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Unlock Innovation and Optimize Efficiency in Operations

Join the SAP Connect Day for Supply Chain on April 21, 2026 in 'De Hoorn'  in Leuven. This event for supply chain experts and pioneering business leaders is your gateway to revolutionary advancements in cloud transformation.

Discover how SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) solutions leverage AI to transform companies with optimized processes, strategic growth, and enhanced operational efficiency.

Through inspiring keynotes, customer success stories, solution demos, and networking opportunities, discover how SAP can help your business:

  • Unify Operations: Integrate data, operational processes, and supply chain functions across your business and its ecosystem with SAP Business Suite, breaking down the barriers to becoming a sustainable, fast-moving, future-ready company
  • Connect Processes: Enable cross-functional intelligence with supply network-enriched information for improved performance, faster innovation, and operationalized sustainability
  • Acquire action-ready insights: Empower users with context-rich, actionable insights through centralized supply chain data governance and connected processes across the value chain
  • Future-ready your business: Align previously disconnected business decisions into contextualized and inherently network-aware decisions supported by intelligent AI agents

Interested? Secure your spot, register now!

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Agenda

Speaker: Veerle Van Puyenbroeck, SAP 

Customer trust and loyalty are earned, not given – and it all starts with the supply chain.  From design and sourcing to delivery and service, every step shapes how customers perceive quality, reliability, and value. Discover how supply chain excellence can transform operations into exceptional customer experiences. Learn practical strategies to ensure every product and interaction consistently delights your customers.

 

Speaker: Wouter van Heijst, SAP

Discover intelligent applications toolsets and benefits for supply chain management (SCM) in the SAP Business Data Cloud solution. You can find out about the strategy behind intelligent applications and explore use cases across SCM. Discuss data products and learn how the various components of the SCM ecosystem work together to connect your data.

 

Speaker: Stijn Debever, SAP

The accelerating pace of change seems to fuel the belief that we’re living in an age of unprecedented volatility, where emerging technologies have to be restrained before they spiral out of control. But uncertainty isn’t unique to our time. It’s a feature of life, not a bug. And it’s also where the greatest possibilities emerge. It is the fuel for the Never Normal, the ultimate leverage instrument for re-invention.

Today, humanity faces a complex set of global challenges, from technological and geopolitical shocks to biological, social, and ecological disruptions. But fear, hesitation, and avoidance won’t help us meet them. Slowing down is not the answer. We need to move faster, think bigger, and harness the full potential of technology to build a future worth longing for. We need active hope. And bold, visionary leaders who understand how to reframe adversity into opportunities. 

This is a keynote for those who see cracks in the system not as warnings, but as windows.  It is for those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world. Because they are the ones who will!

Speaker: Peter Hinssen

Beyond Automation: Real AI Impact in Warehouse & Transportation! 

AI in logistics is no longer a vision for the future — it’s happening now. But what does that really mean for your warehouse and transportation processes? In this session, we show how AI creates real value within SAP Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Transportation Management through practical use cases.

Discover intelligent slotting, resource optimization, predictive planning, automated deviation detection, and real-time decision support. We will share concrete insights, lessons learned, and what’s already possible today in SAP.

Curious how AI can make your logistics operations smarter, faster, and more efficient? Don’t miss this session.

 

Speakers: Bart Smetsers & Ralph Bazelmans, SAP

Hoptimized Planning: AI for the Brewing Supply Chain

Join me to optimize your supply chain planning from grain to glass with SAP IBP and AI. Master data is clarified like a bright lager, keeping materials, suppliers, and locations clean and consistent. Forecast explanations show what makes demand fizz, from seasonality to promotions and events. Intelligent alerts bubble up the exceptions that matter. Plus many more exciting AI functionalities will be poured during the session!

Speaker: Fabienne van der Wegen, SAP

Driving innovation and operational excellence with SAP Digital Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

SAP Digital Manufacturing is a manufacturing execution system (MES) that supports sustainable, risk-resilient manufacturing operations through a fully connected Industry 4.0 approach.

Understand the SAP strategic direction for manufacturing operations and how the integration of plant and equipment with the enterprise results in a step change in agility, resilience and performance for manufacturing operations in discrete and process industries.

