Autonomous Supply Chain. End-to-end orchestration.
Join SAP Connect Day for Supply Chain Netherlands on June 11, 2026 at De Noordkade in Veghel. Discover how SAP SCM solutions use AI to drive smarter operations, faster innovation, and sustainable growth.
Through keynotes, customer stories, demos, and networking, learn how to:
- Unify operations across your business and ecosystem
- Connect processes with data-driven insights
- Turn supply chain data into actionable decisions
- Future-proof your business with AI-powered intelligence
Interested? Secure your spot and register now.
Aftermovie SAP Innovation Day for Supply Chain in the Netherlands 2025
Presentations SAP Connect Day for Supply Chain
Mike Wade: Autonomous Supply Chain. End-to-end orchestration.
Keyniote McKinsey | Winning in a Volotile World: Rewire Planning to Translate Technology into Tangible Impact
External Keynote: AI is not a Hype by Wietse Hage
Asset & Field Service Management:
SAP Expert Session - Jason Enti
Croonwolter&dros - McCoy & Partners
Customer Speakers
- Customers 1
- Customers 2
Tracks
Asset & Field Service Management
SAP Enterprise asset management (EAM) empowers organisations to manage physical assets throughout their lifecycle. From installation and monitoring to maintenance and eventual disposal, SAP EAM provides the tools needed to reduce risks, optimise performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Manufacturing
Drive productivity with manufacturing software solutions from SAP. To meet demand in a challenging market, you need automated, flexible manufacturing processes that support risk-resilient and sustainable operations. We can help you deliver.
Logistics
Manage goods efficiently across warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution with our supply chain logistics management software. With cloud logistics management solutions from SAP, you can get real-time insights into your supply chain, identify bottlenecks, and mitigate risks as they arise.
Planning
Strategically plan for a sustainable and risk-resilient future with the SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) solution. Enhance responsiveness and maintain a competitive edge with features such as embedded artificial intelligence, advanced supply chain analytics, and comprehensive what-if simulations. Leveraging the power of SAP HANA, this cloud-based solution seamlessly integrates sales and operations planning (S&OP), demand management, inventory optimization, and supply management into a centralized application, ensuring holistic and efficient business planning.
Agenda
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: Mike Wade, SAP
In a world where supply chain disruption is the new norm than an exception, leaders face a paradox: volatility is rising just as artificial intelligence offers unprecedented opportunities for autonomous planning.
This session, led by McKinsey & Company experts, explores how to navigate this challenge. Understand how you can break pilot purgatory and what is the recipe to unlock significant value by leveraging APS and AI.
Speaker: Kaushik Vedpathak and Marilu Destino, McKinsey
AI is not a hype
Wietse Hage has an in-depth understanding of AI and a rare ability to make complex technology easy to grasp. In the podcast and newsletter AI Report, which he co-creates with Alexander Klöpping, he breaks down the latest AI developments into clear and accessible insights.
During his keynote, Wietse takes you through how AI really works and the impact it is already having on organizations and society. He shows why AI is not a hype, but a fundamental shift we cannot ignore.
The keynote can be both inspiring and confronting—offering a sharp and honest perspective on a technological revolution that is impossible to stop.
Speaker: Wietse Hage, mave.io
- Logistics
- Planning
- Manufacturing
- Asset & Field Service Management
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
Optimized Planning: AI for a Smarter Supply Chain
Join this session to discover how AI and SAP IBP can transform your supply chain planning. Learn how clean, reliable master data ensures consistency across materials, suppliers, and locations. Gain deeper insight into demand drivers such as seasonality, promotions, and events, and see how intelligent alerts highlight the exceptions that truly require attention.
We will also showcase additional AI capabilities that are already delivering value today.
Speaker: Wouter van Heijst, 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 & Michiel Haegens, 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
- Logistics
- Planning
- Manufacturing
- Asset & Field Service Management
FrieslandCampina | Smarter Yard Operations: From Visibility to Value
Discover how FrieslandCampina is driving value through the digitalization and automation of yard operations. Learn how enhanced visibility and security create a more controlled, efficient yard environment, and explore the impact of process and carrier integration, smarter planning, and optimized dock allocation. We’ll also address the key question: does implementing SAP Yard Logistics make sense for your business?
Speaker: Rene van der Wurf, Business IT Analyst Warehousing, FrieslandCampina
Partner: Inside SCM
IFF | Beyond the Model: What Data Scientists Need to Succeed in Planning Roles
This session explores what data scientists truly need to succeed inside a modern demand‑planning organisation—going beyond algorithms and into the realities of business context, collaboration, and operational discipline.
We will examine how embedding business understanding, aligning with planners, and translating models into decisions are just as critical as technical skill.
