Agenda
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Noha Samara, Director Analyst, Gartner
In this session, we explore the key trends that leading and highly mature organizations are adopting and lessons learnt from them.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT
Brenda Westbrook, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
With increased availability and deployment of technology to support and automate planning processes, the role of supply chain planners needs to evolve. The competencies and skills that were important before are no longer relevant. In this session we will discuss the evolution of the planners roles and the skills they will require to succeed in the future.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GMT
Tom Enright, VP Analyst, Gartner
Honeybees gather nectar from two million flowers and fly up to 90,000 miles to make one pound of honey. Supply chain principles recognize the efficiencies of planning cycles to minimize movement. Hive principles recommend operating with micromanufacturing, microfulfillment and microdistribution in small fast cycles to increase agility and minimize risk. This Maverick research shares agile supply chain principles inspired by honeybees.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM GMT
Caroline Chumakov, Director Analyst, Gartner
The quantity and frequency of change within organizations is increasing, but so is the volume of disruption we and our teams are facing in all aspects of our lives. This roundtable will be an opportunity for supply chain planning leaders to share challenges and solutions for change management in the current environment, both as a leader to manage change and also as a recipient of change.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GMT
Ken Chadwick, VP Analyst, Gartner
Change Management continues to be a challenge for planning leaders despite the volumes of publishing on the subject over the years. It is time to shift from change management theory to action. This session will give actionable advice on what planning leaders can do to effectively lead the technology and process transitions in their business.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Caroline Chumakov, Director Analyst, Gartner
How can planning leaders create social and culture connectedness for their teams in an increasingly distributed and hybrid working environment? How can leaders role-model personal connectedness and vulnerability to support belonging? Even more than flexibility, connectedness has emerged as a key ingredient in supporting better engagement, retention and performance.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM GMT
Historically the role of the center of excellence (COE) has focused on driving standardization and systems deployment, but the world is moving faster and this is no longer enough. In this session, we will discuss how supply chain planning COE needs to expand its scope to keep ahead of the game.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM GMT
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Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM GMT
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Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
Ken Chadwick, VP Analyst, Gartner
The quantity and frequency of organizational change is on an upward trajectory. But are your change initiatives reaching a point of transition? This session addresses the common pitfalls in organizational change management that are impacting the ability to fully embed changes in the organization.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
Pia Orup Lund, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What happens when our well-known, traditional planning processes (IBP, S&OP, S&OE) aren't fit for a fight anymore? In this Maverick session, we'll introduce the concept of decision-centric planning, where we challenge you to rethink how you will plan in the future using technology as an enabler. Prepare to be provoked!
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
Noha Samara, Director Analyst, Gartner
In this session, we explore how to unleash the maximum potential of the planning team by focusing on the planning individuals, the planning organization and on leveraging technology to support the planning team.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM GMT
Sustainability is a complex, rapidly evolving area of focus for enterprises. What burning questions do you have on the topic but have not had the opportunity to ask? This session promises to ground you in sustainability fundamental principles and also provide insight into emerging trends.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GMT
Cristina Carvallo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations have deployed technology over the past three years, either new systems or significant upgrades have been implemented. But many find their planners reverting back to old ways of working and simply overwriting the technology output which hinders their ability to realize the promised benefits. In this session, we will discuss why your current approach to adoption is not working and how to fix it.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GMT
Caroline Chumakov, Director Analyst, Gartner
Providing development and career pathing that suits the needs of different employees has become more challenging in today's fragmented world. Join this session to learn how you can address varied needs and preferences to develop all planning professionals effectively, without introducing new biases and inequities.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GMT
Circular economy strategies are key to building tomorrow’s resilient and sustainable supply chain, but to ensure the impact is effective, planning must be involved early and often. This session will explore the opportunities and challenges that this fundamental shift presents.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Cristina Carvallo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Most planning processes and conversations include three aspects — actuals, plans and targets. But few strike the right balance to drive effective, efficient and high-quality conversations. In this session, we will discuss four questions that can improve every planning conversation.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT
Xiaoshun Sue Grant, Director Analyst, Gartner
The basic objective of S&OP is to support integrated decision making to connect execution with strategy. Supporting high-quality decisions requires financial alignment. In this session, we will answer questions about the journey from a volume-based S&OP to an S&OP fully integrated with financial planning.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GMT
Ingrid Gonzalez McCarthy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations used to think of portfolios just as a project management process for product or service launches. However, with the increased need to offer diversification and the early involvement of the supply chain, portfolio planning capability is taking a new dimension and is here to stay. In this session, we will review what it takes to have a good portfolio planning capability.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GMT
Micheal Youssef, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Top-down directives for inventory reduction create anxiety and conflict among supply chain leaders and key stakeholders. This session provides insights and actions for embracing these situations as opportunities to educate stakeholders about performance drivers and offer operating options that provide business choices between cash, growth and margin.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM GMT
Xiaoshun Sue Grant, Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations are making changes to their supply chain capabilities to support resilience, including increasing the number of production facilities, suppliers, and increased inventory buffers and capacity buffers. All of these require organizations to improve their supply network capabilities to be able to orchestrate the network to deliver business outcomes.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Sarah Gilchrist, Director Analyst, Gartner
S&OE remains a critical process for supply chain planning leaders to coordinate and respond to short-term volatility in the supply chain. This breakout will provide a practical approach to establishing an S&OE structure and cover some common pitfalls and how to avoid them. If you are struggling with writer's block on your S&OE story, this session will help you get off the blank page.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM GMT
More details coming soon!
