Mandate:
The National Supply Chain Office, launched December 1, 2023, is working with private and public sector partners to drive coordinated actions that will increase efficiency and resiliency across Canada’s supply chains, including mitigating impacts from disruptions.
Key priorities include:
- providing overarching leadership, coordination and external outreach to identify, assess and help respond to specific domestic and international supply chain issues, including during disruptions;
- supporting data sharing for end-to-end supply chain visibility and digitalization as part of work to optimize systems and enable evidence-based decisions; and
- implementing a national supply chain strategy to drive collaboration across sectors on shared priorities and position Canada for the long-term.
The Office looks at the transportation and logistics sector with an end-to-end supply chain view – covering all goods movement, domestic and trade-related, across all modes.
Its engagement with the private sector ensures that the government understands the industry perspective.
The work of the Office builds on and furthers federal investments in trade and transportation systems, including through the National Trade Corridor Fund, as well as other government initiatives such as the Treasury Board’s Supply Chain Regulatory Review.
Profile:
Robert Dick
Assistant Deputy Minister, National Supply Chain Office
BioAssociate Deputy Minister, National Supply Chain Office: Robert Dick
Number of Employees: 8
Directorates:
- Strategy and Solutions
- Operations and Engagement
Overview:
Strategy and Solutions
The Strategy and Solutions Directorate provides integrated policy leadership and direction on supply chain and trade corridor issues/initiatives through multimodal policy analysis, advice and research, including by:
- implementing a national supply chain strategy;
- improving alignment and coordination within the federal family on supply chain issues (such as supply chain disruptions), including amongst ministers and senior officials; and
- working closely with the Treasury Board of Canada’s Regulatory Affairs Sector to identify regulatory issues and options to improve supply chain efficiency.
The Directorate also works with other Transport Canada groups to advance horizontal data and digitalization initiatives and provides expert advice on national multimodal system performance issues.
Operations and Engagement
The Operations and Engagement Directorate is divided between Western/Northern and Eastern teams. Both teams convene supply chain users and operators in their respective corridors/gateways to identify system-level constraints in supply chains and work with industry and provincial and territorial governments to drive tactical solutions to enhance efficiency, fluidity, resilience and reliability. Collaboration with industry focuses on optimizing operations, co-developing systems-wide performance metrics and identifying opportunities to enhance corridor resiliency, all the while leveraging data and digitalization to pursue cost-effectiveness and facilitate a systems view.
The team also convenes supply chain users and operators to mitigate the impacts of and recovery from supply chain disruptions as appropriate.