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Jul 2023
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Episode 60: Leveraging quality and compl...

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In Episode 60 of Freight to the Point, we invited Jacob Nedergaard, CEO and Co-Founder of Qarma, which provides digital tools to help companies stay on top of quality and compliance in their supply chain. 

In this episode, Alex Hersham, CEO at Zencargo and Jacob delve into: 

  • Why quality is so important in the supply chain
  • How technology can enable transparency in the supply chain
  • The benefits of a bottom-up approach to drive supply chain optimisation

Jacob Nedergaard

Jacob is the CEO and Co-founder of Qarma. Qarma provides a suite of easy-to-use digital tools to help companies stay on top of quality and compliance across their supply chain. Qarma works with some of the global leading brands, retailers, and manufacturers. Jacob is driven by solving everyday problems, simplifying processes while using data to demonstrate and drive real impact. He is a big advocate of contextualising data and believes that stakeholders need to understand their own data sources and demonstrate due diligence deep in their supply chains.

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