Lessons Learned From Component and Sub-System Shortages and Impact On Environmental Sustainability
ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 Pandemic created significant challenges to the global supply due to health impacts to workers, country level lock downs, restrictions on travel, and transportation and logistics operations. In this presentation, will cover the short-term negative impacts to our supply chain environmental sustainability efforts during the Pandemic and the long term lessons and opportunities for Applied Materials to strengthen our supply chain sustainability goals, relationships with our suppliers and our Success 2030 and Supplier Diversity programs.
BIOGRAPHY
Kim Bach Vu leads supply chain responsibility known as SuCCESS2030 at Applied Materials. She has ten years of experience in sustainability with specialization in reporting and social auditing. Her end-to-end experience in social auditing includes working on the brand, supplier, industry association, and audit firm side; this allows for her to have a holistic view on how to improve supply chains. While her educational background is focused on the environmental side, she is most interested in improving the working conditions of others.
Kim is a native Californian and attended college in East Tennessee and graduate school in the Boston area. She has lived on both coasts, but now considers Texas her home.