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Refreshment Break & Networking

Get 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

World Café Sessions | Part I

We start with the first 3 rounds, each round is about 30 minutes long. After each round, participants change the round table, according to the order sequence of coffee cups on their name badge.Read more

Case Study: Transforming semiconductor supply chains – Improving demand forecasting and activity expansion through AI

Inaccurate customer requirements can have a detrimental effect on the entire supply chain. The use of AI offers great potential for more optimized production. What will AI mean for employees in the future? In this session, you will learn more about Smart planning of the supply chain and demand forecasting in the semiconductor industry    InnovativeRead more

4 | Challenge Your Peers Session: Track and Trace – How do we achieve end-to-end visibility in the supply chain?

Is Amazonification with next-day delivery really necessary? Can deliveries be sensibly bundled without jeopardizing salability? How can Track & Trace support performance management in the supply chain? How can risks in the supply chain be limited and better assessed by using risk management software?Read more

3 | Icebreaker Session: What if we actually have too much data? How to make sure to focus on relevant data only?

How to deal with data scattered across different systems of different partners in the digital supply chain?  How to continuously integrate and consolidate data?  What are the best tools and technologies to distill the relevant data for easy interpretation and real-time forecasting and decision-making?Read more

5 | Challenge Your Peers Session: How can you prove the added value of Industry 4.0 in the supply chain?

How to best justify Industry 4.0 measures in companies?  How to raise interest in the topic among sponsors in SMEs?  How to demonstrate implemented measures and their success? How to deal with the scenario in which we cannot prove the desired success?Read more

2 | Icebreaker Session: How to improve predictions for customer demand?

How to calculate sales velocity and lead time in the context of demand forecasting?  How to select the right data sets for more accurate forecast models?  How to continually refine the forecasting results?Read more

Registration & Community Wall

The official registration for the conference: Pick up your name badge, take a Polaroid photo for the Pharma MES Community Wall, use your personalized matchmaking app, make first contacts & plan meetings and get started. Read more

Case Study: Between Sales and Production – How to progress business with supply chain automation?

We have focused a lot on automating processes in the supply chain to give our employees more time and capacity to make meaningful changes in other areas. Automation has also helped us realize that we need to do more: standardize our processes, close the data gaps, and prepare our employees to give up their year-oldRead more

Case study: Lessons learned from the Advanced Planning Tool implementation for sales and advertising planning

This session delves into the dynamic landscape of digital transformation through the lens of SAP S/4 Hana migration, focusing on end-to-end process optimization in the demand-to-supply chain. It explores the intricacies of our Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) framework, presenting our roadmap for comprehensive process stabilization. The presentation further describes our approach for implementing IntegratedRead more