Future Challenges

for Biotech and

Supply Chain

in Agribusiness

By Suzette Flores

For IE Business School

application

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.

Supply

ChainBiotech

Sustainability

Costeffectiveness

Regulation & security

New businessmodels

Close gap betweendeveloped and

under developedeconomies

Reduce dependencyon Oil /gas

Riskmanagement

Reduce complexity

Trust & stakeholderssupport

High preassure onfood & energy

supply at competitive prices

Public & privatecollaborationProduct

traceability

Specializedtalent

Some of the key challenges that might be

faced…

Collaboration/connectivity along

the chain

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.

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.

Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…

Regulation & 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.

Producttraceability

Future Challenge for Supply Chain & biotechnology…

New Business Models

As Biotech is still in a growing

stage and organizations realize

more 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.

Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…

Costeffectiveness

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.

Future Challenge for Supply Chain & biotechnology…

Influencing 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.

Get Global responsibility on

Supply Chain where I can demonstrate that Supply Chain

could be not only a key contributor to results, but a game changer in the organizations and

new business models.

Developing,

leading and

disseminating sustainability practices in supply Chain

Creating new opportunities

and developing talent in the Agribusiness sector

Which role would I like to play in the mid term in this sector?

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_2012_rev.pdf