Please join us in our Chief Supply Chain Officers and Enterprise Supply Chain Leaders Members only Executive Lounge for a place to relax, recharge and network with your fellow peers. Ensure to visit the Lounge's outdoor space - exclusively for you to enjoy.

A supply chain that makes high velocity, yet accurate decisions? That considers scenarios and business constraints in real-time? No longer a technology of the future, stop by the Aera Self-Driving Supply Chain™ Engagement Zone and see how cognitive technologies are driving enterprise supply chains today.

Topics covered include:

● How to leverage cognitive automation in decision making today
● Innovations in demand forecasting, supply matching, trade promotion and more
● How artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) integrate with cognitive technologies
● Data strategies and automation in complex supply chains
● And… get a chance to talk to your supply chain!

Stop by the Gartner Zone at any time during these hours, complete a benchmark questionnaire and receive a complimentary benchmark report.

The advent of the digital era area has triggered a broad business discussion on opportunities to transform all elements of the supply chain performance. This session will provide an insight into the path that MSD have been following and continue to follow on their Digital journey. It will cover the drivers for change, how that has influenced the strategic direction and a view on progress made and plans in place. Like all stories, there is a large chunk of success that relies on the quality and commitment of the people involved - this will become evident during the presentation.

This session will provide insights into how consumer products leader Henkel is transforming its supply chain through the use of high potential digital technologies including how they are identified, piloted, evaluated and scaled-up to deliver profitable growth. It will also explore the key capabilities and competencies required to successfully transform a large scale supply chain organization towards a digital future.

The aerospace and defense industry is entering a new era of uncertain and complex business, new competitors, demanding customers and new business models. In light of this, Airbus Commercial Aircraft is globally transforming its industrial systems and structure. Hear how Airbus Commercial Aircraft is developing genuine business change through new business practices, methods and digital solutions.

Learn how Janssen (J&J's Pharma BU) transformed its global planning operating model. Leveraging harmonized processes & advanced technology to build a fully integrated, E2E & data-driven planning platform. Discover how their virtual twin drives better planning decisions, increasing performance while all stakeholders gain visibility in the full value chain. Converging their physical & digital world.

How can companies drive business into the future when the global market is faced with emerging technologies,price pressures and changing customer preferences? Gain insights on how some of the world’s leading consumer products companies are gaining the edge with Kinaxis. Hear about best practices and proven strategies for concurrent planning for organizations at all levels of supply chain maturity.

A review of the latest external trends in healthcare that require a supply chain response by life science companies. Learn how the industry is being changed by technology advancements, mergers and acquisitions, and other disruptive factors, along with the supply chain capabilities required to survive and thrive.

Manufacturing executives are fighting for growth and supply chain teams are assessing how their firms compete. For some, it’s cost leadership and for others it’s customer service differentiation? In this session we evaluate the requirement for both. We’ll identify the critical capabilities that will allow the supply chain to impact all financial levers and support profitable growth.

This session will focus on order fulfillment and delivery, the customer experience and how technology is creating a competitive differentiator on the retailer’s path to digital business. We will hear from a retailer who is putting these processes and technologies in place to reach the digital Walhalla.

In 2017, global demand for airfreight capacity outpaced supply by a factor of three. The airfreight market is booming and the outlook is buoyant. This session sets out how supply chain leaders responsible for logistics should adopt smarter engagement strategies to drive more value from this much-maligned mode of transport.

In 2029, the circular economy is the mainstream economy, in fact it’s the only economy. There will be growing demand to buy waste-free products. In the future it’s no longer a linear supply chain, but a circular supply chain that recycles, renews and produces no waste. This presentation will review what to consider and what to prepare for to meet the circular reality of tomorrow.

As more companies pursue an “asset-lite” strategy, the importance of strong physical and digital relationships with contract manufacturers is essential. Brand owners in life sciences' companies should seek progress toward becoming a customer of choice for their CMOs. This session will provide the CMO's perspective on the characteristics, values, and behaviors that their customers of choice embody.

Manufacturers are looking for better ways to insulate their factories from the volatility of their demand, but the customer orders keep coming in with short lead times. In this session, we discuss a shift of mindset with more focus on the aspects of their business that is under their control and build a supply chain that can be responsive to customers' expectations.

Supply chains can fall ill with organizational silos and lack of visibility. For Life Sciences companies, that could be a matter of life or death. Delivering to patients’ needs requires collaboration, synchronization and agility. Join Kinaxis Industry Product Manager Sunil Roy to learn how leading pharmaceutical companies are healing their supply chains to meet their patient’s needs.

Find out how the largest Canadian food retailer have the customer experience at the heart of their strategy while driving continuous operations efficiency and excellence across their supply chain. Discover how their partnership with JDA is enabling new approaches, taking advantage of innovation in machine learning/artificial intelligence and digital technology to shape the future of their business

Supply chain leaders in retail face an era of unpredictable and highly challenging operating conditions. Come explore future scenarios enabled by emerging technologies, alternative and adaptive business models and very curious partnerships as you look towards what your business may look like in 2025 and beyond.

Retailers and suppliers need to put physical and digital availability on an equal footing. With a disproportionate share of growth coming from online sales we explore the latest research on Online Availability in the Consumer Products Industry and focus on how to increase awareness and drive to improve OLA.

The circular economy will drive many industrial manufacturing firms to adapt operations for maximum resource efficiency and transition more products to "as-a-service" offerings. Framed with insights from Gartner's new circular economy research, our speaker will share insights on how HP Inc. is transforming products and supply chains to a more efficient, circular and low carbon economy.

