Supply Chain Resilience in volatile Times - strategies for stress testing your value chain
World renowned Professor Simchi-Levi has developed a groundbreaking Risk Exposure Index (REI) model to identify and respond to hidden risks in the supply chain.
His work on “stress tests” for critical supply chains and ways to guide global supply chain recovery were included in the 2022 Economic Report of the President presented to the U.S. Congress in April.
At the heart of REI is a mathematical model of the supply chain that focuses on potential failures at different supply chain nodes — a flood at a supplier’s factory, or a shortage of raw materials at another factory, for instance. In this session Professor Simchi Levi will share his insights from years of working with global businesses including Ford Motor company and others.
Cross Functional CXO Panel: Driving Transformation through cross functional collaboration
Pulling on our cross functional CXO panel we analyze 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: E2E value chain transformation: How can supply chain play a role in the organization of transformations
RHI Magnesita, the market leader in the refractory business, offers the full value chain, helping from the mining of raw materials, through production, to the customization of the bricks and mixes used in the equipment of the world’s steel, cement, nonferrous metals, and glass producers. Their clients' products naturally have significant wear and tear over time and need replacement for continued use. The longer a client can use a furnace or kiln with the same lining, the more return they get on the investment, however waiting too long poses an enormous risk of unforeseen downtimes, cost-intensive production stops or even health & safety incidents. So the big question is: How do I get the maximum ROI? Using the power of AI, RH Magnesita has developed a refractory management tool called APO, or Automated Process Optimization. It combines all the relevant production data using AI technology, helping them predict refractory behavior in each step of the client’s production process. RH’s industry experts then help clients to interpret this data, so that they can make fact-based decisions on when to replace their lining while getting the best performance out of the refractories.
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.
Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy
Prof. Dr Wayne Visser, a top thinker in sustainability and responsible business, talks through some of the key issues in his groundbreaking new book ‘Thriving’ which promotes change through innovation and transformation in nature, society, and the economy. It showcases new approaches in economics, business, and leadership to address a wide range of topics, including ecosystem destruction, species extinction, plastic waste, air pollution, gender equality, social justice, physical health, mental well-being, access to technology, job automation, pandemics, and climate change, among others.
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: Value Unlocks Leveraging Decision Intelligence in Supply Chain: A Mars Case Study
Kristen Daihes, Global VP Supply Chain of Mars Wrigley discusses early successes and learnings from the application of decision intelligence in supply chain. Kristen tells us how implementing a decision intelligence use case resulted in positive improvement in business impact, the challenges faced on this journey, and her key learnings from the experience. The case study highlights the value of a single use case application of decision intelligence, with a lot yet to discover, and the impact through not just decision efficacy, also speed of decisioning.
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.
Panel: 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: Adaptation, Realignment and Response to Economic and Geopolitical Forces in 2023
Each year, Bob prepares a comprehensive and esteemed analysis of the upcoming trends to help supply chain leaders thrive. As we have already seen in 2023 supply chain leaders can expect continued uncertainty of global markets and the likelihood of recessionary conditions in late 2023 and beyond.
Supply chain leaders will continue to be responsible for anticipating, overcoming and mitigating continued supply shortfalls and ongoing disruption, but also transforming the learnings of the past three years into a cohesive and collaborative business-wide framework of prioritized business continuity actions. According to Bob, one of the biggest mistakes that business leaders can make is in believing that the events over the last three years were one-time exceptions, aberrations or Black Swan in nature. Instead, there is fundamental change occurring in geo-political, global trade, climate change and the dimensions of industry competitiveness.
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