AGENDA
Business Network
A Unified, Collaborative, Intelligent Business Network Absorbs Shock for Today's Supply Chains
Presenter:
Baber Farooq - Senior Vice President & Head of Product Strategy SAP Procurement Solution
Today's global economy presents significant challenges to business leaders. Learn how the network effect can help build resilience against global disruptions and maintain operational flexibility, while doing business in a sustainable manner.
Procurement
How Procurement Leaders Can Plan for the Future
Presenter:
Mark Harris, Senior Director Product Strategy
The pandemic changed procurement. Change will be a new constant: is your company setup to handle the unexpected? A chat with procurement leader to uncover how they are handling it within their walls. If there’s one lesson we have all learned recently, it is that visibility and agility are critical. You as procurement leaders are center stage for making that happen.
Procurement across a heterogeneous multi-backend environment
Presenter:
Frank Bade, Business Architect and for SAP Procurement Regional Strategy
Learn how SAP S/4HANA for Central Procurement allows you to efficiently manage procurement processes across multiple SAP and non-SAP systems. Create transparency centrally while allowing local execution, aggregate demand and leverage negotiated contracts across all backends & more.
Key Outcomes:
At the end of the session you will understand: - what is SAP S/4HANA for Central Procurement and which processes does it support - its "role" within the SAP Procurement strategy and vision - how to integrate into your existing landscape AND organizational setup - how to support a transition journey both on an IT as well as business level - selected functional highlights - key "intelligent" capabilities (AI/ML/Analytics).
Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning
Innovate with Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP)
Presenter:
Jay Foster, Director Solution Management
Are you looking for a truly innovative solution to resolving common supply chain issues? Curious about demand-driven material requirements planning (DDMRP) and how it might help your company have a more resilient supply chain? Join this session for an introduction to and open discussion of the principles, philosophy, and methodology of DDMRP, why it came to exist, and what value it brings to supply chain planning and execution.
Attendees will leave with a general understanding of the methodology and how it functions, and they should be able to visualize how this truly innovative approach can bring significant measurable benefits to their company’s supply chain.