SAP Connect Day for Supply Chain

12th March, 2026

Tobacco Dock, London

     

   

Navigating the Universe of Intelligent Supply Chains

From merchant ships to spaceships, on 12th March Tobacco Dock will be transformed into a mission control centre. Join customers, partners, and innovators as we embark on a journey through the supply chain universe. Hear directly from industry leaders on their transformation projects and gain insights from thought leaders and technical experts on the latest innovations shaping the future. Tim Peake will be joining us as our Guest Speaker, join us for his inspiring session that's truly out of this world. Together we'll help you chart the course for the next chapter of your supply chain. 

 

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Please be aware this event is for SAP customers and prospective customers. We are only approving SAP partners that are sponsoring the event.

  

 

Customer Speakers

Customer Speakers

   

 

Agenda

10:00 - 10:30 | Registration

10:30 - 11:00 | Welcome & SAP Executive Keynote

11:00 - 11:30 | Guest Keynote

From Celebrity Guest Speaker Tim Peake

11:30 - 11:50 | Break

11:50 - 12:10 | Supply Chain Management Expert Sessions

Planning for Launch - Reimagining Supply Chain Planning

Prepare for liftoff as we reimagining supply chain planning, transforming your operations from static trajectories into a high-performance flight deck powered by SAP Integrated Business Planning's predictive decisioning solutions. By moving beyond the gravitational pull of siloed, batch processing, we will demonstrate how to institute a modern, AI-augmented, and scenario-driven planning practice. This approach continuously synchronizes demand, inventory, and supply decisions across the enterprise, eliminating latency to unlock massive value and ensure mission success.

Streamlining Logistics for a Smooth Takeoff

Out of this world production - The future of manufacturing

12:15 - 12:45 | Customer Stories

PwC: Fine tuning SAP IBP at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP)

With the help of PwC, CCEP reinforced the foundations of its SAP IBP platform to enhance and optimise performance, plan availability and quality, enabling more confident decision‑making. Come and join CCEP to see how a targeted approach helped them position their supply chain for future growth - from Planning to Performing.

Reimagine Warehousing: PPG's SAP Extended Warehouse Management Transformation with Westernacher

How Howdens uses SAP Digital Manufacturing to drive Effective Operations and Innovation

12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch & Networking

13:45 - 14:05 | Supply Chain Management Expert Sessions

Keeping the plan on course with your AI copilot

Step into the cockpit and discover how SAP Integrated Business Planning serves as your AI-powered navigation system, now supercharged by Joule—SAP’s generative AI copilot—to revolutionize your supply chain planning. This session explores the comprehensive AI engines embedded within the platform, amplified by Joule’s conversational interface which enables natural language interactions with complex planning data.

Aligning business partners across the Supply Chain universe

In the vacuum of space, there is no room for silos, the stars show us a hidden network where we can navigate through the star map to find our way through space. Whether you are launching rockets or collabroating through global suppliers, the complexity of the "Space Economy" demands a level of connectivity & visibility that transcends traditional boundaries.

This session explores how SAP Business Network acts as the digital mission control for the next generation of aerospace. We will dive deep into how a unified network solves the unique challenges of long-lead times, extreme environments, and multi-tier dependencies.

Ensuring Mission Success - Keeping Assets Reliable

Asset reliability is at the heart of any space exploration mission. Explore with us the SAP tools that can help assess asset criticality, and move maintenance from a planned preventive regime to a predictive one, saving costs, reducing downtime, and extending asset life

14:10 - 14:40 | Customer Stories

Better Together - SAP Integrated Business Planning & Ericsson

Driving Operational Excellence: Howdens SAP Transportation Management Transformation

Yorkshire Water and SAP Service and Asset Manager - Pumps, from the well, to the shelf, and back

14:45 - 15:05 | Supply Chain Management Expert Sessions

Mission Control - Orchestrating the Supply Chain

Embark on a journey through the cosmos of modern supply chain management with SAP Supply Chain Orchestration—your mission control for navigating the complexities of a dynamic, interconnected universe. In this session, we’ll explore how SAP’s cutting-edge orchestration capabilities empower businesses to achieve real-time visibility, agility, and resilience across their supply chain networks, much like a starship captain steering through the vast expanse of space.

