Keynote at Machinery Forum - January 2015 - Vanajanlinna, Finland

1. SUPPLY CHAIN
Chapter I : Supply Chain Visibility
by {Renaud Cochet}

2. As business consultants in Supply Chain Management, we
thought we knew all there was to know about running efficiently
logistics & transportation flows.

3. But we quickly learned everything we knew was to rethink.
And we’d need to figure out the new business rules that makes a
supply chain successful in the internet century.
Here’s what we learned.

4. We started by asking ourselves the question:

6. Technology is transforming Supply Chain’s perspective
A lot information is
available online or
on dedicated
business networks
Various devices
mean anyone can
interact with
anyone, anytime,
anywhere
Cloud solutions
democratize
access to
supercomputing

7. EVERY BUSINESS
is vulnerable to
competition and disruption.
As a result, barriers to entry that have stood for decades are
melting away.

8. This transformation is happening at unprecedent pace, and it’s
accelerating.
It’s like Moore’s law has run amock.

9. Customers expectations have never been
higher.
Companies can’t get on the market with a
crummy supply chain in all its continuity, at
least not for long.
Great products are not enough, great
customer experience is key, from the
purchasing idea until the product or
service end-of-life (if there is one to be
considered…)

10. To make the future possible and profitable, you absolutely need
VISIBILITY over the chain.
This criteria is not the only one in the path to success, but it helps
make decisions and analyze them backwards.

11. These Supply Chains combine the ability to enable information-
sharing VISIBILITY with all parties.
And excel in the way to:
1. Optimize inventories
2. Activate omni-channel
3. Rationalize transportation costs
4. Favour Agility
5. Improve speed-to-market

12. The problem is, most Supply Chains today are run to minimize
risk, not to maximise innovation and speed.
Information and
data is not shared
Their design is a
vestige of an era
when market was
not REALLY global
Gut decision
making prevails
the speech relying
on data

13. As a consequence
We still need a lot of collaborative execution through the supply
chain actors on various geographies;
We still have complex IT landscapes with commonly several
legacies to manage;

14. And meanwhile
Our network of logistics partners (3PLs, brokers,...) evolves
constantly;
We are not always prepared to face major incidents on the chain.

15. This does’nt work in the internet century

17. SUPPLY CHAIN

18. We learned that the only way to constantly improve today is first
to achieve visibility across the business networks.

20. First, you have to GO SOCIAL and unify all
teams one step-beyond.
Nowadays, borders are not the
company boundaries anymore.

21. Planning, Order Management, Order Fullfilment and Logistics
functions, including their partners should be well connected and
“collaborative-enabled”.
Optimization of the full ecosystem is the rule.

22. This starts with DATA
Because DATA quality matters in the relationships you establish.

23. In this case IoT can help…
…capture the data

24. …interpret the (big) data
Analytics…

25. …act on data!
And finally your (little) fingers…

26. Don’t base your supply chain transformation on a rigid plan.
Instead base it on strategic foundation.
Because the plan will
change a lot
The plan is fluid,
The foundation stable

27. Good foundation has 3 main outcomes:
Helps making
intelligent decisions
and execute easily
appropriate
corrective actions
Dashboard and
Monitor the
Supply Chain
Brain
Enable partner
connectivity
(together with a
solid integration
backbone)

28. Learn by doing…

29. To ultimately focus on
what’s mission critical
THRIVE INNOVATION
RESOLVE UNEXPECTED
CRISIS

30. Ideas can come from anywhere...

31. ...we have one of our 400 offices nearby.

32. And our commitment is to help you make YOUR IDEAS
become reality.

33. Are you ready ?
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34. Experience the commitment!
CGI partners with GTNexus to unblind worlwide Supply Chain:
Many thanks to Google and the Internet pioneers