Odette2023

It’s time to take on the climate challenge!

The ambition of the Volvo Group is to have the world’s most sustainable transport system – both inbound from suppliers and outbound to customers.

Cost and reliability have traditionally been the top transport priorities in the automotive supply chain but to make a real difference we also need to assess the environmental impact of every decision we take. This requires management commitment and a supportive culture, as well as tools, methods and reliable ways of measuring progress.

Illustrated by practical examples of actions taken in the Volvo Group, Jessica Öhrblad will provide an approach to driving sustainability within your supply chain and the inspiration to undertake your own sustainability journey.

Due Diligence: Enabling a responsible supply chain

The VDA, together with major automotive players in Germany, is developing a standardised procedure for evaluating the sustainability performance of companies in the automotive supply chain. The approach is an integral part of the implementation of corporate due diligence legislation and aims to strengthen sustainability throughout the supply chain.

Ms Hackert will:

* give an overview of existing and upcoming Due Diligence legislation and who is affected in the automotive industry

* present the new evaluation tool and the process of verifying the performance of suppliers

EDI challenges in Zanini CZ

Zanini, a major Tier1 trim supplier to vehicle manufacturers across the world will discuss the challenges of implementing digital communications with both customers and suppliers and how the assistance of experienced EDI service providers has been essential to achieving success.

Giving back control to business departments with EDI as a Service

Many suppliers in the automotive industry struggle when it comes to allocating ownership of EDI processes. Often the responsibility for EDI falls to the IT department, despite the fact that specialist business departments own the relevant processes. In order to tackle this issue, Fuba Automotive has introduced EDI as a Service, which enables specialist departments to take ownership of EDI processes while providing them with unparalleled data visibility.

* Why specialist departments taking ownership of EDI processes is crucial for efficient communication

* How EDI as a Service can streamline communication between customers and suppliers and eliminate internal bottlenecks

* How to build a resilient EDI infrastructure and eliminate errors

AI in aftermarket demand and inventory planning – challenges and opportunities

Demand and Supply planning in the automotive aftermarket is challenging. Demand is highly volatile due to multiple effects. At the same time, excellent customer service requires a profound planning basis to be competitive in dynamic markets. AI provides new opportunities to enhance customer-centric and demand-driven planning.

Welf Schneider and Miriam Kobold will provide insights on the AI demand planning forecast accuracy improvement made in a pilot project for European markets and share their outlook on future development of AI approaches for sustainable aftermarket application.

- AI procedures applied for volatile aftermarket demands

- Significant and sustainable improvements to support customer service

- Extended AI-based feature engineering in combination with latest AI forecasting methods using cloud systems.

Intelligent logistics networks

The past two years have vividly demonstrated that value creation can no longer be based on the assumption of a stable environment. We are living in a technology-induced transformation to the “Next Society”, accompanied by constant crisis and disruption.

The global connection of everything and everyone is at the root of this transformation and logistics is one of its main drivers but logistics networks are struggling with the speed of change and humans are at the limit of their ability to react. To achieve the level of flexibility demanded our networks must become “intelligent”.

Recent advances in AI provide us with powerful tools but need the right digital environment in which to operate. Christian Schwede will examine the current situation, present a possible way forward and explore initiatives and use-cases that are leading in the right direction.

Global EDI Standards: Challenges and Opportunities

Global EDI message standards developed by Odette and the JAIF, such as Global Delivery JIT and Global Despatch Advice, provide a solid basis for automotive suppliers to optimise their processes and drive digitalisation down their part of the supply-chain.

Many, however, are failing to successfully implement these standards and are thus prevented from taking advantage of the great potential for process optimisation which arises from digitalisation.

This session will include case-studies from different automotive projects showing the kind of challenges suppliers are facing within their logistic processes and how Global EDI standards can help to overcome them.