Mission Critical Service Management

Successful space exploration, from building the International Space Station to planning missions to Mars, is fundamentally a team sport that demands seamless interdisciplinary collaboration between us and our service providers. Learn how we can source the correct external skills, schedule their work and capture the execution of their work.

S/4 HANA Core - The perfect lauch pad to embark on an extra ordinary space journey

Every space travel needs a stable, reliable and intelligent launchpad. S/4 HANA is the mission ready core that powers your journey and ignites every supply chain function that you need to defy boundaries. S/4 HANA brings data, processes and execution together so that every supply chain function fires in the right sequence.

Explore with me the capabilities within S/4 HANA core that unite your supply chain - where the space craft is made in the right sequence, delivered on time and launched with precision.

15:10 - 15:40 | Customer Stories

A Journey Toward End‑to‑End Planning: Implementing S&OP and SAP IBP at DMK Group, Germany's largest dairy group

Hear how DMK Group turned an ambitious planning transformation into reality by embedding SAP IBP at the heart of their S&OP process - strengthening transparency, engagement, and end‑to‑end alignment.

Building Operational Resilience at Spirit Energy

Supply Chain and Digital Manufacturing Transformation at Volvo Group

Volvo Group will share their journey of Driving Supply Chain and Digital Manufacturing Transformation, including:

  • Creating a common Manufacturing Target Map (MTM-NG) with SAP technologies at its core
  • Building an end-to-end, integrated digital backbone across manufacturing, planning, logistics, quality and controlling
  • How MHP is supporting Volvo Group as a strategic partner across this transformation

This session offers a real-world perspective on what transformation looks like in practice.

 

15:40 - 15:55 | Networking Break

15:55 - 16:15 | Supply Chain Management Expert Session

Designing the Perfect Voyage

Exploring Sustainability

SAP’s comprehensive sustainability portfolio forms a broad ecosystem of interconnected solutions, supporting organisations as they navigate the expanding universe of environmental, social, and governance requirements. In this session, we explore how SAP enables sustainability journeys across multiple dimensions, from establishing accurate carbon footprints to understanding sustainability impacts across the supply chain and advancing circular economy strategies. Much like charting a course through space, organisations gain the structure, data, and visibility needed to move from isolated initiatives to a coordinated, enterprise wide approach to sustainability.

Collaborating across the Supply Chain Universe

At warp speed toward innovation, this session explores how collaboration within the Starfleet Supply Chain Universe—powered by SAP Business Network—enables the efficient purchase of complex spacecraft components. Discover how allied buyers & suppliers work as a collective to deliver mission-critical parts for the next frontier of space exploration. Resistance to collaboration is futile.

16:20 - 16:50 | Customer Stories

Shell’s Global Supply Chain Transformation: Driving End-to-End Excellence

Primeline & SAP: Driving Scalable Growth and Supply Chain Excellence

Support from launch to landing

In the weeks leading up to lift off, during the countdown, the journey to the space station. Success plans support you through every step of the mission to the successful landing, to ensure the mission is a success and the outcomes of the mission are achieved.

16:55 - 17:40 | An Intergalactic Voyage powered by SAP

An intergalactic voyage is the supreme orchestration of design, planning, manufacturing, and maintenance under the most extreme conditions imaginable.

Here we will wrap up everything you have seen today in one integrated story and demonstration, showcasing how the Best of Suite can drive out of this world Supply Chain transformation.

17:40 - 17:55 | Closing

17:55 - 19:25 | Networking Drinks

 

 

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Location

   

 

 

Tobacco Dock

Wapping Lane

London

E1W 2SF