Agenda

• Intro
• Cross-functionality as a necessity
• The cross-functional strategy
• Common pitfalls
• Visual tools / Best Practices
• Key takeaways

• Industrial leaders must rethink traditional production networks beyond pure focus on efficiency
• The CRISP Manufacturing™ Framework: A strategic narrative built on 5 principles – Connectivity, Robustness&Resilience, Intelligence, Sustainability, and People Centricity – to guide the future of factory networks.
• By adopting CRISP, factory networks can navigate through disruptions in supply chains more robustly and meet customer demands.
• CRISP channels the potentials of the digital transformation ensuring technologies such as Digital Twins, GenAI become scalable, and address the factory network needs

• Milliken & Performance Solutions by Milliken Introduction
• Why do many supply chains experience cross-functional missteps when attempting new initiatives?
• The need for cross-functional coordination
• How great supply chains manage cross-functional initiatives
• Deployment of proven cross-functional processes
• Celebrate and learn from successes and failures

• Clarity First: Success starts with defining the clear business metrics, ownership, and how results will be measured.
• Get the Fundamentals Right: Clean data, clear processes, and capable teams matter more than the latest tech buzzword.
• Tech Alone Won’t Win: Organizational alignment, culture, and incentives often derail AI and digital initiatives.
• From Hype to Impact: Prove ROI early, measure tangible results, and scale momentum by turning small wins into lasting business impact.

• Supply chains are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs and improve resilience
• Most supply chain networks haven’t been intentionally designed – they’ve evolved over time, with growing inefficiencies and fragilities
• Traditional approaches to network design are failing modern supply chains – one size fits all, linear approaches will no longer suffice
• SimPath delivers a revolutionary new approach to Network Design, which is already the preferred choice of CHEP and many other leading global organisations
• Discover the most innovative approaches to supply chain network optimisation and how these techniques can unlock hidden value in your network
• This session will present new ways of thinking about network optimisation and demo concrete examples of cost reduction for complex networks

• Redesigning workflows with genAI:
• Agentic AI for autonomous operations and decision making
• End-to-end process optimization
• Human-AI collaboration in supply chain management

• Digitalization or digitization. What does it mean?
• Why homework is essential?
• Practical examples
• Tangible benefits of prep work
• Takeaways

Integrating the financial perspective is often perceived as the most challenging aspect of the transformation by the companies engaged in an IBP journey. Merck Life Science IBP implementation is covering multiple change management dynamics:

• Reconciliate the various purposes of the stakeholders involved, from resource anticipation through sales targeting to financial landing
• Align roles and responsibilities through integrated business planning meetings and provide visibility and transparency across functions
• Implement scenario planning to evaluate the financial impact of different demand and supply chain scenarios
• Bridge unconstrained demand towards the final financial consensus plan, balancing the need for some hedging flexibility with the traditional accountability strict rules

• From freight marketplace to AI-native logistics platform.
• Command AI: unifying ERP, TMS, and WMS for real-time orchestration.
• Athena: autonomous agents planning, assigning, and optimising in real time.
• Case study: Apollo Tyres — 12.5% cost reduction, +24 pts OTIF.
• The future: measurable efficiency, explainable AI, and autonomous execution.

• The effect of not adapting the CS in time to changes in the company’s strategy
• To understand the complexity of having products in different phase of its life cycle
• Re-align the Supply chain to the new scenario
• How technology is supporting the new SC

• At FrieslandCampina we are starting to use an AI-powered S&OP Maturity Assessment tool! The tool does all the heavy lifting; comparing KPI’s, reviewing decks and process documents and creating a very insightful report out. The time-consuming interviews with stakeholders and leadership teams are now transformed into short online assessments!
• What does this deliver to us?
• Much more time for what truly counts: training, workshops and real transformation!

• Continuous Supply Chain Transformation
• Integrated Planning and Outbound Connected
• The journey to improved Customer centricity
• Digitization challenges

• Redefining the supply chain in a changing world
• Optimization vs. Artificial Intelligence
• Decision support with scarcity and price increases
• Effective sourcing mechanisms

• The Black Box of Supply Chain: what is it and why does it still exist?
• What are the principles of changing the Black Box into a Best-in-Class Control Tower
• The Value Creation from PO to Last Leg Delivery
• How this helps to you grow your business

• This presentation explores how freight procurement and logistics are evolving in response to capacity shortages, rising costs, and the growing demand for transparency and sustainability. It highlights the shift from rigid, contract-based logistics toward a more flexible, data-driven, and networked supply chain model.
• Through insights on market trends, digital transformation, and collaboration, it shows how companies can leverage technology and partnerships to optimize transport capacity, reduce inefficiencies, and build long-term resilience.

• Global conflicts and increasing trade barriers are forcing companies to re-assemble their global supply chain network
• Global for local does not work anymore – each geographic territory needs to be served with individual solutions
• Regional assembly sites as well as regional transport and warehouse solutions are required to master global crisis

• Strengthening supplier networks to ensure business continuity and inventory visibility
• Enhancing end-to-end transparency with digital tools and predictive analytics
• Adapting just-in-time systems to respond to geopolitical and logistics disruptions
• Aligning supply chain strategies with sustainability and regulatory compliance goals
• Accelerating decision-making through integrated planning and demand sensing platforms