Enabling automated goods receiving using global standards

Rabea will bring insights on the Bosch Automated Goods Receiving project,. The Global Transport Label (GTL) and the accompanying the Global EDIFACT messages have become a core element for the inbound data flow in the Procure-to-Pay standardization and Intralogistics-to-Demand optimization. Global EDIFACT messages also support additional traceability requirements from various Bosch Business units.

• Learn about:
• - The benefits of using GTL and Global EDIFACT messages from an Inbound perspective
• - The potential integration of the GTL in the Procure-to-Pay and Intralogistics-to-Demand process chain
• - The challenges that were encountered during the implementation of an Automated Goods Receiving

Next steps in outbound logistics digitalisation

In 2019 Odette and ECG, the Association of European Vehicle Logistics, formed an alliance to develop standards to support business processes between OEMs and LSPs in the Finished Vehicle distribution chain.

A first result of this alliance was a set of EDIFACT and XML messages covering the complete FVL communication process. Published in 2020, these messages are now being implemented by vehicle manufacturers, transporters and compound operators.

Mike Sturgeon will provide an update on progress so far including other joint projects which are coming to fruition.

Future-proofing communications in finished vehicle logistics

While the standardisation of digital communications in the supply chain upstream from the vehicle manufacturers has been in focus since the 1980s, the outbound distribution chain for finished vehicles had been somewhat overlooked until Odette, ECG and VDA formed an alliance to develop message standards to support information exchanges in this vital area of the business.

Volkswagen was an active partner in the message development project and will share their experience as they start to implement the standards.

* Introduction to Volkswagen Group Logistics & RIO project for implementing a digital Outbound Order Book

* Introducing the Finished Vehicle Logistic messages and how they fit into Volkswagen Outbound process

* Geofence solution to generate automated status messages

API Communication in the Transport Chain - Key to More Transparency?

Enhancing the digital communication inside the transport chain by an API Toolset to make the blind spots in the transport chain visible!

Digital economy in automotive without APIs? Impossible!

Already today there is API data exchange between automotive partners beyond pure EDI messages and it is clear that API will become an important part of supply chain digitalisation.

We have the chance to create a digital economy in our industry but to make it happen we must lay the foundations now and define automotive standards for https.

Peter Höfner will describe market trends and use cases, identify pain points and security issues and suggest steps towards automotive industry standardisation.

Packaging quality: The crucial role of Packaging Manufacturers in the automotive supply chain

The importance of packaging in the automotive supply chain is now almost on a par with the parts contained within it. It is therefore critical that the manufacturers of packaging perform to the highest level in terms of quality and delivery performance.

OEM Packaging experts from the UK’s Packaging Technology & Innovation Forum reviewed a number of common pain points and agreed that packaging manufacture was an area where significant improvements could be made in terms of both capability and performance.

Brian Merryweather will explain why the quality of packaging has become so important for Renault Nissan and other OEMs in the UK and will describe the standards that are being put in place to monitor the capability and performance of packaging manufacturers.

Optimising the digital onboarding of business partners

The benefits of setting up EDI communications with business partners are well-known by the whole sector’, but successful implementation can be a time-consuming and costly process.

Learn how Stellantis has adopted a supplier-centric strategy to ensure project acceptance and reduce completion times.

Based on eight years of experience deploying EDIs for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, Stellantis will share their approach to the challenges behind the large volumes and the tight schedules which are typical of partner onboarding projects.

• - Ensure correct resource allocation prior to your project
• - Define your to-do list based on proven best practices
• - Decide whether to include validation testing

- OEM Onboarding Feedback

IPOs in isolation

Following a successful IPO in July 2021, Lucid Motors began delivering its luxury EV to customers from its new plant in Arizona in October 2021.

The well-known stresses of launching a new model must be magnified when this is the first vehicle you are bringing to market but even more so when it is being undertaken in a period of continual supply chain crises and with a significant portion of the workforce in isolation.

