Session Topic
Supply Chain Trends – Revisiting, Reshoring & Reinvention

Summary
Managing supply chain risk and achieving supply chain resiliency Post COVID-19 is top of mind for many companies. Supply chain reshoring is another trend that is gaining momentum and it will be impacted by legislative developments. Jonathan Eaton, National Supply Chain Practice Leader at Grant Thornton will discuss these developments and share insight on how companies can best prepare.

Featured Speaker

Jonathan Eaton
Principal, National Supply Chain Practice Leader
Grant Thornton LLP

Biography
Jonathan is the practice leader for Grant Thornton’s National Supply Chain Practice. With over 23 years of Supply Chain consulting experience, Jonathan has spent the majority of his career advising large multinational companies and middle market companies across multiple industry sectors on how to best transform their supply chains. His industry experience covers Consumer & Industrial Products, Food & Beverage, Retail, Auto Aftermarket, Auto OEM, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Technology, and Financial Services. He also has significant experience with supply chain risk management, operations driven turnarounds, post-merger integration, divestitures, and technology implementation.

Jonathan is best recognized for his ability to help clients define their supply chain strategy in response to changing market conditions and other disruptive forces and subsequently helping them transform their supply chains to achieve competitive advantage by providing higher customer satisfaction while balancing inventory and service commitments and minimizing total supply chain costs.

Jonathan most recently worked at Chainalytics, LLC where he was an Industry Supply Chain Partner focused on the supply chain issues of a portfolio of the firm’s largest and most complex clients. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Senior Director at IHS with global responsibility for the Supply Chain / MRO Intelligence Practice.  And prior to that, Jonathan was a Manager in Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations consulting practice after started his consulting career by helping launch and grow and Ernst & Young’s Middle Market Supply Chain Consulting Practice.

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Jonathan is certified in Lean Six Sigma Principles and has a Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt.
• In 2015, Jonathan was recognized as a “Supply Chain Pro to Know”.
• Memberships include the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Forum, Michigan State University Supply Chain Council, and multiple professional associations.
• Jonathan speaks and writes frequently on supply chain topics of importance

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) Management Strategy - University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BS) Marketing, Logistics, & Transportation - University of Tennessee.

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