SAP Innovation Day for Supply Chain
Your Key to Success
June 19, 2025 | SAP Experience Center (NL)
Unlock Innovation and Optimize Efficiency in Operations
Thank you for joining the SAP Innovation Day for Supply Chain on June 19, 2025 in the SAP Experience Center in 's-Hertogenbosch. 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
Please find all presentations below!
Aftermovie SAP Innovation Day for Supply Chain 2025
Presentations - 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.
Presentations:
- SAP Expert Session - Jason Enti
- Customer Success Story: Ministery of Defence
- Customer Success Story: Miba
- Customer Success Story: BAM
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.
Presentations:
- SAP Expert Session - Paul Lasance & Michiel Haegens
- Customer Success Story: VDL
- Customer Success Story: Siemens Energy & King's Hawaiian
- Customer Success Story: Decospan
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.
Presentations:
- SAP Expert Session - Bart Smetsers & Ralph Bazelmans
- Customer Success Story: Nouryon
- Customer Success Story: vidaXL
- Customer Success Story: Sibelco
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.
Presentations:
Agenda
Speaker: Juan Cartier & Wouter van Heijst, SAP
In a world driven by technology, SAP invites you to reimagine your supply chain through the power of real-time data, AI, and seamless integration across your supply chain and ecosystem. Unlock the power of your supply chain to become the strategic asset that drives resilience, innovation and differentiation.
The developments around AI are happening at breakneck speed. The next step, generative AI, is going through organisations like a shockwave, with major consequences for jobs, departments, organisations, and even entire sectors. It all started with ChatGPT and Copilot, but what will be the next step and how do you prepare for it?
The Key to World Class Maintenance
Track: Asset & Field Service Management
Speaker: Jason Enti, SAP
Unlocking Manufacturing Excellence: Key Strategies for Success
Track: Manufacturing
Speaker: Michiel Haegens, SAP
Success Through AI: The Key to Effective Business Planning
Track: Integrated Business Planning
Speaker: Fabienne van der Wegen, SAP
Intelligence driven Logistics: Key to Operational Excellence
Track: Logistics
Speakers: Bart Smetsers & Ralph Bazelmans, SAP
Asset & Field Service Management
Ministry of Defence - Joachim van der Weijden (Partner: Capgemini)
Conquering system logistic challenges in view of main task 1 – Protection of own and allied territory – is now more than relevant again. Effective management and maintenance (system logistics) of military assets contributes to higher operational readiness. Implementation of SAP Enterprise Asset Management and SAP Defence and Security makes this possible and lays the foundation for further innovation and flexibility.
Manufacturing
VDL - Jeroen Scholte & Kristel van Goethem (Partner: Engineering Industries eXcellence)
With a bold cloud-first strategy, VDL is transforming its manufacturing operations toward the vision of the Digital Factory. At the heart of this transformation lies SAP Digital Manufacturing. This session highlights VDL’s MES journey with SAP Digital Manufacturing, implemented in both a high-volume automotive plant and a cutting-edge building products factory, in collaboration with Engineering Industries eXcellence.
Planning
Centrient Pharmaceuticals - Alica Klösges (Partner: Flexso)
Join the customer journey of Centrient, as their Head of Supply Chain and S&OP Excellence explains how they moved from excel-based supply planning into automated planning through IBP. With the IBP module Response and Supply, they shifted to planning through an Optimizer, limiting the manual input required from planners while still allowing for full control and visibility into what is being planned. Centrient will take you through how they did the implementation, what was needed for it to be successful and how digital planning has changed the way they plan today.
Logistics
Nouryon - Hugo Van Rijn (Partner: Archlynk)
Learn how Nouryon, a leading specialty chemicals company, partnered with ArchLynk to streamline logistics and trade compliance through the integration of SAP Transportation Management, Global Trade Services, and the Business Network for Logistics. Gain insights into the improvements they achieved in shipment visibility, cost efficiency, and lessons to support your own digital supply chain evolution.
Asset & Field Service Management
Miba - Bernhard Kontschieder (Partner: EvoraIT)
Discover the success of efficient order planning in collaboration with production through a Field Service Management solution. Learn about overcoming challenges in internal maintenance and Change Management within the Maintenance Department. Explore the key benefits of implementing SAP Field Service Management, featuring tools like the planning board, AI add-ons, and a self-service portal.
Manufacturing
Customer Stories from Siemens Energy & King’s Hawaiian - David Förster & Thomas Brückner (Partner: Syntax)
Join this engaging break-out session to hear two compelling customer stories that highlight innovations in Discrete and Process manufacturing. Learn how Siemens Energy, a leader in electrical and energy technology, successfully unified its business processes across all plants using SAP Digital Manufacturing. In addition, delve into the experience of King's Hawaiian as they bridge the gap between their top floor and shop floor with a centralized source of truth. This strategic integration is designed to transform production processes, enhance operational efficiency, and emphasize their commitment to creating irresistible bread.
Planning
ConvaTec - Scott Rogerson (Partner: Archlynk)
Logistics
vidaXL - Raoul Crutzen (Partner: Prospecta)
Discover how vidaXL effectively harnessed Prospecta MDO to standardize and manage master data across global operations—from product creation and sourcing to storage and sales using SAP S/4HANA. Gain valuable insights into the challenges faced, solutions implemented, and the impactful results achieved on our path to scalable, high-quality data management.
Asset & Field Service Management
BAM - Edwin Lucassen & Shahin Arabha (Partner Ideo)
BAM is currently undertaking a transition program to SAP S/4HANA, encompassing both its Dutch and UK & Ireland divisions. Beyond the ERP ‘core’, BAM is piecing together the broader SAP puzzle, including the recently implemented SAP Field Service Management (FSM) solution. In this presentation, BAM will provide insights into the how and why of this implementation, along with sharing experiences and lessons learned.
Manufacturing
Decospan - Mattias Denys (Partner: Delaware)
The choice for SAP DM as MES and where we are now (the good, the bad and the ugly).
Planning
Walter AG - Denis Tejada (Partner: Implement Consulting Group)
Join the customer journey of Walter AG as their IT SAP Supply Chain expert presents how they moved from Excel-based S&OP incl. inventory planning into exception-based planning. With the IBP S&OP module as backbone and Implement's inventory concept & segmentation, they shifted from a high degree of manual planning to only planning the extreme lumpy cases in detail. Walter will shed light on how they succeeded with a fast step-wise implementation and short time to impact, also covering learnings and the next steps.
Logistics
Sibelco - Frank De Canck (Partner: Westernacher)
In an era of market fluctuations where visibility, efficiency, and agility are paramount, Sibelco, a global leader in the industrial minerals industry, have embarked on a transformative journey to revolutionize their supply chain operations. Empowered by SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration they have enhanced operational visibility, reduced costs, and improved service levels. Explore the challenges faced, solutions implemented, and the remarkable outcomes achieved, paving the way for a smarter, more resilient supply.
Speakers
Captain in the Royal Dutch Navy / Business Project Lead S/4HANA
Ministry of Defence
Location
Address:
SAP Experience Center
Amerikastraat 10
5232 BE 's-Hertogenbosch
Parking:
Free parking is available at the SAP office. If it's full, you can park at the Bossche Woonboulevard across the street.
Please note that the SAP Innovation Day for Supply Chain is exclusively for customers and prospects. This event will take place on-site at SAP Netherlands and cannot be attended virtually.
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