The Chemical expert session will focus on the main industry challenges for both the short and long term. For each industry challenge, we’ll discuss the business context and our path towards the future. Via interactive questions and polls, we can capture your priorities and guarantee a good focus during our expert session and our road map.

During this Consumer Goods expert session, it is all about interactivity with our customers. We will touch on some compelling industry challenges like obsolete products, planning organization, and planning frequency in a format that enables valuable interaction. We’ll talk about what is yet to come and provide an open platform to propose upcoming topics for 2022 and beyond.

This expert session will report on actions that happened over the last two years since the first OMP Innovation Council. We will interactively poll and discuss key innovation and digital transformation challenges for 2022 and beyond. Then we'll zoom in on three specific transformation topics: control towers, customer-driven innovation process, and resilient planning.

The Life Sciences expert session will review the industry challenges discussed over the past years and link them to recent OMP innovations.

The Metals expert session will discuss the three main challenges of the industry. It will focus on extended supply chains, the alignment of supply chain metrics with business strategy, and the benefits of stocks in a make-to-order environment. Through crucial questions will we map out possible paths towards the future.

The Packaging expert session will look into the main supply chain challenges that packaging companies face these days. OMP will provide insight into the domain of automated, smart planning and the important role of data quality in this context.

The Paper & Film expert session will focus on the main industry and supply chain challenges companies face these days. We’ll look into the demand forecasting issue resulting from the exceptional market conditions, and how to get to responsive forward-looking planning.

The Technology expert session focuses on end-to-end architecture. We will touch on the path forward on cloud and integration, including OMP Cloud Microsoft Azure, OMP vs. customer tenant, Microsoft Azure regions outside EU or US, SAP S4/HANA (private vs. public cloud), SAP Integration over middleware, data fabrics, and more.