Actionable Agenda

What does it take to build a future-ready operations network in one of the world’s most complex industries? Join Steffen Lang, President of Operations at Novartis, for a forward-looking conversation on how Novartis is reimagining its global operations — combining digital innovation, sustainability, and patient-centricity to create a resilient, intelligent, and purpose-driven supply chain. This session will explore how Novartis is not just preparing for the future of healthcare — it’s actively shaping it.

This keynote explores how Schneider Electric’s business strategy is deeply rooted in its supply chain strategy—driving sustainability, resilience, and innovation at scale. Ranking #1 in Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain for the third consecutive year and recognized as the World’s Most Sustainable Company by Corporate Knights and TIME, we believe this story will resonate strongly with TFEST’s audience of global supply chain leaders.

This exclusive panel brings together five senior leaders from Schneider Electric to reveal the strategy behind managing one of the world's most complex and celebrated global supply chains. Achieving scale demands more than a monolithic plan—it requires the adaptive power of "glocalisation."

Drawing directly on their company's extensive experience, the experts will dissect the challenge of translating worldwide strategy into regional victories. The discussion will focus on five critical pillars of success: optimizing regional execution; accelerating digitalization across operations; embedding mandatory circularity and decarbonization goals; and cultivating agile, future-ready talent to drive decentralized decision-making. Learn how to empower local teams while maintaining enterprise-wide strategic alignment.

This session explores how the latest digitization and automation technologies can improve transport and logistics management. Through featuring customer cases, BCI will present what “best-in-class” orchestration looks like in practice. Key themes include the evolution towards a Command & Control Center, the business advantages of next-generation solutions, the IT landscape implications, and a roadmap to successful implementation.

This fireside chat brings Dr Wolfgang Partsch, one of the original founding fathers of supply chain back to TFEST again.

In this session he will be sharing his ideas on the supply chain eco-system and the value of cross functional collaboration. We will be talking with him on the impact of digital transformation and the evolution of supply chain to value chain. 

Challenges are bound to arise in the ever-evolving landscape of global supply chains. Every industry strives for cost reduction, improved visibility, and optimized planning amidst complexities. LIPTON Teas and Infusions is a prime example of such a supply chain. With a customer-centric approach powered by Decision Intelligence in supply chain planning, risk management, and forecasting, we deliver the same great taste in every sip of Lipton Tea. Join us to explore the partnership between LIPTON Teas and Infusions and ICRON, our supply chain partner, and discover the unique solutions that optimize tea blending process.​

Procurement and supply chain leaders face unprecedented pressure to drive efficiency, mitigate risk, and unlock new value. Yet, a pervasive challenge persists: unreliable, unstructured data that impedes agility and visibility. This session will demonstrate how pioneering organizations are leveraging cutting-edge AI and Deep Learning to move beyond manual data clean-up, establishing a "Trusted Data Foundation" that underpins both hyper-efficient procurement and a truly resilient supply chain.

Supply chains are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs and improve resilience. SimPath delivers a revolutionary new approach to Network Design, which is already the preferred choice of CHEP and many other leading global organisations. This session will present new ways of thinking about network optimisation and demo concrete examples of cost reduction for complex networks.

This session explores how leading companies are transforming from linear supply chains to complex, resilient ecosystems, driven by recent disruptions. The session will explore  the end-to-end supply chain, encompassing everything from raw materials to reverse logistics, and delve into supply chain orchestration – the art of synchronizing all elements for proactive, intelligent coordination.

Key to this is ecosystem design, ensuring a unified strategy across internal functions and external partners. We'll uncover core components like strategic planning, sourcing excellence, synchronized manufacturing, and optimized logistics, alongside crucial customer service and reverse logistics. 

In this session we explore how supply chain and commercial teams can co-create value by aligning on supplier strategy, rather than operating in silos. You will learn why shifting from a cost-cutting mindset to a value-driven supplier relationship model is critical in today’s market.

- Hear real-world examples of how strong supplier collaboration drives innovation, resilience, and competitive advantage.

