Bharath Sundararaman

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?

• 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