In this episode, I talk with Mr. Supply Chain, Daniel Stanton. He was all over national news during the Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020. If you recognize the term "the bullwhip effect" and you aren't in supply chain management, it's because you saw him speak with Tucker Carlson, or someone like that.

In Part 2 of our interview, Daniel brought some really cool clarity to the recruiting process that was new to me. I’ve seen too many times that recruiting isn’t brought into strategic planning or given strategic planning goals. And until recently, HR Managers didn’t have a recruiting background, they often came up the ranks through employee relations or compensation. Very few of them concentrated on large scale recruiting for a long period of time.

Daniel illustrates how to us Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) methods for recruiting.  Executives can look at the company's hiring needs without having to have a recruiter at the table by having hiring managers all write down their goals and recruiting methods for each department. When you bring them together you can create a forecast and see where potential gaps to your hiring strategy might be

What Daniel brings to the table is intentional recruiting, it’s bridging the gap between executive goals and district management and middle management. It’s consciously breaking down silos, it’s causing strategic communication between divisions.