Supply chain leaders are often challenged to meet financial targets for inventory reduction. Life science networks have numerous constraints that drive a lot of structural inventory which cannot be impacted by improved operations. This session will inspire attendees to educate and influence stakeholders for balanced discussions and alignment that improve network agility and inventory performance.

For every factory that becomes smarter, existing factory floor workers are unsure of their future. Will they be made irrelevant, or can they be reskilled to work with the technology being introduced into their worlds? Learn ways in which digital factories of tomorrow can exist in harmony with the workforce of today.

This session will look at the journey of CP & retail leaders from the last 15 years of Gartner’s Top 25 providing insight into what’s differentiated leaders and just where consumer industries might be heading.

With over 100 Healthcare Supply Chainnovator submissions and six years of analyzing and awarding winners, this session looks at the state of innovation in our industry. Determining trends in innovation and the evolution of what companies are doing to break new ground in healthcare are covered in depth. We will also look at what makes an initiative a supply chainnovation by being innovative, impactful, sustainable, and colllaborative internally and externally.

The customer experience revolution is happening all around us. Customer Satisfaction is the new measure of product performance. As a supply chain leader, how aware are you about what your customers want and need? Learn how L’Oreal is driving increased customer intimacy and creating personalized solutions that improve the customer experience.

If this is your first visit to the Gartner Supply Chain Conference, don't miss this overview designed to help you make the most of your time at the conference.

Please join us in our Chief Supply Chain Officers and Enterprise Supply Chain Leaders Members only Executive Lounge for a place to relax, recharge and network with your fellow peers. Ensure to visit the Lounge's outdoor space - exclusively for you to enjoy.

Stop by the Gartner Zone at any time during these hours, complete a benchmark questionnaire and receive a complimentary benchmark report.

A supply chain that makes high velocity, yet accurate decisions? That considers scenarios and business constraints in real-time? No longer a technology of the future, stop by the Aera Self-Driving Supply Chain™ Engagement Zone and see how cognitive technologies are driving enterprise supply chains today.

Topics covered include:

● How to leverage cognitive automation in decision making today
● Innovations in demand forecasting, supply matching, trade promotion and more
● How artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) integrate with cognitive technologies
● Data strategies and automation in complex supply chains
● And… get a chance to talk to your supply chain!

Our first-ever sustainability breakfast is an opportunity for all supply chain leaders interested in sustainability and circular economy topics to meet and network. Gartner analysts Tom Enright, Sarah Watt, Thomas O'Connor and Pam Fitzpatrick will share fast, fresh takes on what's next in sustainable, circular supply chain management.

The lines between the physical and digital worlds are becoming increasingly blurred. Traditional markets are being redefined, customer expectations are constantly evolving and the very way daily tasks are conducted are being rapidly transformed. Supply chains must now focus on effectively converging their foundational capabilities, with new and emerging digital strategies in order to not only compete, but also prosper and grow in this bold new era. This conference will demonstrate how supply chains leaders will blend the lessons of the past with their aspirations for the future to deliver sustainable commercial success.

Join us for your exclusive book signing with Guest Keynote Speaker; Baroness Karren Brady CBE. Please note that books will be availble upon a first come first served basis.

Haribo is currently going through a major transition phase to redesign its Supply Chain: integrated demand planning, production planning, material and packaging planning, until customer delivery. It’s a great opportunity for Haribo to capitalise on unified processes and efficient tools to guarantee a reliable service with a cost driven approach.

Not sure which exhibitors to meet with or what sessions to attend? Let Gartner Conference Concierge help you create a custom agenda and schedule meetings. Just email us at ConciergeEMEA@gartner.com and we’ll be in touch soon.

How to replace silos with E2E connectivity, futureproof your architecture and deliver a harmonized user experience to improve decision-making and results across your ecosystem.

As the line between customer expectations in B2B and B2C blurs, flexible fulfillment will be essential to optimizing delivery experiences. Hear how IBM Order Orchestration complements existing supply chain systems and processes to help you capitalize on the direct-to-consumer opportunity and drive competitive advantage.

What if you could sense and predict supply chain disruptions such as order changes, shipment delays, inventory shortages before they occur? JDA Luminate is a cognitive SaaS solution that senses unexpected events across the entire supply chain, identifies the potential impact of those disruptions, and orchestrates corrective actions with machine learning-based prescriptive guidance.

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This interactive roundtable will provide the opportunity for peers to share their thoughts, challenges and solutions on how to embed the culture of quality across the supply chain to transform performance. Discuss examples where the quality activities have enabled a business to meet the assurance and compliance aspects of doing business in a way that focuses on the customer and supports agility.

Take the first step in your factory of the future initiative by assessing your manufacturing maturity. Participants will leave with an actual “as-is” manufacturing capabilities assessment. Gartner analysts will facilitate this session and provide best practices for how to progress beyond your current state and develop a roadmap for smart manufacturing.

Digitalization is changing the nature of how we work together across the supply chain, the enterprise, with partners and vendors, and with customers. As the digital world evolves, knowing how to organize people to manage additional complexity will be critical to your success. In this session we will answer questions about how digitalization is impacting supply chain organizational structures and the strategies that will make leaders successful.

Sourcing and procurement continues to centralize in pursuit of cost and efficiency benefits. At the same time, many mature functions are reorganizing to deepen their connections with business stakeholders and better serve customer needs. This session will explain how to balance global scale with local agility, and explore the likely impact of digitalization on procurement organization design.

Increasingly companies are getting closer to customers and consumers by personalizing their products and services. Couple that with the need for immediacy and real-time responsiveness and you have the basic ingredients for a perfect storm for supply chain. Learn how leading supply chains are gaining competitive advantage by meeting the new needs of their digital customers.

