A balancing act:
semiconductor supply chain resiliency strategy and cashflow
A balancing act: semiconductor supply chain resiliency strategy and cashflow
- Rethinking Resilience supply chain podcast
- By Resilinc
- Mar 21, 2024
Increasing semiconductor supply chain resilience and security is a global imperative, supported by such collective efforts as SEMI’s SCM initiative, both the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act and EU Chips Act, and the UK Science and Technology Framework. In this episode of the Rethinking Resilience supply chain podcast, SEMI’s Bettina Weiss and Genpact’s George Thompson explore the transformative changes affecting semiconductor supply chains, and how companies can strategically prioritize both supply chain resiliency investment and business revenue cashflow.
00:00 | Introduction
01:29 | Importance of supply chain resiliency
04:06 | How to balance top-line revenue cost?
08:09 | How geopolitical scenarios impact nearshoring and reshoring strategies
13:47 | Transforming supply chain disruptions into your competitive advantage
18:22 | The power of partnerships for the ROI of resiliency
22:06 | Call to action for smaller suppliers
Speakers
George Thompson
Director, Semiconductor Supply Chain Practice, Genpact
George Thompson is a Director in Genpact's Supply Chain Service Line, supporting the semiconductor industry, and risk and resilience offering across industries. Prior to joining Genpact, George spent over 25 years in several supply chain roles at GlobalFoundries and IBM. George lives near Burlington, Vermont with his wife and three sons. When he is not helping clients diagnose and improve supply chain resiliency and performance, George enjoys outdoor activities and woodworking.
Bettina Weiss
Chief of Staff and Corporate Strategy, SEMI
As Chief of Staff and Corporate Strategy, Bettina Weiss manages a broad portfolio of responsibilities such as advancing SEMI’s Smart Mobility and Supply Chain global strategic initiatives and SEMI University, facilitating thought leadership (Think Tanks) activities in key strategic areas, and improving organizational efficiency, alignment and financial sustainability. Weiss is also the Sr. Liaison to the SEMI Board of Industry Leaders, leading strategic partnerships and M&A activity, and supporting the President and CEO in successfully creating a highly effective, agile global association.
Chris Benham
Senior Director of Implementation, Resilinc
Chris Benham is a veteran supply chain practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, the airline sector, and the digital storage space. Throughout his career, he’s held various leadership positions focused on data and advanced analytics, commodity cost management, digital transformation, and change management. In his most recent role at Seagate Technology, Chris served as chief of staff for the chief supply chain officer, overseeing strategic direction, supply chain roadmap, board-level communications, and KPIs.
About the podcast
Each quarter, Resilinc’s Rethinking Resilience: supply chain podcast features global practitioners and leaders to discuss industry developments driving the need for greater global supply chain resiliency and agility, and transparent supply and demand continuity. Listen in as our speakers define what supply chain resiliency means to them and their organizations. Hear them tackle challenging ‘sticky’ topics required for holistic supply chain growth and innovation. Gain insights, best practices, learnings and tactics today’s supply chain visionaries use to address the current and future state of global supply chain and drive their organizational success.
- Production and manufacturing
- Workforce and skilled talent
- Regulatory governance/policy compliance
- Sustainability/ESG initiatives
- Cost/ROI of resilience
- Buyer-supplier relationships
- Sourcing and procurement
