Spring Conference 2023 Agenda

Creative Disruption?
Innovations in Supply Chain Management
 

Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Vance Hall, The Wharton School


8:30–9:00 a.m. — Breakfast


9:00–9:15 a.m. — Welcome and Introduction

Harbir Singh
Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management
Mack Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Faculty Director, Huntsman Program

Valery Yakubovich
Executive Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management


9:15–10:45 a.m. — The Efficiency/Resilience Dilemma in Supply Chain Management

John Paul MacDuffie
Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Director, Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation, Mack Institute for Innovation Management

Rakesh Gandhi
Vice President Digital Supply Chain – Industry 4.0, SAP

Kevin Austin
Group VP for Demand and Supply Management and Supply Chain Transformation
Toyota North America 


10:45–11:00 p.m. — Break


11:00–12:00 p.m. — Corporate and National Preparedness to Supply Chain Disruptions: Forecasting, Stress-Tests, and Capabilities for Rapid Response

Susan Helper
Senior Advisor for Industrial Strategy
White House Office of Management and Budget
Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University

Simon Sølvsten
Head of Organizational Resilience Research, Willis Towers Watson


12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. — Supply Chain Disruption Exercise

Lead by John Paul MacDuffie, Susan Helper, and Morris Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School


1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. — Lunch


2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. — Supply Chain Alternatives: From Offshoring to Friendshoring and In-Between

Gad Allon
Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School
Director, Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology

Paul Sim
Senior Director, Supply Chain-Business Transformation, Boeing

James Bonini
President, Toyota Production System Support Center, Toyota North America 


3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. — Closing Remarks

Valery Yakubovich