A talent roadmap is a three to five year view of how you will effectively recruit, retain, develop and engage people to meet your supply chain goals. Learn how to build a supply chain talent roadmap that takes into account digital strategy and maturity factors, and hear about how supply chain leaders are ensuring that digital dexterity is front and center in their supply chain talent strategy.

Forecast accuracy is only the starting point. Fully availing the benefits of an accurate forecast requires an end-to-end supply chain response. This session outlines the steps and capabilities required to fully leverage a good demand signal to optimize inventory, cost, and service objectives.

Transforming to a DDVN requires critical changes to operations. Done correctly will drive cost, efficiency and agility benefits. Bacardi will share how they moved from site focused optimization to horizontal linked operations, the challenges they overcame and the benefits they realized.

Logistics has blossomed from a back office function to becoming a darling of the supply chain. Modern day logisticians are expected to fulfill a number of different roles, encompassing day to day operational tasks, designing innovative solutions, being master negotiators and savants of the future. This session sets out capabilities and competencies required for the logisticians of the future.

Companies have increasingly federated logistics networks and need to support more locations regionally and globally. The needs can vary dramatically. This clinic and use of toolkit and principles helps leaders understand the operational conditions for each site in order to build effective warehouse strategies and aid in system selection.

Globalization, digitization, increased competition and extreme supply chain disruptions threaten Consumer Products supply chains.Today’s complexity and volatility requires a supply chain that can respond in time to profitably keep your promises.Hear how P&G is leveraging the power of concurrent planning to gain true collaboration and visibility to know sooner and act faster in a changing landscape.

Global uncertainty will drive the need for resilient supply chain operations. Learn more about the 'Design to Operate' value scenario in the Intelligent Enterprise. By leveraging the SAP Intelligent Enterprise digital core, companies gain improved operational visibility and customer intelligence to manage the entire supply chain digitally and execute flawlessly, while transforming their business.

GE Renewable Energy harnesses the earth’s most abundant resources—wind, sun and water—to deliver reliable green power. With an increased global focus on sustainability, GE faced fundamental supply chain shifts as its customer base expanded and complex configurations in its product portfolio increased. To address these challenges, GE implemented the o9 platform to make smarter, faster business decisions driven by an integrated planning processes and a digital twin to model business complexity and conduct rapid what-if analysis.

Digital transformations are here yet what defines transformation in supply chains varies significantly by company. Join Stefano Pietroni, Vice President Group Supply Chain Design at Barilla, as he discusses fundamental shifts shaping the vision of their supply chain, data initiatives enabling a “digital twin” of their supply chain, and technologies to help make smarter decisions faster.

Customers want what they want, anytime, anywhere. Learn how IKEA is partnering with IBM to deliver new digital capabilities across order and warehouse management, meeting changing customer expectations with convenient delivery and value-added services. Hear how IKEA injects AI capabilities to optimize cost-efficiencies in their supply chain and customer convenience in fulfilling orders promised.

Join this session to hear how Electrolux embarked on their digital transformation journey to achieve real-time visibility into their entire supply chain ecosystem. Discover how after only 5 months, they went live with a new advanced Control Tower solution, achieving enhanced transparency & reactivity in their supply chain while improving customer experience and reducing cost.

What's certain about Brexit? Uncertainty. The full impact on supply chain and global trade is yet unknown, however, there will be impact. Is there still time to optimise your operations? Absolutely. Learn mitigation strategies and best contingency planning no matter how this next chapter unfolds.

Chief Strategy Officer Jonathon Karelse will lead the discussion on the challenges associated with implementing effective company-wide supply chain collaboration at Canada’s leading vitamin and supplement manufacturer. Jonathon was the driving force in establishing effective company-wide supply chain collaboration at Factors Group and will share his journey of establishing a solid consensus plan.

Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth's circumpolar surface (more people have been on the Moon!). His record-breaking expeditions include travel by riverboat, hovercraft, manhaul sledge, skidoo, Land Rover and ski. In 2003, only 3½ months after a massive heart attack, 3 day coma and double bypass, he along with Mike Stroud achieved the first 7x7x7 (Seven marathons in seven consecutive days on all seven continents) In 2009 he summited Mt Everest with Thundu Sherpa.

This exclusive Lunch will provide you with an opportunity to gain a stronger understanding of how Gartner works with senior Supply Chain leaders and hear from Nokia’s Head of Supply Chain Design on how Gartner has supported their Supply Chain transformation. There will also be the opportunity to network with other invited Supply Chain peers.

With growing demand for digital transformation, enterprises are actively finding ways to leverage advanced technologies to improve operational efficiency and expand business value for their customers. In 2012, CargoSmart began empowering Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. (OOCL) with digital capabilities using IoT and artificial intelligence and through blockchain-based projects as part of the CargoSmart-initiated shipping industry blockchain consortium. Gartner recognized OOCL’s vision of driving digital innovation from 2017 onward and the ESCP Europe business school presented the company an award for digital transformation in 2019.

Please join CargoSmart for lunch to hear Steve Siu, CEO of CargoSmart, Deputy Managing Director of COSCO, and CIO of OOCL, share OOCL's transformation journey and key success factors. You will also have the opportunity to engage in insightful discussions and share experiences with your visionary peers about overcoming challenges and achieving digital transformation in your supply chains through business collaboration.

How rising product innovation is exposing the limitations of traditional planning – and strategies to reduce the financial burden of an ever-growing tail..

Manufacturers, retailers and 3PLs struggling to identify the ROI for multi-carrier parcel shipping can actually utilize their own data to demonstrate the return on investment - and much more. Learn how you can leverage the right technology with state-of-the-art Business Intelligence to increase shipping performance, reduce net landed cost of goods and increase customer satisfaction.

