Helping small to mid-sized manufacturers successfully grow into retail by building a solid supply chain fueling 2X/3X growth.

VP-Level supply chain executive with 15 years leading enterprise execution and working capital performance in complex, high-volume, high-SKU environments. I currently lead the enterprise supply chain engine at Vestis (formerly Aramark Uniform Services), spanning SIOP/IBP, demand planning, supply planning, purchasing, production management, and inventory management, with a team of 28.

Scope & scale: $150M inventory, $500M annual spend influence, 20K+ SKUs, and a distributed global organization, executive-facing cadence across Sales/Ops/Finance. 

I’m known for turning ambiguity into execution — building operating cadence, accountability, and cross-functional alignment with Sales, Operations, and Finance to deliver measurable results: inventory reduction, improved fill rates, backorder elimination, and stronger cash flow performance.

Highlights include:
•	Improved fill rates by 16% and increased inventory turns (reducing inventory 19% within 14 months)
•	Reduced backorders by 64% by implementing an SIOP framework aligned to business priorities
•	Reorganized a global supply chain team to improve retention, engagement, and scalability

Operating model: executive SIOP/IBP cadence; KPI ownership across service, inventory and working capital.

Long-term, I’m focused on VP-level supply chain leadership where I can lead end-to-end execution and transformation across planning, procurement, manufacturing/operations, and logistics execution.

Leadership style: calm, direct, accountable, and people-first.

Lindsey Walker

I’ve noticed 95% of professionals — both on LinkedIn and “in the wild” — fall into one of two camps:
	1.	Those who fear AI will replace them
	2.	Those who use AI to make themselves irreplaceable

In supply chain, execution isn’t downstream from strategy. It IS strategy.

Over the last 90 days, I’ve used Copilot to:
• Build “insane” nested Excel formulas in ~30 seconds
• Validate an 18-month vendor forecast for an RFP
• Flag >20% YoY variances in large planning outputs
• Pressure-test recommendations from a CFO/COO lens before exec discussions
• Summarize long meeting notes into crisp actions + owner lists

AI isn’t replacing leadership.
But it is changing the speed at which we can deliver.

👉 If you’re using AI in real workflows — what’s one use case that’s made you materially faster/better? Always looking for new ideas!

#SupplyChain #AIinBusiness #Copilot #Operations #Leadership

VP-Level Supply Chain Leader | $150M Inventory | $500M Spend | Plan-Buy-Make | Working Capital & Service

Dusting off my email login after a great holiday week — full of family adventures, a few too many cookies, and a little virus (holidays with a 5- and 8-year-old wouldn’t be complete without a few germs right? 🫠).

I tend to set intentions for the year ahead, rather than formal goals.

They keep me focused not just on what I deliver, but how I show up — and preserve flexibility as priorities inevitably shift.

This year, one of my professional intentions is simple:
be more intentional about what (and how) I prioritize.

At scale, the hardest problems aren’t technical.
They’re deciding what truly matters right now — and what can wait without creating unnecessary risk.

In supply chain, that tension is everywhere:
• inventory vs. service
• speed vs. stability
• short-term performance vs. long-term capability
• stabilizing today vs. building for tomorrow

Earlier in my career, I focused on solving individual issues well.
Over time, the work has shifted toward making tradeoffs explicit, aligning around them early, and facilitating decisions before conflicting priorities turn into chaos.

Clarity doesn’t come from perfect plans.
It comes from well-communicated priorities — and the discipline to revisit them as conditions change.

👉 Curious to hear from fellow supply chain leaders: what intention are you carrying into the year ahead?

Joe Santaularia

First Vice President

What Do I Do for My Clients?
- Assisting warehouse users and 3PLs in finding additional space internationally through my affiliation (www.corfac.com)
- Building partnerships with 3PL executives + founders + entrepreneurs, and assisting them grow via opportunities flowing through the LCG.
Pain points
- “We’re running out of space, or our landlord is jamming us in their renewal”
- “We’re looking for partnerships to scale our operations”
- “We’re losing money because of supply chain issues”
- If someone is navigating space constraints, growth opportunities, or operational bottlenecks

Joe Santaularia is a Senior Vice President/Managing Partner for Bradford. His daily activities include business development, brokerage activities, along with supply chain + 3PL revenue advisement.

Joe is also an active member and serves on the executive committee as President-elect for CORFAC International. CORFAC  international CRE brokerage organization and pairs clients with local partners who have decades of experience in their respective markets. 

He assists warehouse users & 3PL’s find more space internationally, but spends most of his time building partnerships w/ 3PL execs, connecting them to individuals within his network that have opportunities they can’t handle, and need partners to pass to.

Through his recent efforts, Joe has created his own eco-system (LCG)  of collaborative supply chain individuals and leverages this network to assist his clients + partners perform better operationally and find more revenue opportunities/streams.

Joe has over 6,000,000 SF of completed deals and has been Bradford’s Top Producer for Marketing Excellence from 2012 – 2020, 2023-2024

Senior Vice President - Managing Partner - Industrial Tenant Representation Division

....Annnnnnddddd.....We're off to the races 🏇🏽🏇🏇🏿🏇🏼🏇🏾🏇🏾

(Reel 7)
Emma Pignato 
CORFAC International

Relationships over Transactions | Matching 3PL Execs with opportunities that flow through my supply chain ecosystem (LCG) | Lead Bradford’s DFW-Centric CRE Investor Program, annual investment yields exceed 20%

Lunar New Year strikes again

> 40' containers traveling from China across the Pacific to the west coast now up to $2617, up 22% from a week ago
> 12% bound for the east coast
> Oct 2025 saw the lowest rates since 2023 
> Container rates projected to be down 10% this year compared to 2025 


By: Kelly Stroh @ Supply Chain Dive  
Featured: Judah Levine @ Freightos

https://lnkd.in/g3fdt3Rh

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#Ecommerce shippers leaning on ocean freight

> Victoria’s Secret & Co. flipping transportation strategy (air to ocean) to lower costs 
> Net tariff impact in 2025 around $100M 
> Consumers will see prices go up as tariffs remain

https://lnkd.in/gPk9PJhT

By: Antone Gonsalves @ Supply Chain Dive  
Featured: Scott Sekella

For those looking to find more time in day.

> Focus on urgent + important
> Important is not urgent 
> Set goals to help determine what is urgent

By: Kevin Dickinson @ Big Think  

https://lnkd.in/gMQRfMFb

A case against (over) automation (too much AI)

> Strict processes replace individuals thought
> Risk is punished; People prioritize predictability (job security) rather than outcome (company growth)
> Reward the curious people in your organization, let them be heard and not suffocated by organizational process

Tariff Mitigation efforts kicking in for Gap

> Tariffs have bumped inventory costs 5%
> Sales have risen 3% in Q32025
> Automation + AI implementations have driven supply chain productivity up 30%

By: Phil Neuffer @ Supply Chain Dive
Featured: Katrina O'Connell


https://lnkd.in/ge3JAab8

Preventing Stock Outs

> Use POS data to find dips in inventory
> In store/on ground employees crucial to validate data
> Transparency thought-out the supply will curb future occurrences

By: Circana  

https://lnkd.in/gjuuZjj6

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