4:10 pm - 4:55 pm

Navigating the Path to Sustainable Supply Chains: Insights from Industry Leader

• Implementing Circular Economy Principles: Discussing strategies and best practices for integrating circular economy principles into supply chain management to reduce waste and promote sustainability.
• Collaborative Partnerships for Ethical Sourcing: Exploring the importance of building transparent and ethical partnerships across the supply chain to ensure responsible sourcing practices and fair labor standards.
• Leveraging Technology for Green Logistics: Examining the role of technology, such as blockchain and AI, in optimizing supply chain processes to minimize environmental impact, enhance efficiency, and improve sustainability outcomes.

Roland Lechner
Managing Director, International Supply Chain
ALDI

Silke Sorger
SVP, Procurement
Infineon Technologies

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Panel Discussion: The ROI on Women and Diversity in Operational Leadership

• Creating a purpose-driven strategy that makes an impact as our organizations grow and nurtures a diverse workforce
• Understanding the leader’s role as a force to shape and demonstrate corporate culture
• Illustrating the importance of today’s leaders building up and supporting the next generation our organizations will need for the future.
• Offering examples of strong and effective mentorship programs in onboarding, cross-training, job shadowing, and continuing education that make the difference

Eliza Simeonova
CSCO Mars Pet Nutrition
Mars Inc

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Welcome Drinks Reception

7:30 am - 8:15 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:15 am - 8:20 am

Opening Remarks and Important Announcements

8:20 am - 8:30 am

Chair’s Welcome Address

Daniel Myers
Sr. Fellow at Haslam School of Business
University of Tennessee
Retired EVP of Integrated Supply Chain
Mondelēz International

9:45 am - 10:20 am

The Future of Decisions. Now.

Decision Intelligence lies at the intersection of AI, BI and automation. How does it fit into your business strategy? Exploring how Decision Intelligence delivers decision-making agility and scale to perform in an increasingly digital world Sharing examples of how to digitize, augment, and automate millions of decisions, resulting in significant performance gains

9:45 am - 10:20 am

Improving Performance through Work Culture Transformation

• Aligning performance-improvement efforts with manager- and employee-development
• How can we drive up productivity while facing revenue shortfalls, inflationary pressures, and geopolitical impacts?
• Exploring proven methods organizations are employing that can reassure leaders and keep productivity on track
• Showing you how organizations survive during crises and thrive on new opportunities by sharing insights and lessons

12:10 pm - 12:45 pm

Strategies for Becoming Faster, Stronger, and Better

• Empowering a culture of positive change by ensuring that learning and development remains central
• Maximizing your sustainability endeavours by engaging your suppliers with your vision and targets
• Innovating across supply chain operations and processes to deliver tangible and timely results that contribute to industry critical demands and deadlines

Paul Campbell
SVP, Supply Chain Europe
PepsiCo

12:10 pm - 12:45 pm

Fireside Chat: The Evolution of Resilient Supply Chains

• What are the remaining supply chain challenges in the post-pandemic world?
• Exploring ways to enhance digital transformation to build a resilient supply chain
• How are we Increasing visibility by improving collaboration and predictive capabilities?
• Sharing best practices for Identifying vulnerabilities
• Understanding current and future effects that climate and the economy are having and will have on supply chains
• What are the supply chain competencies and skill sets of the future?

Matt Winterman
SVP of Global Supply Chain and Strategy
AstraZeneca

12:44 pm - 1:45 pm

Overflow Lunch Seating

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

How Do We Harness the Power of Inclusion and Diversity in Supply Chain

Ena Ryan
Director, Quality & Sourcing
Munters Europe AB

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Building a Supply Chain Analytics Team from Scratch

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

AI-Driven Decision-Making in Supply Chains

12:46 pm - 1:45 pm

Increasing Efficiencies a Financially Challenging Environment

12:46 pm - 1:45 pm

Overcoming Challenges to Supplier Diversity

12:46 pm - 1:45 pm

Increasing Retention and Attraction of Quality Talent

2:25 pm - 3:00 pm

New Role of Generative A.I in Achieving Supply Chain Orchestration

• Insights on how to deliver on growing pressures to reduce costs, emissions, and resources
• Navigating increased expectations, economic headwinds, and complexities across your supply chain
• Utilizing and testing AGI to automate outputs of the connected supply chain ecosystem

2:25 pm - 3:00 pm

Planning Processes and Control Towers: Mastering Supply Chain Velocity

• Increasing speed across your supply chain to cut down lead times improve customer service
• Optimizing your control towers to streamline processes throughout your organization
• How can we focus on enabling clarity and collaboration across supply chain operations?

4:20 pm - 4:55 pm

The Importance of Resilient Global Supply Chains

• Focusing on building diverse and interconnected supply chains to achieve supply chain excellence
• Designing and implementing solutions that enable us to leverage global resources in the best way possible
• Best practices to ensure safe, timely, and cost-effective patient and consumer access
• Exploring key principles for public policies on resilient supply chains, including open borders, diversified sourcing, strong forecasting

Erika Linton
Global Head Supply Chain Strategy & Design
H&M

4:20 pm - 4:55 pm

How to Win with SC Data/Time Automation- Step by Step Guide

• Leadership Vision: Medtronic aims to be a global leader in healthcare technology, transforming over 70 medical conditions with data-driven insights​​.
• Strategic Analytics: Centralized data strategy with a decentralized feel enhances operational efficiency and decision-making across the supply chain by driving one best way​​.
• Embracing Progress: The company prioritizes practical progress over perfection, focusing on standardization and advanced analytics​​.
• Tangible Results: Analytics have led to a 45-fold increase in engagement and significant operational improvements, including automation of 240,000 hours of work​​.
• Cultural Shift: Medtronic’s data-centric culture drives better service, quality, and competitive advantage​​.

