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As part of the global SAP end-user community with sister brand, SAPinsider, Mark Vigoroso, SAP Insider’s Chief Content Officer, dives into the latest research and trends shaping the future of supply chain management. As global supply chain challenges become increasingly complex, this in-depth data analysis reveals how leading organizations are utilizing visibility, analytics, and automation to enhance resilience and agility. Drawing from SAP Insider's recent industry research, Mark will showcase data-driven insights that illuminate how companies are rethinking their technology portfolios to adapt to disruptions. The session will highlight how businesses are leveraging robust data management platforms, low-code/no-code automation tools, and advanced analytics to create a single source of truth for supply chain operations. 

You will: 

• Hear exclusive insights from SAP Insider’s latest supply chain research.

• Learn strategies for selecting the right data and automation tools to enhance visibility.

• Discover best practices for building agile, resilient supply chains amid disruption.

This session explores the transformative potential of AI and LLMs in warehouse operations. Discover how Agentic AI principles, powered by LLMs, can create a proactive Warehouse Employee AI that constantly monitors for exceptions. Learn how to build a Digital Twin of your warehouse, and by integrating it with SAP S/4HANA data, enable AI-powered product placement for optimized efficiency.  We'll demonstrate how AI-driven product placement can significantly reduce employee travel time, leading to enhanced productivity and cost savings. Gain insights into real-world examples and discover tools and frameworks, both within and outside the SAP ecosystem, that you can implement today to supercharge your warehouse operations.

You will:

• Leverage Agentic AI to create a proactive Warehouse Employee AI for exception monitoring.
• Learn how to build and integrate a Digital Twin of your warehouse with SAP S/4HANA data.
• Explore AI-driven solutions to reduce employee travel time and boost warehouse efficiency.

W.R. Grace embarked on a Supply Chain initiative to drive increased business performance.  At that time, they faced significant challenges in their supply chain, such as dealing with functional silos, lack of a standardized global design model, and inefficiencies in SAP utilization. To address these issues, Grace implemented a comprehensive supply chain transformation. By focusing on increasing the SAP utilization, educating the user teams, and optimizing the processes, they gained improvements in inventory projections, capacity utilization, optimized production planning, and improved data quality. As a result, Grace achieved significant improvements in service levels, inventory turnover, and operational efficiency. This presentation will detail the transformation process, the results achieved, and how these successes serve as a strong foundation for the company's move toward SAP S/4HANA.

You will:

• Hear the challenges they faced and how they overcame it.
• Learn the 3 most critical items to focus on when doing a Supply Chain transformation.
• Learn what metrics were used to drive behavior change and drive increased performance.

A vast number of Vestas suppliers are regional/local market suppliers that develop their footprint as Vestas matures in new global markets. Due to the high demand for sustainability and critical infrastructure, we have strong requirements for suppliers on quality and compliance, ensuring the delivery of quality products and services while minimizing waste. Non-conformance was communicated via emails with limited transparency and traceability and are not easily tracked, resulting in project delays and financial impact.

You will:

• See early visibility to product defects with improved collaboration and quicker resolution of quality issues.
• Discover improved product traceability.
• Understand efficient and compliant tracking and receiving of incoming goods and reduction manual workload for operations.
• Learn greater improvement in invoicing accuracies and increased productivity with Payable teams.
• Gain insights on centralised forecast information with tracking of changes.

Join us for an in-depth session on enhancing supply chain visibility and operational efficiency. Visibility is crucial as it significantly influences an organization's ability to manage disruptions and optimize performance. Cutting-edge technologies such as AI, blockchain, and advanced analytics are pivotal in achieving this, offering end-to-end transparency that supports proactive decision-making and boosts customer satisfaction through timely deliveries and precise information sharing. In this session, we will explore a comprehensive case study from Vestas Wind Systems A/S, a leader in sustainable energy. This session is tailored for business leaders, supply chain managers, and IT professionals eager to enhance their operational resilience and efficiency using advanced digital tools. Don't miss this chance to revolutionize your supply chain management and reach new heights of operational excellence.

