The need to take action on climate change is well understood. Yet, corporations are hesitant to move beyond the profitability threshold as real constraints, and unchanging expectations persist. To drive real change requires visionary thought leaders working together to enable and accelerate the transformation of supply chains to sustainable, low carbon operating models

Al Gore Former Vice President of the USA

Sanjiv Sidhu o9 Solutions

Modernizing the supply chain requires fundamental shifts, especially with increasingly complex requirements in the product portfolio and increasingly demanding customers. Digital transformation is critical as it provides visibility to demand opportunities and supply availability, and also creates the ability to run scenarios based on real-time insights. Knowing the operational and financial impacts of trade-offs makes it possible to proactively plan responses in a rapidly changing environment.

Vikram Agarwal Danone

The consumer packaged goods industry is transforming as a result of shifting demand and consumer expectations. Many CPGs are leveraging digital technologies to develop more accurate demand sensing and scenario planning capabilities. Join us to learn more about how technologies like o9’s Control Tower turns real-time data into insights that help CPGs quickly respond to demand fluctuations.

Stephan de Barse o9 Solutions

Uttara Srinivasan VP of Supply Chain Planning at Diageo India

Fazlur Rahman Kraft Heinz

Jay Koganti Estée Lauder

Michael Kress AB InBev

Manufacturers are crippled by the high variability in the quality and low accuracy of external forecasts. Running the forecast on Excel didn’t help, as it was impossible to leverage external market drivers to predict demand. Shifting to a next-generation planning platform automates forecast consolidation onto one single platform and makes it easy to incorporate data from external data providers in the planning processes. Pulling it altogether and leading the business is the full S&OP process run directly on the technology platform.

Joanna Kostecka HPE

The fashion and apparel industry may be facing a long road to recovery in a post-pandemic world. McKinsey Global Fashion Index projects that in an “optimistic” early stage recovery model, the fashion industry would return to 2019 activity levels in the Q3 of 2022. In a late stage recovery scenario, a 2019 activity level return would happen in Q4 of 2023. In addition, this industry faces a complex global outlook that includes supply chain constraints, shifts in consumer buying behaviors, and increased pressure to incorporate sustainable practices into the manufacturing process. In this panel, industry thought leaders share insights on how the right technology can dramatically reduce complexity and improve efficiency through the value chain.

Todd VanSelus o9 Solutions

Austin Williams Crocs

David Lafitte Deckers Brands

Gabriella Wortmann New Balance

Vishal Mankotia Levi Strauss & Co

Traditional operating models are designed to run smoothly. The entire value chain has historically been based on the physical flow of products across tiers until the final product reaches its final customer. The physical flow is based on the information flow from the final customer upstream through each tier. The confluence of disruptions happening simultaneously at multiple tiers has broken the traditional point-to-point model because demand shocks cause havoc and supply shocks cause chaos. The only way forward is transforming to digital operating models that consider all of the value chain, all of the time.

Marnix Hollander o9 Solutions

Bart Kuijpers Nutreco

George Morrison Mosaic

Anish Basu Corporate Supply Chain & Logistics at Berger Paints

Evolving consumer behavior has changed how businesses interact with their customers. Global supply chains must keep pace, even as business-to-consumer (B2C) behaviors blend into business-to-business (B2B) interactions. Prepare future leaders for such rapid and consistent evolution calls for new ways thinking about the past, present and future of supply chain. Guiding the way are today’s academic leaders who are building the models to transform thought to action.

Aleem Bandali o9 Solutions

Arnd Huchzermeier WHU

David Simchi-Levi MIT

Guillaume Roels INSEAD

Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz MIT

To drive global transformation, leaders must facilitate growth through technology and strategic planning. Doing so requires organizations to develop the transformation roadmap to align programs across the value chain, build out critical capabilities, and attract and retain talent. Creating this advanced vision and strategy enables organizations to drive the digital transformation that is the foundation for future success.

Vijay Guliam Google

Project Zebra is a consortium of thought leaders and practitioners that challenges traditional thinking, helping business leaders “unlearn” inside-out processes and transition to an outside-in planning approach. The problem is that there is no industry accepted definition of an outside-in process and the business value. The work of Project Zebra is attempting to close this gap. This panel, moderated by Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, will share highlights of recent industry Project Zebra workshops, and provide perspectives from participants on their unlearning and definition of outside-in processes. The panel will also highlight plans with ASCM on how this new thinking will impact the SCOR model and an industry led RFP to test and learn the new planning paradigm.

