Agenda

Discover how to prepare and sustain a digital transformation journey, ensuring management buy-in, which creates an iterative and unique approach. 

Recent studies have shown that most digital transformation project fail. From a lack of clarity on the goals, legacy systems integration, organisational resistance to change, and not recognising the full benefits of digitalisation, leaders have to ensure that a lot of internal barriers have to be overcome to not just survive but thrive in the era of digital transformations. 

Join this session to hear how organisations can prepare, benchmark and deliver their digital strategy. Recognising that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach, and that each organisation will have a unique digital journey, there are nonetheless, some key traits of a successful digital journey which this session will outline.  

Hear from supply chain and IT leaders how they are working more closely together to build the architecture and processes to scale digitalisation.  

Digital transformation in automotive logistics requires cross-functional collaboration and deep integration across team, increasingly across IT, data science and supply chain management. Manufacturers need to create a change management strategy where the whole organisation is involved and digitalisation is not seen as the task of the IT department alone, for example. And as supply chains become more digital, changes will become essential to the skillset, culture, diversity and flexibility of teams and team members. 

This session will explore how this collaboration is changing, how organisations are evolving and understanding the digital platforms and architectures that support automotive logistics digitalisation. Experts will also discuss how to ensure their people are empowered to use digital tools, to become data champions , and to be open to AI and automation opportunities.  

Experts will explain how hyberautomation can enable OEMs and supplier organisation to automate a wide range of complex tasks and transfer real-time decision-making to technology.

Adapting to market fluctuations and changing customer requirements whilst staying responsive and agile requires increased forecast accuracy and improved decision making through better use of AI, big data analytics and efficient usage of internal and external datasets. 

Hear from experts who combine AI, ML, RPA, genAI and use hyperautomation frameworks to transform supply chain management, improving end-to-end visibility, demand forecasting, and inventory inefficiencies.  

Hear how harnessing advanced telematics, real-time tracking and AI powered forecasting can transform vehicle logistics network and operations.

Increasing the digitalisation and automation of finished vehicle logistics can provide greater accuracy in delivery times, better route optimisation and limited damages during transit. However, challenges remain to ensure any solution will provide accurate delivery lead times, real-time transport and actionable supply chain information for all the stakeholders involved: OEMs, LSPs, port and compound operators, dealers and insurers.  

During this session, we will delve into the key pinch points of finished vehicle logistics and how technologies like blockchain can help multiple stakeholders collaborate to track and trace a vehicle, optimise routes and reduce costs. 

Treating data as gold dust, and ensuring it is valued as such, can help OEMs and suppliers discover opportunities to make supply chains smarter.    

As the bedrock of any digital supply chain, ensuring your data is clean, usable and secure becomes a mission-critical activity. As OEMs and suppliers aim to harness their data with increased decentralisation, seamless interoperability and greater control, supply chain leaders must ensure that they manage their data sets effectively, meet their compliance obligations and establish a structured data management system. 

Join this session to hear from data and supply chain leaders who are future-proofing their data, managing their datasets effectively, and ensuring they have control over it, yet fostering trust with partners to share data and promote interoperability by adhering to common data standards.   

Supply chain compliance and regulatory issues – from managing tariffs to forced labour and sustainability goals – are making operations more complex. Understand how digital tools and systems can help automotive stakeholders mitigate vulnerabilities within complex supply networks. 

In today’s market there are a myriad of known and emerging risks which need to be addressed by OEMs and their suppliers, with trade and logistics compliance becoming more complex, from tracing ports origin, managing custom and tariffs, and ensuring compliance with equipment, emissions and labour.  An effective supply chain compliance digital management system can enable better control and understanding of regional and international risks smoother cross-border movement of goods and increased visibility of a fragmented supply network.  

In this session, hear from supply chain compliance experts on how these requirements are driving digitalisation, and using tools like supplier mapping and process automation to manage due diligence and develop a harmonised and integrated approach to compliance with better governance and transparency. 

Hear from technology and supply chain experts on how to build and maintain a protective fence around supply chains, shielding the software and hardware networks.  

As supply chains become ever more digital, vulnerabilities emerge that once did not exist, and control and visibility over data security becomes a critical success factor. Car manufacturers and suppliers need to have a common understanding of the cyber risks, where in the supply chain those risks are most concentrated, and have plans in place to meet online, all the time risks. 

In this session, hear IT and supply chain practitioners give examples on how to create contingency plans which help minimise immediate disruption from cyber attacks and how to plan to meet the ongoing cyber threats.  

Discover how AI-powered supply chains can provide better visibility, break down silos, lower operating costs and build long-term resiliency.

Technology in itself will only get more powerful, more dynamic and more influential. How new and emerging technology, from AI-enabled robots to sentient supply chains, will support the evergreen goals of greater visibility, increased resiliency and improved predictability only time will tell. Yet the digital strategies we put in place now will determine how supply chains will look and act in years to come.  

In this final session hear from leading industry figures as we take a look at how adding a super intelligence layer over supply chains can truly transform how vehicles and manufactured and supply parts are moved around the network.