How to leverage AI and machine self-learning to overcome today’s forecasting challenges and drive proximity to action, to your customers and to success.

Learn how Iberian Sports Retail Group, the 2nd largest sports retailer in Iberia, is digitizing their inbound supply chain to meet higher service levels.This transformation will allow for greater supply chain visibility, leading to greater collaboration and most importantly creating the platform by which ISRG will continue to control costs & lead times while exceeding their customer expectations.

Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance has achieved a level of undisputed excellence in managing large aircraft fleets. The group lately started a large global supply chain transformation project, global compliance being a key aspect across the entire supply chain. Join us during this session to learn more about the AFI KLM E&M Project and how Amber Road is supporting.

Hanes Brands acquired DBApparel in 2014 in Europe adding DIM and other European leading brands of Intimate Apparel, Hosiery and Underwear to its portfolio.
● How did the supply chain organisation in Europe adapt to this transformation?
● How to match new business needs to a global supply chain and create value?

Blockchain is uniquely positioned to alleviate issues created by complex supply chain networks, dynamic product lifecycles, regulation and more. While the technology has real promise, we are experiencing an early learning curve. Hear how IBM clients are deepening trust, transparency and traceability from order inception through final delivery with blockchain.

Can transport visibility deliver shareholder value? Using real-world examples, we will share how Sixfold’s customers leverage real-time transport visibility tools for complete digitization of the customer journey to improve service, lower costs and increase market share. And you can too!

Creating a digital twin of your integrated supply chain can create many benefits. Ensuring you capture the relevant constraints and variables but still retain sufficient degrees of freedom to optimise is the challenge.

Find out how Linde created a digital twin of its integrated supply chain to simultaneously optimise their production and distribution operations and release value.

How to establish a single pane of truth across your partner network, standardizing and automating reporting across a broad spectrum of channels and cultures for greater efficiencies.

Many cost optimization efforts adopt a functional approach which focuses on individual cost centers and categories. This session will provide insights on the critical role of supply planning to harmonize individual functions into a cost-optimized network response that maximizes the value from assets and delivers efficient customer outcomes.

Supply chains fulfill the customer experience. Market leaders pick a competitive position and drive operating models and investment decisions based upon that positioning and the associated customer experiences. This session will show how to approach aligning the supply chain organizations’ strategy, priorities and initiatives given specific competitive positions and the aligned customer experience.

Leading organizations are redefining the way they collaborate with their key suppliers by deploying SRM programs to reduce costs, drive innovation and improve profitability. Unfortunately, many still struggle to launch, and maintain, this critical initiative. In this session, we will look at the key success factors present in highly effective SRM programs.

Ask an analyst your questions about what makes a good S&OP process. What are the key characteristics to develop to make an S&OP process that your business leaders can’t live without.

Focusing on the ways in which Chinese e-tailers, brand manufacturers, and small local competitors are combining physical and online operations as a disruptive force, this session will demonstrate how supply chain leaders in the West can transform their own operations and drive competitive advantage.

Manufacturing operations have to support growth and agility while continuing to excel at operational efficiency. In this session, attendees will learn about: a) The key enablers for productivity in the manufacturing network b) How Colgate has blended design and manufacturing analytics to accelerate the pace of decision making c) How to achieve scale for initiatives and continuous improvement with user engagement and ownership

For most organizations, the range of activities involved in reverse logistics and returns' management remains fragmented and poorly understood. This session walks leaders through Gartner's framework to develop a program to prioritize actions and meet their requirements. It covers returns' strategy, operations and adjacent activities impacted by and impacting reverse logistics and returns' management.

This interactive roundtable will provide the opportunity for peers to share their learnings around successful collaboration with contract manufacturers and suppliers: From setting up for success at contracting stage to ensuring business outcomes are jointly targeted through performance management throughout the relationship.

You’ve finally got time with senior management and need to request money and resources from them. This is the crucial boardroom presentation. But how do you really deliver with impact so that they sign-off and give you approval? This session will help you deliver a better presentation and show you how to ensure that they are on-board with your proposals.

This workshop will delve into the Matrix framework as the methodology of choice to drive supply chain digital transformation. Every participant will have the chance to map their supply chain on the Matrix and identify the most critical process and digital gaps. We will ensure you come away with a clear idea in mind of your digital supply chain roadmap for 2019 and beyond.

Market volatility, evaporating barriers to entry, hyper-competition and heightened customer expectations force companies to accelerate their timeline for digital transformation. AI combined with internet-scale technology is ushering in a new era of self-driving supply chains, improving the speed and accuracy of decisions. Learn the best practices and innovations developed by Aera Technology to accelerate digital transformation in supply chains.

Join this session to find out how Paulig’s coffee division implemented solution and an IBP process and learn what the benefits are. Previously hard-to-evaluate scenarios became routine cases, especially with the large campaigns. Volume and financial views are available in the same tool and coherent. Cost of goods sold calculations use the latest demand forecast, raw material inventory status, and market information, to achieve the most accurate forecast on costs.

Lenzing, a leading fiber producer, strives to achieve on-time, dynamic planning and fulfillment and to delight its customers with increased transparency and trust through digital transformation. Learn how Lenzing and CargoSmart are working together to elevate visibility and drive customer intimacy through cloud-based, predictive analytics using AI, IoT, and machine learning.

How do companies define and measure customer experience within the supply chain? What can we learn from top-performing organisations that prioritise the customer? How do innovators collaborate with trading partners? Learn the answers to these questions and more, as BluJay presents key findings from its annual research on supply chain and logistics innovation.

