ASCM Greater North Jersey Lunch & Learn
Tuesday, January 9, 2024, 12:00 PM ET
Presented by Jane Tierney, Founder Purple-Link
Dealing with Shortages & Disruptions

Supply chain professionals know shortages and other disruptions are challenges they will deal with. They come in many forms, and many sizes, but are always lurking and can happen at any moment, for a myriad of reasons. The challenge is not if they will happen, but when and in what magnitude, and the real skill is in preparing for them and managing through them.

In this talk you will learn:

• Common types of disruptions
• Factors that contribute to impacts from disruptions
• Impacts and ways to measure / assess
• Actions to take – prevention, short-term and longer-term management

Jane Tierney
Jane founded purple link in 2015, because there’s a better way to obtain value through the supply chain. Working with purple link clients find dollars leaking through their supply chains, draining the bottom line and identify risks lurking in the supply chain that emerge at the worst possible time. With purple link, clients develop employees’ skills to use with processes and tools to reclaim those dollars, return them to the bottom line, monitor and manage risk, and sustain savings year over year.

In addition to running her business, she teaches operations and supply chain courses in the California State University system and serves on the advisory board for the Operations & Supply Chain Management program at CSU-Long Beach. A consultant, speaker and author, she offers monthly Dynamic Dialog webinars and conducts workshops on a variety of supply chain topics.

An engineer with an MBA, Green Belt, CPSM and CPSD certifications, she’s writing her first book due out in 2024