Macro economic and global megatrends: implications for trade, economy and supply chains in 2023
Disruptions to supply chain operations are set to stay in 2023, whether they be existing or new geopolitical conflicts, inflationary pressures and the recessionary environment, extreme weather events, or other issues yet to emerge. Three overarching aspects businesses need to have in place to mitigate risks these will cause are capability, agility and end-to-end forward thinking visibility. But how do we implement these and how is this supposed to prepare us for potential crises to come? Join David Simchi-Lev for an in-depth discussion into the adverse effects that polycrises have on an interconnected globalized world.
Cross Functional CXO Panel: Driving Transformation through cross functional collaboration
Pulling on our cross functional CXO panel we analyse how successful digital transformation works, and how it can be achieved through collaboration between different functional areas in the business. 83% of digitally mature businesses use cross functional teams compared with 71% of developing companies, and 55% of those in the early-stage phases. As a result cross functional teams can improve communication and break down silos between departments. This has enabled individuals with diverse skill sets and expertise to collaborate on projects that drive value and productivity. In this session we will be discussing the best ways to grow and maintain robust, high performing teams in your organization.
Next-generation planning at your fingertips
In a fast-moving digital world, planners need the ability to make fast, high-quality decisions on the go—away from their desktops. Introducing o9 Mobile: an innovative smartphone application for the o9 platform developed in collaboration with Samsung SDS to improve user adoption and increase the speed and quality of enterprise planning and decision-making. In this session, get a live look at o9’s seamless mobile experience with intuitive UX and next-generation planning capabilities.
Panel: IoT and industry 4.0: How to make this happen
Companies are struggling to scale digital aspects of their business. One way that has seen a sense of accomplishment is a ‘meet in the middle’ model. This works with a top-down mindset. Key decision makers at the top deciding these actions are met with a bottom up approach of managers meeting on middle ground to work with senior management to scale properly, at speed. Having the right set funding and expenses and knowing how to connect the two is a theme of this novel way of doing business. In this session, learn from insights of business execs and analysts to frame an answer to deeply pressing issues facing supply chains, manufacturing and procurement leaders.
Presentation: How to better visualize data; improve internal communication for decision intelligence
The adoption of Decision Intelligence is accelerating as organizations find success through augmented and automated decision making. What problems and opportunities can Decision Intelligence address, and how should companies begin their journey? In this session we’ll hear how Decision Intelligence and deep insights are key enablers for successful digital transformation.
Workshop: How to become a data driven company
Companies have more internal and external data available than ever before. Yet many find it challenging to leverage that data for better, faster planning and decision-making that moves the needle. Join us for a discussion with o9 Solutions’to explore how companies can build the digital capabilities required by today’s volatile and complex business environment.
Presentation: E2E value chain transformation: How can supply chain play a role in the organization of transformations
Creating an end-to-end supply chain ecosystem involves designing and implementing a comprehensive and integrated system that covers all aspects of a company's supply chain operations. With an integrated E2E supply chain design and visibility across the supply chain, businesses can better serve customers. Operating on tradition models Traditional supply chain models have come under the spotlight in recent years, with a renewed focus on getting more from what we take out. Traditional methods of supply chain management have been highlighted in ways that protecting the environment has been shown to negatively impact. As a result modern supply chain management methods seeks to address the environmental concerns, whilst staying competitive. In this session learn about the important tools necessary to build a versatile, robust supply chain and what implications need to be taken into account to make it sustainable, profitable and eco-friendly.
Fireside chat: Supply chains capabilities key to solving modern day slavery
Modern Slavery is a complex and challenging phenomenon. Businesses with large scale supply chains that stretch across the globe are at the heart of making sure employees are free from adverse working conditions, paid a fair working wage and feel secure in their place of work. 19.9 million people are in forced labour in private or state-run companies, or criminal exploitation. In this session learn how keeping businesses accountable to the way they treat employees, while enabling adequate workers rights is imperative to ensuring a free, open and transparent supply chain. Join Hope for Justice CEO, Tim Nelson, to deep dive into the areas that are vital to ensuring businesses remain accountable to the human lives that big business plays such a role in.
