Szilvia Rapi-Jaubert
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Supply Chain Monitor
Szilvia Rapi-Jaubert (born 1971) is publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian trade magazine Supply Chain Monitor.
After graduating from the University of Economics in Pécs (Hungary) in 1985, Szilvia completed further studies at EM Strasbourg Business School (France) with a Master’s degree in International Trade.
In the following years, she worked in London as a logistics manager for a French multinational chemical company. When she returned to France in 1992, she resumed her studies in Bordeaux (Université Michel de Montaigne) and obtained a Master’s degree in Communication.
She then worked in various positions in Bordeaux for an industrial company until she founded Sycamore Media with the Supply Chain Monitor in 2004 and developed it into the leading trade magazine for supply chain management and logistics in Hungary in the years that followed. The magazine has been digital since 2020. In addition to managing the editorial team, she organizes industry-related supply chain conferences.
I expect an innovative and cost-effective solution from an IFOY applicant. For the solution to fully convince me, it must be easy to adapt and have a unique way of thinking about problem solving.
Publications
Supply Chain Monitor
Contact
Sycamore Média Ltd.
1117 Budapest
Karinthy Frigyes út 17.
Ungarn
T +36 70 389 0984
jaubert.szilvia@scmonitor.hu
scmonitor@scmonitor.hu
Interview
What do you expect from an IFOY applicant?
An IFOY applicant must bring innovative and cost-efficient solutions for optimizing the activities of its customers in various industries. Incidentally, you can always recognize the solution competence by the industry competence.
In your opinion, what makes an innovative solution?
Innovation should create added value that further improves the efficiency of industrial and logistical processes. And a product or solution is only innovative if it offers significant customer benefits.
What else does a solution have to offer to convince you?
Creativity is required. It’s about simple customization and a unique way of thinking to solve specific problems.
