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TRACK 3 SESSION 6
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Managing Supply Chain Risk
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Tuesday, September 15th : 10:15am - 11:15am
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When planning for brighter tomorrows, supply chain risk should be front-and-center on the list of issues that merit the attention of business leaders. Failure to address a company's vulnerability to disruptions can result in catastrophic losses and a potential collapse in customer and supplier confidence. In addition, a firm's financial performance is reliant on its ability to mitigate risk. Firms therefore need to identify and confront their enterprise, financial, and operational risks, and use an integrated approach to manage these weaknesses across the business. Few, if any, companies currently have done so. If managed effectively, risk management could be the differentiating resilience for sustained competitive advantage.
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Speaker:
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Mahender Singh, Ph.D. - Research Director, Supply Chain 2020
MIT
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Dr. Mahender Singh is a Research Director for the MIT Supply Chain 2020 Project, a multi-year research effort looking into the future of logistics and supply chain management. His research and teaching focus on operations and supply chain management, with particular interest in exploring the underlying structure of complex supply chains.
Dr. Singh has over ten years of experience in the field of supply chain management and has worked on multiple global supply chain projects to analyze and redesign planning systems. He has taught Operations Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he received his Ph.D.; he is also a graduate of MIT-CTL's Master of Engineering in Logistics Program.
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