2024-10-14T12:30:00.000+01:00

For those travelling via plane, the closest airport is Frankfurt Airport, which is just over an hour’s drive from the SAP Walldorf Office. SAP has organized the following transfers from the airport to the SAP Walldorf office:

For those travelling via train, the closest train station is Wiesloch Train Station, which is a 5 minute drive from the SAP Walldorf Office.

In addition, for any delegates that are arriving on Sunday, please note that there will a shuttle service leaving on Monday AM to transport you to the SAP Walldorf. This shuttle service will leave the Atlantic Hotel at 11:15AM and then stop at Qube and NH Collection for further pick up. The hotels are near to each other, delegates wishing to use this transport are advised to be ready at 11:15AM.

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Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, Canteen

Hosted by:

Juan Cartier, Chief Revenue Officer, Digital Supply Chain, EMEA | SAP

Hans-Peter Fuelle, Chief Business Officer EMEA, SAP Customer Success | SAP

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Julian Fischer, Partner at McKinsey & Company, Inc will share insights on what it will take for Supply Chains to succeed , the business value opportunities available as a result of technology adoption and the strategic imperatives for Supply Chain Executives and professionals.

Hosted by:

Julian Fischer, Partner | McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

It is impossible to ignore the seismic shifts and pressure on supply chains. Supply chains, once seen as a behind-the-scenes operation, have taken center stage as businesses across the globe grapple with unprecedented disruptions. Yet, amidst these challenges, we have witnessed the resilience and adaptability of supply chain management, propelling us into a new era of innovation. See how we can harness the power of AI and sustainable practices to not only survive, but thrive, in this new landscape as the future of supply chain management is redefined.

Hosted by:

Martin Barkman, Senior Vice President, Product Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance | SAP

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Learn how Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has successfully transformed its Supply Chain E2E planning processes with its SAP IBP implementation journey.

Hosted by:

Elena Cattelan, Customer Service & Supply Chain Business Partner BPT Lead | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Learn about DMK’s IBP journey and how they successfully have utilized SAP IBP to enable full transparency and data-driven decision making across the E2E supply chain. This includes a comprehensive SAP IBP solution for both demand, capacity, and milk balancing. You will also learn about plans for how DMK will unleash further value from their SAP IBP solution together with process improvements.

Hosted by:

Sophie Gennies, Director Supply Chain | DMK Group

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Arpa Industriale's journey towards the human smart factory, leveraging SAP cloud solutions.

Human-centricity, sustainability and resilience. According to the European Union, these are the axes around which the Industry 5.0 paradigm is developing.

Not only has Arpa Industriale already successfully completed a sustainable business transformation, but it has also adopted a business model that places the relationship between technology and the human factor at the center of attention as a fundamental element of the production process.

Thanks to intelligent automation capabilities integrated into the factory's operation, based on SAP's production and supply chain solutions, Arpa Industriale's vision of a reproducible model for operational excellence and sustainability has become reality. Furthermore, using dashboards and predictive analytics integrated into SAP solutions, the company has been able to identify best practices and teach them to the factory's machines, systems and operators.

Hosted by:

Stefano Rossetti, Production Manager | ARPA Industriale

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Hosted by:

Juan Cartier, Chief Revenue Officer, Digital Supply Chain, EMEA | SAP

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

SAP will provide transfers to the Atlantic Hotel, the Qube Hotel and the NH Collection Hotel.

​Set against the deep green forests on the north flank of Königstuhl hill, the red sandstone ruins of Heidelberg Castle tower majestically over the Neckar valley. From its lofty position, the palace’s silhouette dominates the old town centre of Heidelberg.

​Until the Thirty Years’ War, Heidelberg Palace boasted one of the most notable ensembles of buildings in the Holy Roman Empire. In brisk succession, the prince electors commissioned a series of imposing constructions: Gläserner Saalbau, Ottheinrichsbau, Friedrichsbau and Englischer Bau. Each one is a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture. Their magnificent façades create a resplendent frame for the courtyard.

