Supply Chain Disruption leads to shortages of products and services across a wide spectrum of products. Lack of necessities, such as food, medicines, gas, and oil, which in turn has rippling effects within a variety of supply chains. Disruptions can cause scarcity and long-term shortages for both domestic and global supply chains. The duration and adversity of a global crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, alerts businesses to significant vulnerabilities and the fragility of global supply chains. Long-term impacts to supply chain disruptions can have significant and compounding effects, such as: supply chain bottlenecks, increases in freight and storage costs, significant increases in retail prices, and serious economic implications. 

You are invited to submit abstracts on a variety of Supply Chain Disruption topics. Possible Supply Chain Disruption topics, include but are not limited to: 

• Lessons learned/challenges encountered when addressing the associated risks of Supply Chain Disruption when applying/implementing solutions and/or strategies within your program or company 
• Illustrate disruption-related consequences the company has experienced, and what methods have been adapted/applied to shore up unexpected vulnerabilities (e.g., national security, foreign control of essential raw materials, component shortages) 
• Demonstrate solutions and strategies to mitigate critical risks and vulnerabilities evolving from supply chain disruption analysis (e.g., value stream optimization) 
• Capturing the cost and productivity benefits of implementing manufacturing innovation or other strategies directly tied to increasing resilience, readiness, and reducing overall risk 
• Demonstrate best design and use of technology driven Supply Chain Disruption solutions to enhance through-put, partnering, and desired strategy solutions within one or multiple supply chains
•  Demonstrate how teaming and individual contributions supported the overall company and program supply chain disruption design and strategy solution

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient technical information to provide a complete story on the value or challenges of adopting a Supply Chain Disruption strategy and solutions approach.

Resilient Supply Chain Planning (RSCP) enables organizations to become more resilient by getting ahead of and planning for disruptions before they happen. RSCP allows an organization to lower its industry’s vulnerabilities and risks by implementing planning strategies that address diversification and sustainability of the product line and associated services. Optimizing strategic investments in the company’s supply chain provides agility in adapting to major industry and market risks and disruptions. RSCP tools further enable the company to address its supply chain disruptions before they happen and develop a more robust supply chain that requires less time and money to manage. RSCP can result in cost savings for the company and provide the ability to maintain a resilient supply chain.

You are invited to submit abstracts on a variety of SCRM Topics. Possible SCRM topics include but are not limited to:

• Lessons learned/challenges encountered when implementing RSCP solutions and/or strategies (e.g., enterprise resource planning or ERP, digital technology, cloud computing) within the program or company supply chain structure
• Ways you have improved supply chain responsiveness through supply chain management strategies to maximize visibility within the supply chain structure
• Demonstrate best value application of RSCP use of technology driven solutions to enhance performance, address disruption crises as they occur, and embrace partnering solutions to address disruption across complex and diverse supply chains
• Adopting the use of advanced analytics to capture data interactions that lead to actionable solutions, lowering the overall cost and increasing human and system productivity benefits
• Clear illustration of how to build long-term supply chain resilience by using RSCP to build a growth at a rate that addresses fulfillment costs across the entire supply chain and is sustainable during disruptive events
• Demonstrate key technology, teaming, and individual contributions that brought about a successful resilient supply chain overall based on the use of RSCP strategies

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient RSCP technical information to provide a complete story on the value of using this strategy and solutions approach. We are not seeking company marketing pitches, but rather real world RSCP application results. Your presentation must present the use of RSCP tools, processes, and resulting mitigating risks associated with product quality, timely delivery, and services delivered by the supply chain

Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) provides industry with a systematic process for managing supply chain risk by identifying susceptibilities, vulnerabilities, and threats throughout the supply chain and developing mitigation strategies to combat those threats whether presented by the supplier, the suppliers’ product and its subcomponents, or the supply chain (e.g., initial production, packaging, handling, storage, transport, mission operation, and disposal).

