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Networking: Meet your peers

Enjoy peer-to-peer connections and have your voice heard on top-of-mind issues. As well as explore curated content and exclusive access to ‘o9 Talks’’—a catalog of insightful videos where o9 clients explain their digital transformation experiences.

Technology Roadmap of o9’s Digital Brain

Our digital brain is showing companies that innate potential can become a daily reality. But we always strive for better. In this session, we will talk about what is in store for the digital brain. And the refinements and enhancements needed to preserve the platform’s powerful capabilities, safeguarding organizations against an ever-shifting climate of variability and demand. This product roadmap will showcase how companies using o9’s Digital Brain will stay as efficient and profitable as possible, and define the future of digital transformation.

Remodel your supply chain: from Rigid to Resilient

In this presentation, Forrester will present its view of supply chain developments and direction. You will learn about the way in which supply networks benefit from collective anticipation of demand fluctuations and supply constraints. You will learn how visionary enterprises move beyond managing to modelling flows of material and data. You will learn how they boost resilience by deploying applications that exploit new technologies to anticipate and protect potential supply chain bottlenecks.

Countering Change in CPG: Transforming Planning and Decision-Making

Consumer packaged goods face unprecedented changes in consumer behavior, which is affecting the end-to-end value chain. We are bringing together digital transformation thought leaders to hear more about the new challenges CPG companies are experiencing and how o9’s Digital Brain is helping global CPG businesses address these changes, mitigate risks and signpost new opportunities.

Meeting New Challenges with New Technology: Transforming Global Retailers

The rapid shifts in consumer shopping behaviors caused by today’s uncertain climate have greatly impacted the global retail industry – more than an estimated $1 trillion of retail sales are lost annually from overstocks and understocks. We will hear more about the state of play for retailers from experts in planning and decision-making in this thought-provoking panel event. These leaders will also share their insights on how best to leverage o9’s platform for end-to-end planning to unlock value and accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

Accelerating Digital Transformation in Leading Fashion and Apparel Companies

Fast-moving apparel and fashion companies face a complex global outlook: fashion executives expect a demand decrease of 15% versus 2019, as well as rapid shifts in consumer behavior. As a result, many apparel and fashion brands are rethinking their omnichannel strategy and adapting supply chains to be more dynamic. In this panel, we hear from thought leaders in this space, who have used digital transformation to turn these challenges into opportunities through o9’s Digital Brain. We hear their first-hand experiences on how the right technology can enhance the collaboration between different channels and serve customers better. All while dramatically reducing complexity and improving efficiency through the value chain.

Best-in-Class Planning in the Discrete Manufacturing Industry

With increasingly complex global supply chains involving growing numbers of suppliers and other partners, manufacturing companies are particularly susceptible to supply issues. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has found that as much as 45% percent of one year’s EBITDA can be lost each decade due to disruption. We gather together industry experts to share their insights on how state-of-the-art planning and decision-making tools can be used to react faster – and even anticipate – issues. New digital planning platforms like o9’s Digital Brain can be a critical enabler while offering a foundation from which a company’s digital transformation journey can truly begin. Panelists will also share insights on how to drive change management and best deploy automation within companies.

Rethinking CPG Revenue Management in an Age of Digital and AI

Uncertain times and rapidly changing consumer trends add a layer of complexity that calls for redefining established revenue management processes. In this panel, revenue management leaders from CPG companies will share their expert opinions on what this process will look like in the near future. And how AI and ML are set to improve revenue planning by sensing, analyzing, and shaping commercial activities such as pricing and promotions to optimize an organization’s commercial potential.

IBP across Industries Verticals

Volatility in the supply chain and manufacturing world was a given even before the pandemic. Better planning and faster decision-making have always been required to adapt to changing circumstances. But how have specific industries fared? What were the differences you could expect as an oil and gas player versus a seed business or publisher business? In connection to this, our expert speakers discuss the IBP process, its importance, and the role of technologies like o9’s next-generation integrated planning platform while looking into the future and defining their next-gen IBP journey.

Virtual Networking with Executive Council

Enjoy peer-to-peer connections and have your voice heard on top-of-mind issues. Explore curated content and exclusive access to ‘o9 Talks’’—a catalog of insightful videos where o9 clients explain their digital transformation experiences.

The importance of a digital brain during IBP transformation & Technology Roadmap of o9’s Digital Brain

Companies are facing rapid change and data generated in abundance. From traditional sales to subscriptions, product sensors, and real-time track and trace in operations, we see how many companies are data-rich but insight-poor. In this session, we introduced o9’s Digital Brain’s capabilities for transforming data into knowledge, analytics, and planning to improve decision making. But we also showcased o9’s continued efforts in improving and refining the platform to future-proof its capabilities further. This continued innovation effort will ensure that companies using o9’s Digital Brain stay as efficient and profitable as possible, while defining the future of digital transformation.

Connecting the dots and creating the plan like never before in the era of digital transformation with Nexprime SCM powered by o9’s digital brain

Changes in business environment and hyper-connected supply chain requires a new way of managing the global supply chain. Thanks to advances in technologies and shifts to digital transformation, it is now possible to run the planning processes like never before. Combining Samsung SDS’s practices in global supply chain management and o9’s AI powered digital transformation platform, SDS drives the digital transformation for customers in supply chain management with the best-of-breed solution offering. We will discuss what is possible like never before and what we can achieve in the digital transformation in SCM.

The importance of IBP in a world of uncertainty

Organizations in the APAC region were the first to respond to the COVID crisis and were again the first to operate in a post-COVID world. In this panel, leaders from the APAC region will share valuable insights on the importance of IBP, and in particular scenario planning, in navigating a global crisis.

AI technology for demand and supply planning transformation in China

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in 2020, many Chinese companies have experienced a series of problems such as labor and material shortages. As the country begins to recover, spurring production activities, the global supply chain is now rapidly recovering and rebuilding. AI technology has been adopted in various industries all over the world to deal with crises. And leading companies in China have also begun to explore the use of AI technology for more accurate demand forecasting and more complex supply network planning to deal with future uncertainties.

Language: Chinese with English Subtitles

DX in the distribution industry. Data and supply chain management in Japan

In order to achieve DX in the distribution industry, it is essential to adapt various digital technologies (demand forecasting, optimization, visualization, efficiency/automation, simulation) to commercial distribution, logistics, finance, and BPO, and make them seamlessly visible. Digital SCM services aim to maximize sales and minimize costs by eliminating dependency to humans, through facilitating supply chain innovation. In this session, we will introduce the key points of digital SCM service provided by Marubeni and its implementation cases, and discuss the future of digital SCM with supply chain experts.

Language: Japanese with English Subtitles

See you next time and learnings

Virtual Networking

Enjoy peer-to-peer connections and have your voice heard on top-of-mind issues. Explore curated content and exclusive access to ‘o9 Talks’’—a catalog of insightful videos where o9 clients explain their digital transformation experiences.