FEDA Webinar Series - Pivoting Away From Risk and Towards Opportunities with Supply Chain Agility

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Developed in partnership with the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, this Supply Chain Education Series explores how organizations can build more agile, resilient, and innovative supply chains in an increasingly uncertain business environment.

Participants will learn practical strategies for improving supply chain collaboration, mitigating risk, enhancing operational performance, and identifying new opportunities for growth. Through expert-led instruction and real-world examples, the series examines how high-performing supply chains help organizations respond effectively to disruption while driving productivity and innovation.

Courses Included

Session 1: Absorbing Uncertainty Through Supply Chain Collaboration
Explore proven approaches to internal and external collaboration that help organizations anticipate demand changes, reduce supply chain risks, improve customer satisfaction, and maintain operational efficiency during periods of uncertainty.

Session 2: Leveraging the Supply Chain for Productivity and Innovation
Learn how agile and responsive supply chains can serve as catalysts for business growth. This course examines strategies for improving performance, fostering innovation, and unlocking new opportunities through effective supply chain management.

Supply Chain Certification Credit: Participants who complete each webinar and the associated post-course survey will earn 1.8 credits toward their FEDA Supply Chain Certification.

  • Pivoting Away From Risk and Towards Opportunities with Supply Chain Agility - Session 1: Leveraging the Supply Chain for Productivity and Innovation
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This on-demand webinar will examine how top companies are getting out of operational ruts and harvesting good ideas by tapping existing and prospective members of the supply chain for market growth.

    Part of the FEDA Webinar Series - Pivoting Away From Risk and Towards Opportunities with Supply Chain Agility 

    Businesses look to their supply chain operations for performance that meets customer expectations at the lowest possible cost. In order to achieve these desired outcomes, we expect our supply chains to be highly productive — meaning they are fully capable, reliable, and efficient. These are the essential qualities of supply chain performance. But, what more can we expect from our supply chains? This session illuminates how flexible and agile supply chains can serve as dynamic enablers of growth. Responsive supply chains not only flex to mitigate risks but pivot to opportunities. Further, the supply chain network can serve as a wellspring for product and process innovation. This session will examine how top companies are climbing out of operational ruts and harvesting good ideas by tapping existing and prospective members of the supply chain for market growth.

    Thomas Goldsby

    Thomas Goldsby

    Dee and Jimmy Haslam Chair in Logistics, Co-Executive Director

    Global Supply Chain Institute

    Thomas J. Goldsby is the Dee and Jimmy Haslam chair in logistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. He is also the co-executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Evansville, an MBA from the University of Kentucky and a doctorate in marketing and logistics from Michigan State University.

    Goldsby serves as co-executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute. He is a former co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business Logistics and Transportation Journal. His research interests include logistics strategy, supply chain integration and the theory and practice of lean and agile supply chain strategies. He has published more than 90 articles in academic and professional journals and is a frequent speaker at academic conferences, executive education seminars and professional meetings.

    Goldsby is co-author of five books:

    • Logistics Management: Enhancing Competitiveness and Customer Value

    • The Definitive Guide to Transportation

    • Global Macrotrends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management

    • Lean Six Sigma Logistics: Strategic Development to Operational Success

    • The Design and Management of Sustainable Supply Chains.

    A recipient of multiple best paper awards, Goldsby has been recognized for excellence in teaching at University of Tennessee, The Ohio State University, the University of Kentucky, and Iowa State University. In 2019, he was named a Rainmaker by DC Velocity and received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from Supply Chain Leaders in Action (SCLA). Goldsby delivered a course on business operations for The Great Courses’ Critical Business Skills series in 2015, which continues to rate as a bestselling nonfiction/business title at Audible.com and was ranked by Newsweek as No. 27 on its list of the top 50 bestsellers among all audiobooks for summer 2020.

    Goldsby has supervised more than 100 Lean Six Sigma supply chain projects with industry partners, chaired eight doctoral dissertations and served as an investigator on multiple federally funded research projects exceeding $3.5 million in grants.

  • Pivoting Away From Risk and Towards Opportunities with Supply Chain Agility - Session 2: Absorbing Uncertainty through Supply Chain Collaboration
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    Supply chain resilience enables the business to capitalize on emerging opportunities, maintain customer satisfaction, and reduce costs, ultimately positioning the company for long-term success and growth. This session presents proven methods for internal integration and external collaboration that help organizations to not only weather the storms of chaos, but to excel and win in the face of uncertainty.

    Matching supply with demand sounds obvious and simple enough, but recent years have proven otherwise. Supply chain management (SCM) is the cross-functional, cross-firm effort to ensure that supply meets demand while earning targeted margin for the business. A well-managed supply chain can anticipate changes in demand, mitigate risks associated with supply shortages and reduce lead times, all of which help the business maintain operational efficiency. Supply chain resilience enables businesses to capitalize on emerging opportunities, maintain customer satisfaction and reduce costs, ultimately positioning companies for long-term success and growth. This session presents proven methods for internal integration and external collaboration that help organizations to not only weather the storms of chaos, but to excel and win in the face of uncertainty.