Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

Speaker TBD, One Network

The supply chain is wide and varied. Sourcing API’s, distributing finished products, collaborating with distributors and other logistical partners, and ensuring final delivery to pharmacies, hospitals and patients takes consistent and clear communication across the vast systems and networks that we operate in. The soft skills needed to ensure that strategies are being followed and key goals are being reached are paramount to the success of operations. Join us for a panel that will dive into the types of conversations you and your teams should be having with your partners across the value chain and explore different ways to communicate key initiatives important for success.

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Tony Fonk, SpotSee

Tony Fonk

President & CEO
SpotSee

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Nothing is more stressful than feeling your own temperature rise as you see a shipment of temperature control medications sitting idle and in the open. Unfortunately, these bottlenecks and inefficiencies happen all too often and can cause time, money and a ton of friction between the various stakeholders that the shipment has. Join us as we dive into ways supply chain leaders can look at their cold chain data to:

• Use AI tools to help map out temp patterns.
• Identify bottlenecks ahead of time to minimize inefficiencies.
• Create cost saving strategies for various stages of the cold chain distribution.

Speaker TBD, AeroSafe Global

As we have been exploring, pharma is looking at the Scope 3 emissions generated by its supply chain operations and realizes that it needs to cut them down significantly. To add to this, eco-friendly and sustainability minded consumers are beginning to demand that pharma take steps to improve their packaging to reduce the harm done to the environment. While this is no easy task, especially when it comes to large shipments, progress has been made. Join us as we dive into sustainable packaging and learn about the ways the industry continues to answer the call to be more sustainable in its packaging, especially when it comes to shipping larger quantities of medication. Topics we will explore include:

• Understanding the opportunities and limitations of temperature controlled sustainable packaging.
• Highlighting the steps that manufacturers, distributors and packaging providers can take to help ensure sustainable packaging initiatives are carried out in lockstep and successfully.
• A real look at sustainable packaging technologies and understanding where innovation is improving this important offering.

Speaker TBD, Cold Chain Technologies

Speaker TBD, CargoSense

AI is here and everyone is excited to see what it can do for their workforce. Like any shiny new tool though, understanding the practical applications is key to ensuring proper investments and the creation of sound strategies for scaling. Join us as we dive into practical use cases for AI in the supply chain and explore how:

• AI can aid in supply chain protection and security.
• How demand forecasting has been improved through AI tools.
• The steps needed to ensure proper AI onboarding and usage.

Managing global supply chain operations is no easy task. The amount of information being traded across different systems is vast and when it comes to accurately tracking that information, the job gets even more daunting. Luckily, tools and systems optimized for big data analysis help us extract valuable insights to make better data driven decisions. Join us for a panel that looks at the world of big data analytics and helps us understand how:

• Communication and collaboration can be improved by using big data.
• The enhancement of supply chain performance monitoring is being shaped by big data analytics.
• The steps you need to take to ensure that your big data is ready to help you make data driven decisions at various levels of your supply chain.

Speaker TBD, VeraTrak

So much of the supply chain relies on being able to trust your partners. This is crucial and therefore needs to be supported at every level. In order to build trust, supply chain leaders need to build an ecosystem that promotes transparency, collaboration and clear and consistent communication. This panel will dive into some best practices for creating such ecosystems and explore how supply chain leaders can begin to grow their partnerships in a trustworthy and effective manner. Topics include:

• Creating change management strategies for different partners and parts of your supply chain.
• Understanding how to best coordinate internally to share goals with external parties.
• Tools and systems that can aid in building resiliency in your partnerships.

The nature of AI technologies is to help draw conclusions faster and in an accurate manner. Predictive analytics, demand forecasting, smart warehousing and quality control are just some of the functions that AI can help build resilient strategies around. However, teams need to remember that for AI, you need to learn to walk before you run as there are serious considerations and steps needed to enable AI for resiliency functions. Join us for a panel discussion that dives into the world of AI in supply chain resiliency, and which helps us understand:

• The steps needed to set up AI platforms and tools to aid in building resiliency strategies.
• The types of data and ecosystems required to successfully launch and maintain AI tools for resiliency purposes.
• The shortcomings of AI and what you should practically expect these types of tools to do for your teams.