You will:

• Understand how to build a business case for supply chain visibility and develop a governance model to ensure alignment.
• Gain a deep understanding of how to utilize the latest technologies to boost collaboration with business partners, enhance visibility across the supply chain, respond effectively to disruptions, and promote sustainability.
• Learn strategies for scaling the onboarding of business partners.
• Extract valuable lessons from Vestas' experiences to refine your own initiatives.

There are misconceptions that you need to wait for a completed system design before initiating preparations for a go-live, when in reality, proactive planning is crucial. Initial preparations include master data migration, cleansing and creation, change management strategies, organizational structure adjustments, workflow optimization, defining key performance indicators (KPIs), and comprehensive user training. Preparedness post go live is just as critical and should include contingency planning (including excel-based solutions), and preserving institutional knowledge is crucial to mitigate turnover risks during system implementation. Additionally, providing internal support during the go-live phase is essential for addressing any issues, leveraging the expertise of individuals involved in the project. 

You will: 

• Understand that every user will have different priorities but it’s important for leadership to endorse and promote project decisions. 

• Shift the organizational mindset is important before implementing a new system. 

• Learn how a system is only as effective as the quality of data it receives. Garbage in, garbage out. 

• Hear how data-related challenges can mask system flaws, making it difficult to gauge its functionality. Therefore, prioritizing data governance should be a top investment.

As industries evolve, the need for advanced operational planning tools becomes imperative. This session explores the paradigm shift from Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) to Production Planning and Scheduling in SAP S/4HANA (ePPDS) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). By delving into the roadmap, migration strategies, and system landscape, you will learn about the strategic considerations for organizations embarking on this transformative journey. The focus is placed on the migration strategies, emphasizing best practices and potential challenges to ensure a smooth transition. You will review an outline for the evolving system landscape and its implications for operational planning, offering organizations a comprehensive guide to navigate this transition effectively. Central to this shift is the synchronized production planning facilitated by IBP and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (ePPDS).

You will:

• Learn more roadmap, migration strategies, system landscape.
• Explore synchronized production planning with IBP and PPDS.

With multiple steps in the almond supply chain - from growers to hullers to processors to production facilities - agricultural cooperative Blue Diamond Growers uses the SAP Transportation Management application and SAP Business Network for Logistics to solve complex transportation challenges. Examine how the specialty food company uses the solutions to plan and execute multi-modal transportation movements domestically and across the world.

You will:

• Find out about the Blue Diamond Growers project management approach and important lessons learned.
• Learn about the integration points with third party systems and partners, such as Project44 and Descartes, enabling real time visibility of containers and electronic bookings with carriers. 
• Discover how Blue Diamond Growers tackles the challenges of volatile international logistics by utilizing the SAP’s seamless integration between SAP S/4HANA ERP, Transportation Management, and Business Network for Logistics.

Join us for this dynamic discussion session on the key issues, challenges, and opportunities in the world of SAP Supply Chain, Planning and Logistics. Take this opportunity to share what’s on your mind and engage directly with top experts and your peers. Session leaders will facilitate Q&A and peer to peer group exchanges, letting the discussion go wherever the group takes it. By enabling the conversation to be driven by you, the participants, this session will cater to your specific interests and needs, ensuring a highly personalized and informative experience.

Medtronic operates in more than 150 countries and employs over 90,000 people developing and manufacturing healthcare technologies and therapies. Medtronic is a $30B+ global medical device manufacturer accelerating business operational resilience for their Global SAP Supply Chain. Critical life-saving devices are made and delivered on time by reducing failures in core business transactions spanning worldwide operations. The global supply chain is a mess, but that doesn’t have to be the norm.

You will:

• Learn how Medtronic has operationalized business process observability to dramatically improve distribution center performance across dozens of distribution centers all over the world. 
• Hear how Medtronic is enabling their distribution center supervisors with supply chain dashboards to redeploy floor workers in real-time.

