Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

The Revolution of Analytics in Enterprise Risk Management This talk will look at broad trends in how companies have addressed supply chain risk management through the use of analytics. Recent examples of events and reactions, with particular focus on the development of the Risk Exposure Index with Ford will be highlighted. Ways in which analytics inform risk management internal to and external to an organization will also be discussed. UPS and the Immunization of Healthcare Supply Chain Risks The healthcare industry is experiencing a collision of cost and regulatory pressures where a critical balance of the two need to be carefully managed. To add to this complication, the traditional distribution networks are experiencing dramatic shifts further deepening the risks for these critical healthcare shipments. This presentation touches on how UPS manages risk in its network and how it has leveraged these learnings and partnered with healthcare and humanitarian customers to make their supply chains more resilient. Designing for Supply Chain Resilience It is not a matter of "IF" a natural disaster, geopolitical event, supplier bankruptcy, or extreme weather will disrupt your supply chain, it is just a matter of “WHEN”. With increasingly complex and longer supply chains, the opportunities for disruption will always be there. A company's business continuity plan and how it responds to a disruption can significantly impact its customers, employees, and shareholders. This talk will focus on how supply chain design can enable firms to build resilience. Supply chain design can allow companies to easily model the cost and service impacts if facilities, regions, or transportation legs are rendered unusable due to a disruption. Doing this analytical exercise BEFORE disaster strikes and having the capability to continually perform dynamic network modeling during a disruption is far more effective at keeping the business running and can potentially allow a company to grab market share from its less-prepared competitors. To take a page from Charles Darwin, “It is not the strongest Supply Chain that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Panel discussion

Tim Kachur '02, '03, Senior Manager, OPS Rules

4/20/2016 7:30:00 PM