Future challenges for Supply Chain & biotechnology

1. Future
Challenges for
Biotech and
Supply Chain
in Agribusiness
By Suzette Flores
For IE Business School
application

2. With the global population expected to
reach 9 billion by 2050,
and knowing that increasing world energy demand cannot be
satisfied much longer with fossil fuels. Biotech & supply chains will
face a huge preassure to increase crop production, use less resources
and be able to supply to any location at competitive prices.

3. Some of the key challenges that might
be faced…
Reduce High preassure on
dependency food & energy
Sustainability supply at
on Oil /gas
competitive prices
Trust &
Risk
Supply Specialized
talent Biotech
stakeholders
support
management Chain
Cost
effectiveness
Regulation &
security
Collaboration/ Public & private
connectivity along Product collaboration
the chain traceability Close gap between
developed and
under developed
New business economies
Reduce
models
complexity

4. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…
Sustainability
Biotech and supply Chain might
resolve the need of using less
resources, consuming less energy
and generating less waste.
Reducing complexity in Spply
Chains will be encouraged to
reduce transportation cost and
footprint.

5. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…
Specialized talent
More regulation and complexity will
demand more specialized talent.
It will be critical to close the gap
between developed and developing
countries by fairly value people
contributions, to prevent brain
drain.

6. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & biotechnology…
Product
Regulation & traceability
security
With more globalization,
restrictions and controls are
expected to increase when moving
goods across the world, specially
when biologicls, and GMO´s are
involved in the production process.
Product traceability will be a must
at real time and at an affordable
technology/price.

7. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…
As Biotech is still in a
New Business
growing stage and
organizations realize more
Models
and more about the
importance of their Supply
Chain models in their
business performance and
customers experience, it is
still a long journey to
discover how much the
innovation in these arenas
could reshape the way we
do business and trasnform
the world.

8. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & biotechnology…
Cost
effectiveness
With biotech as a potential solution for health improvement
and food supply, and the supply chains the means to deliver
those solutions to the humanity, the Nations anc Companies
will face the difficult challenge of making them available for
everybody, not only for a priviledge group of people.

9. Which role would I like to play in
the mid term in this sector?
Creating new
opportunities
and developing talent in the Developing,
Agribusiness sector leading and
disseminating
Get Global sustainability practices in supply
responsibility on Chain
Supply Chain
where I can demonstrate that Supply Chain
could be not only a key contributor to results, Influencing
but a game changer in the organizations and
new business models. stake holders and facilitating the
adoption of biotechnology and
innovative Supply Chain approaches.
Help to improve the life of farmers and
customers specially in developing
countries.

10. References
• Alexandratos, N. & Bruisma J.(ed.) (2012), World agriculture: Towards 2030-2050, FAO.
http://typo3.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/esa/Global_persepctives/world_ag_2030_50_201
2_rev.pdf