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Transition Your Product Supply Chain

In this insightful webinar, discover how to swiftly redesign product categories and accelerate their progression through the development pipeline with an improved and diversified supply chain. Learn how to enhance product features and increase margins by rapidly redefining your product portfolio.

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Clotilde Grimault

January 4, 2025

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Leadership

Ecosystem Design

Strategy

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Stay Ahead of Tariffs: How to Transition Your Product Supply Chain - Webinar

Date: January 22nd, 2025

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In this insightful webinar, discover how to swiftly redesign product categories and accelerate their progression through the development pipeline with an improved and diversified supply chain. 

Learn how to enhance product features and increase margins by rapidly redefining your product portfolio. As we navigate the complexities of 2025, businesses face new challenges and opportunities for growth. With the evolving global economic climate and changes in trade policies significantly impacting supply chains, innovative companies must reassess and modify their supplier relationships. This session will outline essential steps to diversify and strengthen your business position, explore intelligent portfolio management, and establish strategic partnerships to boost resilience against market fluctuations and secure a sustainable competitive edge.

Strategic Redesign and Acceleration:

Key steps to rapidly redesign product categories.

The importance of accelerating product development to include additional build cycles for improvement.

Intelligent Portfolio Management:

How to review your product portfolio to identify innovative features and targets for future growth.

The role of strategic toolkits in pinpointing optimal targets for development.

Strategically Updating Requirements and Components:

Challenges and solutions since COVID-19 in updating product parts and components.

The benefits of comprehensive sourcing and leveraging new technologies for automation.

Establishing Strategic Partnerships:

The advantages of partnering with firms like Loft for enhanced design, engineering, and R&D support.

How outsourcing can accelerate development and enhance product features.

Lean, Focused Product Teams:

The effectiveness of small, cross-functional teams in accelerating time to market.

Best practices for keeping teams focused and efficient.

Building Additional Safety Loops in the Process:

It is necessary to incorporate extra engineering builds and quality tests to ensure product and supplier readiness.

Leveraging Platforms for Legacy Forward Product Portfolios:

Strategies to increase market share in core categories and capitalize on niche markets.

Diversifying the supply chain to compete effectively, especially in emerging markets.

The pivotal role of 2025 for product leaders in managing multi-tiered product transitions.

A call to action for businesses to adopt strategic approaches to supply chain management and development processes to meet current market demands and prepare for future growth and innovation.

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Clotilde’s favorite creative pursuits are building a solid project plan and coordinating the team to deliver beyond a client’s expectations. Specializing in Mechanical Engineering, Data Science and UX strategy, she approaches product design with a focus on technology, user centricity and business opportunities. From data analytics to Agile mobile development, she offers a wide area of expertise as an architect of digital transformation.

Before Loft, Clotilde spent 12 years working for Philips in the Netherlands. Prior to that she was at Accenture Interactive and Agusta Aerospace Corporation.

If she is not traveling the world, you might find her in her garden outside of Raleigh, NC, or baking with her two children.

Clotilde’s next level skill ... making sense of complex technical workflows and using Design Thinking to simplify them.

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