Join us for “SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE”, an online session, part of the LCL CONVERSATION SERIES
An interactive dialogue featuring:
- Professor Anne Lange, LCL/FDEF, University of Luxembourg
- James B. Rice, Jr., Deputy Director – Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), MIT
- Professor Walid Klibi, Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France
- Kai Trepte, Research Affiliate – Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), MIT
Modelling risks for complex supply networks is a challenge, in particular those ‘black swan’ events that are characterised by low probability but high impact. Nowadays, the first such situation that comes to mind is the COVID-19 pandemic. How did some companies and organisations, with more resilient supply chains, manage to prepare their supply networks well and resist the effects of the pandemic (and other events) more strongly than their direct competitors?
Are we entering a new playing field of management decisions? Will reduction of complexity in supply networks be sustainable in the long term, or will the waves move back to offshoring, internal supplier competition, and outsourcing?
Anne Lange is associate professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Luxembourg. Her research interests are in transportation, network analysis and supply chain risk management. With a focus on SCRM, her past research includes developing methodology to identify vulnerable entities in complex supply networks and delineating the role of network structure in propagating disruptions. She enjoys conducting research in cooperation with industry.
Related publication: “Methods for mitigating disruptions in complex supply chain structures: a systematic literature review”
Jim Rice has worked at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics for over 25 years, and currently serves as the Deputy Director of CTL and the Director of the Supply Chain Exchange. Prior to MIT Jim worked in industry for 14 years at P&G, General Electric and Schlumberger. Jim’s research has mostly been focused on risk management and resilience since 9-11.
Walid Klibi, obtained his Ph.D. in Supply Chain at Laval University’s business school in Quebec City, Canada, in 2009. He is a full professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux, France, and a founding member of the Centre of Excellence in Supply Chain (CESIT). He is also a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, USA.
He is actively involved in supply chain design and resilience research and is the author of several scientific papers on the design of supply chain networks under uncertainty. He is also the co-author of a book entitled “The Design of Value Creating Supply Chain Networks” published by Springer in 2016, which is intended for an academic and professional audience. He is also involved in teaching activities with the ISLI programs and in executive training and projects with private organisations such as Sephora, LaPoste, Lectra and Orange Group.
Kai Trepte is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). He has developed case and technical modules for adult and student learners in academic and business settings. Mr. Trepte has worked with major companies to improve improving S&OP systems, successfully started up and operated a demand planning software business and currently researches how to increase supply chain resilience using S&OP.
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