 - Discover tools and frameworks that enable cohesive, cross-functional decision-making on supplier selection and performance.

 - Understand how to position procurement as a strategic enabler within your organization, not just a sourcing function.

Are you competitive? Are you good at what you do? How do you know? 

Performance is always relative. Benchmarking is the measurement of performance. Your performance.

By systematically comparing metrics, processes and strategies—both internal and external—against best-in-class standards, organizations uncover not just gaps but opportunities to improve how work gets done. Benchmarking fosters a culture of continuous improvement. It unlocks fresh ideas, accelerates adoption of proven practices, and motivates teams to aim higher than they thought possible. Most importantly, it creates a mindset where excellence is not a destination, but a moving frontier. Finally, benchmarking is the only way to know if you and your organization are any good.

Join Frank Cervi, Chief Supply Chain Operations Officer at Mondelez International, to explore how benchmarking can shift organizations from incremental gains to breakthrough performance, and how embedding the right practices and mindset can elevate standards across entire industries.

Join us for an engaging roundtable discussion with insights from HALEON, where we explore the transformative impact of a fully connected and orchestrated supply chain platform. Building on themes from our main stage session on Day 1, we will discuss how integrating AI with a robust supply chain network enhances collaboration, responsiveness, and resilience while identifying risk.

Discover how HALEON uses AI as a catalyst for strategic growth, offering predictive insights and autonomous management to navigate disruptions. Learn about the importance of full traceability and agentic AI in ensuring compliance and providing a comprehensive operational view.

This session is a unique opportunity to engage with industry leaders. Expect to walk away with clear actions and next steps when it comes to exploring how AI and connectivity can drive success in your supply chain operations.

Join your peers to discuss the goals and challenges of adopting AI in Procurement. From underlying data challenges to integration across systems, many AI implementations face the same problems. 

You will benchmark your position against similar organisations while hearing best-practices (and real-world scenarios) to guide your digital transformation strategy. 

What if your supply chain had a 24/7 planning co-pilot: setting goals, planning, acting, and learning on repeat? Agentic AI moves planning from “recommend” to “plan–act–learn.” Agents sense risks and constraints, propose scenarios, trigger approved actions, and improve under guardrails with human-in-the-loop oversight. The result: faster responses, sturdier plans under uncertainty, and sustained gains in service, inventory, and cost.

While AI, automation, and predictive analytics are transforming how organisations manage risk, compliance, and disruption, true resilience isn’t just about automation. It’s about empowering the people behind the decisions. Explore how Procurement teams are managing this change through findings from the 2025 AI Readiness & Impact Survey - revealing adoption trends, barriers, and opportunities shaping procurement and supply chains.

This session will explore how leading organisations are integrating AI in ways that strengthen collaboration, build trust, and enhance human judgment;making AI solutions not only data-driven but also intuitive, transparent, and executive-ready. Learn how AI can safeguard supply chains while enabling teams to stay agile, resilient, and strategically focused for long-term impact.

Join the ID8 Global team as they demonstrate what true business orchestration and automation looks like in action by using AI-driven automation to elevate performance and compliance while simplifying and increasing the ROI of your technology stack. Discover how to enhance your B.O.A.T. by streamlining operations, reducing costs, and minimizing risk. You’ll walk away with tangible, practitioner-led tactics to build a more connected, intelligent, and resilient enterprise.

Procurement can be a powerful catalyst for innovation. This session explores how procurement leaders can move beyond a transactional role to become strategic partners within their organizations.

You will learn how to:

• Drive Innovation: Proactively identify and source cutting-edge solutions by collaborating with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Optimize Costs: Implement advanced strategies to not only reduce costs but also to create long-term value.
• Foster Collaboration: Build strong, strategic relationships with suppliers and cross-functional leaders to accelerate product development and unlock new opportunities for growth.

