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Challenge Your Peers

What are Challenge Your Peers Sessions?  In the Challenge Your Peers session, you have the opportunity to enter into an interactive exchange with your peers in order to generate different ideas on the same question. The topics are requested directly from all participants in advance and selected according to the current challenges of the community.Read more

1 | World Café: How do we make optimal use of data from a digital twin environment?

What challenges could we face in developing a digital twin environment in transportation? What use cases are achievable with a digital twin in transportation?  What are the benefits of a digital twin environment?Read more

Icebreaker – Meet the community, break the ice and get the show on the road!

WHAT IS THE ICEBREAKER SESSION? On the evening before the conference, we start with our Icebreaker Roundtables. The participants come together in an informal and pleasant setting to get to know each other before the conference starts and to get into conversation with each other at moderated round tables. The moderators have brought provocative thesesRead more

Refreshment Break & Networking

Get a coffee, get snacks, make connections and talk with your peers – and have the chance to actively participate in product and service demos on the expo floor.  Read more

Case Study: The digital twin for production monitoring and control using OT live data

Live monitoring of process sequences offers many opportunities for the early detection of faults and the synchronization of production and logistics. However, manual assembly processes such as aircraft final assembly pose major challenges when it comes to capturing live data, as there are initially fewer live data sources available than in automated processes in automotiveRead more

Bits, Bites and Bubbles: The Rethink! Smart SCM Europe Evening Networking Dinner

Do you want to network with your peers? Do you want to digest the day and your key findings? Do you want to sit back & connect with your new acquaintances? Relax after the first conference day and begin with drinks, food and bubbly networking. The simply perfect combination of an inspiring atmosphere and theRead more

Case Study: Supply Chain Management in the Context of the Urban Air Mobility Market – Challenges and Strategies for Rolls-Royce

This presentation provides insight into Rolls-Royce’s supply chain management strategies in the context of its entry into the emerging urban air mobility market. It sheds light on the challenges and opportunities in areas such as cost and value engineering, scaling prototypes to mass production, and the importance of sustainability in the supply chain, particularly throughRead more

Case Study: Green Logistics – How a strong data foundation ​makes frontrunners in ​decarbonization​

The logistics sector remains one of the few industries with rising emissions, facing the urgent challenge of cutting CO2e emissions by 80% between 2015 and 2050 to align with global climate targets. The driving forces behind the pressure to reduce emissions are manifold: regulatory pressure such as the CSRD and the EU taxonomy, rising costsRead more

Case Study: How to successfully implement AI-based solutions in planning and production?

Beyond the 6-step model for the introduction of an AI model (problem description-data selection-model selection-validation-implementation-improvement), we want to discuss together how AI models can usefully complement the demanding tasks of a supply chain planner, a production controller and a production supervisor and how the interaction between AI and humans can be successful. In this session,Read more

Panel Discussion: How can we use smart technologies and innovative approaches to create an agile and sustainable supply chain that adapts to the ever-changing demands of the market and the growing expectations of customers?

In a world characterised by increasing complexity, volatility and uncertainty, the supply chain is facing major challenges. This panel discussion will focus on the latest trends and technologies that have the potential to revolutionise the supply chain. Experts from various industries will discuss best practices, challenges and future perspectives in order to jointly develop solutionsRead more