Arash Azadegan

Associate Professor
Rutgers

Arash Azadegan (PhD, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University) is an Associate Professor at Rutgers Business School and the Director of Supply Chain Disruption Research Laboratory (SCDrl). Dr. Azadegan has over a decade of industrial experience with Fortune 100 companies such as Quaker Oats, Ralston Purina and Ford Motor. His research focuses on supply chain disruptions, and the effect of organizational response and recovery efforts to mitigate them. He has ongoing experiment based research projects on the role of organizational, leadership and supply chain resilience in the face of natural and man-made disruptions. He leads the efforts of a small team of PhD and graduate students at the SCDrl on several studies to assess firm behavior in response and in recovering from disruptions. Dr. Azadegan’s work is published in several top Operation and Supply Chain Management journals including the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management Journal, and the Decision Sciences Journal among others. Dr. Azadegan is an officer of the OM Division at the Academy of Management, an active member of the Decision Sciences Institute. He was recently recognized as a Galactic Hero at the Buzz Light Year Ranger Spin at Disney World, Orlando.

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Strengthening Internal and External Partnerships to Further Today’s Procurement Organization

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

12:00 Deep Dive Workshop Part One | Mitigating Disruptions to Your Supply Chain With An Effective Supplier Risk Management Strategy

Running out of something, be it an item or a service is the worst thing that can happen to a supply chain. What sort of resilience is necessary to help companies better respond to supply chain disruptions? How can you more effectively manage and mitigate risk associated with supply chain disruptions? Dr Azadegan has been leading this exercise with sourcing executives from top 10 pharma companies to get to the heart of how to have more resilient leadership. During thisworkshop you will be presented with a range of supply chain disruptions to various indirect categories. In small teams you will work through table topic exercises to assess how organizational resilience and supply chain resilience can affect recovery efforts during supply chain disruptions. Participants will:
• Work through supply chain disruptions in small teams
• Examine hypothetical cases of supply chain disruption
• Assess how organizational resilience and supply chain resilience can affect recovery efforts
• Building resilience & value into the supply chain
• Building shared risk into supplier contracts through effective negotiation
• How to measure, monitor and mitigate risks through a comprehensive risk management process • Building a matrix to categorize the types and probability of risks and their potential impact: natural disaster, geopolitical, export/import trade, regulatory, and more

14:55 Deep Dive Workshop Part Two | Mitigating Disruptions to Your Supply Chain With An Effective Supplier Risk Management Strategy

Return from lunch energized to go through the results of this morning’s workshop. Dr Azadegan will examine key data points collected during the table topics exercises to highlight patterns in response and recovery to supply chain disruptions. Find out how you measure up against your peers and strategize on leadership tactics that can effectively mitigate response and recovery.