Location: Heidelberg Castle

Hosted by:

Juan Cartier, Chief Revenue Officer, Digital Supply Chain, EMEA | SAP

Location: preZero Arena, Floor 1, Business Club

Discover the remarkable journey of TSG Hoffenheim, a club that rose from the amateur ranks to become a Bundesliga mainstay. This talk will explore how Hoffenheim has pioneered the integration of data, science, and technology into football, revolutionizing player development and decision-making processes across all levels of the club. Learn how Hoffenheim’s holistic, data-driven approach—spanning from youth teams to the senior squad—continues to set benchmarks in the world of sports innovation. 

Hosted by:

Adam Beavan, Coordinator for Science & Innovation | TSG Hoffenheim

Location: preZero Arena, Floor 1, Business Club

​preZero Arena is a multi-purpose stadium in Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. The stadium has a capacity of 30,150 people.

​TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and SAP have been partners for over 15 years. The success of this sponsorship comes from the club’s cutting-edge use of technology from SAP to maximize player performance, improve the fan experience in the stadium, and guarantee a smooth matchday. SAP Interactive Data Space is a unique collaboration room where all of TSG’s sporting and business data comes together and is analyzed using SAP solutions, making the team more productive.

This experience will include a stadium Tour and presentations, providing first hand insights on the innovative SAP solutions and digitization programs that are providing TSG 1899 Hoffenheim with a decisive advantage both on and off the pitch.

Location: preZero Arena

Location: preZero Arena, Floor 1, Business Club

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

The WFP will present how SAP Integrated Business Planning is used to manage the forecasted demand, support a collaborative process with regional planners as well as recommend inventory safety and target stock levels to be considered in replenishment decisions.  

Hosted by:

Claudio Delicato, Head, WFP Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Unit | World Food Programme

Max Merelli, Head, WFP ERP Platforms, TEC Division | World Food Programme

Yphat Meilmann, Budget Officer, CFO Division | World Food Programme

Location: preZero Arena, Floor 1, Business Club

UPM – one of the world’s leading forest industry companies has been on a business transformation journey since the early 2000 to become a sustainable bioindustry frontrunner. As part of this journey UPM has been constantly digitalizing and automating their core processes in order to be able shift their focus on new responsible and innovative businesses and wider ecosystem orchestration, as they have understood, that these are their critical success factors.

Kimmo Sell, Director, Development Projects, will share their learning points and successes in digitalizing UPMs inbound supply chain with SAP Business Network solutions and at the same time ensuring responsibility and compliance targets are being met.

Hosted by:

Kimmo Sell, Director, Development Projects | UPM

Location: preZero Arena, Floor 1, Business Club

SAP has been developing innovative AI capabilities that are fully integrated across our SAP Digital Supply Chain applications, catering to diverse customer technology readiness levels. Discover how advanced technologies are driving innovation, streamlining processes, and building more resilient, agile supply chains - paving the way for an autonomous future.

Hosted by:

Dominik Metzger, VP, Global Head of SAP Digital Supply Chain | SAP

Location: preZero Arena, Floor 1, Business Club

Location: preZero Arena, Floor 1, Business Club

• SAP will provide transfers

Gen AI took the world by storm last year and today 65% of respondents of a McKinsey survey state that they are already using Gen AI in their organizations. Compared to other technologies in the past, gen AI has been adopted at record speed. But the potential of generative AI doesn’t stop here. The technology will evolve and in this session we will cover two things. For those, who are embarking on the generative AI journey, we will discuss key considerations when adopting gen AI. For others, who want to already look into the future of generative AI, we will introduce the next avatar of this technology. We will discover how SAP is already developing proof points of how this evolved Gen AI can revolutionize supply chains and other business processes.

Hosted by:

Anubhuti Shah, VP, Head of AI for Supply Chain & Finance, Product Marketing | SAP

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Ana Carina Delgado, Global COO at MEGALABS, will present the successful transformation of MEGALABS' supply chain through the implementation of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across 15 different countries and involving 5 distinct waves of deployment. Over an 18-month period, this ambitious project revolutionized the company's approach to demand planning and supply chain management, achieving key strategic objectives, including improved demand forecast accuracy, optimized inventory and supply chain processes, enhanced cross-functional collaboration, and the enablement of proactive and reactive planning driven by real-time data. Join us to explore the journey and insights gained from this large-scale implementation.