To succeed in today’s world, supply chain leaders need to deliver flawless customer experiences while efficiently managing resources. Join project44 and Magna Steyr as we explore how the manufacturer leveraged Advanced Visibility to connect hundreds of telematics devices into a single network, accurately track high volume JIT inventory, and predict potential disruptions across their supply chain.

When challenged by high production volumes across varying product sizes and designs, irregular supply flows and different supplier reporting standards, Bosch Sensortec was able to reduce response and lead times, identify production deviations early and increase planning efficiency and production flexibility to drive stakeholder value. Learn how.

Explore best practices for applying AI and blockchain to drive supply chain innovation. Gain valuable insights from IKEA’s AI journey with Chief Architect for Customer Fulfillment & Multichannel Transformation Bjorn Johansson. Then IBM Director of Supply Chain Transformation Matthias Graefe will share how IBM has used blockchain to enable a single version of the truth across its own supply chain.

Are you puzzling over whether AI could add value in Customer Fulfillment? Stop worrying about “what AI is” and focus on “what AI does”. This fast paced look at AI in Customer Fulfillment will share what leading players are doing. We’ll finish by putting the pieces of the jigsaw together to show how Chat Bots can improve Customer Outcomes and business results through augmentation and automation.

In the digital age which places an extraordinary premium on speed, heads of procurement worry about the undesirable trade offs in lost savings and added risk that they are going to make to keep up with business. The session will explore what Procurement Heads can do to help their staff deliver buys in the business’ desired time frame without making undesirable trade offs.

This session sets out why companies are increasing their adoption of the logistics control tower operating model. Logistics control towers have been around for many decades and have evolved in their sophistication and capability. This session sets out how companies are successfully combining good governance, process expertise with technology to deliver 21st century logistics control towers.

How can companies digitize demand planning to go beyond statistical forecasting? This presentation will show three areas where AI/ML can help build a stronger demand planning process.

A series of trends, like pervasive digital capabilities or corporate function drag, are changing the way organizations do work. To be successful, those that manage quality will need to understand the way these trends impact the value they provide to the organization. Join this session to learn about and better prepare your team for the new business environment.

Innovation and change are required competencies for today’s supply chains, but traditional methods fall flat when it comes to results. How do leaders disrupt the status quo to make it happen? This session will outline strategies you can use to build networks for engaging employees in the journey to transform the supply chain.

Industrie 4.0 and smart factories challenge companies to balance exploiting innovation and capability building across people, process and technology in manufacturing operations. This will be a facilitated session where participants will be expected to share their thoughts and experiences for striking this balance without consequence to cost, quality and customer service.

As retailers and manufacturers continue to make new shopping services available to customers, their fulfillment complexity increases and their interest and investment in Distributed Order Management solutions soar. This session explains why this technology has become so important and looks to how it could control entire fulfillment supply chains.

The multienterprise supply chain business network (MESCBN) market evolved over the past few years and is now providing larger networks with more breadth and depth in application functions, and is even targeting specific industries. This makes it a challenge for prospective buyers to select the best-fitting offering. Supply chain technology leaders need to understand market progressions and influencing factors, and then decide how to include them in network/visibility evaluations.

Join us for an exclusive Meet and Greet session in the Gartner Supply Chain Member Lounge.

How to establish a single pane of truth across your partner network, standardizing and automating reporting across a broad spectrum of channels and cultures for greater efficiencies.

Heineken started the S&OP Core programme in 2016 to elevate S&OP processes and tools for their medium-sized OpCos. The first OpCos show great results, in this presentation Elena Kaporina and Corneel Hindriks will share HEINEKEN’s journey, the key learnings from their Agile approach and take a look into the future.

Exceeding customer expectations is a fundamental challenge for Schneider Electric, the global leader in energy management. Join this session to learn how the company leverages supply chain digitalization and innovation to improve customer delivery experience and achieve operational excellence. You will also hear how Shippeo helps to enrich their Digital Transportation Control Tower with real-time and predictive visibility capabilities.

Every supply chain hero could use a superpower. Learn how AI can be yours – helping eliminate supply chain blind spots so you can see likely delays, demand spikes, supply changes and stockouts. We’ll also share how IBM clients are using AI-powered visibility to preempt disruptions and seize new opportunities.

Diagnose your Trade Portfolio from a Trade Agreements point of view. We'll demonstrate a very easy way to calculate potential duty savings using our ROI simulator, in combination with our Trade Content. We will also discuss how technology supports organizations throughout the duty savings process, at minimum cost and with maximum compliance.

A common failure point in S&OP processes is that decisions are delayed because business leaders want to wait for some firmer evidence that would support the decision one way or the other.

● What are the effects of indecision?

● How to communicate and demonstrate to business leaders the importance of timely decision making?

In this session we will discuss how collaboration around transportation and the use of technology helps shippers to improve transportation costs, capacity utilization and even reduce carbon footprint. We will have one or more shippers provide a use case on the benefits they received from this collaboration.

As additional capabilities are added to traditional MES suites, the term Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) is more of a reality. We'll discuss how technology is enabling closer communication and collaboration and convergence of digital and physical worlds between manufacturing operations and the rest of supply chain.

Organizations are increasingly leaning on procurement to support the organization's CSR and sustainability agenda by deploying responsible sourcing practices. In this session, a high-tech manufacturer will share the key lessons learned in their journey towards responsible sourcing and present actionable advice.

Digital is a top 5 investment priority for CSCO’s. However less than half of companies surveyed are actively planning or implementing a digital supply chain roadmap. While most admit to challenges it’s leadership and governance that differentiates those exceeding business objectives.