Speaker TBD, ParkourSC

Gaining insights into Scope 3 emissions across the pharma value chain is a complex endeavor. In addition to the lack of ESG standards, some regional partners don’t even track their emissions, leaving huge gaps in reporting. Furthermore, the complexities around data sharing and data protection adds a layer of hurdles that makes it even more difficult to capture the stats needed. However, not all is lost. Join us for a session that dives into the world of ESG data and Scope 3 reporting and gives us some nuggets of wisdom for successfully tracking and reporting your Scope 3 emissions. We will explore:

• Implementing tools like blockchain and other traceable technologies to track emissions data.
• Leveraging industry associations and regulatory bodies to help peel back the layers of invisibility around certain emissions.
• Create incentives for suppliers and partners to engage in emission tracking and data sharing goals.

According to McKinsey, most emissions in life sciences fall under Scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 emissions mean that the carbon offput is not directly controlled by the manufacturer, making it harder for pharma to accurately track and execute carbon reduction activities. As one of the largest producers of carbon, the pharma supply chain must work diligently both internally and with trusted external partners if it is to accomplish some of the goals it has set for itself. Join us for a panel discussion that peels back the layers of mystery around Scope 3 emission targeting and reduction and gives us an inside view into how manufacturers and their partners are going to reduce the supply chain’s carbon footprint. Topics include:

• Finding the right partners and establishing proper guidelines for tackling Scope 3 goals.
• What sustainability in the pharma supply chain could and will look like, realistically.
• Ways that organizations across the value chain can start taking proper steps to ensure sustainability goals are being met.

Speaker TBD, Kuehne + Nagel

The advancement of different therapeutics has allowed for a big reliance on cold chain operations to take hold. Therapies and medications that must be kept ultra cool from production all the way to administration have skyrocketed over recent years and pharma’s need to keep eyes on these products has increased alongside that demand. The interconnectivity of the supply chain demands that all partners that touch these shipments be well versed in cold chain shipping. But as Direct – to – Patient takes hold, ensuring that these white glove medications are supported in their delivery holds many hurdles. Join us as we dive into the world of ultra-low medication delivery and look across all stages of the supply chain to address:

• How visibility requirements for ultra-low temp medications will change as direct-to-patient becomes more common.
• What trusted partners need to have to ensure adequate storage and delivery of these therapeutics.
• Tools and technologies that will aid in reducing temp excursions for deep freeze biologics.  

Speaker TBD, TemperPack

The promise of tools like AI means that the collection and sharing of internal data needs to be enabled thoroughly in order to gain the most out of the tools. Often times, supplier interfaces and customer interfaces provide a wealth of data sets that can offer supply chain leaders different views on common hurdles. However, gaining visibility and enabling safe and accurate data sharing can be a tough hurdle to overcome. Join us for a conversation that brings the whole supply chain together to address how data sharing in today’s pharma landscape can help improve processes and strategies from material sourcing all the way to delivery.

With our consumers becoming more informed and demanding better delivery results, the pharma supply chain must be ready to meet their customers where they are and deliver medications on time and in good condition. While adding tools that enhance visibility and ensure proper delivery conditions are keys to success, listening to our customers and developing processes and work flows that enable those tools to be optimized for our customer’s needs is the real secret to success. Join us as we look at ways we can leverage customer insights to instruct our supply chain strategies to be more in line with our customers’ expectations.

Since its introduction into supply chain operations, IoT devices have helped the pharma supply chain reach levels of efficiency never thought imagined. Now, as pharma sets its eyes on becoming more eco-friendly, IoT devices can once again hold the key to helping us shape a more sustainable value chain. Join us for a discussion that focuses on the use of IoT devices to:

• Improve planning and reduce emissions typically associated with transportation.
• Develop optimized operations by tracking movement, temperature, manufacturing processes and storage energy consumption.
• Improve product lifecycle monitoring reducing waste typically associated with expired and damaged goods.