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Improving integrated supply and production planning capabilities

In the high-tech world the supply chains have to deal with the complexity of the products themselves, long lead times of components, the speed with which research and development of new products require adaptations to supply chain relations, and the customer product configuration process that may span months and affects timing and specification of the products to be delivered.

These characteristics bring some key challenges that the ESCF High Tech Community wants to address. These challenges include: handling the complexity of the supply chain; reducing planning nervousness; planning under uncertainty and dynamicity; and handling disruptive events. We are also looking to incorporate circularity and lifecycle management into the supply chain.

The High Tech Community aspires to develop the concepts and tools that allow High Tech Supply Chains to meet the challenges of a highly complex and volatile world over the coming five years.

To that end, we do road mapping sessions, during which we together
identify the challenges that you want to address in the coming five years. Subsequently, we define projects together, on which you are involved from the practical side and we place an academic to support you from the theoretical side.

The High Tech Community aspires to develop the concepts and tools that allow High Tech Supply Chains to meet the challenges of a highly complex and volatile world over the coming five years.

To that end, we do road mapping sessions, during which we together identify the challenges that you want to address in the coming five years. Subsequently, we define projects together, on which you are involved from the practical side and we place an academic to support you from the theoretical side.

Some of the challenges that we are currently addressing, include:

• Real-time information visibility
• Real-time planning
• Integrated planning over horizons
• Collaborative planning with partners
• Lifecycle and configuration management
• Circularity in supply chains
• Resilience of supply chains

Key techniques that we consider for solving these challenges are:

• Forecasting and prediction with statistics and machine learning.
• Integrated planning with classical techniques and Artificial Intelligence.
• Data quality improvement for planning and analysis, including the use of advanced technology, such as knowledge graphs.
• Production and supply chain process analysis.
• Improving production logistics, including the use of novel technologies, such as AGVs.

Event Date Time Location
Workshop EHTC: The supply chain copilot Workshop EHTC: The supply chain copilot 16/04/2024 12:00 - 17:30 Holiday Inn
ESCF Career event ESCF Career event 13/05/2024 17:30 - 21:00 Auditorium Eindhoven University of Technology
Workshop Servitization: Circular economy needs reverse logistics to work Workshop Servitization: Circular economy needs reverse logistics to work 14/05/2024 12:00 - 17:30 The Strip
Masterclass Global Supply Chain & Logistics 15/05/2024 - 17/05/2024 10:00 - 18:00 TU/e Campus Eindhoven University of Technology
Workshop CDT /  Data2Move Workshop CDT / Data2Move 18/06/2024 12:00 - 17:30 The Strip

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