You are invited to submit abstracts on a variety of SCRM Topics. Possible SCRM topics include but are not limited to:

• Lessons learned/challenges encountered when applying/implementing SCRM solutions and/or strategies within your program or company
• Ways you have adapted/applied SCRM solutions and strategies to maximize the value and benefits of manufacturing innovation, resilience, readiness, and reduced risk for long-term logistics sustainability
• Demonstrate best design and use of technology driven SCRM solutions to enhance through-put, partnering, and desired strategy solutions within one or multiple supply chains
• Capturing the cost and productivity benefits identified through one or more SCRM strategy solutions used and provide one or more examples of how it was integrated at top-tier and below program levels
• Clear illustration of how to build a “Best SCRM Program” model that produces results at multi-levels within the management of the supply chain
• Demonstrate how teaming and individual contributions brought about a successful overall implementation of a SCRM supply chain design and strategy solution.

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient technical information to provide a complete story on the value or challenges of adopting a SCRM strategy and solutions approach. We are not seeking company marketing pitches, but rather real world SCRM application experience. Your presentation must articulate the use of the SCRM process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks impacting the integrity and quality of products and services delivered by the supply chain.

U.S. Loss of Supply Chain Control leads to severe shortages of products and services resulting in diminishing manufacturing sources. Loss of specialized and diminishing manufacturing is critical to sustaining an aging technology, which can require specialized raw materials (e.g., rare earth elements and minerals) as well as unique components and manufacturing processes for sustainment. The manufacturing is needed to sustain aging military systems. These systems require older technology with ongoing requirements being met by single source or sole source suppliers.

You are invited to submit abstracts on a variety of Supply Chain Disruption topics. Possible Supply Chain Disruption topics include but are not limited to:

• Lessons learned/challenges encountered when addressing the associated risks of supply chain disruption when applying/implementing solutions and/or strategies within your program or company
• Illustrate disruption-related consequences the company has experienced and what methods have been adapted/applied to shore up unexpected vulnerabilities (e.g., national security, foreign control of essential raw materials, component shortages)
• Demonstrate solutions and strategies to mitigate critical risks and vulnerabilities evolving from supply chain disruption analysis (e.g., value stream optimization)
• Capturing the cost and productivity benefits of implementing manufacturing innovation or other strategies directly tied to increasing resilience, readiness, and reducing overall risk
• Demonstrate best design and use of technology driven Supply Chain Disruption solutions to enhance through-put, partnering, and desired strategy solutions within one or multiple supply chains
•  Demonstrate how teaming and individual contributions supported the overall company and program supply chain disruption design and strategy solution.

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient technical information to provide a complete story on the value or challenges of adopting a Supply Chain Disruption strategy and solutions approach.

Planning, Processes and Metrics enables organizations to evaluate performance in various markets and industries. Recognizing that planning and process metrics are not a guarantee to meeting expected goals, the company can use intel from key metrics to tweak the planning, processes, and metrics to recalibrate their strategies.

Planning: Planning for disruptions, new trends and innovations requires rigorous oversight of the entire supply chain, allowing supply chain managers to improve visibility of the entire product and associated services and associated metrics and processes. This improved supply chain visibility is enhanced through the use of digital tools that help supply chain managers reveal pitfalls before they become an issue. For example, customer experience and brand recognition are not only key metrics, but also evolve around planning and effective processes that best showcase the products within the supply chain.

Processes: Optimizing processes to be more agile within the supply chain allows companies to quickly adapt to disruptions and fluctuations. Processes that integrate modern technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) data provide quick feedback and opportunities for management to address issues. Integrating software solutions within key processes allows management to gain perspective on shortages due to increased demands or lack of product from suppliers to critical manufacturing and defect issue. Poor planning can run the gamut from inefficient processes to inaccurate forecasting.

Metrics: Without accurate forecasting along with internal monitoring processes, management dramatic changes in stock levels may not be noticed in sufficient time to redirect inventory at other locations. Metrics provides managers with knowledge to make critical and strategic decisions. Depending on the operation, the manager can optimize pricing for fast-moving merchandise to increase sales while also honoring advertised minimum quantities per customer.

