How can a virtual twin enlighten your Supply Chain? That’s what Koen & Valerie will tell you, using a recent customer case. For one of our biggest clients, we generated a virtual twin, with which we advanced visibility on their E2E Supply Chain network & which enabled us to gather new insights on their most important planning sensitive parameters. Discover how we helped them to cut lead times, reduce safety stocks and help them to move forward by removing human bias and shifting to a data-driven approach, a LightsOutPlanning one! Presented by Valerie Vandenbroucke, Product Manager LOP Bluecrux & Koen Jaspers, Partner Bluecrux on Supply Chain 4.0 : ready to operate in the digital era? (29 Nov, 2018)

1. The use of digital twins in Supply Chain.
Driving inventory reduction through
smart parameter synchronization
A Life Science
Use Case

2. 2
#WeAreNotThe80sAnymore

3. 3
The end of Supply Chain as we know it…
DEVELOP PLAN SOURCE MAKE DELIVER SELL SUPPORT
DOWNSTREAM
UPSTREAM

4. 4
#Connecting the dots
Planning
DistributionOperations
Finance
Customer
Workforce
Digitalization

5. 5
#LOP enables your team

6. Future Technology Landscape – Example View

7. 7
5 core capabilities
to drive better end-to-end planning decisions
Create a
virtual twin
Set smart
parameters
Get
end-to-end
visibility
Optimize
end-to-end
financials
Monitor the
control tower

8. Tier 1 Life Science
Company
-
Driving inventory reduction
through smart parameter
synchronization

9. Business
Context + 100 brands
+ 10.000 SKUs
From Active Ingredient till final DC
+ 50 manufacturing & distribution
sites
+ 3 years of history
+ 10 million records
SAP/MES
Non-Harmonized Data
Life science – Fortune 500
Global supply network
Complex portfolio

10. Business
Challenges
E2E Supply Chain Visibility
Accurate Supply Chain Parameters
- Lead Times
- Capacities
- Scrap
Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
- Supply Performance
- Supply Variability

11. #LOP
Approach
Create a virtual twin
Set smart parameters
Drive Inventory Reduction

12. Business Value
Better Supply Chain
Visibility & Control
Improved Planning Parameters
& Performance
Inventory savings: 8% during
POV only (20M USD)
Payback period of
3 months

13. Connect. Learn. Aim. Shine.
Think big. Start small. Scale fast.