With new digital business models emerging and rising customer expectations， the pace of change is accelerating， and nowhere in supply chain is that felt more acutely than in customer fulfillment. Learn how Bayer transformed their organization to understand and respond to changing customer needs and move from delivering products to also delivering excellence in customer experience.

Please join us in our Chief Supply Chain Officer and Enterprise Supply Chain Leader Members Executive Lounge. Use this time to network one on one with your peers and Gartner service delivery team over an exciting array of food and a variety of beverages.

Stop by the Gartner Zone at any time during these hours, complete a benchmark questionnaire and receive a complimentary benchmark report.

Please join us in our Chief Supply Chain Officers and Enterprise Supply Chain Leaders Members only Executive Lounge for a place to relax, recharge and network with your fellow peers. Ensure to visit the Lounge's outdoor space - exclusively for you to enjoy.

A supply chain that makes high velocity, yet accurate decisions? That considers scenarios and business constraints in real-time? No longer a technology of the future, stop by the Aera Self-Driving Supply Chain™ Engagement Zone and see how cognitive technologies are driving enterprise supply chains today.

Topics covered include:

● How to leverage cognitive automation in decision making today
● Innovations in demand forecasting, supply matching, trade promotion and more
● How artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) integrate with cognitive technologies
● Data strategies and automation in complex supply chains
● And… get a chance to talk to your supply chain!

Strong supply chain companies are embracing diversity because diversity makes for better teams, better decisions and better business. At this breakfast, you'll join other colleagues who are champions for diversity, hear the latest Gartner research and network.

Sanofi, like many leading supply chains, is on a transformation journey. The team began by challenging their operational model; ultimately revising it to create an organization that is prepared to enhance their foundational expertise with emerging digital capabilities and tools. Of course none of this could have been achieved without assessing their existing talent, identifying gaps and building new teams. These teams, once created, needed to be empowered and enabled to devise the strategy and execute flawlessly, never deviating from the primary goal of best serving the patient. Tariq Farooq will discuss this ongoing journey and share with you both the highlights and the lessons learned in an inspirational presentation that will leave you a fresh, new perspective.

Bonduelle is undergoing a supply chain transformation to better respond to customer and consumer changes. The objectives: achieving excellence in customer service and supporting business growth.

Not sure which exhibitors to meet with or what sessions to attend? Let Gartner Conference Concierge help you create a custom agenda and schedule meetings. Just email us at ConciergeEMEA@gartner.com and we’ll be in touch soon.

Global shifts in wealth, population and workforces over the next 10-15 years will force companies to rethink their national and international supply and demand strategies, impacting their current supply chain model. Hear how the anticipated changes in international trade will require companies to rethink their global operating models to take advantage of new commercial opportunities.

In this Q&A format, discuss how quality management talent is transforming to meet changing roles and expectations. Key questions include:
-How will my quality talent decisions need to change to meet new needs?
-What are competencies I should be aware for the future quality talent?
- How can I ensure my people develop the new skills?

Through connected products, organizations are establishing longer-term relationships with customers. It’s about designing a highly relevant and ongoing customer experience. Learn about the brand-new supply chain model that leaders need to design to leverage connected products, converging the physical and the digital supply chain, supporting fast decision making.

Logistics is typically operated as a cost centre but an increasing amount of companies are seeking to turn logistics into a profit contributor. This session sets out how to migrate the logistics function from cost to profit and uses a case study to detail the journey, highlight the benefits, and, more importantly, how to avoid the pitfalls.

Finance leaders may impose inventory reduction targets on the supply chain, success requires a translation of these objectives into a sequenced implementation plan that engages enterprise stakeholders with relevant messaging and change proposals. This requires resourceful approaches that go beyond pure analysis that will result in improved organizational intelligence and decision governance.

Leading sourcing and procurement functions are adopting technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotic process automation to reduce costs, increase efficiency and provide a faster, better service to business stakeholders. In this session, this global shipping company will explain how it is developing digital capabilities that leverage analytics and data-driven decision-making.

Smart and connected factories that synchronize value for the customer with automated processes, data, and human ingenuity are the path forwards. Not all companies are prepared to make the leap and transformation is cliche. This session balances hype and logic to maximize the potential of manufacturing operations.

In sustainability initiatives, leadership is just as important as technical knowledge. How do you convince internal stakeholders and external partners that adopting new performance metrics or pursuing ambitious social or environmental impact goals will deliver what’s best for the business in the long term? At this facilitated peer discussion, you will exchange ideas with other leaders on how to inspire change and navigate resistance.

A critical success factor for S&OP deployments is building internal support about the business problem and proposed approach. Many S&OP deployments' efforts fail because this is not properly addressed in the project initiation. In this workshop you will get the research background on how to build an engagement plan. You will also create your draft plans supported with Gartner templates.

Survey data repeatedly tells us that supply chain is not yet perceived as a strategic partner in driving business value. This workshop will help you map out practical steps to improve supply chain's standing and influence. Participants will join peers in small group discussions about the signs of a weak reputation, goals for a better reputation, and ideas for engaging key stakeholders. You will conclude with ideas for your personal action plan.

Royal Canin, a division of MARS Petcare, launched a new E2E Planning Core Model in late 2017. From Demand Planning to Distribution Planning, this new solution supports the overall business management and helps achieving Service Excellence for Customers and Consumers. The first go-lives are starting this year in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Abstract: Blockchain is uniquely positioned to alleviate issues created by complex supply chain networks, dynamic product lifecycles, regulation and more. While the technology has real promise, we are experiencing an early learning curve. Hear how IBM clients are deepening trust, transparency and traceability from order inception through final delivery with blockchain.

