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Statement from the 4th Meeting of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Speaker: Dr. Kishore S. Swaminathan, Accenture, Chief Scientist
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Statement from the 4th Meeting of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Speaker: Prof. Dr. David Simchi-Levi, MIT, Director of the MIT Forum
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Statement from the 4th Meeting of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Speaker: Dr. Clemens Beckmann, Deutsche Post World Net, Global Business Services Managing Director, Member of the Divisional Board
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Statement from the 4th Meeting of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Speaker: Dr. Clemens Beckmann, Deutsche Post World Net, Global Business Services Managing Director, Member of the Divisional Board
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Statement from the 4th Meeting of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Speaker: Dr. Clemens Beckmann, Deutsche Post World Net, Global Business Services Managing Director, Member of the Divisional Board
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Statement from the 4th Meeting of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Speaker: Dr. William Killingsworth, Executive Director, MIT Forum
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Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hasso Plattner, Co-Founder & Chairman of SAP AG
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Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hasso Plattner, Co-Founder & Chairman of SAP AG
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Hasso Plattner explaines the importance of human input for every design and innovation process. He comments that new products, new models, new processes and new markets are the future, and that these should be designed around people. It is absolutely essential to identify what users actually require. “I find it shocking how little some developers know about the areas they are working on. We first have to know what the problems are, before we can go about solving them,” explains Plattner.
Everyone on the development team has to communicate with one another on the same level. And it is vital that, at the outset, ideas are only sketched in rough, since “final” drafts only restrict the exchange of ideas. “It is important that everyone keeps an open mind, because setting boundaries at the start of a process destroys creativity,” concludes Plattner.
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Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, Dean of the Hasso Plattner Institute
In his opening speech, Christoph Meinel, Scientific Director at HPI, stresses the potential offered by cooperation between MIT and HPI. Explaining that this collaboration represents the ideal platform for innovation, he goes on to emphasize that HPI, established by SAP Co-Founder Hasso Plattner in 1998, seeks to provide elite innovative training. “Our job is to furnish our students with well-founded know-how and make them competent team players,” comments Meinel. Consequently, HPI places a strong emphasis on practical, scientific excellence and close cooperation with industry.
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Speaker: Dr. William Killingsworth, Executive Director of the MIT Forum
Agreeing with Meinel, William Killingsworth, Executive Director of the MIT Forum, adds that his organization also aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To achieve this, MIT departments, researchers and industry work together to develop innovative ideas. He uses the American aircraft industry as an example to illustrate just how important a fully functional supply chain can be. Within the industry, manufacturers need to wait 60 to 80 weeks for a delivery of titanium and therefore have to develop special strategies to safeguard their service levels.
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Speaker: Prof. Dr. David Simchi-Levi, MIT, Director of the MIT Forum
According to David Simchi-Levi, long lead times, unpredictable demand, and high logistics costs make it difficult to control a modern supply chain. In a study carried out by MIT and SAP, only ten percent of companies surveyed operated mature planning systems and business processes. However, their profits were 75 percent higher than other manufacturers. “They benefit from the high performance levels of their supply chain and consequently enjoy low inventory levels or shorter-term capital tie-up,” explaines Simchi-Levi in his presentation.
He goes on to say that, in order to be successful, companies need to look at the entire supply chain. Maintaining a narrow focus means that individual sections concentrate only on their own interests, without considering how partners are affected. Simchi-Levi comments that effective risk management can also optimize a supply chain and that strategically organized and positioned warehousing can reduce costs and delivery times. He goes on to point out that one-sided investment is clearly not sufficient. On the contrary, companies investing only in IT will fare worse than those focusing purely on their business strategies. “In the end though, success can only be achieved when both approaches are combined,” concludes the MIT professor.
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Speaker: Heinz-Paul Bonn, Vice President Bitkom, Chairman Forum SME
The main focus of Heinz-Paul Bonn’s presentation is how innovation is affecting the small to medium sized Enterprises. He presents several case studies showing how the use of innovative technology, in his case RFID, can affect and improve the performance even for smaller businesses.
With different examples from very different types of organisations ranging from textil-industry even to portable bathrooms Mr. Bonn shows that using technology can be a very effective way of improving not only your own supply chain, but also being compatative with other players in the global market.
He finishes his presentation with what he calls the 6 commandments for RFID implementation, giving well placed advice for all companies willing to try new technologies, not only RFID.
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Speaker: Thomas Schuh, T-Systems, Head of Market Innovation
According to Thomas Schuh, responsible for Market Innovation at T-Systems Enterprise Service, T-Systems sees potential for market innovation in the areas of customer processes, as well as political decisions and business relevant technologies that both influence the customer processes and the ICT.
One of the business relevant technologies is RFID. RFID massively influences various processes in the industry. Numerous advantages are obtained with the correct integration of RFID. These are, for example, faster and more flexible processes, avoidance of media breaches, data being available in real-time or the supervision of the complete RFID enabled process over the entire value creation chain. Conclusively, Schuh states that RFID bears many new possibilities and conditions for the processes of businesses.
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Speaker: Dr. Christian Plenge, METRO Group AG, Head of Research and Innovation
Christian Plenge believes RFID to be a key element for improving METRO Group’s services in the future. Through deployment of RFID technology on case level in a number of super markets, METRO Group has taken an important step toward the realization of their “vision of a digital supply chain”.
By not only focusing on the customer side, but also applying RFID along the supply chain and thereby easing the work of the employees, employee satisfaction, besides customer satisfaction, is reached, saving time and money. According to Plenge, European companies are still one step behind regarding the usage of RFID in comparison to US industry, but are on a good track to catch up.
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Speaker: Dr. Keith Ulrich, Deutsche Post World Net, Head of Technology & Innovation Management
According to Keith Ulrich, Head of Technology & Innovation Management at Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), cutting-edge logistics companies are only successful when they can cope with the complexity resulting from continuous change. It is important that the supply chain is both transparent and flexible. “Flexibility means being able to react to events”, explains Ulrich. But, in this respect, companies have to have a realistic understanding of what can be achieved. For that very reason, DPWN established a department for technology and innovation management in 2005. A technology such as RFID is no answer in itself, but the potential it offers does enable companies to react to various demands with new solutions. DPWN also maintains internal and external networks to enable it to operate innovatively and with a focus on the customer. “No innovation is the result of just one company´s work”, explains Ulrich. Knowledge has to be brought in from partners, he adds, as this is the only way to develop customized solutions.
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