Tool Up:  Key Strategies Juvenile Products Supply Chain Managers Need to Know for Mitigating the Impact of Tariffs and Covid-19 on Global Trade

Overview

The spotlight is on supply chain:  volatile demand, uncertain supply, exploding transportation costs, 301 tariffs.  Supply chain management has never had such an impact on profitability, and it has never been more important for supply chain managers to know their options.

Join global trade expert Tom Cook of Blue Tiger International on Wednesday, January 27th at, 2:00pm EST, as he dissects the key issues that global supply chain managers face in light of tariffs and the pandemic and presents new options and time-proven recommendations for mitigating these challenges: 

• Reducing risk and spend in foreign purchasing and international sales

• Tariff mitigation options:  14 considerations

• Current state of global logistics: ocean, air, rail and truck

• Working with 3PLs, forwarders and brokers

Whether you’re seeking alternate sourcing options from China or mitigating the impacts of tariffs or struggling with explosive transportation costs, you’ll gain new insight and uncover new options for 2021 in this webinar.

Speaker

Thomas Cook is managing director of Blue Tiger International, a global business consulting company in supply chain management, trade compliance, purchasing, and global trade & logistics.  Tom has over 30 years’ experience in helping companies all over the world manage their business models, supply chain risk and spend and import/export operations. Under Tom’s leadership, in May of 2018, Blue Tiger International won the president’s “E” Award for Export Service, the highest recognition any U.S. entity can receive for making a significant contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports.  An educator as well as a business advisor, Tom serves as director of the National Institute of World Trade (NIWT), a nonprofit corporate training school on global trade and supply chain management, and has authored 19 books on business management, global trade and business development.