What does an intelligence-driven supply chain look like? Find out the necessary elements needed to deploy and achieve a supply chain that is networked, data-driven and autonomous. See firsthand what happens when a network of 70,000 businesses applies AI and advanced visualization to enable more intelligent supply chain orchestration.

How to replace silos with E2E connectivity, futureproof your architecture and deliver a harmonized user experience to improve decision-making and results across your ecosystem.

Do you always know where your goods are? With Transporeon you can now achieve real-time supply chain visibility. Eliminating guesswork about shipment location and arrival time, you can use telematics data to keep shippers, carriers and goods recipients fully informed. It enables proactive transport management and builds up actionable insights on KPIs and partner performance.

By implementing Anaplan, Circle K built a fully connected demand and supply
planning process that improved forecast accuracy. Learn how a dynamic 18-month rolling forecast of current and future inventory levels for its European locations enables them to have the right stock level throughout all their sites.

Many organizations have begun implementing an integrated planning process but are still struggling with silos and data fragmentation. Frequently they fail to determine the financial impact of operational decisions, leverage the power of their data, and achieve transparency across the organization. Discover how Board IBP can change the game.

An appraisal of multicarrier shipping and TMS solutions, without a barcode label in sight!
Using case studies, review scenarios traditional TMS struggle to manage, such as high volume and international shipping, and learn why parcel shipping requires a different solution and how to design your process and architecture to leverage both solutions.

Is your supply chain fit enough for today's challenges or does it no longer compete at the highest level? How can you rebuild the flexibility, strength and endurance you need to move ahead of the pack? In this session you will experience the Oracle supply chain “gym" and see how our latest equipment and innovative techniques will help you achieve and sustain your supply chain fitness goals.

The Co-op, UK’s leading convenience retailer with more than 2,600 owned stores and 14 distribution centers, services in excess of 10,000+ outlets through its retail, wholesale, and franchise proposition. This session explores the platform built for its mission-critical logistics network based on Manhattan’s best In-Class solutions for Warehouse Management and Supply Chain Intelligence System.

Husqvarna Group is a leading global producer of outdoor power products. Hear how Husqvarna has transformed its global supply chain into a unified digital platform by applying supply chain planning best practices to support change, innovation and growth. Highlights will include how optimized planning has led to increased visibility, precision and automation.

This interactive roundtable will provide the opportunity for peers to share their experiences and discover what others are doing to encourage diversity of all types in their organisation.
- What approaches have been successful?
- What are the tangible benefits that define that success?
Join us to share in the debate.

CSCOs are being challenged to execute faster than ever before — with agility. However, how do you do that in an environment that is constantly changing and the business problems are more complex than ever? Join your fellow CSCOs in a think tank facilitated by Stan Aronow, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst, as we discuss best practices to challenging cultural behaviors and talent.

As customers and consumers across industries weigh up cost, speed and service in their order fulfillment decisions, their expectations and experiences are becoming more fragmented and multidirectional. This session describes how the future of fulfillment will require advancements in fulfillment, last mile transportation and network design in order to succeed.

While the digital age is firmly upon us, many organizations still struggle to define a strategic roadmap for cohesive digital development across the global logistics function. In this session you will learn how you can use Gartner's maturity model and strategic roadmaps for digital excellence to define develop and deploy the digital logistics strategy that is right for your organization.

Supply chain leaders recognize the importance of quality culture and many companies created a solid culture of quality foundation. Now, leading companies are turning their attention to sustaining the culture of quality and to expanding quality focus in other parts of the business. Learn about how your peers built and are working to sustain a strong culture of quality in their companies.

There are challenges with commercial leaders in sustaining and improving S&OP across different companies. This presentation will show you how to overcome five of the common challenges in S&OP as quoted by S&OP facilitators across different organizations.

Supply chain organizations have been on a long journey to improve customer fufillment and collaboration. Now they can also leverage the latest technologies to improve both their internal processes and the external customer experience. Simon Bailey will answer your questions about leveraging technology such as Robotic Process Automation and Virtual Customer Assistants.

Industrial high tech companies have complex supply challenges that include long lead times and market imbalances. This session will share how this high tech company optimizes service and revenue against cost targets to bring multiple functions together around a common data model. Analytics transform their processes from operational focus to sensing, identifying and mitigating exceptions.

What makes a supply chain's organization's design "digital"? This question is critical to leaders as they continue on the journey to designing and implementing digital businesses. This session will introduce the key elements of a "digital organization," and what you can do to begin your journey.

PEPPOL (Pan European Public Procurement Online) is a game-changer for electronic trade. Initially adopted to address the EU’s public sector electronic trade mandate, PEPPOL makes trade easier and more cost effective and is quickly winning adopters worldwide. Explore the top five factors to consider when picking the right PEPPOL provider.

Hear about the innovative solutions that are reducing the logistical costs associated with the increasing levels of product returns created by the customer first culture.

From the largest global Demand Driven Planning rollout at Shell, to a speedy 3-month implementation at BT, this session will provide in-depth reviews. Learn how DDP directly connects policies and operations at both Shell and BT, handling high volatility and a wide variety of products, while replacing well known ERP advanced planning solutions.

Global Trade Management automation can have a major effect on a company’s profitability. The benefits of automating Global Trade processes are usually far beyond initial expectations, as is the complexity of cross border trade within your Enterprise. Under the current circumstances of ever changing rules, regulations, tariffs/duties and other costs within your Global Supply Chain, what does Global Trade Automation really mean for your business and how much can you save by leveraging it‘s benefits?

