TFEST26 Main Stage speaker
Abdelaziz Salah
Vice-President IFP Supply Chain
Kimberly-Clark
Abdelaziz Salah is the VP Supply Chain International Family Care & Professional at Kimberly-Clark, where he oversees supply chain operations for the company's core business divisions. He previously served as Chief Supply Chain Officer at Ecotone from 2018 to 2025, where he led global end-to-end supply chain operations for the sustainable food company. He brings deep expertise in managing supply chains dedicated to sustainable sourcing and ethical practices.
Session
Tue 1 Dec15:55–16:25 BerlinPanelMain Stage, live online
Network Design for Resilience and Cost: Rebuilding the Manufacturing Footprint Under Pressure
How modern network design tools weigh resilience against cost when trade policy and demand keep shifting. Drawing on a large-scale consumer-products network rebuild, this session walks through reconfiguring production and distribution footprints to absorb disruption and limit tariff and trade exposure, using strategic redundancy, regional capacity, and dual-sourcing, without eroding the cost base. Case data: a global manufacturer reconfigured its network to cut disruption recovery time by 40% and reduce landed cost by 12%, while building in capacity to flex against supply shocks.
