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Margin Under Pressure: Building a More Responsive Supply Chain in an Era of Constant Disruption

Name: Margin Under Pressure: Building a More Responsive Supply Chain in an Era of Constant Disruption
Start: 2026-11-24T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-24T12:30:00-05:00
Location: Virtual

Join Blend, SAP and NTT DATA for an exclusive virtual roundtable exploring how consumer goods and wholesale distribution leaders can build more responsive, resilient supply chains while protecting profitability. Discover how improved visibility, AI-driven insights and connected operational and financial decision-making can help organizations anticipate disruption, respond faster and safeguard margins.

Virtual

November 24, 2026

to November 24, 2026

11:00 am

- 12:30 pm

About this event

Margin pressure is coming from every direction. Supply constraints, transportation costs, tariffs, changing demand, inventory challenges, and increasingly complex customer expectations are forcing organizations to make consequential decisions faster, often without the visibility or agility they need.

For consumer goods and wholesale distribution organizations, the challenge extends across the entire value chain. Inbound disruption can affect sourcing, cost, inventory, and production; outbound disruption can threaten fulfillment, service levels, customer commitments, and revenue. And because these pressures are interconnected, a supply-chain problem rarely stays a supply-chain problem for long. The original event content makes this connection directly: disruption can rapidly affect cost, inventory, customer commitments, revenue, and ultimately margin.

Join Blend, SAP, and NTT DATA for an intimate virtual roundtable exploring how organizations are building more responsive and resilient supply chains while protecting profitability. Through candid peer discussion, we’ll examine where visibility breaks down, how leaders are connecting operational and financial decision-making, where AI can deliver practical value, and what it takes to move from reacting to disruption toward anticipating and responding to it.

Our speakers

Colin Cosell

Head of New York & Boston Community | Blend

Colin Cosell is a professional emcee, announcer, and executive communications expert with more than 25 years of experience across television, radio, film, stage, and corporate events. When he’s not at the lectern or moderating executive panels, Colin serves as the Public Address Announcer for the New York Mets, Army Football, the Premier Lacrosse League, and numerous other professional and collegiate teams. Over the course of his career, Colin has earned three Emmy Awards and has announced to more than 30 million attendees worldwide. His greatest source of pride, however, are his wife, Julia, and their little girl, Eloise.

Jason Mausberg

Director | NTT DATA Business Solutions Canada

Jason Mausberg is Managing Director of NTT DATA Business Solutions Canada and one of the original founders of the Canadian organization. With 30 years of experience in the SAP ecosystem, Jason brings extensive leadership and industry expertise, helping organizations navigate transformation and drive meaningful business outcomes through technology.

Key themes & discussion topics

Navigating Supply Chain Disruption and Margin Pressure
How supply constraints, rising transportation costs, tariffs and shifting customer demand are affecting profitability, and where organizations face the greatest challenges across inbound and outbound operations.

Achieving End-to-End Visibility and Agility
How organizations can overcome fragmented data, disconnected systems and operational silos to gain greater visibility across suppliers, inventory, distribution and customer commitments, enabling faster, more informed decisions.

Connecting Supply Chain Decisions to Financial Outcomes
How closer alignment between Finance, Operations and Supply Chain teams can help organizations understand the financial impact of disruption, manage working capital and protect margins without compromising customer service.

Leveraging AI to Build Responsive and Resilient Supply Chains
Discover practical opportunities for AI in demand forecasting, inventory optimization, risk identification and fulfillment, while exploring how organizations can balance operational efficiency with long-term resilience.

Event agenda

Welcome remarks

11:00 – 11:15 AM

Guided group discussion

11:15 – 12:15 PM

Closing thought & group reflection

12:15 – 12:30 PM

Why should you attend?

Gain insights into how leading organizations are addressing supply chain volatility, managing rising costs and safeguarding margins in an increasingly unpredictable environment.

Explore strategies for connecting data, systems and teams to identify disruptions earlier, respond more effectively and strengthen operational agility.

Learn where AI can deliver measurable value across forecasting, inventory management, risk mitigation and supply chain optimization, moving beyond hype to tangible business outcomes.

Connect with senior Finance, Operations, Supply Chain and Technology leaders from consumer goods and wholesale distribution organizations to share challenges, exchange perspectives and uncover actionable strategies for building greater resilience.

Who should attend

This discussion is designed for senior Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Distribution, and Technology leaders within consumer goods and wholesale distribution organizations operating across B2B and B2C markets.

Relevant attendees include CFOs and senior Finance leaders, COOs, Chief Supply Chain Officers, Supply Chain and Logistics executives, Distribution and Operations leaders, CIOs, CTOs, Digital Transformation leaders, and senior Enterprise Applications and IT executives.

The conversation will be particularly valuable for leaders responsible for protecting margin, improving end-to-end supply-chain visibility, strengthening resilience, and increasing organizational responsiveness amid persistent volatility.

Venue

Virtual

N/A

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