Join Amber Road for this complimentary VIP lunch to discuss with your peers and our in-house experts about best practices in the industry. The primary topics will include cost savings through Trade Agreements Management, end-to-end Supply Chain Visibility as a means to improve business margins and supply chain efficiency and the cost of non-compliance.

How to leverage AI and machine self-learning to overcome today’s forecasting challenges and drive proximity to action, to your customers and to success.

New demands are driving massive shifts in the logistics landscape for companies that make and move things. Shippers must embrace transformation, and that starts with the supply chain. This session will explore intelligent freight planning as a critical piece of a digitized supply chain and demonstrate how Uber Freight can improve business performance, no matter what’s happening in the market.

Learn how Chief Strategy Officer Jonathon Karelse established effective company-wide supply chain collaboration at Canada’s leading vitamin and supplement manufacturer. Jonathan will share the challenges of implementing an S&OP process at a time of aggressive company growth and show how he and his team managed to establish a solid consensus plan as the foundation for success.

Multi-enterprise business networks help trading partners optimize end-to-end supply chain processes. But leaders are going further, leveraging AI and blockchain to extract new insights from data, reducing costs and driving efficiencies. Learn more about these networks and how IBM clients are building smarter supply chains with AI and blockchain.

The critical success factor in digitising the supply chain is not technology. It’s the steps taken to connect people, process and systems together to go from hindsight to foresight and unlock value from your data in weeks, not years.

Learn how with the best practices from the world’s largest organisations.

Avetta will discuss new market research on procurement best practices for sustainability. Evolve from manual tracking to more automated processes for supplier performance management - prequalification, document management, auditing & reporting to support your sustainable goals of workplace safety, ethical labour practices, environmental protection & financial transparency.

By implementing SupplyStack’s real-time TMS, Sony gained E2E supply chain visibility for their PlayStation business. Learn what triggered the digitization and need for visibility within Sony, and how they centralized and automated all communication with internal and external parties. Learn how we turned a complex supply chain with multiple modes and partners into a single, easy to manage platform.

Sergio Bellacicco, Vice President Global Logistics, Automotive Aftermarket will share MANN+HUMMEL’s journey to master the complexity of multi-echelon spare parts logistics. You’ll learn how the company used AI-enhanced demand forecasting and multi-echelon inventory optimization to manage the complexity of slow-moving and seasonal items. The result: inventory levels slashed by 12% in 3 months.

Briggs Healthcare, a medical supplies provider, achieved inventory visibility and compliance with one system of record. Learn how they access real-time inventory availability with a cloud-based solution that boosts productivity and integrates seamlessly into the back-end system. They now use a flexible system to maximize profits and create a sustainable, predictable business model for the future.

As business models continue to evolve with the intro of enhanced modelling, robotic learning, financial connectivity and strategy integration; an opportunity exists to truly drive performance across the enterprise using IBP. IBP will no doubt transform planning and decision making across all horizons, but only when it sits within an organisation structure that is brought about by next gen IBP.

In an increasingly volatile world, L’Oréal is redefining the way supply chain planning and execution underpin its strategy of consumer-centricity, accelerated growth and new business models.
Within L’Oréal’s “BeautyTech” transformation, the session will provide insight into FuturMaster’s role as we respond to the new cosmetics consumer shift and market expectations.

Join us for a conversation with leaders across the supply chain as they discuss ways to leverage data, the network effect, and advanced technologies to power end to end collaborative global supply chain ecosystems. In today’s complex and on-demand environment, it can be difficult to collaborate with precision and speed while delivering exceptional value and service to the end-customer. How do companies build agility into their organizations even as supply chains fundamentally transform?

The MES market originally focused on plant operations and manufacturing optimization. Now MES has become a key to digital business for manufacturers. Supply chain leaders should use this research to help them in selecting the most appropriate vendor and solution.

This session is a review of Gartner's 2019 update of the warehouse management system (WMS) Magic Quadrant. This will also explore some of the findings from the WMS Critical Capabilities.

Global business demands and evolving technologies are driving changes in the market for S&OP technologies. Supply chain planning executives will learn how these trends affect Gartner’s latest vendor evaluations.

The multienterprise solutions market is undergoing a new wave of hype mostly driven by such new options as blockchain-enabled platforms. Supply chain leaders can use this research to identify options and evaluate suitability to build their B2B ecosystem.

Presentation of the 2019 trends and vendors for the Transportation Management Systems market.

This presentation explores cost optimization as opposed to mere cost cutting. Supply chain leaders often risk myopically focusing on cost reduction at the detriment of service standards and customer experience. Cost optimization seeks to balance delivery and customer experience with the right level of cost. In this session, we provide an overview of potential logistics cost optimization initiatives organized into three segments: operate better, reconfigure, and transform, each of which has progressively more substantial benefits but also can be more challenging and/or complex to achieve.

Many companies are struggling to create business value with supply planning process. Learn in this session how to transform the supply planning process from a short-term, operational focus to a midterm, integral business objectives focus.

Manufacturing strategy and operation leaders are facing a highly challenging operating environment. Successful preparing requires envisioning what types of customers and markets will be targeted in the future and how fluid the organization’s change skills are. We present four scenarios for that will enable you to anticipate, prepare and determine their course for change through 2023.

In this digital age, procurement staff need competencies that go beyond execution and enable them to effectively identify and sell opportunities to the business. Leading CPOs have identified the six procurement competencies that drive strategic performance and how to make it easy for their teams to apply them. Those who succeed open up new sources of value.

Over half of supply chain executives say it’s a priority to understand the future supply chain. Yet, 70% of those preparing for a future of digital disruption define a vision that only extends three years. This session’s practical view of future innovation helps to define a vision for those seeking meaningful transformation.