Name: [WEBINAR] Supply "Unchained"
Start: 2021-10-06T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2021-10-06T12:00:00-07:00

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ABSTRACT: Supply chains have struggled to cope with ever-increasing expectations from consumers, market volatility and geopolitical uncertainties over the recent years. The rigidity and complexity in supply chains, which were originally designed to create efficiency, have turned them fragile and lacking resilience under the new global conditions. They also pose severe roadblocks against achieving sustainability goals by hindering the switch to greener materials, regionalization, and circular economies. Production and supply of goods and services need to be unchained and rearchitected for a new digitized, sustainable, and resilient world.

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are very potent instruments for unchaining supply chains. They bring visibility, monitoring, and interpretability at massive scales without the rules-based rigidity of the old world by collecting and analyzing supply chain events across the world. They deliver goal-driven discovery of new relationships between products, vendors, and consumers in a much broader and resilient manner than traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) approaches. Such a fabric of extended intelligence engaging fluidly with people and products is shaping the future of supply unchained.

This virtual fireside chat organized by The Hive Think Tank brings together two luminaries in the supply chain world to unravel this topic with us:
1) Rollin Ford – fmr. EVP, Walmart & Advisory Board Member, Kearney
2) Suketu Gandhi – Partner, Kearney & MIT Technology Review Global 100 Influencer

SPEAKERS:
Rollin Ford - fmr. EVP, Walmart + Advisory Board Member, Kearney
Rollin Ford retired in 2016 from Walmart Stores, Inc., where he served in a variety of executive leadership roles during his 33 year career with the world’s largest retailer. Rollin began his career in the Logistics division and later became the Chief Logistics officer, where he was responsible for transforming and building the company’s global Supply Chain network. He also served as the Chief Information officer having responsibility for its worldwide technology division. Most recently, Rollin served as the Chief Administrative Officer where he focused on leveraging Walmart’s scale to increase efficiency and productivity around the world while having responsibility for the domains mentioned above and included the back office (shared services), global sourcing, and data and analytics. In retirement Rollin has joined the following boards: Mercy Health System, Symbotic Corporation, John Brown University, Alert Innovation, and AT Kearney.

Suketu Gandhi - Partner, Kearney + MIT Technology Review Global 100 Influencer [MOD]
Suketu Gandhi is a recognized industry leader and subject-matter expert in digital transformation, IT strategy and enterprise architecture, technology’s role in retail, the Internet as a channel, outsourcing and offshoring, IT organization evolution, and the use of technology for highly mobile assets. He is frequently published on digital transformation topics in outlets ranging from MIT Sloan Management Review to the Wall Street Journal. Suketu’s consulting work focuses on the impact of digital on business models, customer experience, operations, and IT. Suketu is a partner, based in Kearney's Chicago office and an MIT Technology Review Global 100 Influencer.

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