews John Beakes, Senior Director of Continuous Process Improvement at Pearson, the publisher of our Heizer/Render/Munson textbook.  Barry and John discuss the importance of Lean and continuous process improvement at Pearson and in other industries John has worked in.

 

 

Did you know our podcast is now available on Apple podcasts? Just go to your Apple podcasts app, search “Heizer Render OM Podcast,” and subscribe to get all our podcasts on your mobile device as soon as they come out!

Transcript

A Word document of this podcast will download by clicking the word Transcript above.

Instructors, assignable auto-graded exercises using this podcast are available in MyLab OM. See our earlier blog post with a recording of author and user Chuck Munson to learn how to find these, or contact your Pearson rep to learn more! https://www.pearson.com/en-us/help-and-support/contact-us/find-a-rep.html

OM Podcasts Now Available on SoundCloud

 Our OM Podcasts are now available on SoundCloud! You can just listen to any of the 15 at that site, and you don’t need to an account to listen. Here is the link:

https://on.soundcloud.com/b1kRJ

 

We are also planning to distribute podcasts so our listeners can subscribe in the future and listen where they already enjoy their podcasts.  More to come on that soon.