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM GMT
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Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM GMT
Sarah Gilchrist, Director Analyst, Gartner
The late Pele said, “No individual can win a game by himself.”
Partnering with internal manufacturing sites holds challenges, but partnering with external manufacturers adds another level of complexity. This roundtable will allow supply chain planning leaders to share and discover best practices based on their experience of planning for external manufacturers.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
Lusi Zheng, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Without the notes, the song lyrics can be sung in many ways. Supply chain plans are always based on a set of assumptions. The problem is that too often there is no defined set of assumptions, but many unspoken ones. This leads not to beautiful music but cacophony. These differing assumptions erode the credibility of the entire planning process. We'll explore how to bring all stakeholders to a common understanding of the real plans.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
Brenda Westbrook, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Planning for successful performance begins with defining the right objective. Rather than submitting to financial narratives about the need to meet inventory targets, this session will challenge supply chain planning leaders to reframe their objectives based on the need for resilient, optimized supply that delivers reliable service and positions the business to capture growth opportunities.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GMT
Cyrstal ball demand planning is debunked! Strong and effective demand planning is paramount in building resiliency and success in the current environment. You can not rely on the crystal ball, but you can build your demand planning capability to develop informed demand plans. This session will cover the foundational demand planning process to enable you to build your demand planning capability.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Sarah Gilchrist, Director Analyst, Gartner
Companies often struggle to maintain alignment of plans across time horizons. Supply Chain Planning leaders attending this session will gain insight on how to improve the quality of decision-making through better integration between their S&OP and S&OE processes.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GMT
Xiaoshun Sue Grant, Director Analyst, Gartner
There is only so much you can do in short term if your long-term capacity is misaligned with your business strategy. This session helps supply chain planning leaders to strategize their five to 10 years capacity planning.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM GMT
As more companies start to look for ways to integrate sustainability into their operating practices, software providers are beginning to respond and develop the necessary capabilities. The inclusion of emissions data in S&OP activities and transportation planning efforts are examples of enabling the ability to drive more sustainable practices within the business versus stand-alone initiatives.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Christian Titze, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner defines decision intelligence tools as the software to design, model, execute and orchestrate decision flows, involving humans and machines, leveraging multiple AI, analytical and process techniques. Lately, this capability has become a must-have for supply chain leaders, helping orchestrate and transform supply chains toward being more agile and resilient.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GMT
Utilizing a framework of criteria to guide selection, such as functionality, technology, usability, cost, customer support, viability and vision, to establish a high-level framework will ensure alignment of the proper vendors. This session will discuss why niche isn't bad; visionaries to grow with; and challengers to consider.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM GMT
What are organizations looking for when evaluating supply chain planning solutions? And what separates leaders, visionaries, challengers and niche players from each other? Join this theater to learn about the Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions 2023 and how you can benefit from this research.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM GMT
Christian Titze, VP Analyst, Gartner
The analytics and decision intelligence platform market (A&DI) for supply chain is evolving, but remain highly fragmented. In this ask-the-expert session we will provide insights on the current maturity status and best practice insights from end-user implementations.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM GMT
Amber Salley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This 2023 Hype Cycle for supply chain planning technologies covers technologies used to support planning decision making at all levels of the supply chain. Supply chain leaders should use this Hype Cycle to understand the maturity, viability and riskiness of various emerging supply chain planning technologies. This will help them understand how these technologies will evolve and how they could help benefit their operations now and in the future.
Monday, 30 October, 2023 / 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM GMT
More details coming soon!
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM GMT
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Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM GMT
Christian Titze, VP Analyst, Gartner
Supply chain leaders need the ability to see, understand, and act on what is happening in and across their supply chains to ensure optimal customer service levels. Multienterprise collaboration network (MCN) solutions provide organizations the ability to connect and collaborate with their business partners. This session will highlight the range of solutions, architectural options and providers.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM GMT
Often, leaders do not adequately define a long-term approach to managing supply chain planning technology. Without organizational awareness to data quality and usage over time, system performance can degrade. Leaders should define an approach for long-term maintenance and management that creates clear responsibilities between business and IT, and also iteratively review and discuss planning system usage with end users.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GMT
Amber Salley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As supply chain planning leaders build their strategies to support digital business goals they must consider the role technology plays. Supply chain planning technologies are rapidly evolving, so companies need to ensure their technology strategy includes the necessary components to support higher levels of planning maturity.
Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GMT
Supply chain planning leaders are cheerful about technology implementations and most likely have a good roadmap, tool, team and buy-in from the main stakeholders of the organization. However, as the project reaches the end, with the “normalization” of activities, there is a temptation to do workarounds, go back to old processes and, in some cases, use the tool as a data management system.