The Smart Factory & Digital Supply Chain

The three-day Smart Factory and Digital Supply Chain programme consists of three modules. Together they cover the most important strategic building blocks of your operations and supply chain:

Module 1: The smart supply chain

• Discover smart operations and understand why they’re so important
• Explore the impact digital technologies will have on your supply chain
• Know how digital technologies will transform your organisation – and impact competition
• Learn how to measure the return on investment of digitally transforming your operations and supply chain – and how to build a case for Industry 4.0.

Module 2: The Smart Factory: From Operational Excellence to Industrial Manufacturing Platforms

• See the smart manufacturing big picture: Have we reached Industry 4.0 – or are we heading to 5.0?
• Discover how digital twin technology and new standards for connectivity lead to a new level of operational excellence
• Explore how AI and ML can augment operational decision-making
• Find out how digitisation supports localisation and operational resilience
• Discover how platform-based business models can power new manufacturing models – and the threats and opportunities for established companies

Module 3: Leadership in digital transformation

• Explore roles in digital transformation – including your own
• Learn about necessary experiments and making the right choices
• Discover how to manage the change of a digital transformation

If you want to transform your operations with digital technologies, this programme is a great place to start. It gives you the knowledge, skills and insight to benchmark your digital strategy – and lead and manage your transformation.

Your immediate return on your investment in the programme will include:

• Understanding current and emerging trends
• Knowing the changing impact that digitisation may have on your supply chain and production
• Learning how to move beyond operational excellence – and how digitisation should shape future business models, differentiation, and sustainability
• Discovering how to use and deploy technologies correctly
• Highlighting the digital initiatives you need to take now – and how to measure their impact to grow your business
• Developing the essential knowledge and skills required to measure, analyse and successfully implement digital initiatives
• Embracing digital leadership to take your business to the next level

• Operations and supply chain managers who want to draw up a plan to further digitalise their supply chain and factory.
• Plant managers and production managers who want to motivate their team towards digitalisation.
• Managers working in a manufacturing organisation who want to steer digital choices and set priorities.
• Supply chain consultants who want to grow further to include more people in digital initiatives.
• Logistic service providers, who want to develop a plan to digitalise their distribution centres and supply chain