Now the dust has settled: supply chain lessons learnt from the ash cloud
Wed 15 Sep 2010 3pm UK, 4pm Europe Summer Time, 10am USA Eastern
After the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption, many companies were left counting the cost of considerable supply chain disruption. In this Walpole Lecture we analyze the lessons which can be learnt, drawing upon the experiences of several companies and their responses to the flight ban.
In this session we:
- Assess the effects of the ash cloud, both short-term and long-term on individual organisations
- Evaluate to what extent companies can build business disruption into corporate strategy
- Debate whether supply diversification is the answer
- Consider how to translate risk awareness into action
- Discuss how best to plan a contingency for predictable surprises
Speakers
Bruce Arntzen
Senior Research Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
Dr. Arntzen is a Senior Research Director at MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics. Dr. Arntzen is leading MIT’s Global SCALE Risk Initiative to improve supply chain risk management in multinational companies. He has managed change teams, taught at leading universities, published in leading journals and performed consulting assignments for many of the Fortune 100 companies.
Dr. Arntzen founded a supply chain consulting firm, Avicon Partners, LLC., lead industrial engineering groups at Digital Equipment Corp., performed operations management consulting at Arthur D. Little, Inc., and served as an economic analyst at The World Bank in Washington, DC. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including CSCMP, WERC, and INFORMS. He is the current Past President of the New England Chapter of CSCMP.
Dr. Arntzen holds a PhD from MIT, an M.S.E from Johns Hopkins, and a B.S. and B.A. from Bucknell University.
Nick Tyler
MSc, PhD, CEng, FICE, ARCM
Professor Nick Tyler is the Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCL.
Nick has a very wide active research brief, ranging from ‘hard’ design of infrastructure, vehicles and operating systems to the ‘soft’ side of the philosophy that underlies the formation of the policies that direct the nature of their use. Nick runs the Accessibility Research Group (part of the department’s Centre for Transport Studies) which is the proud possessor of the world’s only multisensory pedestrian laboratory (PAMELA) designed and built to facilitate the detailed study of pedestrian behaviour under controlled conditions. Nick’s research portfolio amounts to some £20 million in funding from Research Councils, industry and government and he has established research projects in Latin America, Japan, China and the EU as well as in the UK. Nick also explores radical solutions to how transport can be made adaptive to the energy and other restrictions imposed by energy problems and emissions constraints. To this end he is researching different energy management methods and transport planning methods. He is also involved with the research underpinning the development of Eco-cities in China, in which sustainability and adaptability are key requirements. He coordinates the EPSRC SUSTAIN Network (one of the organisers of the Eco-Networks Event at the Shanghai World Expo) and was the Director of the MRC Symposium on Healthy Ageing and the Physical Environment in Beijing in 2010.
Nick is the Director of the UCL CRUCIBLE Centre, which is an interdisciplinary Research Centre for Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, funded by four Research Councils. He is a member of the UCL Council, the Joint Board of Moderators of the Engineering Institutions of the UK, the EPSRC Process, Environment & Sustainability Strategic Advisory Team and the EPSRC Transformational Research Advisory Group.
Nick is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.