This is the full slide deck of our #bluecruxtalks session of May (20 May 2021, 3PM CET - 9AM EST), presented by bluecrux.

1. #bluecruxtalks in May
Towards next generation planning processes

3. Digital planning:
How to shape your Planning Processes
capitalize on digital opportunities
Part 3 – Next Generation of Planning Processes

4. Nice to meet you!
Anneleen Tronquo
Managing Partner Consulting
Cédric Van Helleputte
Head of Planning Life Sciences

5. Today we talk about…
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Introduction to the next generation planning processes
Industry evolution: Towards Value driven Planning processes
3 takeaways

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Introduction to
to the next generation
planning processes

7. A digital wave is going on…
Thinking POC Decision Time Implementation CI phase
#OnAJourney
APS
Lots of companies are on the way to fundamentally revise their landscape –
implementing APS solutions replacing APO, moving to S/4, …
AI capability S/4

8. Today we focus on...

9. Remember…

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Strengthen your Planning processes for the digital era
Value Generating
Processes
Digitalization &
Automation
Decision making
Speed
Responsiveness
Rapidly sense and adapt to
supply chain changes
Agility
Ability to cope with drastic
value chains context shifts
Reliability
Produce optimized feasible
plans
Enable Supply Chain Planning Resilience and Agility

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Industry evolution:
Towards Value driven
planning processes

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The digital era calls for PLAN processes refinement
Digitalization & Automation Value Generating Processes Decision Making Speed
Ecosystem architecture Value drivers &
Prioritization alignment
Human – Machine
symbiosis
Pave the path forward Plan ownership
embedded
Timely decision &
Execution drive
Next Generation Planning Processes should embed 3 key cornerstones

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The digital era calls for PLAN processes refinement
Think through system features
like conflict management from
a process perspective
Think sequence, think horizon.
Think Machine-Human
interaction.
Who can bring when the most
value.
Think how automation can
create trust
No trust – no automation.
Design system capabilities in a human-machine interaction mode

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The digital era calls for PLAN processes refinement
To build ‘value generating processes’ you need the simple, the powerful & the challenger
Planning as
business
orchestrators
The simplicity of
Rules of engagement
The power of
Prescriptive clarity
The challenge of
Value driver alignment
Manufacturing Logistics Finance
Sales
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Quality
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The digital era calls for PLAN processes refinement
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Clear planning processes to
decision making domains
Self triggered escalations:
Create escalation levels which
incorporate business criticality,
resolution time & impact
Awareness reporting:
Visualize the need for decisions Install prescriptive metrics which
drive decisions
Empower your planners
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To make speed in decision you first need to respect and trust decision making processes

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17. When designing planning processes –
think & breath ‘decisions’
DIGITAL READY PLANNING PROCESSES TAKE-AWAYS
DRIVE
DECISIONS
Make the system part of the process in a
human-machine interactive way
Increase speed of decision making by
installing clear processes, visualizing
pending decisions and empowering your
people.

18. Thank you!
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Anneleen Tronquo
Managing Partner consulting
Cédric Van Helleputte
Head of Planning Life Sciences

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