Popping open bottlenecks: How Control Towers and AI/ML forecasting can revolutionize your grocery retail supply chain

2020 was the year of Covid which dragged on into 2021. Then the Even Given blocked the Suez, there was a mass shortage of truck drivers and ships stuck in ports, stagnating and hoarding supply with nowhere to go. From top to bottom, the supply chain has been battered over the last couple of years. 

In order to deal with the volatile and the unpredictable, the only solution is to implement a control tower.

This roundtable will circle around the power of control towers and how they can help supply chains and transform the grocery industry.

The topics include:

• What are the challenges of today and the near-future and how can you anticipate and resolve supply and demand issues? 
• How connected are you to your suppliers? 
• Breaking down the silos: Are commercial decisions impacting supply chain or supply chain decisions impacting commercial? 
• Can control towers help give visibility and reduce food waste? Less than 30% of what is produced doesn’t even make it to the shelves! This simply has to change.

This roundtable discussion will take place at 5pm CET, November 22nd. 

Stuart Douglas, Director of Industry Solutions at o9, will be driving the discussion for this session.

So, what is a roundtable?

This roundtable is a 1-hour knowledge sharing session in which a limited group of people <12 will engage in a discussion around the topic of the month. The session is facilitated by an industry expert in which diverse groups of innovators come to share knowledge, discuss challenges, learn new things, and meet new people. The session will be highly interactive and collaborative, with a fresh twist.

We keep the agenda simple:

1. Introductions
2. Setting the scene
3. Group discussion
4. Networking

Why should I register?

1. Immerse yourself in a global community of professionals who are passionate about digitally transforming their businesses.
2. Learn a new tool and creative process that you can bring back to your team to collaborate and brainstorm together.
3. If you think webinars are great, but you’re missing the benefits of in-person collaboration and conversation. Be prepared to use this full hour of actively engaging on both Zoom and our creative end-of-the-session program.

Who is it for: Retail with a focus on Grocery