How can the most challenging, manual, and inefficient warehouse in a organizations network transform in one year. We will discuss the best practices, planning, prioritization, and strategies used from being a last to a world class WM warehouse. We will explore the correct balance of WM structural usage such as storage types, storage sections, bin types, and capacities that align to the material master. We will then hear about the impact and synergy this transformation created which not only resulted in transformed  KPI's but carried on to turn around the culture.

You will:

• Understand there is no easy button or one size fits all in transforming non-existing and existing processes WM processes.
• Leverage best practices based on unique requirements and scenarios.
• Explore standard tools that can be used to assist in making analytical decisions.
• Understand how to enable and leverage WM master data for planning and automation.

No waste left uncovered!  In this session, we will explore five tools or techniques to discover hidden waste in the supply chain. So often we know that there is a problem, yet yet identification is elusive. We see some symptoms but not the root cause, and in treating those symptoms, we often introduce additional waste into the system. Let's identify, triage and bust some waste!

You will:

• Gain an appreciation for our waste identification, triage and busting toolkit.
• Learn how to take a practical approach to waste removal. 
• Discover how to measure the success of waste removal efforts. 
• Discover how to prevent recurrence through practical cadence of review and adjustment.

Asset management and supply chain are often two worlds that rarely work together, yet they need each other in order to work. When companies are able to integrate asset management and supply chain in a seamless and integrated way, they see world-class results, such as inventories being the right size, mean time to repair (MTTR) improvements, spare parts availability improvements, and maintenance service level increases. We will focus on how to standardize, simplify, and stabilize the SAP processes and data flow to ensure alignment between the teams.  Learn how to make MRP work effectively for both worlds while minimizing manual intervention, capacity planning, and scheduling and utilizing the SAP best practices.

You will:

• Understand how the Supply Chain and Plant Maintenance worlds can co-exist and thrive.
• Understand the analytics capabilities available to help drive MTTR and MTBF improvements.
• Review t-codes and SAP capabilities.

I will be conducting an interactive session on Key Performance Measures and their role in driving supply chain improvements. In this simulation, participants will explore how effective data analysis can help proactively find better solutions, reduce costs and shorten lead times. Throughout the exercise, participants will encounter various scenarios mimicking real-world challenges in demand, supply, and production planning. As they navigate these obstacles, teams will demonstrate their ability to adapt, interpret data and identify core issues they need to address. Following the simulation, we will analyse the strategies employed and discuss best practices for addressing common roadblocks in supply chain management. 

You will: 

• Demand forecasting accuracy and its impact on inventory management and financial budgets.

• Learn Waterfall Analysis to understand demand evolution vs sales actuals.

• Excess and Obsolete Inventory to identify overstocked products and financial impact.

• Understand Inventory Projection to assess if inventory can meet demand requirements and long term out of stocks. 

• Hear about Stock Health: Days of Supply and Inventory Turns. 

• Gain insights on Fill Rate: to track and optimize orders fulfilled on time.

• Understand Lead Times: to evaluate opportunity to improve reactivity.

• Learn Profit Margins: provide insight on where to reduce costs to improve profitability.

Join me for an enlightening session that will take you on an inspiring journey into the world of SAP PPDS, SAP aATP, and SAP IBP Order-Based Planning. Discover how synchronized planning can improve end-to-end visibility in your manufacturing processes and drive excellence in your operations. Attendees will leave this session with a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage SAP PPDS, SAP aATP, and SAP IBP to achieve seamless integration and synchronization in their manufacturing processes. Whether you are a manufacturing professional, supply chain manager, production planner, or an SAP IT professional, this session is designed to provide you with practical insights and inspiration to optimize your planning and operations.

You will:

• Gain insights into SAP PPDS, SAP aATP, and SAP IBP.
• Master synchronized planning techniques.
• Enhance your operational efficiency.