July 23, 2025
12:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM CT / 9:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT
Duration: 60 minutes
Sponsor: US Bank
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Summary
Even if you’re making goods in the U.S., your components many face tariffs, raising your production costs.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss strategies to identify foreign content in your supply chain, how to evaluate replacement suppliers and how to make rapid changes without annoying regulators and putting your asset management strategies at risk.
Speakers
Mark Baxa | President & CEO | CSCMP - Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals & Fernia Creek Global Supply Chain Consulting Group
Mark’s experience in Global Supply Chain leadership spans 44 years. As CSCMPs President & CEO, he brings broad and deep leadership experience to lead the world’s premier supply chain education association. Creating meaningful people leadership and development opportunities for the world’s supply chain professionals is job #1 with Mark. The supply Chain is the backbone of progress. Society counts on the supply chain to “deliver the goods while doing the right things right."
As President & CEO of FerniaCreek Global Supply Chain Consulting Group, a boutique consulting firm specializing in holistic, company-level global supply chain practices, Mark leverages his in-depth knowledge of International Supply Chain Management, global trade practices, and government policy to improve company performance while preserving their freedom to operate.
Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE | Chief Executive Officer | ASCM - Association for Supply Chain Management
Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE is chief executive officer at ASCM, the largest organization for supply chain and the global pacesetter of organizational transformation, talent development and supply chain innovation. During his tenure, ASCM has significantly expanded its services to corporations, individuals and communities; its revenue has more than doubled; and three mergers were completed in response to heightened industry awareness and the vast and ongoing global impact of supply chains.
Previously, Eshkenazi was managing director of the Operations Consulting Group of American Express Tax and Business Services. Eshkenazi holds a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management; a Master of Business Administration from DePaul University; and a bachelor’s degree in business from Northeastern Illinois University.
Per Kristian Hong | Global Lead - Kearney Foresight | Strategic Operations Transformation Leader | Senior Fellow - Global Business Policy Council
Per Kristian Hong is a Kearney partner and core member of the firm’s Operation and Performance and Transformation practices. Per has more than 25 years of experience helping companies derive strategic foresight around geopolitical, economic, and technological shifts to help senior business leaders navigate disruption in their global operations and build long-term strategic advantage through supply chain transformations.
His career spans the US, Europe, Asia, and Russia across a range of industries, with a focus on consumer products, specialty chemicals, and life sciences & healthcare. Within these sectors, he brings extensive operations and M&A strategy experience, specializing in value chain performance improvement, go-to-market approaches, business model reinvention, and transformation. He currently serves as the global leader of Kearney Foresight and has led Kearney’s global collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Advanced Manufacturing and Production System platform since 2018.
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