Agribusiness: The Complete Value Chain
This webinar featuring Jessica Stephan, Logistics Director for Bunge, explored the critical role agribusiness and transportation play in supporting global food systems and supply chains.
The session provided an overview of the agribusiness industry and examined how commodities such as corn, soybeans, and wheat move from field to market across the United States and around the world. Participants gained insight into the interconnected agribusiness value chain, from input providers and producers to processors and service providers, and the essential role transportation plays in connecting each stage.
The presentation also highlighted the growing challenges facing agribusiness organizations, including environmental changes, geopolitical pressures, and shifting consumer demand. Additional discussion focused on transportation infrastructure, with a closer look at how rivers and barge systems remain vital to both U.S. and global supply chain operations.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. (CT)
Format: Zoom
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Jessica Stephan is Logistics Director for Bunge, a global agribusiness leader in delivering food, feed, and fuel to customers around the world. She is responsible for overseeing bulk barge and vessel logistics for the company’s North American agribusiness division and serves as product line director for US and Canada domestic transportation. Additionally, Jessica is a member of the company’s Global Logistics team working to align commodity flows, manage costs, maintain port capacity contracts, standardize internal processes, and develop logistics talent across the globe.
After joining the company in 2008, Jessica held several merchandising and trading positions prior to switching career paths to supply chain and logistics in 2013. Jessica’s breadth of experience has made her one of the company’s logistics experts on several large and mega-size capital expenditure project teams for inland, port, and oilseed crush facilities. She has extensive knowledge and experience with commercial trade rules and practices, contracting and service agreements, and serves the industry as an arbitrator for trade disputes.
Currently, Jessica is Chair of National Grain and Feed Association’s Waterborne Commerce Committee, Co-Chair of North American Export Grain Association’s Contracts Committee and is a board of directors member for Waterways Council Inc. She is also a board of directors member for Operation Food Search, a St. Louis-based non-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger in the greater metropolitan area, and is on the advisory board of the Washington University Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation.
Jessica graduated from Illinois State University with a B.S. in Agriculture Education and a M.S. in Agribusiness. She is based out of Bunge’s global headquarters in Chesterfield, MO and lives in Wildwood with her husband, Patrick, and their two daughters, Dylan and Alex.
This event is part of our Supply Chain Management Speaker Series Class, which is held every semester to further our mission of complementing our students’ classroom experience with the advice and expertise of practitioners.
This webinar featuring Jessica Stephan, Logistics Director for Bunge, explored the critical role agribusiness and transportation play in supporting global food systems and supply chains.
The session provided an overview of the agribusiness industry and examined how commodities such as corn, soybeans, and wheat move from field to market across the United States and around the world. Participants gained insight into the interconnected agribusiness value chain, from input providers and producers to processors and service providers, and the essential role transportation plays in connecting each stage.
The presentation also highlighted the growing challenges facing agribusiness organizations, including environmental changes, geopolitical pressures, and shifting consumer demand. Additional discussion focused on transportation infrastructure, with a closer look at how rivers and barge systems remain vital to both U.S. and global supply chain operations.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. (CT)
Format: Zoom
🎵TK账号 | 马来西亚自然流千粉号 | 美女号 | 邮箱可用 | 1000粉丝 Jessica
Jessica Stephan is Logistics Director for Bunge, a global agribusiness leader in delivering food, feed, and fuel to customers around the world. She is responsible for overseeing bulk barge and vessel logistics for the company’s North American agribusiness division and serves as product line director for US and Canada domestic transportation. Additionally, Jessica is a member of the company’s Global Logistics team working to align commodity flows, manage costs, maintain port capacity contracts, standardize internal processes, and develop logistics talent across the globe.
After joining the company in 2008, Jessica held several merchandising and trading positions prior to switching career paths to supply chain and logistics in 2013. Jessica’s breadth of experience has made her one of the company’s logistics experts on several large and mega-size capital expenditure project teams for inland, port, and oilseed crush facilities. She has extensive knowledge and experience with commercial trade rules and practices, contracting and service agreements, and serves the industry as an arbitrator for trade disputes.
Currently, Jessica is Chair of National Grain and Feed Association’s Waterborne Commerce Committee, Co-Chair of North American Export Grain Association’s Contracts Committee and is a board of directors member for Waterways Council Inc. She is also a board of directors member for Operation Food Search, a St. Louis-based non-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger in the greater metropolitan area, and is on the advisory board of the Washington University Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation.
Jessica graduated from Illinois State University with a B.S. in Agriculture Education and a M.S. in Agribusiness. She is based out of Bunge’s global headquarters in Chesterfield, MO and lives in Wildwood with her husband, Patrick, and their two daughters, Dylan and Alex.
This event is part of our Supply Chain Management Speaker Series Class, which is held every semester to further our mission of complementing our students’ classroom experience with the advice and expertise of practitioners.