You are invited to submit abstracts on a variety of Planning, Processes, and Metrics Topics. Possible topics for this subject include but are not limited to:

• Lessons learned/challenges encountered when implementing Planning, Processes, and Metrics’ solutions and/or strategies (e.g., data driven forecasting, real-time information on sales and inventory, and customer feedback and demographics) within the program or company supply chain structure
• Ways the company has improved supply chain responsiveness through optimizing its leveraging of knowledge gain from Planning, Processes, and Metrics
• Demonstrate best value application of Planning, Processes and Metrics and the use of technology driven solutions to enhance the use of customer experience data, processes that provide urgent messages about supply chain delays, shortages, and overall disruption crises as they occur
• Adopting the use of advanced metrics to provide customer centric knowledge to the sales floor that can provide management with planning tools and processes that help to implement the right solutions
• Clear illustration of how to build long-term supply chain resilience by using Planning, Processes and Metrics to ensure a healthy supply chain that ensures greater fulfillment across the entire supply chain and is sustainable during disruptive events to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Demonstrate key Metrics technology, planning and teaming, and individual processes that reduce supply chain risk to maintain a resilient supply chain.

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient Planning, Processes and Metrics technical information to provide a complete story on the value of using this strategy and solutions approach. We are not seeking company marketing pitches, but rather real-world application results. Your presentation must present the use of Planning, Processes and Metrics’ tools, processes, and resulting mitigating risks associated with product quality, timely delivery, and customer satisfaction for one or more supply chains.

Supply Chain Ecosystem is comprised of an alignment of entities across multiple industries working together to develop, design, and implement supply chain solutions and strategies. The nature of a Supply Chain Ecosystem is its interdependent networked relationships and competitive advantage, which can create a deterrent to potential competitors. Global Supply Chain Ecosystems are different than typical supply chains in that their interconnected network can facilitate faster movement of good, broader service offerings, and enhance the information flow globally within a vast array of businesses.

You are invited to submit abstracts on a variety of Supply Chain Ecosystem topics. Possible Supply Chain Ecosystem topics include but are not limited to:

• Clear illustration of how to build a “Best Supply Chain Ecosystem” model that produces results at multi-levels within the interconnected network of entities within the supply chain
• Capturing the cost and productivity benefits identified through one or more Supply Chain Ecosystem strategy solutions used, and providing one or more examples of how it was integrated at top-tier program levels
• Demonstrate Supply Chain Ecosystem challenges encountered when designing and implementing interconnected business and technology digital and cloud solutions and/or strategies within your program or company
• Ways you have adapted/applied Supply Chain Ecosystem solutions and strategies to maximize the value and benefits of manufacturing innovation, resilience, readiness, and reduced risk for long-term logistics sustainability
• Demonstrate how teaming and individual contributions brought about a successful Supply Chain Ecosystem design and strategy solution and the key components and their importance to the supply chain structure

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient technical information to provide a complete story on the value or challenges of creating a Supply Chain Ecosystem strategy and solutions approach. We are not seeking company marketing pitches, but rather real-world Supply Chain Ecosystem application experience. Your presentation must articulate the use of the Supply Chain Ecosystem concept, framework, and identify, assess, and show mitigation risks associated with the integrity and quality of products and services delivered under this supply chain model.

Supply Chain Illumination (SCI) enables organizations to map the companies, people, and products involved in an organization’s supply chain. The SCI increases visibility by mapping the complexity of the supply chain and helps management and others to more fully understand the number of businesses supported, suppliers and sub-suppliers, and countries involved at different states of product development and final manufacturing. SCI mapping helps illuminate critical vulnerabilities within the full supply chain, therefore often showing unknown areas of concern – what lies below the iceberg - and provides management and leadership with knowledge for shoring up those vulnerabilities. Mapping provides data about those lower tiers of suppliers highlighting vulnerabilities and areas of risk. Understanding the risk factors allows actions to be taken for opportunities that were previously unknown and avoid adding risk to vulnerable tiers of the supply chain.

