Creating an agile and resilient supply chain and procurement 

Keywords: Corona, Agile businesses, Risk Management, Resilience, Changes, Disruption, Collaboration

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Technology in Supply Chain Resilience and Effective Risk Management

• Discoveries from disruption: Overcoming the vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic and what corona thought

• leverage technology to manage risk and protect your organisation

• Strategies for Risk-Proofing Your Supply and Logistics

Time to shine: the heroes in Supply chain ja procurement

• How the professionals in the supply chain and procurement saved the day during pandemic

• Supply chain and procurement from backoffice to making direct impact to customer service and bring value 

• procurement and supply functions take on a broader and deeper set of strategic responsibilities than ever before

Agile operating model in procurement

• Enabling user friendly processes, policies and procedures

• Updated integrated technology and systems with streamline processes

• Automation, digitization, analytics: fundamentally changing procurement

Collaboration in procurement management, the CPO and CFO relationship

• Shared agenda to influence enterprise-wide activities, important partnership

• Improved visibility: more disciplined and accurate corporate performance management. Enhanced reporting and leverage from both sides advanced data analytics, deeper insights into key performance metrics become a performance differentiation

• Less iterative, sequential planning to Increased efficiency and higher impact– allowing decisions to be made faster and more effectively

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Smart strategies to meet future needs of customer centricity, workforce and sustainability 

Keywords: People, Future workforce, Customer centricity, Values, Value chain, Sustainability

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Sustainability through the supply chain

• Increase both top and the bottom line by leveraging sustainable solutions

• Building a business case out of customer expectations 

• Sustainability through the whole process - from procurement to recycling

Smart and sustainable transportation

• Affecting trends like Mobility, Autonomous trucks and Autonomous Vehicles, Drone Technology, Crowd shipping

• IoT ecosystems in transportation

• Seamless Transportation Management Processes 

Customer centric supply

• Critically assess if your supply chain delivers on customer needs, including delivery times, optionality and overcomes urban bottlenecks

• Overlay cognitive technology to leverage automation processes in the last mile

• Ensure each delivery is localized or tailored to optimize customer experience

Designing a Talent Strategy for Supply Chain and procurement

• An augmented set of skills is needed for the future of procurement: hire talent with 21st century skills, such as analytics fluency, design thinking, and agility

combined with being empathetic

• Training and education supporting the new talents needed

• Cross-functional expertise, improved business acumen, and negotiation readiness

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12:30-13:30

Digitally enabled practices through the supply chain

Keywords: Internet Of Things, 3D, Blockchain, AI, Robotics, automation, Optimization, Reducing costs, Data, Technology, Optimization, Transformation, Efficiency, Visibility, Transparency

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From linear supply chain to dynamic network

• transforming traditional, linear supply chains into connected, intelligent, scalable and customizable digital supply networks

• functional silos are broken down both within an organization as well as outward to include customers and suppliers for enable end-to-end visibility, collaboration, responsiveness, agility and optimization

• the networking of logistics processes, provides more transparency in the supply and dispatch chains and thus improves supply chain management

The Value of Robotics and Automation in the Warehouse

• Automated Warehousing, Dark Factories / “lights-out warehouses,” which operate with no humans present

• Inventory Management and demand planning with technology

• Testing out scenarios on the digital before moving physically to reality

Digitally enabled visibility to maximize supply chain performance

• Digital developments and applications of data will enable business to drive synchronised decision making and successes across the entire value chain

• build an implementable integration strategy by overlaying cognitive technology to connect your physical and digital supply chain

• Use data to achieve interoperability across your network to benefit real-time visibility with a fully orchestrated system

Smart tracking, planning and inventory management

• Product Tracking Traceability in removing logistics blind spots: track cargo in transit in real-time to improve visibility of the moment of goods

• Explore how AI can enhance sensors to intelligently analyze productivity and unify disjointed processes, including the implementation of dashboards to demonstrate the output

• Look upstream to detect deteriorated product quality and maximum product availability early to optimize inventory levels and working capital

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