Event
SAP Innovation Days for Supply Chain
March 12-14, 2024 | Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort, United States
How do you rethink your supply chain, and then build a better one?
Technology is creating an opportunity for every product-centric company. An opportunity to reimagine what’s possible – to use the cloud, pervasive data, and intelligent tech to transform supply chain speed, innovation, and resiliency.
Connect every process: Risk resilient supply chains integrate design, planning, manufacturing, logistics, maintenance, and service. Eliminate data disconnects and process silos, so you can innovate faster, individualize products, and accelerate manufacturing.
Contextualize every decision: Bring accurate, in-the-moment operational data together with business information to truly transform how you leverage real-time data and drive business transformation.
Collaborate with your ecosystem: Get full visibility into every partner’s capabilities, capacity, and performance, so you can plan with precision and confidence together.
Join us at the SAP Innovation Days for Supply Chain at the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa on March 12–14, 2024.
Session 1.
Precision Pathways: Intuitive Surgical’s Journey towards Seamless Transportation Solutions
March 14, 2024
Intuitive Surgical, a world leader in surgical robots for minimally invasive surgeries, embarked on a transformative journey to optimize its enterprise-wide transportation business by procuring SAP Transportation Management (TM) and Business Network Logistics (BN4L) solutions. This strategic move aimed to:
- Streamline and standardize transportation processes across geographies and business units.
- Achieve operational efficiency through automation and data-driven insights.
- Enable seamless integration with other SAP solutions for a unified view of the supply chain.
By leveraging SAP TM and BN4L functionalities, Intuitive Surgical achieved:
- Reduced user interaction through automation of tasks like route optimization, carrier selection, tendering, and track & trace.
- Streamlined communication with carriers by replacing manual processes with automated email and phone communication.
- Significant cost savings by bringing inbound freight transportation planning in-house and optimizing routes.
Speakers.
Saurav
Rawat
Rawat
Saurav has 18 years of experience in SAP across High Tech and Medical device industry. Started his career in Sales and Distribution and working in various SAP modules LE, PP, GTS, RMCA etc now focused on Logistics, Transportation and Warehousing in Intuitive with a keen eye on solving business problems using new age technologies.
Senior Manager IT Applications, Intuitive Surgical
Paul
Sladovnik
Sladovnik
Paul is Practice Director Transportation & Logistics at Westernacher where he helps customers improve and digitalize their supply chain through process improvements and enablement through technology. He has authored several white papers and is a graduate from Iowa State University.
Practice Director Transportation & Logistics, Westernacher Consulting
Kamel
Ghossaini
Ghossaini
Kam leverages his 20+ years of experience and executive education to help companies achieve supply chain resiliency and transformation. He is passionate about delivering value to customers by providing innovative solutions that optimize, integrate, and automate their supply chain processes and systems.
Director of Supply Chain Center of Excellence, SAP
Session 2.
Round-table: Seamless Supply Chain Integration: Optimizing Operations from Procurement to Delivery with Nutrien, Cascades and Westernacher.
March 14, 2024
Join Westernacher for a dynamic roundtable session at SAP Innovation Days with two industry leaders, Nutrien and Cascades. Nutrien, a prominent agricultural enterprise, embarked on a transformative journey by implementing SAP S/4-TM-EWM across its retail and seed businesses. This initiative aimed to unify logistics operations, seamlessly connecting warehousing and transportation activities to streamline cross-docking scenarios. Despite operating in an industry characterized by substantial material fluctuations, Nutrien successfully ensured data accuracy and operational efficiency through this integrated solution.
Meanwhile, Cascades Inc., a packaging producer based in Kingsley Falls, Quebec, implemented SAP Yard Logistics (YL) at its Bear Island site in Ashland, Virginia. This strategic move facilitated the conversion of the facility into a cutting-edge containerboard production site. By integrating SAP YL with existing Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes, Cascades optimizes daily loading and unloading operations, aiming for enhanced operational efficiency. With an annual volume projection of 465,000 tons and up to 150 trailers daily, SAP YL automates critical process steps, minimizes user interactions, and provides real-time visibility into dock status and trailer movements.
Join a dialogue with Cascades and Nutrien around supply chain transformations, challenges, lessons learned, and how SAP supports innovative solutions to problems in the logistics world.
Speakers.
Dave
Parker
Parker
Dave is a results driven and strategy focused professional with over 20 years of in-depth SAP experience across several applications and modules. With a background in the sales and logistics areas of SAP, Dave is currently a SAP Delivery Lead on a S/4 implementation at Nutrien.
Director, SAP Solution Delivery, Nutrien
Garry
Janz
Janz
Garry has worked within SAP solutions for 6 years and in the logistics and agriculture space for over 15. With a background in IT and Business Analytics Garry has utilized that experience to lead a team of business and technical resources focused on the logistics, inventory and warehousing space for the S/4 implementation within the Schedule to Deliver space at Nutrien Ag Solutions.
Manager of Special Projects, Nutrien
Paul
Smith
Smith
Paul is a motivated professional with a passion for improving business efficiencies by leveraging his skills and leadership experience in operations, supply chain, and logistics. Obtaining managerial and project leadership positions, Paul is solving complex logistics issues with data driven solutions.
Senior Project Leader-Operations and Logistics, Cascades
Michael
Augustin
Augustin
Michael is the Global Director Yard Logistics at Westernacher and an expert in the field of site logistics and port operations processes. He has authored numerous blog articles with a focus on digitalizing and innovating yards with SAP Yard Logistics.
Practice Director Yard Logistics, Westernacher Consulting
Paul
Sladovnik
Sladovnik
Paul is Practice Director Transportation & Logistics at Westernacher where he helps customers improve and digitalize their supply chain through process improvements and enablement through technology. He has authored several white papers and is a graduate from Iowa State University.
Practice Director Transportation & Logistics, Westernacher Consulting
