• TPM25
  • March 2-5, 2025 | Long Beach Convention Center

Claes Lindgren

IKEA

Global Category Area Manager-Logistics

Mr Claes Lindgren looks back at a global career spanning more than twenty years across three continents and five different countries. Claes has worked in industries spanning both automotive & retail and is today globally responsible for Logistics Services and Transport within the Inter IKEA Group, Supply. This responsibility includes the totality of home furnishings flow and the IKEA food offer to markets globally. In his role, Claes leads five global categories and is based in Switzerland as a member of the Global Supply Chain Operations Management Team.

Sessions With Claes Lindgren

Tuesday, 4 March

  • 02:20pm - 03:00pm (PST) / 04/mar/2025 10:20 pm - 04/mar/2025 11:00 pm

    Managing Risk: Preparing for the Next Black Swan Event
    When the International Longshoremen’s Association on Oct. 1 launched a strike at East and Gulf coast ports, it was just the latest event to significantly disrupt supply chains in general, and refrigerated shippers in particular. And though the ILA and management settled the contract before further damage could be done in mid-January, the fact remains: Whether it’s labor strife, the 2020-2021 COVID pandemic, shipping diversions away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal, drought restrictions in the Panama Canal, or other weather-related incidents, events that once were seen as rare — hence the term “black swan” — now aren’t only the norm, but also must be considered the expectation. Temperature-sensitive products that have a short shelf life — bananas and other fruits and vegetables, meat and seafood, even flowers — are especially prone to disruption and unexpected delays that can make the difference between product availability and wasteful spoilage. But it’s one thing to plan for predictive disruption — the ILA strike, for example — and another to fall victim to the unexpected. So how, then, can cold chain shippers prepare for the unpredictable? What implications do such events have on supply chain decisions, from sourcing and scheduling to capacity and visibility procurement? What best practices can perishables shippers employ that promote business continuity during supply chain turmoil? This TPM Cold Chain session will feature a mix of shippers and service providers discussing how they’ve navigated around recent supply chain turmoil and, more importantly, how they now view buainess-continuity planning in this age of disruption.
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