Ripu Diman Singh o9 Solutions

Peter Bolstorff Association for Supply Chain Management

Lora Cecere Founder

Fred Baumann o9 Solutions

The scale and speed of the digital economy, with market fragmentation, channel and business model innovation, proliferating product variants, has overwhelmed legacy demand planning and supply chain applications. To master supply chain agility at scale you must learn from colleagues who build detailed production process models including process yield and constraints, to respond in real time to spikes in demand or bottlenecks in supply. In this session, Forrester will share research about the urgent imperative to rethink demand planning and supply chain execution, and how to get started on your supply chain digital twin.

George Lawrie Forrester Research

Supply chain planning transformation must balance the need to address today’s challenges with establishing a vision for future value creation. To do so, businesses must invest in the advanced technology that will allow them to break free of the limitations of traditional tools and make the shift to digital operating models. What results are the critical capabilities like scenario planning and real-time demand-supply synchronization that create game-changing opportunities for the enterprise.

Sanjaya Mishra TATA Steel, Wire Division

Hyundai Doosan Infracore knows the challenges faced by industrial manufacturing supply chains. The company directly experienced the supply and demand disruptions that impacted their ability to serve their customers. To better manage these challenges, Hyundai Doosan Infracore initiated a digital transformation, with a focus on sales and operations planning. Learn more about the transformation journey of this global leader in the production of infrastructure and equipment, including lessons learned and the plan for the future.

Jaehun Noh Hyundai Doosan Infracore

Marubeni knows how challenging it is for Japanese companies to digitalize information and improve planning. Through its Digital Supply Chain Management Services, the company is helping companies to face those challenges, balancing the need to manage costs and inventory while driving sales growth. Learn how this leading conglomerate is shaping the digital transformation journey and building the future of digital transformation.

Yuya Watanabe Marubeni

As a tier 1 auto parts company, Schaeffler faced major planning challenges in China. To combat these challenges the company established digital core capabilities throughout the supply chain. Learn how Schaeffler leverages AI/ML to improve supply chain planning accuracy and supply efficiency in China and how their supply chain digital transformation brings significant value.

Henry Zhang o9 Solutions

Heng Jin Deng Nantong University

Billy Zhu Schaeffler China

Stephan de Barse, EVP of o9 Solutions and a leading voice in the aim10x Innovators Network, together with the aim10x Innovators Council, will kick off the session by sharing our collective accomplishments over the past year and our vision for 2022. We will also ask for your thoughts on how the network can sustain and improve its support of your digital transformation journey going forward.

Stephan de Barse o9 Solutions

S&OP and IBP have become hot topics in almost every industry over the past two years due to supply chain disruptions. Join Chris Tyas to discuss what has changed since Covid-19 hit and—more importantly—how to consider the new role of the supply chain within your organization, and how to rethink Integrated Business Planning. In this session, you’ll learn more about: - How the past 24 months have changed the way of planning. - The new role of supply chain in your organization and the impact on people and processes. - How to rethink IBP in 2022.

Chris Tyas Nestlé

Angela will host an interactive discussion where as a group you will discuss how you tackled the situation and what you learned. Angela will provide her thoughts on: How to respond to a crisis in your supply chain, how to take care of your team’s wellbeing and how to lead with empathy and compassion

Angela Qu Lufthansa Group

As Director of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, Darina will share her insight and experience from the role and delve into her successful sustainability campaigns. She will answer questions on: - Current overview of sustainability eco-system for businesses - Optimizing global efforts to reduce carbon emissions across the supply chain - Net-zero - is this a myth? - ESG Reporting - Key to your carbon emissions mapping

Darina Elencheva BME

Join Rohit Sathe and Brandon Curry to explore the future of talent, supply chain, and what skills and competencies the workforce will need to develop to create a competitive advantage within the supply chain. In this session, you’ll learn more about: - What the future of supply chain may look like - The skills and competencies that will help build a stronger supply chain - The strategies to create and curate these skills and competencies among talent

Brandon Curry Federal-Mogul Motorparts

Rohit Sathe Sunrise Medical

Join Philippe Lambotte for a timely discussion on this topic where we will highlight: - Practical approaches for managing short-term volatility and complexity. - Strategies for iteratively connecting short term execution with longer-term IBP - Control Tower capabilities that provide predictive analytics and real-time scenario analysis to accelerate quality decision making. The session will facilitate Q&A discussion to gain insights from peers.

Philippe Lambotte Tonal