Decarbonizing the supply chain is a critical imperative for a sustainable future. This keynote session offers actionable insights for achieving net-zero. Understand the drivers for change, learn to measure Scope 3 emissions, and set ambitious targets aligned with climate goals. Discover strategies for engaging your value chain, leveraging technology, and exploring financing options. Gain inspiration from real-world case studies and leave with practical takeaways to navigate your journey towards a net-zero supply chain.

Join us for an engaging roundtable with insights from HALEON, where we explore the transformative impact of a fully connected and orchestrated supply chain platform. Building on themes from our main stage on Day 1, we will discuss how integrating AI with a robust supply chain network enhances collaboration, responsiveness, and resilience while identifying risk.​  Discover how HALEON uses AI as a catalyst for strategic growth, offering predictive insights and autonomous management to navigate disruptions. Learn about the importance of full traceability and agentic AI in ensuring compliance and providing a comprehensive operational view.​ This session is a unique opportunity to engage with industry leaders. Expect to walk away with clear actions and next steps when it comes to exploring how AI and connectivity can drive success in your supply chain operations.

Join your peers to discuss supplier risk and compliance challenges. From engaging suppliers to quantifying risk then monitoring to maintain resilience. 

You will benchmark your own processes against similar organisations, while hearing insights from pilots and implementations of different technologies - including AI solutions.

Join us for an interactive roundtable that builds on the Day 2 session “How AI is Key to Dominating Multipolar Value Chains.” This discussion will take a deeper look at how organizations are moving beyond experimentation to full-scale implementation of Supply Chain AI across procurement, supply, and risk functions.

Participants will explore how to harness predictive intelligence, automation, and generative technologies to improve decision-making, accelerate response times, and enhance end-to-end visibility. The conversation will highlight real-world examples of how Supply Chain AI is driving measurable impact from anticipating supplier disruptions and optimizing sourcing strategies to achieving compliance and sustainability goals with precision and speed.

Through peer exchange and practical insights, we will examine the human, technological, and governance dimensions of embedding AI within complex supply networks. Attendees will walk away with clear frameworks and next steps for transforming intelligence into effective execution that powers competitive advantage in a multipolar world.

In today's volatile, high-stakes business environment, the supply chain must do more than deliver products, it must deliver value. In this provocative and practical keynote, Maciej Kaniowski, the former Chief Operating Officer at Avon and one of the Top 20 Global Supply Chain Leaders, calls on organisations to activate a “game on” mindset: one rooted in ownership, urgency, and an unwavering focus on business outcomes. Maciej will share a real-world, leadership-driven approach to re framing the supply chain as a strategic powerhouse that directly influences enterprise metrics - top-line growth, EBITDA performance, working capital optimization, and customer retention. Drawing on his experience navigating complex transformations across corporate and private equity settings, he will demonstrate how high-performing teams, when built and led with purpose, can elevate supply chain operations from functional excellence to enterprise-wide influence.

Supply chains are dealing with increasing uncertainty from trade tariffs, uncertain customer demand, and global disruptions, putting both operational efficiency and long-term competitiveness at risk. Traditional supply chain approaches weren't built for today's volatile environment, making resilience essential for business success. Decision Intelligence addresses this challenge by bringing together advanced mathematical technologies.

In this talk, we will:

• Discuss how mathematical optimization can maximize service levels while simultaneously minimizing production and inventory costs
• Illustrate how simulation approaches help answer strategic questions, such as: How will different tariff scenarios affect cost of goods sold? How should we calibrate our network to minimize exposure to tariffs and supply chain disruptions?
  

These examples show how companies are using these technologies to build supply chains that perform well despite uncertainty, achieving real improvements in both cost efficiency and service reliability.

In the pursuit of global sustainability goals, achieving net-zero emissions is a paramount challenge. Join us as we delve into the critical intersection of "Net Zero" and "Value Chain Collaboration." We explore how organizations across industries are forging strategic partnerships, sharing insights, and integrating sustainability practices into different facets of their value chains. Learn from leading industry thought leaders about the strategies, tools, and best practices that drive environmental stewardship while enhancing business value.