Hosted by:

Ana Carina Delgado, Global COO | MEGALABS

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Join us to explore Girteka’s digital transformation, a leading asset-based logistics provider in Europe. We'll discuss the challenges and benefits of modernizing operations across multiple countries using SAP technologies.

Our presentation will showcase Girteka's transition from a manual, outdated system to a fully integrated SAP Transportation Management System (SAP TM) together with ArchLynk, including a scaled agile framework, a complex migration model, and enterprise-level integrations.

Hosted by:

Julius Česnakauskas, Head of SAP Solutions | Girteka

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

How CJ Distribution & Dis-Chem took SAP EWM to the next level by automating mundane tasks, monitoring and housekeeping. Of the many benefits, improved product availability at the pick-face was a major one!

Hosted by:

Dawid Oelofse, Supply Chain Executive | CJ Distribution

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Faderco is an Algerian company specialized in the manufacture of cellulose wadding based hygiene products, particularly baby hygiene, feminine hygiene and incontinence protection for adults. Faderco is today a leader in the national and personal care industry in Algeria and Major player in Africa. The company has achieved a sustained growth over the last 30 years. Today, Faderco’s + 2000 employees, 11 brands in 7 areas of strategic activity and 3 subsidiaries enable it to pursue its adventure and provide quality products for all.

The goal was to implement a new efficient warehousing solution in order to replace the current paper based organization, by creating a core model based on SAP Best Practices and optimized business processes. We started to deploy this solution for one site for Finished Goods. Nabila Ouerdane will present benefits from EWM implementation as well as project organization.

Hosted by:

Juan Cartier, Chief Revenue Officer, Digital Supply Chain, EMEA | SAP

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, S3

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 5, Canteen

• SAP will provide transfers

​Brewing beer has a long history in Heidelberg. As Kulturbrauerei Heidelberg started to renovate the old walling of the former Schaaf brewery, this tradition came alive again.

​The result today is a successful mix of a hotel, the old brewhouse and a modern brewery.

​The historical student tavern, “Zum Seppl”, has been part of the “Heidelberger Kulturbrauerei” since October 2011.

Location: Kulturbrauerei, Heidelberg

All delegates will be assigned to a group and will alternate through two of the following four experiences. 

Roundtable - Breaking the Digital Barriers: Building the Supply Chains of the Future

Global supply chain leaders face multiple challenges on digitalization, operating model, talent, End-to-End visibility, and sustainability. Do join us for our roundtable session hosted by McKinsey & SAP where we will exchange thoughts and learn from our global community of practitioners. 

Hosted by:

Andreas J. Wagner, Chief Strategy & Market Development Officer for Global SAP Digital Supply Chain | SAP

Kaushik Vedpathak, Associate Partner | McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 21

SAP Experience Lab Digital Supply Chain

​The Experience Lab DSC Walldorf offers visitors the opportunity to experience end-to-end processes from both the discrete and the process industry at first hand. On an area of more than 900 m2 you will be guided step by step through the possibilities of digital production.

​It offers a physical environment that provides a tangible live/virtual experience. Two primary scenarios are supported: Design-to-Operate for discrete manufacturers and Design-to-Consume for process manufactured goods.

Location: SAP Walldorf, Altrottsr. 61

SAP Experience Centre

​SAP Experience Centers are connected innovation spaces across the globe giving access to SAP’s solution portfolio. Explore at the SAP Experience Center Walldorf interactive showcases, innovative real-life use cases and ready to-use demos first-hand. Get inspired and meet with us to experience SAP’s value in a tangible way.

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 49

SAP Digital Boardroom

​Use the Digital Boardroom to transform your executive meetings. Replace static presentations and stale information with interactive discussions based on real data – allowing you to make fact-based decisions to drive your business.

​With the Digital Boardroom you can:

• Create a responsive, fluid, boardroom presentation in a visual, drag-and-drop manner
• Find answers to your questions by exploring directly on live data to discover relationships and drill into details.
• Plan and simulate the effects of different assumptions and actions visually using value-driver trees.

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 21

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 20, Canteen

Hosted by:

Juan Cartier, Chief Revenue Officer, Digital Supply Chain, EMEA | SAP

Location: SAP Walldorf, Building 20, Canteen

• SAP will provide transfers