Focus Day: Digitalisation in the Supply Chain - Thursday 30 March 2017

Gemma Burns, Conference Director,LogiChem 2017

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• What does a digital supply chain really mean?
• 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

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Jürgen Rachor is a Senior Expert of the Supply Chain Management practice at McKinsey & Company based in the Frankfurt office. He joined McKinsey in 2009. His work’s focus is especially on supply chain transformations, end-to-end supply chain planning, and Supply Chain 4.0. Jürgen has been focusing mainly on Chemicals, Oil & Gas and Basic Materials. He is part of the leadership team of the Supply Chain Management practice and leads the Supply Chain Management in Chemicals service line. On top, Jürgen is leading our Supply Chain 4.0 initiative, and hosting our Supply Chain Executive Academy.

• Predictive analytics in demand planning
• Profit-optimized planning of integrated Chemicals sites
• Cloud-based SC design
• SC transparency and automated root cause analysis

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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?

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• The world is still changing - next generation digital technologies
• New disruptive business models are evolving into the machine economy
• How should senior management respond?

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Frank is responsible for the management of Covestro’s transport and directly associated logistics operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa. There is not a single success to highlight. Managing the safety and reliability of a large diverse logistics networks involving all modes of transport and spanning the entire EMEA region requires a continuous systematic improvement effort on various levels and constant communication with our logistics service providers, internal stakeholders and customers. Our biggest challenge is to keep everyone engaged and keep the performance of our logistics on or above target level, which in short is to maintain safe, reliable and efficient logistics operations. This is much easier said than done. Overall logistics performance is often only perceived as good as the “last few deliveries”.

• 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

Frank is responsible for operations management of Covestro’s transport operations throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. Managing the safety, reliability and efficiency of a large diverse logistics networks, involving all modes of transport and spanning such a large geographic area, requires a continuous systematic improvement effort and constant communication on all levels. Frank has been a strong promoter of collaboration and deeper integration of processes along chemical transport chains. One of his biggest achievement has been the establishment of a large scale dynamic transport management platform for European bulk transports in tank container and road tanker across Europe. In his presentation he will highlight the opportunities which he is convinced are offered by digitalization and how a more dynamic approach towards managing chemical transports can help to make chemical transport more sustainable

· 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

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• 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?

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These informal subject-specific roundtables give you a unique opportunity to drill down into the details of an issue by probing the knowledge and expertise of industry market leaders. Each roundtable is designed for you to meet like-minded peers and source practical solutions collaboratively.

• 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

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• Overview of digitalization areas that have been successfully implemented
• 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

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