Logichem 2017 (past event)
28 - 30 March, 2017
Mövenpick Amsterdam
44 (0) 20 7368 9588
Focus Day: Digitalisation in the Supply Chain - Thursday 30 March 2017
08:00 - 08:45 Welcome coffee
08:45 - 08:50 Welcome Remarks
08:50 - 09:00 Chairman`s opening adress
09:00 - 09:40 ALL STAR PANEL: What is digitalization and how is it impacting the supply chain?
• Explanation of common buzzwords: Cloud, big data, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, predictive, prescriptive, industry 4.0, Internet of things
• Why do you need to know these, why should you care?
• How will it impact your company and how it is relevant to you
09:40 - 10:00 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: Sustainable supply chain optimization through advanced analytics
- Predictive analytics in demand planning
- Profit-optimized planning of integrated Chemicals sites
- Cloud-based SC design
- SC transparency and automated root cause analysis
10:00 - 10:40 CASE STUDY REVOLUTION: How to transform your supply chain with digitalisation in order to achieve a competitive advantage
Bharath is a partner with senior supplychain executives across all business sectors of Merck KGaA to identifyopportunities to drive best-in-class performance through advanced statistics,data mining, rich visualization and new technologies. Drive digitaltransformation of the Merck supply chain using big data, cloud and mobility andbuild the supply chain control tower at Merck. What has been your biggest successover the past 6 months? Enabled Daily, automated, mobile-ready, supply chainvisibility on the cloud from shop floor to the top floor. And shifted the energy in the supply chain organizationfrom manual data collection & reporting to advanced, ad-hoc analysis 3.Proved that machine learning could be leveraged to drastically improve forecastaccuracy.
- Learning to embrace change in order to gain a competitive advantage
- Driving new opportunities to integrate along the business value chain
- How does digital transformation help to increase end-to-end supply chain visibility?
10:40 - 11:00 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: Digital innovation and digital strategy - beyond SMAC
- The world is still changing - next generation digital technologies
- New disruptive business models are evolving into the machine economy
- How should senior management respond?
Dr Mervyn Gerarde Maistry
Managing Partner, Digital Strategy, Innovation & Digital TransformationErnst & Young
11:00 - 11:30 Morning networking break
11:30 - 11:50 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: A chemical shippers view on opportunities offered by digitalization while maintaining strategic relationships with your logistics service providers
- Using collaborative e-transport platforms to match transport demand and supply closer to real time
- How digitalization can help to capture non-utilized capacity and increase productivity
- How digitalization and connectivity can open up an era of new opportunities and productivity gains
- How to continue collaboration and maintaining strategic relationships in a dynamic transport network
11:50 - 12:10 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: How to help both shippers and logistics service providers to collaborate: get real-Time visibility, leverage productivity an make the best use of constrained capacities
· Cloud based logistics platforms as key enabler to digitization of the whole supply chain
· Reaching real time visibility for all partners involved
· Using the advantages of collaborative networks
· Intelligent & dynamic allocation strategies
· Best practice solutions for the chemical industry
12:10 - 12:50 ALL STAR PANEL: How is digitalization about to change the way of working between chemical shippers and their transport and logistics service providers?
- How can transport service providers and shippers retain
strategic control over their business while interacting via digital
freight exchanges or 4PL-led dynamic transport management platforms?
- Who will be the future “orchestrator” of our
pan-European chemical transport- and logistics networks?
- Does this new way of working, taking transport planning
decisions far closer to real-time, provide sufficient security of both
supply and demand for strategic planning purposes?
- Do we need another business
model to allow shippers & LSP’s working digitally and transactionally
together or is this a 4PL role? Why ? Why not?
- How should shippers and LSP’s
manage digital projects in a ‘multi-enterprise’ project governance
context? Is there a preferred project governance model?
12:50 - 14:00 Networking lunch
14:00 - 15:00 DIGITALIZATION DRILL DOWN ROUND TABLES
Tobias Zahlmann Head of Supply Chain Management CR/EVM Arlanxeo
Bharath Sundararaman Global Leader, Supply Chain Visibility & Analytics Merck
Paul Gooch Founder, MD, and Former Supply Chain & Logistics Director, Dow The Logical Group
Iveta Kozlickova VP Center of Supply Chain Expertise EMEA, Covestro Covestro
Jose Maria Cuadro Sáez Senior Vice President Supply Chain Cepsa
- Culture change: How do you manage people towards embracing digitalisation?
- Paul Gooch, Founder, MD, The Logical Group and Former Supply Chain & Logistics Director,Dow
- How can SC IT strategy teams increase transparency and visibility within a SC through the use of process automation and digitalisation?
- Bharath Sundararaman, Global Leader, Supply Chain Visibility & Analytics,Merck KGaA
- Trends for digital ordering in the chemical industry: What are the best smart ordering tools?
- Tobias Zahlmann, Head of Supply Chain Management CR/EVM, Arlanxeo
- How to use digitalization to leverage knowledge and process efficiency
- Iveta Kozlickova, VP Center of Supply Chain Expertise EMEA, Covestro
- Using digitalisation to advance your track and trace capabilities and create greater end-to-end visibility
- Jose Cuadro Sáez, Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Cepsa Quimica
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon networking break
15:30 - 15:50 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence: What does this really mean for your supply chain process?
15:50 - 16:10 OUT OF INDUSTRY CASE STUDY: Best in class digital supply chain case study from FMCG
• Where we are with big data, Internet of Things, the cloud, smart phones and 3D printing
• What are the main lessons learned during implementation?
• What is the single biggest challenge within digitalisation and how can this be overcome?
• What is the single biggest advantage we have seen?
• Recommendations on how to embrace digitalisation