Luciano Miranda
Vice President – GOSC Data Analytics and Insights
Medtronic

4:55 pm - 5:30 pm

Creating a Carbon-Conscious Supply Chain

• Discussing innovative approaches to decarbonising supply-chains in a space where options are limited
• Leveraging digital technologies such as monitoring carbon hotspots and remote supply-chain operations through satellite imagery to aid in your decarbonisation journey
• Embracing sustainability in logistics and understanding how it influences operational performance

Arne Flemming
SVP, Corporate Supply Chain and Global Logistics
Bosch

5:30 pm - 5:35 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks

Daniel Myers
Sr. Fellow at Haslam School of Business
University of Tennessee
Retired EVP of Integrated Supply Chain
Mondelēz International

5:35 pm

Drinks Reception

7:30 am - 8:20 am

Registration and Breakfast

7:45 am - 8:20 am

De-Risking Ocean Freight Through Port Logistics Optimization

• Understanding how enhanced ports can balance intersecting infrastructure to deliver a flexible and agile service from ocean to rail, road and warehouse.
• Realise the crucial role ports are playing in decarbonising your value chain, from electrification to alternative fuels.
• Discover the direction ports are taking towards logistics hubs, catering for your intermodal needs and facilitating a more flexible supply chain

8:25 am - 8:35 am

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Daniel Myers
Sr. Fellow at Haslam School of Business
University of Tennessee
Retired EVP of Integrated Supply Chain
Mondelēz International

8:35 am - 9:10 am

Nurturing Talent and Shaping the Next Generation of Supply Chain Leaders

• Developing talent and working with key partners to maintain the right skills that are defining a changing supply chain industry
• Emphasizing strategic thinking and tactical fundamentals to find impactful individuals that will enhance teams and exceed requirements
• Focusing on implementing programs that help attract young talents, collaborate with academia, promote STEM programs, inspire female role models, and provide career-long learning for all

Namrata Patel
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Haleon

9:50 am - 10:25 am

Enhancing the Omnichannel Experience through Optimized Logistics

• Aligning the old with the new to create an omnichannel experience that meets your customer where they want to be
• Navigating disruption and adapting to customer’s shifting demands by strengthening partnerships to improve performance
• Focusing on delivering with predictability, managing volatility and collaborating for sustainability

Jamal Chamariq
SVP, Global Supply Chain
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

9:50 am - 10:25 am

E2E Supply Chain: The Balancing Act of Supply Chain Optimization

• What are the current implications of different customer requirements on a reliable E2E supply chain?
• Key strategies to establish a fast, stable, and flexible network that is reliable when it comes to fulfilling customer expectations
• Using intelligent processes and systems to drive real time and transparent supply chain communications

Alexandre Turolla
SVP, Chief Procurement Officer
IFF Inc.

11:20 am - 11:55 am

Optimizing Inventory Management by Leveraging Accurate, Data Driven Decision-Making

• Prioritizing the identification of communication breakdowns across your supply chain in order to enable accurate forecast decision making
• Understanding the fluctuating needs of your customers and the impact on your inventory decisions
• Implementing a flexible and resilient protocol to drive retention and satisfaction
• Balancing inventory with cost and performance by embedding necessary intelligent demand forecasting solutions

11:20 am - 11:55 am

Strategies for Assessing and Prioritizing Circular Economy Opportunities

• Providing a process and framework to assess opportunities in the supply chain
• Aligning business and stakeholder needs to impact and prioritize opportunities for execution
• Identifying opportunities in your industry and how to capitalize on new avenues for revenue

12:00 pm - 12:35 pm

Building Sustainability into Our Supply Chain Network Planning Processes and Strategies

• What does making Sustainability a fundamental and integral part of our network planning look like in real terms?
• Highlighting the importance of buy-in from all levels of the supply chain organization to shift mindsets from environmental performance being a ‘nice to have’ added to the end of projects rather than a ‘must have’ built in from the very beginning
• Demonstrating the difference “Elevating Sustainability” thinking can bring to Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 results to prove proactive works better, costs less, and moves faster than reactive ESG strategies
• Offering best practices and lessons learned to other companies looking to reshape their own network planning philosophies and policies based on our real-world experience

Stephane Piat
Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain Strategy & Performance
Schneider Electric

12:34 pm - 1:35 pm

Overflow Lunch Seating

12:35 pm - 1:35 pm

Building an Efficient, Cross-Functional Supplier Quality Management Program

12:35 pm - 1:35 pm

Proactive Sustainability Strategies to Get Ahead of Regulation

12:35 pm - 1:35 pm

Automating and Optimizing Scheduling with the Power of AI

2:45 pm - 2:50 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks

Daniel Myers
Sr. Fellow at Haslam School of Business
University of Tennessee
Retired EVP of Integrated Supply Chain
Mondelēz International