After realizing the IT industry was not a fit, Paul Sivaswamy spent 19 years in the supply chain organization at Caterpillar before finding his calling to bring order to the chaos often found at start-up manufacturing companies. As the VP of Supply Chain at XOS, he shares challenges and best practices for building best-in-class supply chain organizations, especially in the OEM and automotive industries. A key life lesson shared in this episode is finding your "ikigai" or your reason for being, a Japanese term that describes the intersection of what you are good at, what you love, what the world needs, and what you can get paid to do. Surgere is the official sponsor of The Supply Chaney Podcast for 2025. Surgere’s singular focus is building AI-powered, frictionless supply chains that result in real time, end-to-end visibility with 99.9% accuracy for partners and customers.

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