Supply Chain Planning Summit
14 – 15 October 2024 | London, U.K.
Generating Value Together: Beyond Accuracy, Toward Intelligence
Today’s supply chain planning landscape demands more than just forecast accuracy. It requires intelligent decisions to balance margin, cash and growth to deliver true value. Supply chain planning leaders are responsible for accelerating transformation enabled by technology and the right culture to provide scenarios that help organizations orchestrate these impactful decisions.
At World Events Supply Chain Planning Summit 2024, join supply chain planning leaders on the journey to move beyond accuracy and build a future powered by collective value creation.
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Supply Chain Planning Summit 2024 delivers conference must-have insights, strategies and frameworks for supply chain planning leaders to address their strategic needs within their organizations.
Measure maturity and advance your planning process:
- Build supply chain planning capacity and grow in maturity.
- Deliver business benefits of improved profit, revenue, cash flow and customer service.
- Advance from reporters of unit volume predictions to facilitators of intentional demand shaping.
- Become more resilient and agile to demand changes and supply.
Design, define and align your S&OP process:
- Bridge the gap between execution, planning and strategy.
- Identify risks and opportunities that might impact the supply plan.
- Link the S&OP and the financial planning process to drive the right behaviors.
- Integrate supply chain planning across the end-to-end supply chain.
- Reduce costly reactive mod of operations in the short-term horizon.
Develop and orchestrate a demand-driven value network through your business in order to optimize costs and forecast accurately:
- Build a demand plan that optimizes the balance between market opportunity and supply network capability.
- Create more accurate demand forecasts for a product or service.
- Increase your efficiency in producing and delivering products to the customer’s satisfaction.
- Develop the business case for demand-planning process improvement to implement consensus demand planning
Explore the latest technologies that can help you effectively assess capability availability and manage an ever-growing network of indirect suppliers:
- Develop a high-level material planning process framework to build the right foundation for improving the material planning process.
- Discover strategies to include material planning as a part of both the execution and orchestration of the supply chain planning process.
- Build strategies to prioritize your suppliers’ base built on materials risk management criteria
- Evaluate the strategic fit and the willingness of your key suppliers to collaborate.
Network with experts and peers
At Supply Chain Planning Summit, attendees have the opportunity to connect with World Events experts and industry-leading CSCOs and supply chain executives. Meet one-on-one with World Events experts for tailored advice to help you achieve your most critical priorities.
Build new relationships, broaden your perspectives and uncover ways to solve problems alongside other supply chain leaders. When you engage with like-minded peers, you’ll find opportunities to share your ideas and experiences.
Highlights
- Roundtable sessions.* Join your supply chain executive peers from leading organizations and various industries to discuss relevant topics inspired by the latest research in these small-group sessions, moderated by a World Events expert.
- End-user case studies. Detailed and documented case studies, by World Events invitation, reveal lessons from your peers during their own organization’s implementations.
- Peer conversations. Join peer-to-peer discussions organically throughout the conference. With over 2000 attendees of CSCO and supply chain leaders discover how others are tackling the challenges you face every day.
*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end-users only; space is limited.
Prioritize what to accelerate, unlock resources for digital investments, make meaningful cultural changes and so much more. No matter where you are on your digital business acceleration journey, we’re here to help you get to your destination faster — with confidence.
Lean back and listen
Expect the best speakers, brightest minds and the latest big ideas. These sessions provide the inspiration and actionable insight to transform your most critical priorities into business results.
Highlights
- Guest speakers. Hear first-hand experiences from guest keynote speakers and guest speakers.
- Solution Provider sessions. When you’re looking to address a specific issue, these strategic roadmap presentations and user-case studies provide real-world advice.
Lean in and engage
Facilitated by World Events experts, these sessions challenge you to solve problems together, exchange viewpoints and get to the core of the business imperatives that drive you and your peers.
Highlights
- Workshops.* Small-scale and interactive: Collaborate with peers by taking the most important topics and learning how to apply them to your business.
*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only.
Our unbiased World Events experts help you advance your most critical priorities through industry-leading insights, guidance and tools. Tap their unique expertise to make faster, smarter decisions.
World Events one-on-one meetings.* Meet one-on-one with World Events experts for tailored advice to help you achieve your most critical priorities. These popular meetings offer you the undivided attention of a World Events expert who will listen and guide you on the matters most critical to your success.
Ask the Expert sessions.* Topic-driven sessions provide a more intimate discussion forum, featuring one World Events expert and end-user peers posing questions.
*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only; space is limited.