Day 1

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Thursday, 8th June, 09:15 - 09:25

Welcome and Day 1 Opening

 

Hernán Vázquez, Supply Chain Director, Zamora and President CSCMP Spain

Miquel Serracanta, Founder and General Manager, Solutions & Decisions and CSCMP International Board Member

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 09:30 - 10:10

Opening Keynote

The Sustainability Imperative

Tom Raftery, Technology Evangelist, Podcast Host, & Influencer

 

These days Sustainability is fast moving from being a nice-to-have for organisations, to increasingly becoming a business imperative. Why? What’s happening in the space today? What are the trends for the coming years? And what can organisations do to address this need? These are just some of the topics being addressed by Tom Raftery, producer and host of the twice weekly Digital Supply Chain podcast in this keynote address

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 10:15 - 10:40

Theme: Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency

Key Levers to Identify New Sources of Supply Chain Efficiency on a Recurrent Basis

Victor Sales, Manufacturing Director Iberia, Danone

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With high inflation and pressure on margins rising, the quest for supply chain efficiency is now more important than ever. However, isn’t this the case every year? The context may change, but increasing efficiency will always remain crucial. Identifying new ideas year after year can be an exhausting task unless you have a multi-year well-structured plan. Such a plan will have to deal with a number of challenges and contradictions: tackling short-term urgencies without compromising long-term value for consumers, ensuring efficiency is high up on the company’s agenda, leveraging collaboration with customers and suppliers, etc. This talk will go into the levers that are, according to my experience, key to elaborate a forward-looking structured approach that fosters the generation of new sources of efficiency on a recurrent basis.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June,10:15 - 10:40

Theme: Enabling Resilient Supply Chains

Climate Risk in the Supply Chain

Jon Davis, Chief Meteorologist, Everstream Analytics

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Climate risk is often discussed in a broad sense on a global basis. This discussion will focus on climate risk and applying it to specific items within the supply chain sector.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 10:45 - 11:10

Theme: Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency

5 Factors that will Transform your Reverse Supply Chain

Gaurav Saran, Founder and CEO, ReverseLogix

 

Companies know product return costs are high. They even know why they are high. And yet, costs aren’t being addressed effectively. Most companies are trying to manage returns with the wrong tools, such as a warehouse management system, an ERP or a logistics management system. For forward-thinking companies committed to improving the returns process, technology that is purpose-built for returns is revolutionising reverse logistics. 

A returns management system (RMS) offers B2C, B2B and hybrid environments a total, end-to-end management of returns. It’s the final piece of the supply chain puzzle. In this presentation, we’ll guide you through the top considerations when selecting an RMS and where it can have the most immediate and significant impact on your operations.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 10:45 - 11:10

Theme: Enabling Resilient Supply Chains

Main Strategies for Addressing Supply Chain Disruptions in Latin América

Yeri Villamizar, Leader BOSC, Cargill

 

In these times of crisis caused by natural disasters, global health pandemics, inflation, economic downturn, price fluctuations, cyberattacks, supplier threats, and increasing customer expectations, as well as political uncertainty due to US-China tensions and the war between Russia and Ukraine, supply chain management strategies have been highly challenged worldwide. Preparing planning assumptions is becoming increasingly important for supply chain management decisions. Most corporate strategies have been highly challenged in order to overcome these disruptions, with a focus on reducing future risks. Therefore, the industry has started working on their strategic and tactical planning models to be more agile and flexible in order to reduce gaps between supply and demand. In this presentation, I will expose the main strategies used by multinational companies in Latin America to overcome these challenges.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 11:45 - 12:10

Theme: Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency

Planning for Resilient Supply Chains

John Tamayo Valdivia, Senior Supply Chain Planning Manager,  Procter & Gamble

 

This talk will focus on the key enablers required to run supply chains facing constant disruptions and the change in mindset from the time when supply chains were more predictable, this will be a talk pointing into scenario planning, current capabilities needed from planning organisations and the smart use of information to make decisions.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 11:45 - 12:10

Theme: Enabling Resilient Supply Chains

Increasing Supply Chain Resilience with Additive Manufacture

Len Pannett, Advisor, DiManEx and CSCMP UK President

 

