Welcome and Introductions

Overview: Understanding the Disease and Its Impact 

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Your Supply Chain

• Complex, Multinational Supply Chains Limit Knowledge of & Ability to Mitigate Upstream Risks
• Success Requires Transparency in the Supply Web
• Global Disease Distribution Causes Supply Chain Disruptions
• Over Reliance on Limited Number of Suppliers Creates Vulnerability
• Reduced Capacity in Supply Chain Results in Shortages of Manufacturing Inputs

Options to Ensure Supply Chain Continuity

• Establishing & Strengthening Relationships Along the Value Web
• Identify and Mitigate Risks through Increased Transparency and Traceability
• Creating or Maintaining Multiple Redundancies to Address Multiple Risks
• Approaches to Managing Manufacturing Inputs: Inventory Control vs. Just-in-Time
• Codes of Conduct as a Risk Management Tool
• Using Contracts to Promote Protective Measures and Supply Chain Viability

Decision-Making Amid Uncertainty: Dealing with Supply Chain Disruptions

• The Value of Information in Locating Risk Within Your Supply Chain
• Collective Action in Times of Crises: Minimizing Exposure & Site Closures in the Supply Web
• Redundant Supply Chains: Balancing Efficiency and Risk Mitigation
• Synchronizing Value Web Closures

Communication Strategies

• Maintaining Strong Relationships with Stakeholders
• Collaborative Decision-Making Across the Supply Web

Roundtable Discussion and Q&A

Conclusions and Next Steps 

 

SPEAKERS

Travis Miller, General Counsel, Assent Compliance

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NOTE:  The agenda above is subject to change, especially as our collective knowledge of the impacts of the pandemic improves. A final agenda will be posted here no later than May 1. All webinars will be recorded and made available after the live broadcast. 

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