Agenda 2024, DAY 2

As automotive OEMs and suppliers speed up launches of new models and technology, including EVs and software-defined vehicles, sourcing and material requirements are increasing across development phases, leading to greater complexity across the supply chain, from logistics to aftermarket. For many manufacturers, vehicle engineering data remains siloed across departments with often unintelligible semantics, and limited visibility across suppliers and logistics providers. But there is huge potential in joining up this information in fully digitalised product and operations management and promoting greater optimisation and co-creativity across the enterprise and supply chain. 

In this keynote, learn how major OEMs like JLR are building this connected collaboration across product and supply chain planning, and helping to ensure that employees, suppliers and systems share master datasets that are updated in real time, including bill of materials, logistics, supplier and quality requirements. Understand the IT systems, data clouds and planning processes that can simplify operations, reduce cost and errors, and encourage greater innovation. And explore the potential to leverage greater data analytics and artificial intelligence in engineering and logistics planning cycles that include full product datasets and input from across the supply chain. 

When it comes to managing the supply chain, automotive manufacturers are striving to improve visibility at all stages, including real-time updates and accurate estimated arrival and delivery times for partners and customers. But what is the value and advantage of real-time information, and who requires what data and ETA, and how often? What is the return on investment, whether in supply chain planning, inbound or vehicle logistics?

In this session, digital and logistics leaders will share how they are turning supply chain data into a competitive advantage, whether in anticipating and responding to potential disruption, or in providing suppliers and customers the most accurate, actionable information. Learn about the true value of secure, transparent and sovereign data exchange and visibility – in operational, monetary and brand terms.

Experts will explore how this value is reflected across operations, whether for inbound and supplier visibility, across the vehicle logistics chain right up to final customer handover, and in building data clouds and lakes to train predictive models and digital twins. Understand more about defining the investment and ROI in the processes, standards, tools and systems that will deliver the data that matters most.

Join us for insights from JC Deville, vice-president from Toyota Motor Europe, who will provide a practical demonstration of leadership focused on vehicle logistics – with concrete examples of digitalisation and what it means for the shopfloor and the production system, highlighting the carmakers ‘Project Velos’ to bring vehicle logistics network planning to a new level, as well as Toyota’s new Mega HubKolin, where teams are using digital tools to support better quality and continuous improvement in areas like accessory installation.

Meanwhile, Juliana Raidt, head of data privacy and information security at Bosch as we delve into the critical role of leadership in preparing for a digital future, and understand how supply chain, IT and data organisations are evolving across manufacturers and suppliers. She will provide examples of integrated dock management and how to build digitalisation that considers employee skills and change management processes.

Developing a collaborative mindset where teams and organisations are empowered to have a single vision and solve problems together is an essential element of any supply chain strategy. Forward thinking organisations are developing collaboration techniques which go hand in hand with their digital strategy, opening up new levels of corporation, trust and transparency.

Collaboration within organisations (among IT, data and supply chain functions, for example) and between organisations (amongst OEMs and suppliers) can bring forth challenges which need to be overcome. Issues concerning unautomated processes, silos, security, increased complexity in global networks and communication and trust all provide barriers; but they also present opportunities to improve the system as a whole.

In this session, experts will discuss the key steps that can be taken to bring about effective collaboration and talk about how trust can be built, visions can be aligned, and automation can be widespread.