A rich and inspiring event to activate and transform the supply chain.
2-days of programme.
In a constantly changing economic environment, companies are facing major challenges: resilience, agility, sustainability and responsibility.
To meet these challenges, supply chain departments must embark on digital transformations that are often highly ambitious. Traditional practices of productivity, operational excellence and service quality remain important, but more profound changes are needed.
Hence the use of the term ‘pivot’ - dear to the hearts of start-ups - to describe this radical change of direction underway in the supply chain. We are no longer talking about optimisation, but about reinvention.
Against this backdrop, the Supply Chain Event has also had to reinvent itself in order to adapt to these challenges and to the needs of manufacturers and retailers, resulting in an enriched programme with brand new formats for decoding, getting inspired, understanding, demonstrating, deciding and meeting.
Get ready to discover how the supply chain will transform the future of business.
BIC : from a resilient Supply Chain to an antifragile Supply Chain.
Join Vincent Espie, VP Supply Cain Europe at BIC, for his keynote address.
Tuesday 14 October, 12 noon-12.45pm - Alan Turing Room.
A giant in ballpoint pens, lighters and shavers (€2.2 billion in sales by 2024), France's BIC has been regionalising its supply chain for the past 3 years in a bid to improve its agility and get closer to the needs of its markets. This has resulted in an improvement of more than 10 points in the service rate, while reducing stocks by 7%. It has also resulted in a more resilient organisation, based on the simulation of ‘what if’ scenarios. Looking ahead to 2030, Bic is now working to make its supply chain not only more sustainable but also “antifragile”, a Gartner concept of probabilistic planning.
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2 USEFUL DAYS.
Supply Chain Event is the major annual event where all supply chain influencers come to discover innovative digital solutions and new technological and methodological trends to implement their transformation projects through the conference programme.
A programme put together by Supply Chain Magazine's editorial team.
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Keynotes and Case Studies.
Supply Chain Departments are now at the heart of the transformations taking place within companies large and small.
A series of ‘inspirational’ keynotes will provide an overview of the strategic power of the Supply Chain in serving companies and industries in terms of agility, omnichannel, robustness and ramp-up, and of course transformation in the face of environmental and societal challenges.
Case studies to help you better understand the winning strategies of industry and distribution.
Workshops.
Collaborative workshops to interact with the experts and masterclass formats to deepen your knowledge and skills.
4 themes 2025.
| Visibility & Flow Management
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Financial flows, data flows and management, collaborative transport and delivery management platforms, TMS, upstream and downstream SC management tools, control towers, and more.
| Intralogistic & Robotics
Automatisation, robotisation, WMS implementation and omnichannel transformation projects to improve operational and environmental performance, as well as attractiveness to intralogistics operators.
| Forecasting & Planning
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APS, EPM, digital twins, Demand Driven, procurement management and operational, tactical, or strategic forecasting and planning projects.
| Risk Management, Traceability & Compliance
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Ensuring end-to-end product traceability has become a major supply chain focus for regulatory reasons, but also for reducing and mapping supplier risks. And then there's transparency and compliance questions associated with European directives like CSRD and CS3D.