With no signs that pressures from disruptions and inflation will abate soon, supply chains must find innovative ways to deal with them. The capabilities of 3D printing have matured significantly over the last few years and new operating models mean that supply chains can today leverage the advantages of digital inventories in a scalable manner, opening opportunities for small and large companies alike. Looking at the benefits and constraints of this approach, this talk will describe how to start on the digital inventory journey.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 12:15 - 12:40

Sponsor Moment: EAE Business School Barcelona

Global Supply Chain Challenges

Mireia Rios, Lecturer in Supply Chain, and Gustavo Ramirez, Lecturer and Director of the Big Data Masters

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How companies are introducing disruptive changes into their business models in order to align their strategies with the Agenda 2030 from a triple perspective:

1. The development and application of technologies

2. People management

3. Their combination with global sustainability. 

In recent years, both private and public organisations have increasingly been investing in measures to achieve this sustainability, allocating growing budgets to digitization and improving their talent management.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 12:15 - 12:40

Sponsor Moment: MPO

Gowtham Balakrishnan, Account Executive

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Why multi-party orchestration is key to achieving end to end supply chain visibility and control:
- Mitigating risk and impact, monitoring and controlling cost and maintaining operational excellence under changing

  conditions have become a multi-tier endeavour

- Actionable visibility into inventory, orders, logistics and transport has to span beyond enterprise facilities

- The challenge of orchestrating across multiple parties, systems and processes to drive a high-performance supply chain

  requires a fast and strategic orchestration across networks

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Thursday, 8th June, 12:45 - 13:10

Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency Roundtable

Moderator:

•  Donna G. Palumbo-Miele, Founder & CEO, Concordia Supply Chain

Panellists:

• Victor Sales, Manufacturing Director Iberia, Danone

• Gaurav Saran, Founder and CEO, ReverseLogix

• John Tamayo Valdivia, Senior Supply Chain Planning Manager, Procter & Gamble

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 12:45 - 13:10

Enabling Resilient Supply Chains Roundtable

Moderator:

• Len Pannett, Advisor, DiManEx and CSCMP UK President

Panellists:

• Bea Dalmau, Supply Chain Director, Uriach CHC

• Jon Davis, Chief Meteorologist, Everstream Analytics

• Yeri Villamizar, Leader BOSC, Cargill

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 14:15 - 14:55

Guest Keynote

Resiliency: Technology, Market Intelligence & Industry Insights

Rob Haddock, Group Director Transportation Strategy, Coca-Cola North America

 

Advancing technologies & market/peer trend knowledge reduced the impact of the pandemic

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 14:55 - 15:20

Sponsor Keynote, Blume Global

Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains

Pervinder Johar, CEO, Blume Global

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As challenges continue to plague operations for companies around the world, there is an increasing need for agility in the global supply chains. Generative AI enabled copilot is working to assist users to quickly respond to disruptions and potential opportunities and also allows customer service organisations to quickly respond to inquiries. This talk will cover how enabled copilot can optimise various aspects of ones operation and areas of the supply chain.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 15:25 - 15:50

Theme: Achieving Net Zero Supply Chains

Which are the levers to boost Sustainability from Supply ChainGE?

Guillermo Oliva, Global Chief Strategy & Transformation & Supply Chain Officer, Original Buff SA

 

Sustainability with a broad understanding can be defined with the triple economic, social, and environmental axis. The current situation of the world is certainly more urgent, should we talk about sustainability or rather about regeneration? From Supply ChainGE, we should think about how we can contribute and how to act and influence towards more sustainable value chains. We have global challenges ahead in our companies, challenges in regulatory requirements, in consumer demands, but our own responsibility and purpose could represent the most significant challenge. The question is, how do we position ourselves to meet this challenge? 

 

 

Thursday, 8th June,15:25 - 15:50

Theme: Enabling Resilient Supply Chains

The Impact of Big Data Analytics Capabilities (BDAC) on Supply Chain Risk Management: Empirical Evidence from European Companies

Run Niu, Associate Professor of Operations Management, School of Business & Technology, Webster University

 

While BDAC is built on the infrastructural, structural, and integration choices related to Big Data Analytics, supply chain risks are disruptions associated with the material flow, information flow, and financial flow of supply chain operations. We propose a conceptual framework that links BDAC and SCRM contingent upon environmental uncertainty and organisational culture. A large-scale survey was utilised to collect data from European companies to test the conceptual model using factor analysis and structural equation modelling approach.

