Audience:
Open industry. All apparel and footwear industry professionals, regardless of AAFA membership, are encouraged to participate.
Description:
Supply chain risk is becoming more complex, with no end in sight for the increased disruptions, new and stepped-up regulations, geopolitical tensions, and growing consumer and stakeholders demands that have buffeted supply chains over the past five years. Companies have adopted fragmented efforts to manage these risks, creating duplicative siloes across the organization, often with expensive platforms layered on top to help manage all the data. Instead, organizations need an approach that is flexible and scalable – one that adapts to more rapid changes in risk, grows with the needs of the business, and avoids costly disruption and reputational harm.
In this webinar, BSI will guide attendees through a structured approach for understanding their supply chain risks, getting buy-in from relevant stakeholders, and using AI tools to help master and manage the process. BSI will use case studies where an AI-driven approach helped overcome barriers to managing supply chain risk.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- Why emerging supply chain risks often lead to fragmented responses.
- A structured approach for understanding and tackling supply chain risks across departments.
- How AI can help build and maintain more effective responses to supply chain risks.
Speaker:
Tony Pelli
Global Practice Director, Security & Resilience
BSI Consulting
Tony is an experienced supply chain risk consultant with a broad range of specialized skill sets, including conducting end-to-end, enterprise-level supply chain risk assessments for clients and their supply chain partners. As a member of BSI’s Advisory team, he designs and implements supply chain security programs and management systems.
Tony has also designed loss prevention and security assessments, mapped security, and business continuity risk in supply chains for Fortune 500 companies and assisted in the successful implementation of supply chain security procedures, including for CTPAT certification.
AAFA Host:
Conor O’Brien
Sustainability Policy Specialist
AAFA
Conor O'Brien joined AAFA's policy team in 2024 as its Sustainability Policy Coordinator after completing his Masters in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. Prior to joining AAFA, Conor worked for several years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Boston, where he engaged with RCRA compliance, state coordination, climate adaptation planning, and environmental justice application. Initially trained as a chemist at Princeton University, Conor combines scientific research with policy analysis and application to provide holistic approaches to sustainable resource usage in pursuit of a more circular economy. Conor supports the work of the AAFA Environmental Committee and AAFA Product Safety Council by engaging with public and private stakeholders on issues of sustainability, product safety, and chemical management germane to the apparel and footwear industry.
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