Stella Stanton will show how Lucid have profited from the experience, learning how to react quickly to external events and reducing risk in the production process, while avoiding unplanned costs by using automated data analytics and exception alerts to identify and manage changes in customer demands.

Blockchain: an essential vector of operational excellence?

The automotive industry is going through a major transformation, needing more than ever to target operational excellence and Blockchain is one technology that can help us to achieve that.

Odile will demonstrate the interest of implementing this technology in relevant collaborative use cases and demonstrate its breakthrough in ecosystem operational excellence with large scale projects such as XCEED.

Transporters: A vital link to visibility

Transporters have a vital role to play in enabling the visibility that all players in the supply chain are seeking but this will not be achieved without closer collaboration and deeper digitalisation. Data sharing is essential but integrating and matching data from different sources is not an easy task.

Taking account of our new “never normal” environment, Pascal Born will weigh up the challenges we are facing and propose concrete action to achieve the level of visibility required by the industry.

Next generation supply chains for new energy vehicles

As the world makes the transition to new energy vehicles, the winds of change are impacting all OEMs and tier suppliers in the automotive industry. Whether an established player, or a start-up, new challenges and opportunities present themselves at an ever-increasing pace which in turn requires supply chains to be ever more flexible and responsive.

Achim Glass will explore:

• * How the overall shift from traditional vehicles towards new energy vehicles will change the automotive supply chain

* Mitigation strategies that can be employed in times of unprecedented supply chain disruptions with special focus on chip shortage, wiring harness supply and the battery supply chain

Packing the Power: The future for EV battery transportation

All eyes are now on vehicle electrification and the production and transport of batteries will represent the single most significant disruption to the automotive supply chain.

This session will discuss the best ways to make this transformation successful and will focus on the significance of the circular economy and standardisation of packaging. Case studies will show the true environmental and financial impact of standard reusable packaging to their business.

Introducing the 'Zero Waste World' initiative, CHEP will demonstrate how they are using communication, collaboration, and innovation as key factors to help businesses eliminate waste and reduce empty miles to meet the ultimate target to become CO2 neutral over the next few years.

Establishing a car plant in Central Europe: Challenges & lessons learned

In 2018 Jaguar Land Rover launched a new production facility in Slovakia. Commissioning a new Plant, training an entire new workforce and deploying a new Production/Logistics IT system are all extremely challenging activities and when you try to do all three at once, you know it will be an interesting few years.

Dave Brindley will talk about:

• * The lessons learnt following the launch of the new facility

* The key risks for any new launch and how they can be identified

* The challenges of becoming a major employer in a region where you have no previous presence

Brexit: Barriers and Bridges

Trade between GB and the EU was strongly impacted by Brexit and new customs procedures certainly disrupted cross-channel supply chains.in the early days but what does the picture look like almost 18 months on.

Even if “Brexit is done”, GB processes are still evolving. Customs, Sanitary & Phytosanitary controls at the border continue to be postponed and the British Border Operating Model is due to change again several times by 2023.

Olivier Thouard, Co-Chair of the British Intermediaries Task Force Group, will explore the main changes and how they have impacted roles and responsibilities within the supply chain before going on to discuss the likely next steps and the outlook for the future.

Next version of MMOG/LE is on the way

Supply crises can arise from many different sources and are generally unavoidable. The industry can, however, improve its preparations for unforeseen events and MMOG/LE addresses many of the issues that can help organisations to protect their supply chain.

At the same time, the industry never stands still so, to ensure that MMOG/LE continues to take account of the latest developments and latest trends in Supply Chain Management and is fit for the future, the catalogue of audit questions is reviewed every 3 years.

A core team of Odette and AIAG members is now working on Version 6 and has already defined the major axes of development to help secure supply chains. Learn from this session:

• * MMOG/LE: a core component of sourcing processes and continuous improvement
• * MMOG/LE v6: why is MMOG being updated and what are the key drivers for the new version
• * MMOG Platform: latest evolutions