 

Thursday, 8th June, 16:20 - 16:45

Theme: Achieving Net Zero Supply Chains

Designing Supply Chains to encourage Circular Economy and Doughnut Economics

Ram Yeleti, CEO, Red-Shift

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The goal of Circular Economy is to keep materials, products and services in circulation for as long as possible. The Doughnut Economics is a broader economic model that proposes conservation of the Earth's natural resources while attempting to eradicate global poverty. These two revolutionary twenty-first century economic models can help conserve the Earth's resources and lift millions out of poverty, but they require reinvention of the traditional Supply Chains. This talk stands on the shoulders of the giants who made immense contributions in both fields and calls Supply Chain leaders to action.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 16:20 - 16:45

Theme: Implementing Digital Supply Chains

Digital Is Coming to Planning … What Does It Mean for You?

Pier Luigi Cavicchi, Company Founder and CEO, Bestever Supplychain

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• Use New Technologies to Streamline and Make Planning More Efficient.
  Why digital planning?

• What are the stages of maturity for digital planning?

• How to enable digital planning?

• Understanding the critical nature of forecast accuracy driving key financial metrics

• End-to end digital planning: How to build the processes starting with identifying our customers‘ needs

• Striking the right balance between using algorithms, statistics and exception-based planning while still being in control of the forecasting process

• Focusing on inventory and forecast collaboration in order to minimise planning cycles and frozen period

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 16:45 - 17:10

Theme: Achieving Net Zero Supply Chains

Resilience, Sustainability and other Supply Chain Challenges: the Role of Finance

Luca Gelsomino, Director of the Supply Chain Finance Community, Supply Chain Finance Community

 

Luca will look at how supply chain finance impacts sustainability performance and supports different resilience strategies. More in general, he will discuss why the financial dimension (whether it is payment terms, investment in inventories, liquidity, etc) play a critical role in shaping and influencing supply chain decisions and vice versa, and why liaison and integration between supply chain and finance should be on the agenda of the SCM concerned with resilience or sustainability challenges.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 16:45 - 17:10

Theme: Implementing Digital Supply Chains

AI and Emerging technologies for Supply Chain Design & Planning

Rafael Vasquez, Vice President for Supply Chain, Coupa

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This conference session will explore the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies for supply chain design. The session will cover a wide range of topics, including the use of predictive analytics, machine learning, and blockchain technology to optimise supply chain operations. Speakers will share their experiences using these tools to improve supply chain visibility, agility and resilience while reducing costs, and increasing efficiency.  Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how AI and emerging technologies can be used to design and manage supply chains more effectively, and the potential impact of these technologies on the future of supply chain management.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 17:15 - 17:40

Theme: Achieving Net Zero Supply Chains

Driving Decarbonisation in Global Supply Chains

Martin Chilcott, CEO and Founder, Manufacture 2030

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Martin will share his views on how industry should best navigate this strategic priority, offering unique perspective based on his many years of experience, posing key questions that help unearth both challenges and opportunities, and sharing real world insight and examples from the multiple supply chain engagement and decarbonisation programs Manufacture 2030 runs across industries, including Automotive, Grocery Retail and Pharmaceutical.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 17:15 - 17:40

Theme: Implementing Digital Supply Chains

Why Companies Need to Improve Digitalization within Supply Chain Design

Andreas Holmberg, Senior Business Advisor, Supply Chain and Service Manager, Optilion

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The presentation will give you as an attendee an understanding of how to improve the decision making considering the right balance of profitability, service, risk, and sustainability. You will learn how a Digital Twin can enable a continuous design process, network optimization, and support you as Supply Chain leader to use scenario analysis to quickly respond to changing conditions.

 

 

Thursday, 8th June,17:45 - 18:10

Achieving Net Zero Supply Chains Roundtable

Moderator:

• Rob Haddock, Group Director Transportation Strategy, Coca-Cola North America

Panellists:

• Guillermo Oliva, Global Chief Strategy & Transformation & Supply Chain Officer, Original Buff SA

• Ram Yeleti, CEO, Red-Shift

• Luca Gelsomino, Director of the Supply Chain Finance Community, Supply Chain Finance Community 

• Martin Chilcott, CEO and Founder, Manufacture 2030

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 17:45 - 18:10

Implementing Digital Supply Chains Roundtable

Moderator:

Jochum Reuter,  President CSCMP Benelux Roundtable

Panellists:

