In a post-pandemic world, one of the most important elements of sustaining a successful supply chain is resilience. This requires not only a proactive approach to disruptions, but a reactive response as well as a transformative follow-through. In Thomas Friedman’s book The World Is Flat, he argues that the competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging market countries are leveling. But is this a significant misinterpretation of the current supply chain terrain?

Hear from professors of the Department of Supply Chain Management and other industry experts as they “unflatten” the world and explore strategies for building supply chain resilience in a world still recovering from COVID-19.

Learning Objectives

1. Outline the current status of your supply chain’s resilience and reactivity to disruption.

2. Question ways in which your operations could become more efficient with improved resilience.

3. Identify methods of preparedness that your organization can implement prior to future disruptions.

4. Analyze the importance of having a world that is diverse in terrain as opposed to being “flat” or “spiky.”

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