Presentation: The Promise of Digital Twin Technology: A Mars Wrigley Case Study
Kristen Daihes, Global VP Supply Chain of Mars Wrigley joins Maria Villablanca to discuss the digital lighthouse pilot underway at Mars Wrigley's Illinois factory. Kristen tells us how implementing digital twin technology resulted in an 80% reduction in the product giveaway of one of their popular products, the challenges she faced on this journey, and her key learnings from the experience. Mars Wrigley's impressive story highlights the value of a single use-case of digital twin technology, but with a lot yet to discover, Kristen is hopeful and excited to uncover its full capabilities.
Panel: Making Customer Centricity a Pillar of Strategy
The needs and wants of customers is an ever growing concern for businesses. Strategically setting yourself at the heart of that strategy is an important aspect of survival in a volatile world that has seen crisis after crisis become an everyday occurrence for departments. In a high demanding sector, your customer will make the difference between buying from you, or jumping ship to a competitor. Being able to understand these implications is a key component that this session will draw upon. The Amazon effect means that customers now expect flexibility and control in terms of what they purchase and how it is received. According to Gartner, 81% of marketers view customer satisfaction as the main competition area in their industry.
Understanding what your customer wants can be a challenging aspect that we all want to recognize. It helps build trust, brand awareness and provides the key essentials for business survival.
Workshop: Understanding the ROI from Decision Intelligence
In this in-depth workshop we explore how Decision Intelligence can provide a powerful ROI for supply chain leaders. DI is different to traditional supply chain planning solutions, as it enables leaders to orchestrate, respond and execute at speed, with all of this intelligence sitting on top of other solutions.
Workshop: How digital planning twins enable business continuity in turbulent & changing supply chain landscapes
Digital Twins provides a connected digital thread that can help automate the processes of sharing information between design teams, analysts, production test teams, and service engineers. This allows teams to collaborae cross functionally in an efficient way
Understanding what your customer wants can be a challenging aspect that we all want to recognize. It helps build trust, brand awareness and provides the key essentials for business survival.
Presentation: Global macro economic trends and the future of supply chains in 2023
Each year, Bob prepares a comprehensive and esteemed analysis of the upcoming trends to help supply chain leaders thrive. The year 2022 provided extraordinary unplanned challenges for multi-industry Supply Chain teams, and the year 2023 will likely do the same.
Panel: Attracting the next generation of talent: What they are looking for and how to show them it should be supply chain
The supply chain industry has been experiencing a talent shortage since before the pandemic. Talent retention has become a foundational cornerstone to making sure that businesses remain productive, stressed even more since polycrises have laid bare the pressures in the supply chain. If companies are not able to attract the right caliber of talent, every department can be left at risk, and this then has a knock on effect to an organizations ability to operate efficiently. But what are the main challenges that businesses face when implementing attractive incentives for onboarding? Understanding what candidates are looking for in order to attract, secure and retain the best talent has been a focal point since before the pandemic. In this session we will be learning about how to keep employees onboard, how a career in supply chain can be attractive, and what ways are businesses incentivizing talent attraction.
Keynote: Unlocking the Power of Decision Intelligence
In this era of digital acceleration, it is increasingly difficult to depend on traditional processes and technologies as businesses were built with different assumptions across the industry, for a different time. Market and operational volatility has dramatically increased the volume, velocity, and complexity of decisions to be made. Even today, decisions are left unmade – there’s simply not enough time or people to make them all.
Panel: Developing culture & pursuing long term goals in times of uncertainty
The mammoth task of changing lifelong habits and redesigning business processes in order to ensure long term sustainability & business transformation can seem daunting. Especially if you consider the current business landscape which is heavily disrupted, it can be hard to look beyond the coming days towards longer term targets. For the average worker wondering what difference he or she can make in their day to day role, the role of leadership is vital in ensuring that transformational targets & cultural values are not forgotten amidst constant fire fighting and crisis management. Leaders must ensure that all touch points within an organization play their part in supporting a business’ sustainable transformation. Sustainability, business transformation and culture are topics that affect us all and therefore, the change within an organization must be all encompassing in order to ensure that no one is left behind on the journey. Join this panel session to understand how leaders must ensure that sustainability & transformational initiatives are supported at a grassroots level and business culture is changed so that objectives and values become key performance metrics that are supported by the whole organization