• Andreas Holmberg, Senior Business Advisor, Supply Chain and Service Manager, Optilion

• Run Niu, Associate Professor of Operations Management, School of Business & Technology, Webster University

• Pier Luigi Cavicchi, Company Founder and CEO, Bestever Supplychain

• Rafael Vasquez, Vice President for Supply Chain, Coupa

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 18:15 - 18:25

Closing Remarks

Tom Nightingale, Chairman CSCMP 

 

 

Thursday, 8th June, 18:30 - 19:00

Networking Drinks

 

 

 

Day 2

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Friday, 9th June, 09:15 - 09:25

Day 2 Opening

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Hernán Vázquez, Supply Chain Director, Zamora and President CSCMP Spain

Miquel Serracanta, Founder and General Manager, Solutions & Decisions and CSCMP International Board Member

 

 

Friday, 9th June, 09:25 - 10:05

Guest Keynote

Resilience in Worldwide and Complex Supply Chains: Experiences and Solutions

Marco Baffoni, VP Global Head of Parts Operations, IVECO Group

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Supply chain bottlenecks — arising from multiple causes like semiconductor shortages, supplier capacity constraints, geopolitical and environmental disruptions — have negatively affected a variety of sectors. The commercial vehicles industry, including the aftersales spare parts business, was impacted by these challenges which call for a timely reaction to guarantee customer service. In this situation, ensuring spare parts availability to customers all over the world calls for optimally balancing the focus on efficiency with the development of capabilities needed to absorb shocks and react faster when disruptions occur.

 

Friday, 9th June, 10:10 - 10:35

Theme: Implementing Digital Supply Chains

Nestlé digital transformation - Raising supply chain performance to new levels

Hendrik Lessle, Head of Supply Chain Operations, Nestlé

 

Nestlé has undertaken an uncommon step of insourcing their freight forwarding activities of managing the flow of inbound commodities. This project led to significant financial and operational benefits, which take us to the next level in our aim of continuous improvement.  Today´s software solutions make it possible, whilst we are already thinking about and discussing new future requirements for the upcoming evolution.

 

Friday, 9th June, 10:10 - 10:35

Theme: Supply Chains in the post Covid World

Sourcing Shift out of China: Supply Chain Considerations

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Daniel Krassenstein, Global Supply Chain Director, Procon Pacific, LLC

After decades of manufacturing in China, many global buyers have been forced to shift production to South and Southeast Asia. There are many changes to consider, including supplier evaluation, price fluctuations, order expediting, quality control and logistics. I will share my learned experiences of shifting production from China to India, as well as respond to a lively Q&A discussion.

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Friday, 9th June, 10:40 - 11:05

Theme: Implementing Digital Supply Chains

Supply Chain Resilience: From Just in Time to Just in Case

Bea Dalmau, Supply Chain Director, Uriach CHC

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Further details to follow

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Friday, 9th June, 10:40 - 11:05

Theme: Supply Chains in the post Covid World

Supply Chain Digitalization and Disasters: Improving Responsiveness and Resilience

Mary Long, Supply Chain Evangelist, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee

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In light of the continued supply chain disruptions experienced globally, the need for digital, always-on supply chains that are adaptive and responsive to ever changing triggers are needed. These same elements are essential to effective disaster relief and response. This session will explore recent research from the UTK Global Supply Chain Institute. We looked at what makes supply chain digitalization more successful: data strategy, internal vs external data sharing, differences in approach across high versus low performers. We will end the session by linking digitalization and efforts to improve disaster relief efforts and preparedness. We will discuss how the relationship between an organisation’s digitalization journey is similar to the improvements communities seek in building more resilient disaster relief efforts that involve public private partnerships.

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Friday, 9th June, 11:35 - 12:00

Sponsor Moment: JLL

Sergi Tomas, Managing Director Pallex; Andrea Romani, Business Development Director Alfil Logistics; Anand Assi, Supply Chain &Logistics Development Director, JLL EMEA Industrial, Carolina Rodriguez Quiros, sr Director Supply Chain & Logistics JLL Spain Industrial

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The integration of savvy and sustainable practices into operating models continues to grow in popularity, particularly as Clients seek to improve ESG credentials by procuring lean and green vendors.  

