Yannis Papantonis

Global Product Director at Novartis

Speaking at TFEST26: Tuesday, December 1 2026 at 15:55–16:25 on the Main Stage: “Network Design for Resilience and Cost: Rebuilding the Manufacturing Footprint Under Pressure”.

About Yannis

Session Overview

How modern network design tools weigh resilience against cost when trade policy and demand keep shifting. Drawing on a large-scale consumer-products network rebuild, this session walks through reconfiguring production and distribution footprints to absorb disruption and limit tariff and trade exposure, using strategic redundancy, regional capacity, and dual-sourcing, without eroding the cost base. Case data: a global manufacturer reconfigured its network to cut disruption recovery time by 40% and reduce landed cost by 12%, while building in capacity to flex against supply shocks.

About TFEST26

TFEST26 is Europe's most senior supply chain conference, taking place December 1–2 2026 at Colosseum Berlin. It brings together 400+ Director-level and above leaders (Chief Supply Chain Officers, VPs, and senior directors from Cisco, Henkel, Estée Lauder, Diageo, Schneider Electric, Novartis, Mars, and others) for two days of peer benchmarking, candid practitioner firesides, themed roundtables, and pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings.