The Most Important Event For Logistics & Supply Chain Professionals In India

Theme: Developing New Models For Supply Chain That Will Help You Get Closer To Your Customers

• S&OP process as an enabler to fulfill customer's needs: An industry perspective
• Product launches: How to create an agile and speedy supply chain strategy that ensures your new products reach your customers on time across all markets
• How can you use IBP as a key enabler for demand driven strategic and tactical end-to-end planning to meet the needs of your customer
• Steps taken to re-align your business (and its supply chains) with customers and suppliers, including the invaluable 3PL external resource
• Techniques for securing agile and responsive supply chain partnerships that consider the customer at every level to avoid lost sales, excess inventory and missed innovation opportunities
• Disruptive technologies which are now having an impact on SCM and how companies are leveraging robotics, drones, 3D printing, ML & AI to power the next wave of innovation
• The importance of customer segmentation: How customer segmentation can help you optimize service delivery, focus on innovation and gain customer buy-in to achieve customer centricity
• Building a customer-centric team: How your team can increase customer satisfaction and loyalty through better customer visibility, increased customer engagement and continuous feedback
• Strategies on creating a balanced, nimble and cost-effective distribution model from manufacturing to user delivery

Theme: Competing In A Changing & Increasingly Competitive Market: Unify Supply Chain Systems For An End-To-End Business Strategy

• How precision in demand planning drives success to achieve greater inventory orchestration
• Achieve digital business goals with a forward-thinking supply chain planning strategy - Renaissance of the logistics control tower
• Applying augmented intelligence (AI), blockchain and predictive analytics to expand end-to-end visibility and improve operational efficiency
• Merging bricks and clicks: Digitalising physical stores, expanding inventory and improving customer experience via the endless aisle
• Advances in warehouse automation - Creating the smart warehouse of the future. How to use robotics and automation in order to optimize your warehouse management
• A convergence of planning and execution: Why retail needs to bring demand planning and S&OP together
• Rethinking leadership development to ensure ready-now supply chain leaders who can build high-performing teams
• The customer; where it all starts: How you can pivot your entire supply chain organization to take a customer-centric approach to achieve long-term benefits through loyalty and retention
• Create a customer-led integrated, unified shopping experience: What does that mean for your supply chain, stores & logistics

Theme: Optimizing Retail Channels For Improved Fulfilment: Enhancing the Omni-Channel Fulfilment Network

• How innovations in omni-channel retailing and e-Commerce logistics go hand-in-hand
• Moving towards cloud factories to monitor supply chains and identify inefficiencies in real-time. Is it a viable option
• How intelligent technologies, operational can improve visibility efficiency and decision making across your entire omnichannel initiative
• More goods are coming back and costs are spiralling. How can you convert the challenge of returns to your advantage
• Developing human capital and building tech capabilities of local retailers to compete in an increasingly borderless market and align to modern consumers' digital consumption
• How crowd-shipping and shared economy deliveries are continuing to disrupt the last mile space
• Evaluating current omnichannel distribution network models: What works, what doesn ́t & how can you distinguish yourself from the crowd
• The return of the store: As a result of digitalization and urbanization, how can we use our stores as the new warehouses and how will operations support this
• How to deliver consistent CX in the new omnichannel world where offline and online purchasing are merging

Theme: Customer Centric Supply Chain: Driven by The Customer, Delivered By Logistics

• Supply chain digitalization: Challenges faced and actions taken to keep up with the rapidly changing business environment
• Exploring the impact of the 'manufacturing revolution' on supply chain and how can you best prepare your strategy
• Empowering the human element to improve team dynamics to deliver a more productive end-to-end supply chain
• Innovation culture: How do large, established companies foster the kind of innovation culture that will allow them to rival disruptive start-ups
• Supply chain capabilities that are now essential to maximizing the life cycle value of the solution portfolio for customers and shareholders
• 3PL vs. 4PL & the rise of the fifth party logistics (5pls). Can a 5PL broaden the scope further to e-business
• Engage and prioritise customers for significant business gains: How to improve your product offering and deliver excellent user experience to clients
• Developing an "On-Demand" supply chain model: How to create a strategy that is capable of delivering new customer expectations
• Design your network for your customers: How you can use a customer centric approach to design your network architecture to respond quicker to market changes and increase customer satisfaction

Theme: Developing New Models For Supply Chain That Will Help You Get Closer To Your Customers

• S&OP process as an enabler to fulfill customer's needs: An industry perspective
• Product launches: How to create an agile and speedy supply chain strategy that ensures your new products reach your customers on time across all markets
• How can you use IBP as a key enabler for demand driven strategic and tactical end-to-end planning to meet the needs of your customer
• Steps taken to re-align your business (and its supply chains) with customers and suppliers, including the invaluable 3PL external resource
• Techniques for securing agile and responsive supply chain partnerships that consider the customer at every level to avoid lost sales, excess inventory and missed innovation opportunities
• The importance of customer segmentation: How customer segmentation can help you optimize service delivery, focus on innovation and gain customer buy-in to achieve customer centricity
• Building a customer-centric team: How your team can increase customer satisfaction and loyalty through better customer visibility, increased customer engagement and continuous feedback
• Strategies on creating a balanced, nimble and cost-effective distribution model from manufacturing to user delivery

Theme: Maximise Efficiency, Minimise Costs! Next-Gen Global Supply Chain Orchestration: Collaborative, Integrated, Transformed

• The key moves you need to make to align your organization, people and capabilities for the challenges ahead
• How to build your own specialist innovation structure and translate innovation investment strategies into ROI for a competitive advantage
• Integrating end-to-end supply chain collaboration across the business: Manufacturing, R&D, commercial and supply chain
• Unlocking new opportunities to do things differently: Optimise systems, implement agile, lean processes and harness cost-effective technologies to maximise supply chain value
• Smart strategies by leveraging analytics & big data to ensure accurate forecasting in demand-driven supply chains
• Product launches: How to create an agile and speedy supply chain strategy that ensures your new products reach your customers on time across all markets
• Steps to take to re-align your business (and its supply chains) with customers and suppliers, including the invaluable 3PL/ 4PL external resource
• The importance of customer segmentation: How it can help you optimize service delivery, focus on innovation and gain customer buy-in to achieve customer centricity
• Rethinking leadership development to ensure ready-now supply chain leaders who can build high-performing teams
• Achieve digital business goals with a forward-thinking supply chain planning strategy - Renaissance of the logistics control tower

Theme: New Fulfillment Strategies Which Leverage A Seamless Customer Experience Without Spiraling Costs & Optimizing Inventory

• What new tools are available which can help to improve inventory planning and reduce stock availability issues in today's demand-driven supply chain
• Merging bricks and clicks: Digitalising physical stores, expanding inventory and improving customer experience via the endless aisle
• Advances in warehouse automation: How to use robotics and automation in order to optimize your warehouse management
• Fulfillment strategies which leverage a seamless customer experience without spiraling costs: FC vs. drop-ship, in-store fulfillment vs. store-to-store fulfillment etc.
• Transparency, control and synchronisation across all manufacturing and supply chain operations, including production, quality, labour, maintenance and material flows
• Agile customer-centric supply planning and optimisation to manage risk & volatility in a global economy
• "Fresher than the FRESH" How this is revolutionizing the food industry through cold chain & what it takes to ensure the same across multiple nodes of value chain
• New, and emerging logistics business models, driven by IOT sensors & computing platforms
• How precision in demand planning drives success to achieve greater inventory orchestration

Theme: Customer Centric Supply Chain: Driven by The Customer, Delivered By Logistics

• Supply chain digitalization: Challenges faced and actions taken to keep up with the rapidly changing business environment
• Exploring the impact of the 'manufacturing revolution' on supply chain and how can you best prepare your strategy
• Empowering the human element to improve team dynamics to deliver a more productive end-to-end supply chain
• Innovation culture: How do large, established companies foster the kind of innovation culture that will allow them to rival disruptive start-ups
• Supply chain capabilities that are now essential to maximizing the life cycle value of the solution portfolio for customers and shareholders
• 3PL vs. 4PL & the rise of the fifth party logistics (5pls). Can a 5PL broaden the scope further to e-business
• Engage and prioritise customers for significant business gains: How to improve your product offering and deliver excellent user experience to clients
• Developing an "On-Demand" supply chain model: How to create a strategy that is capable of delivering new customer expectations
• Design your network for your customers: How you can use a customer centric approach to design your network architecture to respond quicker to market changes and increase customer satisfaction

Theme: Developing New Models For Supply Chain That Will Help You Get Closer To Your Customers

• S&OP process as an enabler to fulfill customer's needs: An industry perspective
• Product launches: How to create an agile and speedy supply chain strategy that ensures your new products reach your customers on time across all markets
• How can you use IBP as a key enabler for demand driven strategic and tactical end-to-end planning to meet the needs of your customer
• Steps taken to re-align your business (and its supply chains) with customers and suppliers, including the invaluable 3PL external resource
• Techniques for securing agile and responsive supply chain partnerships that consider the customer at every level to avoid lost sales, excess inventory and missed innovation opportunities
• The importance of customer segmentation: How customer segmentation can help you optimize service delivery, focus on innovation and gain customer buy-in to achieve customer centricity
• Building a customer-centric team: How your team can increase customer satisfaction and loyalty through better customer visibility, increased customer engagement and continuous feedback
• Strategies on creating a balanced, nimble and cost-effective distribution model from manufacturing to user delivery
• How to build your own specialist innovation structure and translate innovation investment strategies into ROI and a competitive advantage

