SAP Business Suite Webinar Series Supply chain management

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Supply chain management

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Gain full visibility across your supply chain to drive agility and efficiency with connected data and reliable AI. Join this webcast to to learn how SAP supply chain management software helps: 

  • Move beyond today’s siloed tools and reactive decisions
  • Realize end-to-end orchestration with real-time visibility and intelligent execution;
  • Lead transformation and drive long-term advantage with SAP software’s data readiness and integration across apps, data, and AI 

Americas

Thursday, November 20

11:00 a.m. EDT / 8:00 a.m. PDT

Europe & Africa

Thursday, November 20

11:00 a.m. CEST 

Asia Pacific

Thursday, November 20

9:30 a.m. IST / 12:00 p.m. SGT / 3:00 p.m. AEDT


Speakers

David Vallejo

Head of SCM Innovations Product Marketing

David Vallejo is vice president, Head of SCM Innovations Product Marketing at SAP. His global organization leads strategy and growth initiatives for SAP’s SCM portfolio which encompasses solutions for product lifecycle management, manufacturing, planning, logistics, assets and service management as well as the Business Network. David joined SAP in 2014 and has held various leadership positions before attaining his current role. During David’s tenure he drove the successful launch of SAP’s Supply Chain Business Network focusing on direct materials collaboration across the extended supply chain and driving the customer co-innovation program as product owner for SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Prior to joining SAP David helped many global companies define and implement their strategy around supply chain transformations and has been honored with the “Pros-to-Know” award in 2014 by the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Board. He held several global leadership roles managing customer delivery, solution management and product management at E2open and icon-scm

Diane Pickett

VP Supply Chain Management Product Marketing

Diane is the Product Marketing lead for supply chain-led Business Suite strategy. She has 25+ years experience in go-to-market strategy and execution, 16 of those years at SAP. She believes that supply chain management is a mission critical function, which is enhanced and enabled by AI and data driven technologies.

Discover how Business Suite integrates your data, operational processes, and supply chain functions to help you drive greater flexibility, transparency and responsiveness—while supporting sustainability initiatives and metrics. This webcast will walk through the comprehensive supply chain management capabilities of Business Suite and see how it can support different functions within your organization.  


Speakers

Jakob Merlin Frederik Schneller

SAP Business Suite Product Marketing

Being part of the SAP S/4HANA Product Marketing for the last six years, Jakob has been working with the next generation of ERP systems from the very beginning. Starting his career with the responsibility for end-to-end system demos, he presented the product on numerous events with different audiences, knows the system very well and is a Fiori native. Focusing on Supply Chain Management processes in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition he has run the go-to-market activities in this area over the last three years to establish it as the go-to solution for product-centric businesses and as a key element of SAP Business Suite.

Diane Pickett

VP Supply Chain Management Product Marketing

Diane is the Product Marketing lead for supply chain-led Business Suite strategy. She has 25+ years experience in go-to-market strategy and execution, 16 of those years at SAP. She believes that supply chain management is a mission critical function, which is enhanced and enabled by AI and data driven technologies.

With AI embedded across supply chain processes, organizations are unlocking operational excellence and tangible business value. Join this session to learn how AI improves customer service and transparency, increases agility and resilience, and optimizes productivity and speed to market.


Speakers

Richard Howells

Vice President for ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain; Thought leadership

Richard has been working in the supply chain management and manufacturing space for over 25 years and is responsible for driving the market direction and positioning of SAP’s Extended Supply Chain solution set. Prior to joining SAP in 2004, Richard spent 15 years with Marcam Solutions where he was VP of Marketing for the companies Process ERP solutions.

Sol Rashidi

World's 1st enterprise Chief Al Officer Best-Selling Al Author with 10 Patents

Bridging the gap between hype and business results, Sol Rashidi is an experienced practitioner and executive. She has served in C‑suite roles at several Fortune 100 companies, holds 10 patents, and was the first Chief AI Officer appointed back in 2016. Sol helped IBM launch Watson in 2011 and has since guided enterprises, private equity firms, and startups in AI strategy and deployment. She’s a best‑selling author and has been named Forbes “21st Century AI Maverick & Visionary,” one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Tech,” a “Top 100 AI Thought Leader,” and a “Top 100 Data & Analytics Leader.

The potential for supply chain disruption continues to increase- driven by everything from trade policies and geopolitics to weather and material shortages. Companies across manufacturing industries from industrial manufacturing and automotive to mill products, high tech, chemicals and consumer products are learning to thrive by building resilient supply chains that help better predict disruptions and respond with agility. Hear from SAP supply chain industry experts how SAP Business Suite is helping COOs in these industries improve their supply chains and adapt quickly and confidently including how to:

  • Accurately simulate future business scenarios, predict issues, and track the impact of corrective actions
  • Improve responsiveness and profitability by generating quotes and confirming orders and delivery times based on real-time, in-the-moment production capacity
  • Identify logistics bottlenecks, monitor metrics, and swiftly respond to disruptions
  • Optimize equipment uptime and improve quality and safety by keeping machine assets running and automatically recommending the right resources based on skills, certifications and availability
  • Comply with shifting regulations and trade rules and reduce energy and water consumption, carbon emissions and material use

Speakers

Sayan Bose

Global Head - Discrete Industries | Industrial Manfuacturing, Aerospace & Defense, High Tech, Automotive, SAP AMERICA, INC.

Sayan Bose serves as the Global Head of SAP's Discrete Industries. He focuses on driving market success through industry growth strategy, industry innovation, sales and marketing, value engineering, partner management and services & support, by addressing the unique needs of industrial companies

Stefan Weisenburger

Global Head, Process Industry & Natural Resources, SAP SE

Stefan heads SAP's global industry business unit for process industries & natural resources, drives strategic growth plans and industry strategy. With the customer community, he scopes out SAP's solution portfolio for chemicals, metals, mining, forest products, building materials. Stefan also leads SAP's sustainability for industries program.