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