You are invited to submit abstracts on a variety of SCI Topics. Possible SCI topics include but are not limited to:

• Lessons learned/challenges encountered when implementing SCI solutions and/or strategies (e.g., unknown supply chain risk, potential liability depending on identified risks, missed opportunities) within the program or company supply chain structure
• Ways you have improved supply chain responsiveness through the use of SCI, and resulting strategies to maximize visibility within the supply chain structure
• Demonstrate best value application of SCI and the use of resulting technology driven solutions to enhance performance, address vulnerabilities found, and the use of partnering solutions to address disruption across complex and diverse supply chains
• Adopting the use of SCI tools to capture data interactions that lead to risk-informed solutions, lowering the overall cost associated with leaving vulnerabilities unaddressed
• Clear illustration of how SCI can be a growth strategy to lower fulfillment costs across the entire supply chain that is sustainable during disruptive events
• Demonstrate associated SCI technology, streamlining solutions within the supply chain, and individual contributions that brought about a successful resilient supply chain overall based on the use of resulting strategies

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient Supply Chain Illumination technical information to provide a complete story on the value of using this strategy and solutions approach. We are not seeking company marketing pitches, but rather real-world SCI application results. Your presentation must present the use of SCI and associated tools, processes, and resulting mitigating risks associated with vulnerabilities and direct impact to product quality, timely delivery, and services delivered by the supply chain.

Cybersecurity concerns the practices involved with preventing or mitigating the impacts of a cyberattack. These attacks can happen not only in the well-publicized consumer sector, but in the supply chain as well. A recent high-profile attack on the Colonial Pipeline in 2021 brought these risks to the public consciousness. From design and acquisition to maintenance and disposal, risks to the supply chain from cyber-attacks are a current and persistent threat. Many resources exist to assist businesses in meeting these threats. You are invited to submit abstracts on Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) as it relates to Cybersecurity.

Possible SCRM-Cybersecurity topics include but are not limited to:

• Lessons learned/challenges encountered when applying/implementing SCRM-Cybersecurity solutions and/or strategies within your program or company
• Ways you have adapted/applied SCRM-Cybersecurity solutions and mitigating risk strategies to protect vulnerabilities in the supply chain that could impact the safety of information or data supporting manufacturing innovation, supply chain resilience and readiness, and reduced jeopardize efforts for long-term logistics sustainability
• Demonstrate best design and use of technology driven SCRM-cybersecurity solutions to enhance through-put, partnering, and desired strategy solutions within one or multiple supply chains to protect against cyber-attacks
• Demonstrate the cost and productivity benefits identified through one or more Cyber Security related SCRM solution used and provide one or more examples of how it was integrated at top-tier and below program levels
• Clear illustration of how to build a “Best SCRM Program” model that integrates Cybersecurity produces to address threats related cyber-attacks
• Demonstrate how teaming and individual contributions brought about a successful overall implementation of a SCRM supply chain design and strategy solution and how this relates to Cybersecurity

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient technical information to provide a complete story on the value or challenges of adopting a SCRM strategy and solutions approach. We are not seeking company marketing pitches, but rather real world SCRM application experience. Your presentation must articulate the use of the SCRM process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks impacting the integrity and quality of products and services delivered by the supply chain.

Natural disasters: severe weather events including hurricanes and flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., can significantly disrupt supply chains through the loss of suppliers for raw materials and components, stoppages in manufacturing production, delays or cancelation of shipments, and disruption in demand. Major disasters disrupt economies far beyond local damage and can result in uncertainty in supply chains. Failing to plan for such events can negatively impact on a company’s bottom line and can lead to a decline in operations and productivity. Topics of interest:

• Case studies- supply chain impacts
• Supply chain planning and strategies and best practices
• Identifying and measuring natural disaster and other environmental impacts to supply chain risks and solutions
• Development of Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP) to minimize supply chain risks, and to provide solutions for continued operations
• Provide details of a successful COOP that has been implemented with success

Only submit abstracts in which the intent is to share sufficient technical information to provide a complete story on the value or challenges of adopting a SCRM strategy and solutions approach. We are not seeking company marketing pitches, but rather real world SCRM application experience. Your presentation must articulate the use of the Natural Disaster/other Environmental Impacts - SCRM process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks impacting the integrity and quality of products and services delivered by the supply chain.