ISM-Philadelphia, Inc.

Geopolitical instability, energy market volatility and shifting commodity prices are creating new layers of risk for supply chain professionals. Join us for our popular State of Risk, an exclusive member webinar designed to move beyond the headlines and help you understand what these developments could mean for your organization.

Greg Brew from Eurasia Group will provide a high-level view of the evolving Middle East landscape, global energy markets and other macro trends shaping supply chain risk. Eurasia Group’s potential speakers bring deep expertise in geopolitical risk, energy markets, Iran and the forces affecting global resource supply chains. Then, Tom Bundgaard, Vice President of Price Forecasting at Expana, will translate those broader developments into practical intelligence, using specific commodity cost examples and forecasts to illustrate where supply chain impacts may emerge.

Change is constant, but knowing that doesn’t necessarily make us better at dealing with it. What happens when priorities shift, resources get tighter, someone with years of knowledge walks out the door, a supplier falls through, or the plan you started with simply doesn’t work anymore? Building on our April conversation about resilience, this session takes the next step. We’ll look at what happens when organizations get so focused on solving what’s happening right now that they don’t stop long enough to ask what could happen next, where they may be vulnerable, or what they could do now to give themselves more options later.

This will be a conversation, not a lecture. Through real examples, scenarios, and questions for the room, we’ll look at how we make decisions when things change and where we may have become too dependent on one person, one process, one supplier, or one way of doing things. We can’t predict or prepare for everything, and that isn’t the goal. The goal is to get better at seeing problems earlier, asking better questions before something becomes urgent, and building organizations that can keep moving when the plan changes.

Agenda
5:30 pm Registration & Networking
6:30 pm Dinner
7:15 pm Speaker

Location
Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel
3549 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104