About this session

Is your global production and supply chain footprint optimised for efficiency or engineered for resilience?

In a world of geopolitical disruption, shifting trade dynamics, volatile supply and increasingly complex networks, yesterday’s assumptions about where and how we produce may no longer hold. The challenge is no longer simply to build a more resilient footprint. It is to create an operation that can sense change, test what happens next and adapt before disruption becomes business impact.

Drawing on her global transformation experience at Diageo, Neha Singh, VP Global Planning Transformation, will explore how connected data, digital tools, advanced analytics and AI are reshaping planning, manufacturing and supply chain decision-making and what it takes to turn these capabilities into genuine resilience and competitive advantage.

Because resilience is not just about where your footprint sits. It is about how intelligently and how quickly it can move.

Discussion Points:

• Efficiency or resilience: How should manufacturers balance cost, agility, capacity and resilience as disruption becomes structural?

• Is your footprint still fit for purpose: How can data and scenario modelling challenge assumptions around where you produce, source, hold inventory and build capacity?

• Can you see disruption before it hits: How can connected data and analytics surface risks, dependencies and bottlenecks earlier?

• From planning to continuous sensing: How are AI and advanced analytics changing forecasting, scenario planning and operational decision-making?

• Regionalise, diversify or digitise: How should leaders rethink their global production and supply footprint without sacrificing the benefits of scale?

• Beyond the AI pilot: What does it take to turn digital investment into measurable resilience, agility and operational performance?