Jamshed Dubash | Supply Chain Podcast | Vaspar Strategies

A pioneer's early vision to increase transparency and efficiencies across the entire supply chain

In this episode, Ken Forster talks to Jamshed Dubash, CEO of Vaspar Strategies, LLC, a consultancy firm specializing in sales and marketing, as well as go-to-market strategy planning for firms in the IoT/M2M/RFID arena.

Jamshed is a global executive with a passion for creating business opportunities in the pharmaceutical and lifecycles, retail and CPG manufacturing, transportation, and logistics marketing spaces by integrating IoT Edge sensors, big data, and advanced analytics to help companies increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs.

He has successfully managed large multinational projects at the tactical and strategic levels for Fortune 100 companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He started his IoT leadership journey at Procter and Gamble, where he led their RFID efforts at Gillette in the famous RFID pilots with Walmart. He held executive leadership roles at pioneering IoT and RFID companies, including Mojix, Senaya, DeepMagic, and, most recently, TraceLink.

Discussion Points Were:

• What would you consider to be your ‘Digital Thread’?
• What are some of the efforts and accomplishments that led to Gillette and RFID's ground-breaking automatic ID efforts?
• What were some of the key use cases that you concentrated on at the time, and how well did passive RFID technology perform in those areas?
• The Auto-ID Center's promise never materialized. A fundamental technological mismatch, or simply ahead of your time?
• You held executive positions at companies like Mojix, Senaya, DeepMagic, and most recently TraceLink that built on your pioneering product visibility work across the supply chain. What would be your top three supply chain visibility takeaways from this time?
• How close are we to realizing the original Auto-ID promise, and what are the key technologies?
• Tell us a little bit about Vaspar's unique value proposition? What methods do you use to collaborate with your clients to accelerate their supply chain solutions?
• What do you forecast for supply chain visibility over the next 5 years?
  
  

Good To Know: 

RFID is an acronym for “radio-frequency identification” and refers to a technology whereby digital data encoded in RFID tags or smart labels (defined below) are captured by a reader via radio waves. RFID is similar to barcoding in that data from a tag or label are captured by a device that stores the data in a database. RFID, however, has several advantages over systems that use barcode asset tracking software. The most notable is that RFID tag data can be read outside the line-of-sight, whereas barcodes must be aligned with an optical scanner. If you are considering implementing an RFID solution, take the next step and contact the RFID experts at AB&R® (American Barcode and RFID).

RFID TECHNOLOGY IS EMPLOYED IN MANY INDUSTRIES TO PERFORM SUCH TASKS AS:

• Inventory management
• Asset tracking
• Personnel tracking
• Controlling access to restricted areas
• ID Badging
• Supply chain management
• Counterfeit prevention (e.g. in the pharmaceutical industry)