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AI is changing the game in supply chain and logistics management —with agentic AI moving beyond predictive insights to autonomous action. But without a rigorous data protocol, your AI efforts are sure to flounder, never delivering the promised ROI.
In this webinar, we explore the essential steps supply chain leaders must take to establish a high-yielding data foundation, before delving into the real-world agentic AI use cases that are automizing time-consuming processes across the world's most advanced supply chains.
• Combine data sets from external sources with data from across your own logistics network to create a detailed, 3D view of your supply chain, registering countless factors that could lead to disruptions
• Unleash AI to order this vast data at speed, identifying hidden risks before they've developed, suggesting next steps, and automatically communicating with multiple supply chain stakeholders to execute contingency plans
• Establish an innovation feedback loop by instructing your AI to collect and refine the very data that continues to train it - expanding your digital field of view while simultaneously developing your AI's capabilities and experience
Danny Phillips, Vice President of Solutions Engineering, Project44
Sohard Aggarwal, Global Head - Digital Manufacturing Strategy and Transformation, Reckitt
Rekha Lakshmanan, Global Head of Data Office, Global Operations, AstraZeneca
Moderator: Douglas Kent, EVP, Corporate and Strategic Alliances, ASCM
In today's dynamic world, supply chain risk is a constant challenge that businesses must navigate. From global disruptions like COVID-19 and geopolitical instability to inflation, logistics bottlenecks, or a looming trade war, the nature of risk is continuously evolving. These risks severely disrupt operations, from reducing forecast accuracy, increasing lead times, driving higher costs, unbalancing inventory levels, and reducing customer satisfaction. In this one-hour webinar, you’ll gain:
• Proactive Risk Management Strategies: Discover how cutting-edge tools such as AI and Machine Learning can swiftly address supply chain disruptions, helping your business stay ahead of potential challenges.
• Enhanced Forecasting and Planning: Learn how predictive forecasting and scenario planning can improve forecast accuracy and optimize inventory levels, ensuring your supply chain remains resilient.
• Optimized Operations and Logistics: Understand the importance of inventory optimization and automated decision-making in logistics to reduce costs, improve lead times, and boost customer satisfaction.
Harmen Denekamp, Director Demand Planning, ECCO
Carlos Madruga, Global Capability Director - Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) and Demand Planning, Mars
Laurent Bédu, Solutions Principal - Business Transformation Advisory, Pigment
Moderator: Grant Swanepoel, Global Channels and Alliances EMEA, Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM)
Protecting Human Rights in Supply Chain - How Visibility Boosts Resilience and Ensures Accountability
As pressure mounts from both regulators and consumers, discover how end-to-end visibility can safeguard operational resilience, protect human rights of workers and enhance corporate reputation:
• Beyond Buzzwords: ensure reliable data is provided by primary and secondary suppliers to proactively enact meaningful change in your supply chain, minimizing disruption and maximizing positive impact.
• Equally Accountable: Establish a clear line of communication across internal and external stakeholders and ensure everyone is on the same page about standards to be obeyed and risks to be avoided.
• Righteously trustworthy: Protect your operational capacity and your reputation by guaranteeing every step in your footprint is traceable and compliant so that both consumers and regulators trust your brand.
Kate Stritzinger, Director of Impact, Fairtrade America
Catherine Tyson, Program Manager, Responsible Sourcing & Supply Chain ESG Regulatory Compliance, INTEL
Hugo Hays, Global Director Responsible Supply Chain, Fyffes
Lucy Healy, Sustainability Manager, Supply Chain Ethics, Balfour Beatty
Moderator, Deborah Dull, Founder, Circular Supply Chain Network
Trump’s tariffs have caused deep uncertainty in global markets. The 90-day pause on levies is critical for your business: taking informed, bold decisions now will ensure you mitigate risks, increase resilience and remain cost-efficient throughout uncertain times, helping you to future-proof your operations.
Join the comprehensive one-hour webinar hosted by Reuters Events, where a distinguished panel of experts will provide you with the insights and tools to navigate change:
• Understand Tariff Impacts: Discover how tariffs impact industries and learn actionable steps to reduce risk and unnecessary costs for your organization.
• Supplier and Facility Diversification: Gain insights on diversifying your supplier base and manufacturing locations to stay competitive, while keeping costs manageable for your procurement team.
• Harness Emerging Technologies: Explore how technologies like AI can enhance your decision-making processes, helping you adapt swiftly to disruptions.
Sophie Lily Weinstein, Advisor to the General Council of the World Trade Organization
Manuele Burdese, Vice President: Global Procurement, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Jason Schenker, President / Chairman, Prestige Economics / The Futurist Institute
Moderator: Ed Brzytwa, Vice President: International Trade, Consumer Technology Association
As the North American market faces uncertainties driven by geopolitical shifts and climate change, it is vital to focus on building resilient supply chains. This webinar will delve into identifying and managing strategic risks while offering tactics to enhance resilience and adaptability through efficient sustainability and ESG goals that can future-proof your procurement processes.
• Explore the current geopolitical shifts and climate impacts affecting the North American market and discuss the implications of these uncertainties on procurement strategies.
• Identify key risks and challenges in the strategic supply chain landscape and learn how to effectively manage these risks to enhance resilience and adaptability.
• Discover practical solutions and strategies to address emerging risks and integrate sustainability and ESG considerations into risk management to future-proof procurement processes.
Silvia Schmid, Strategic Account Manager, Ecovadis
Mindi DeLeary, Vice President, Responsible Sourcing, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Fabiano Colicchio Lopes, Vice President Cost Management & Indirect Procurement, Cardinal Health
Moderator: Deborah Dull, Founder, Circular Supply Chain Network
In an era of heightened volatility, supply chain leaders know they need to optimise and utilise all their assets efficiently, even as geopolitics roils the established flows of global trade, raises inflationary pressures, and generates unstable demand patterns.
Doing this will be no easy challenge, requiring automation, well integrated planning functions, a disciplined approach to data, and diversified, but still sustainable, operations.
Leaner, Smarter, Faster and More Connected: Supply Chains Elolve to Meet Rising Volatility and Cost Pressures
Global supply chains are at a pivotal crossroads. Trade policies are shifting, geopolitical tensions are flaring, and customers expect more visibility, speed and control than ever before. Responding effectively to this cocktail of disruptions requires new strategies, new investments and new actions.
To help inform your decision making, Reuters Events is pleased to release this new whitepaper, Leaner, Smarter, Faster and More Connected: Supply Chains Evolve to Meet Rising Volatility and Cost Pressures, produced in partnership with CargoWise. Over 450 logistics and supply chain professionals shared their insights, to give you this critical, quantitative information to help direct your strategy.