Using real examples from IFF’s IBP journey, we highlight how to help data scientists succeed and why many fail without the right environment.
Speaker: Jan-Theo Bergsma, IFF
Partner: Implement Consulting Group
Gerresheimer | How Gerresheimer is moving to the Cloud in Manufacturing
From SAP MII to SAP DM
Speaker: Jannis Schulz, Gerresheimer
Partner: Syntax
Nobian | Mobile Inventory Management roll out
Nobian has implemented the mobile application SAP Service Asset Management to further digitalize its material management. In doing so, Nobian collaborated with Ideo as a consultancy partner, and after an initial implementation in the Netherlands, successfully rolled out the template to 2 other factories across Europe. During the session, we will present the mobile factory worker, how they benefit from the SAP SAM app and Nobian’s mobile technology roadmap with SAP.
Speakers: Peter Hols, Friso Kramer, Jonathan Bolton, Nobian
Partner: Ideo
- Logistics
- Planning
- Manufacturing
- Asset & Field Service Management
REHAU | Automation of warehouse logistics with SAP EWM template
This keynote session focuses on our global SAP EWM template rollout strategy, which establishes a scalable, future-proof and globally standardized process landscape - laying the foundation for efficient, harmonized and digitally integrated logistics operations. Building on this, we showcase end-to-end logistics planning through IGZ and its role as general contractor for both new construction and retrofit projects, where smart technologies and maximum process reliability seamlessly come together.
Speaker: Tuncay Soruklu, REHAU
Partner: IGZ
Wärtsilä | Transforming Global Spare Parts Planning
In this breakout session, Benedikt will present Wärtsilä’s journey to strengthen spare parts planning across a global supply chain using SAP eSPP. The session will focus on the key business challenges that drove the initiative, the overall approach taken to design and deploy the solution, and the value expected in terms of replacing APO, service performance, and system standardization. Attendees will gain insight into what it takes to move from ambition to execution in a real-world enterprise context, including governance and change considerations, as well as practical lessons learned along the way
Speaker: Benedikt König, Wärtsilä
Partner: Westernacher
How SAP Digital Manufacturing connects production execution to end-to-end supply chain visibility
Speaker: Cédric Vanrykel
Partner: Delaware
From Best Practices to Business Impact | SAP S/4HANA Asset Management Transformation in Pharma
Deloitte presents the successful S/4HANA business transformation at a leading international pharmaceutical company. Discover how SAP Best Practices provided the foundation for a standardized maintenance approach, how the digitalization of inspection lists drove operational efficiency and compliance, and how SAP Service & Asset Manager was implemented as a key enabler for integrated asset operations. The session concludes with key lessons learned and success factors for organizations embarking on a similar transformation journey.
Speaker: Paul Verschuren & Jasper Vaessen
Partner: Deloitte
- Logistics
- Planning
- Manufacturing
- Asset & Field Service Management
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
Where Planning Meets Execution: A Real-World Supply Chain Case
Discover how planning optimized logistics execution identified multi-million-dollar savings for a global consumer electronics brand in this real-world case study. Learn how extending planning horizons from days and weeks to months and quarters enabled contract optimization, large-scale cost reduction, and improved management of time-based cost dynamics across the supply chain.
Speaker: Rick Jones and Beatrix Surala
Partner: ArchLynk
Packaging the future – the SIG journey to SAP Digital Manufacturing
A production that never sleeps. With SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP S/4HANA and Edge, SIG is paving the way to a secure, template-based and globally scalable manufacturing environment – where people and technology shape the smart factory of tomorrow.
Speaker: Patrick le Mestrez, SIG Group
Partner: Syntax
Croonwolter&dros | From Implementation to Impact with SAP S/4HANA (session will be in Dutch)
How do you continue to realize value from your SAP S/4HANA landscape after implementation? In this session, Floris, Program Manager at Croonwolter&dros, shares how they further develop their environment to strengthen core processes in maintenance, service, and project delivery. Discover how CW&D maximizes the value of their SAP landscape.
Speaker: Floris Huizeling, Croonwolter&dros
Partner: McCoy & Partners
Speakers
Ministry of Defence
Manager Application Services and PMO
Nobian
Digital Development Coordinator
Nobian
Jannis Schulz
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Gerresheimer
- Speakers 1
- Speakers 2
- Speakers 3
- Speakers 4
- Speakers 5
- Speakers 6
- Speakers 7
Location
Address:
De Noordkade
Verlengde noordkade 10-18,
5462 EH Veghel, Netherlands
Parking:
There is ample parking available at De Noordkade.
Please note that the SAP Connect Day for Supply Chain Netherlands is exclusively for customers and prospects. This event will take place on-site and cannot be attended virtually.
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