Two-Day Workshop for Building and Managing Agile Supply Chains
October 15–16, 2025
Center for Infrastructure Renewal
1041 RELLIS Parkway
Bryan, Texas 77807
Global supply chains are being upended by trade tensions, geopolitical risks and changing economics. These conditions increase uncertainty in demand behavior, and compromise the cost, responsiveness and operational performance of supply. However, they also provide new opportunities for businesses and investments.
Many times, cost-oriented supply chain efficiency comes with structural or network rigidity, such as limited number of suppliers and connecting nodes, plus constrained contract conditions. However, this rigidity-based efficiency may be more costly under uncertainty scenarios like the world is facing. Therefore, supply chain flexibility is key to coping with changing and unreliable conditions. An agile supply chain structure can adjust quickly to political, economic and operational changes around the world. However, what is the right flexibility-efficiency balance? Can there be a mixed strategy to make supply chains effectively robust and resilient to adverse conditions? The idea of agile supply chains is not new. Nevertheless, current and foreseeable disrupting events are unprecedented and uncharted, and there is not a silver bullet to design an effectively agile supply chain.
Join supply chain experts from Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Harvard Kennedy School, the InterAmerican Development Bank and Tecnológico de Monterey to explore how you can enhance the agility of your supply chain in the Supply Chain Agility Workshop. This event opens with lightning briefings explaining the concept of agile supply chains in current conditions and provides practical examples of organizations that have embraced agility. Specific topics such as the near/on/friend shoring dilemma will be discussed and assessed. The main feature of the workshop is to provide you with an assessment and decision-making process to help you determine how to bring and use agility in your organization. Best practices and a structured framework will enable you to leave with a game plan for making your supply chain more robust and resilient to face whatever changes may come, and perhaps more importantly: prepare and seize new opportunities for your business.
More information can be found on the TTI Events Planning and Management webpage.
