1) Supply chains have become more complex over 30 years, transforming from operational logistics to strategic functions, and competition is now between entire supply chains rather than just companies. 2) Supply Chain 4.0 utilizes technologies like the Internet of Things, advanced robotics, blockchain, and analytics to increase performance and customer satisfaction by making supply chains faster, more flexible, efficient, accurate, and granular. 3) Digitization creates disruptions that require companies to constantly rethink supply chain design and address new customer and supply side challenges, but can provide benefits like predictive shipping, on-demand transportation, automated warehousing, end-to-end transparency and mass customization.

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2. Over 30 years, Supply Chain has undergone tremendous Changes – from
Pure Operational logistic Function to a strategic one
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Supply Chain becoming more and more complicated
Competition is no longer between companies, but
between Supply Chains

3. Supply Chain as a Network
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The supply-chain function ensures that operations are
well-integrated, from suppliers through to customers,
with decisions on cost, inventory, and customer service
made from an end-to-end perspective rather than by each
function in isolation

4. Supply Chain 4.0 is SCM that applies the Industry 4.0 innovations
• The Internet Of Things (IOT) – On line transactions
• Advanced Robotics – To automate processes
• Block Chain – To increase transparency
• Analytics, and big data – To identify trend and forecasting
Digitization and how it affects Supply Chains
These technologies are used
to jump-start performance,
and customer satisfaction

5. Digital Supply Chain – The Future
PromotionsProduct
Sales Weather Events
Channel
Overarching
End-to-end
performance
management
Prices
Overarching
ForecastingFull data
transparency
Integrated, ad hoc
mobile planning
Influencing customers by
specific, situational offerings
Factory
Automatic re-
configuring of
network
Machine gives
feedback on current
production capacity
Drone delivery
Always know exact
location and condition
of each shipment
Drones scan stocks
and support
dynamic pricing
Warehouse
Customer can re-
route shipment via
mobile phone
Autonomous truck
Predictive
shipping
Automated warehouse,
robots do the picking,
transporting of goods, etc.
Share capacities
Source: McKinsey

6. • Digitization creates Disruptions and Companies must constantly re-think
the way they design their supply Chains
• To build on the current trend of constantly changing consumer
requirements, and enable a wide range of new technologies, supply
chains need to become much faster and much more precise
Digitization disruptions and way forward

7. The digitization of the supply chain enables companies to address the new
requirements of customers, the challenges on the supply side, and the
remaining expectations in efficiency improvement. Digitization leads to a
Supply Chain 4.0, which becomes…
• Faster (Predictive shipping)
• More Flexible (“Uberization” of transport)
• More Efficient (“Robotization” of Warehousing)
• More Accurate (Supply Chain Cloud)
• More Granular (drone delivery, Mass Customisation possible)
Benefits

8. • Digital Supply Chain is not just about gathering technologies and
build capabilities.
• Companies must also find people with the right skills, and
manage the shift to a culture that’s willing to carry out the effort.
In other words, they must transform their entire organization.
• This creates opportunities for growth and specialization on such
technologies and its application in work process.
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9. The transparency that comes with Digitization will enable companies not
just to react to disruptions but to anticipate them, modeling the network,
creating “what-if” scenarios, and adjusting the supply chain immediately
as conditions change.
The goal of the digital supply chain is ambitious: to build an altogether new
kind of supply network that’s both resilient and responsive.
Conclusion

10. …That’s the supply Chain of the future
Are You Ready?

11. Thank you for listening