Theme: Creating A Better Supply Chain - How Supply Chain Design Concepts Are Transforming the Future of Global Health Supply Chains

• Collaboration starts at home: Orchestrating end-to-end processes with supply chain convergence
• Agility: Old approach in modern pharma supply chain
• More confidence, less paper: Digitising your environmental monitoring to speed-up decision making and avoid lost revenue
• How will the supply chain of 2030 look, given the advances in both medicine and technology
• The ramifications of blockchain, AI, drones & other emerging technologies
• How consumer expectations are driving change across the global supply chain and what we can do about it
• Infrastructure update: What effects are infrastructure developments having on the ease of transporting temperature sensitive materials around India and what more is there to be done
• Mastering import/export compliance for your global, multi-layered supply chain
• Designing your supply chain to accommodate your changing product portfolio requirements in tune with times

Theme: End-to-End Pharmaceutical Logistics – Removing the Silos in Optimizing Supply Chain Processes & Transformation

The demands of supply chain are quickly changing and across industries companies are lagging when it comes to supply chain talent. Supply chain leaders must be flexible and agile with an innate ability to adapt to new technologies and an ability to speak multiple functional languages

• Collaboration between your global logistics, quality, packaging, and security teams to create organizational standards
• Keeping your finger on the pulse of the global GDP landscape and what changes are on the horizon
• How to achieve global visibility of inventory for all finished goods. Strategies to achieve exception-based planning for min/max inventory levels
• Activating the digital supply chain to increase visibility, improve efficiency and achieve savings
• Where are the biggest opportunities in terms of re-engineering supply chains and optimising logistics networks
• Examining how to implement a demand driven supply chain plan into the distribution network - moving from S&OP to integrated business planning (IBP)
• Becoming more agile to maintain service levels and meet the needs of a changing customer
• How IoT technology is improving real-time supply chain visibility for increased supply chain performance and efficiency

Theme: The Future Is Now - Creating High Performance & Cost Effective Strategies To Achieve Safety, Efficiency & Cost Minimization In Global Temperature Controlled Supply Chain

• Discovering the next wave of temperature monitoring technologies and next generation cold chain packaging
• Looking ahead at the medicines of the future and their potential impact on the temperature controlled supply chain
• Effective distribution practices for maintaining quality and product integrity of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products to achieve end-to-end visibility
• Implementing an agile reverse logistics solution of temperature sensitive products - Bringing back products in time with quality
• Packaging Innovation: A unique combination of air and water to guarantee temperature - controlled shipments
• Addressing the challenges of ensuring every link in your supply chain is 100% aware of the importance of transporting materials at their specific temperature
• Adapting cold & ambient supply chain As more & more temperature sensitive materials need to become available to providers & patients in increasingly remote areas
• Effective cold chain strategies to ensure temperature compliance at every step of the chain - What steps companies are taking to ensure that their materials are transported, stored and delivered at their requisite temperatures, whatever the external conditions

Theme: Customer Centric Supply Chain: Driven by The Customer, Delivered By Logistics

The demands of supply chain are quickly changing and across industries companies are lagging when it comes to supply chain talent. Supply chain leaders must be flexible and agile with an innate ability to adapt to new technologies and an ability to speak multiple functional languages

• Supply chain digitalization: Challenges faced and actions taken to keep up with the rapidly changing business environment
• Exploring the impact of the 'manufacturing revolution' on supply chain and how can you best prepare your strategy
• Empowering the human element to improve team dynamics to deliver a more productive end-to-end supply chain
• Innovation culture: How do large, established companies foster the kind of innovation culture that will allow them to rival disruptive start-ups
• Supply chain capabilities that are now essential to maximizing the life cycle value of the solution portfolio for customers and shareholders
• 3PL vs. 4PL & the rise of the fifth party logistics (5pls). Can a 5PL broaden the scope further to e-business
• Engage and prioritise customers for significant business gains: How to improve your product offering and deliver excellent user experience to clients
• Developing an "On-Demand" supply chain model: How to create a strategy that is capable of delivering new customer expectations
• Design your network for your customers: How you can use a customer centric approach to design your network architecture to respond quicker to market changes and increase customer satisfaction