 

Speaker: Paul Lasance, SAP

Smarter Asset & Field Service with SAP Business AI

Keeping your own and customer assets running and technicians productive is about turning signals into the right actions. In this session, we explore how SAP Business AI supports asset maintenance and field service by helping teams identify issues earlier and simplify planning and execution. You’ll see practical examples, from sensor‑driven insights to smarter dispatching, scheduling, and routing in the field.

 

Speaker: Jason Enti, SAP

SCR-Sibelco | Freight automation roadmap with SAP TM and LBN

Sibelco is taking significant strides toward revolutionizing its transportation planning and execution through automation. By integrating Advanced TM with the global S4HANA greenfield implementation since 2019 and recently incorporating the Logistics Business Network, Sibelco is unlocking new levels of carrier collaboration and operational efficiency. This session will showcase how aligning their digital strategy with overarching company goals is generating tangible value.

 

Speaker: Frank De Canck, Sibelco

Partner: Westernacher

CSM Ingredients | From Excel to Integrated Planning with SAP IBP

From planning in Excel with disconnected MRPs to full integrated E2E planning solution with SAP IBP Order Based Planning integrated with S/4. Hear how one global end-to-end planning platform have been implemented to support S&OP and S&OE decisions. CSM Ingredients is now enabled to take faster decisions and have better alignment between stakeholders to improve performance. 

 

Speaker: Vladimir Eisner, CSM Ingredients

Partner: Implement Consulting Group

Speaker: TBC

Vitens | Why System Implementations Fail - And How to Prevent It

System implementations rarely fail because of technology. They fail because processes, requirements, and organisational maturity are not in place. Our implementation of SSAM and FSM at Vitens illustrates this clearly: unclear processes, vague requirements, or a lack of ownership will undermine any implementation, even when the technology itself is strong. But when these foundations are solid, delivery accelerates, rework decreases, and value is realised from day one. In this session, we will share key do’s and don’ts, supported by real business cases.

 

Speaker: Ron Serpenti, Vitens

Partner: Ideo

Indaver | Indaver’s journey to SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management: Building smarter, connected logistics

Indaver shares its journey to SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management as a key driver of logistics transformation. Discover how expanded planning intelligence, automation, and end‑to‑end transport execution are creating greater control across complex operations. By building a scalable S/4HANA TM foundation, Indaver is enabling real‑time visibility, RFID‑enabled track & trace, and the next step in supply chain optimization.


Speaker:
 Maxim Verschueren, Indaver

Partner: Flexso

Daikin | Daikin’s road to integrated supply chain planning

Step inside Daikin Europe’s journey from SAP APO to SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) to enable end‑to‑end, integrated supply chain planning across a complex EMEA network. In this session, you’ll discover the strategic and operational drivers behind the change, the phased implementation approach, and how IBP supports greater agility, scalability, and cross‑functional collaboration. The journey highlights key learnings, governance and methodology choices, and demonstrates how Daikin gets prepared for future growth and APO decommissioning.

 

Speaker: Kristof De Backer

Partner: Delaware

Ardo | Customer implementation story from Ardo 

 

Speaker: Giovanni Molinaro,  Ardo

Partner: Deloitte

SWDE | Efficient Technicians Planning and service performance execution with SAP Field Service Management

We will explain the full program that has been achieved for the different departments of SWDE. With the FSM Solution we cover, Customer related interventions, Network and Production maintenance services.  More than 500 technicians are planned and use the mobile application.

 

Speaker: Henri Pecheur, SWDE

Partner: SQLI

*Note: The Agenda and Speakers will be continuously updated.

Speakers


Location

maps

Address:
De Hoorn
Sluisstraat 79
3000 Leuven, Belgium

Parking:
You can park at Parking Vaartkom.  We will provide exit tickets when you leave the event.

Please note that the SAP Connect Day for Supply Chain BeLux is exclusively for customers and prospects. This event will take place on-site and cannot be attended virtually.

SAP Connect Day for Supply Chain is sponsored by:

Silver

delaware
deloitte
ENG
Flexso
Ideo
Implement
sqli
westernacher

Bronze

Archlynk
expertum