This panel discussion will debate the role that collaboration can play in delivering supply chain sustainability, covering both the practical implications of implementing “green” schemes all the way to amplifying long-term and the broad commercial

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Friday, 9th June, 11:35 - 12:00

Theme: Growing Supply Chain Talent

Benefits, Challenges and Solutions in Building Global Resiliency in Supply: The Role of STEM Education and Training

Dara Schniederjans, Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island, College of Business-Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Area

 

This talk will discuss specific workforce development skills and needs for organisations that wish to minimise global supply disruptions. Benefits, challenges and solutions will be provided via cases and discussions for actionable implementations.

 

Friday, 9th June, 12:05 - 12:30

Theme: Implementing Digital Supply Chains

How to achieve Real-Time Decision Execution while reducing cost and gaining operational efficiencies

Bart De Muynck, EVP & Chief Industry Officer, Project 44

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To become agile and resilient, companies need to focus on real-time decision execution. With disruptions and changing environments being the norm in this never normal, companies need to move their supply chains to real-time circular execution environments transforming their old-fashioned static and linear Supply chains. Although not easy, the rewards will be reduction of cost through operational efficiencies and improving the utilisation of working capital.

 

 

Friday, 9th June, 12:05 - 12:30

Theme: Growing Supply Chain Talent

Talent or Technology for Transforming Supply Chains: Where to Start?

Miquel Serracanta, Founder and General Manager, Solutions & Decisions and CSCMP International Board Member

 

In current BANI circumstances, companies are investing millions in their technology capabilities to create Control towers that provide maximum visibility over their Global Supply Chains for taking better real-time decisions.  In parallel, they continuously increase their recruitment requirements (both hard & soft skills) to candidates that want to join their organisations.

In this session we will challenge traditional ways of thinking with current talent market insights and provide the audience with some tips & recommendations to better manage technology & talent.

 

 

Friday, 9th June, 12:35 - 13:00

Theme: Achieving Net Zero Supply Chains

Modelling a Biofuel Supply Chain Network Between Urban Centres

Seckin Ozkul PhD, PE, Assistant Professor and Director, University of South Florida

 

Alternative fuels are sustainable energy sources, which reduce negative impacts on our environment and future generations compared to fossil fuels. In this research, we have modelled a bottom-up supply chain network for the Carinata (a mustard seed) in order to produce jet fuel, diesel, and naphtha. A methodology to perform logistics cost optimization to determine optimal routes, optimal transportation modes and minimal carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint was developed to compare results among a multitude of scenarios including supply chain resilience.

 

Friday, 9th June, 12:35 - 13:00

Theme: Growing Supply Chain Talent

TikTok & Toy Trucks: Recruiting the Next (and Next-Next) Generation

Megan Preston Meyer, Author and Founder, Preston Meyer Publishing

 

The three-year-old pushing her toy truck across the carpet and the sixteen-year-old building his following on TikTok are the supply chain leaders of the future… they just don’t know it yet. To keep our talent pools full and our recruitment pipelines flowing, we need to build awareness and spark interest. Join the discussion on how we—as individuals, as companies, and as the industry as a whole—can capture the imagination of the younger generations.

 

 

Friday, 9th June, 13:05 - 13:30

Supply Chains in the post Covid World Roundtable

Moderator:

• Stefan Holmberg, Senior Business Advisor, Supply Chain, Optilon and VP CSCMP Sweden Roundtable

Panellists:

•  Lasse Berg Sorensen, Chief Commercial Officer, Cargoo

• Bart De Muynck, EVP & Chief Industry Officer, Project 44

• Seckin Ozkul, Assistant Professor and Director, University of South Florida

• Daniel Krassenstein, Global Supply Chain Director, Procon Pacific LLC

 

 

Friday, 9th June, 13:05 - 13:30

Growing Supply Chain Talent Roundtable

Moderator:

•  Miquel Serracanta, Founder and General Manager, Solutions & Decisions and CSCMP International Board Member

Panellists:​

• Mary Long, Supply Chain Evangelist, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee

• Megan Preston Meyer, Author and Founder, Preston Meyer Publishing

• Dara Schniederjans, Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island, College of Business-Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Area

 

 

Friday, 9th June, 13:35 - 13:45

Closeout

Mark Baxa, CSCMP President and CEO

We'll go out with a bang: one more networking drink is going to be provided for as a informal closure of a few days of connecting, developping and educating ourselves!