Commercial Partners

Buck Consultants International

Buck Consultants International is one of the global leaders in developing comprehensive manufacturing and supply chain footprint/location strategies and selecting sites for new operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa; the US; and the Asia Pacific region (including China and India). BCI has offices in Europe in Nijmegen, The Hague (both the Netherlands), London, Frankfurt; in APAC in Shanghai and Singapore (for the whole region, including India); and in the US in Atlanta, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. In the last 37 years we worked for more than 1,000 clients including companies like ABB, Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Baxter Healthcare, Becton Dickinson, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, BP, Celgene, Cisco, Columbia Sportswear, Cytec, Danone, Donaldson, Edwards Lifesciences, Emerson, ExxonMobil, Gentherm, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Microsoft, Mitutoyo, Michael Kors, Mondelez, NCR, Nestle, Novartis, Novocure, O’Neill, Philips, Pitney Bowes, Roche, Sandvik, SAP, Shell, Urban Outfitters VF Corporation, and Yamaha. Our dedicated professionals have the experience and expertise to assist you with realigning your company’s footprint to accommodate (geographic) growth, geopolitical uncertainties and to improve the bottom line.

René Buck, CEO, +31 24 3790222, rene.buck@bciglobal.com.

www.bciglobal.com

Chartwell Consulting

Chartwell helps leading manufacturing businesses deliver industry beating improvements in: PRODUCTIVITY – PERFORMANCE – PROFIT

Despite much investment in Continuous Improvement and Lean / Six Sigma, large, often hidden opportunities remain within organisations. Our clients trust us to uncover this potential and deliver sustained, step change in their manufacturing operations’ financial performance.

We repeatedly achieve 20% – 50% improvement in performance in 2 – 6 months. We are passionate about delivering results and gladly held accountable for them. All our project work has a “no result, no fee” guarantee. 

www.chartwell-consulting.com/en/

Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, serves 220,000 users across 140 countries, providing virtual universes for sustainable innovation. 

DELMIA is a Dassault Systèmes brand that delivers Digital Continuity across the virtual and real worlds of manufacturing to engineer, operate, and optimize your global industrial processes. 

DELMIA Engineering applications drive manufacturing innovation by virtually defining, planning, creating, monitoring, and controlling all production processes. 

DELMIA Operations solutions help global manufacturers transform their global operations to achieve and sustain operational excellence.

DELMIA Optimization capabilities enable finite capacity planning, scheduling, synchronization and optimization for complex and batch business processes across all planning horizons.

As part of Dassault Systèmes, it’s Quintiq’s mission to solve the world’s planning puzzles using a single platform.

Quintiq supply chain planning and optimization solution increases visibility, prevents data silos and facilitates better collaboration both internally and with supply chain partners. It covers the entire supply chain from end to end across all planning horizons from strategic, via tactical to operational planning.

Quintiq’s integrated planning empowers your business processes to drive performance, beat the competition and maximize profits. At the click of a button, Quintiq optimizes hundreds of thousands of operations. Applied locally it optimizes sourcing, distribution, production and inventory. Applied globally it optimizes the entire supply chain, insulates it against risk and prepares for any eventualities.

www.3ds.com

Dataprophet

DataProphet is a leader in AI that enables manufacturers to step towards autonomous manufacturing. Our AI-as-a-service proactively prescribes changes to plant control plans to continuously optimize production without the expert human analysis that is typically required. As recognized by the World Economic Forum, DataProphet PRESCRIBE has helped customers around the world, with pre-emptive actions, to reduce their cost of non-quality by an average of 40 percent. We understand manufacturing and that real impact is achieved with pre-emptive actions because real-time is often too late.

dataprophet.com

IBM

IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. Today 47 of the Fortune 50 Companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business, and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 30,000 engagements. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 28 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is committed to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

www.ibm.com

Orbsen Consulting

Our focus is the delivery of premium consultancy in the areas of 

• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• Strategy development
• Systems deployment

• Pharmaceutical
• Medical Devices and other Healthcare
• Technology
• Food

www.orbsenconsulting.com

Parsable

Parsable (www.parsable.com) helps leaders at the world's largest industrial companies unlock the big data and insights needed to improve their frontline operations and build a more sustainable future. Leading manufacturers rely on Parsable’s Connected Worker® platform every day to track millions of data points from their frontline operations, and leverage unprecedented visibility to optimize productivity and drive ROI.

www.parsable.com

Poka

Poka is a connected worker app that gives factory workers the knowledge and tools they need to contribute to manufacturing excellence. The comprehensive platform combines digital content, collaboration, e-forms and skills management capabilities, enabling workers to learn, solve problems and share knowledge in real-time, on the factory floor. Poka was the recipient of the 2020 Open Bosch Award in recognition of outstanding innovation and was distinguished as one of 10 Connected Worker vendors in Gartner's Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy, 2021 Report. Poka is trusted by digital manufacturing leaders including Bosch, Nestle, Kraft Heinz, Danone, Mars, and Schneider Electric.

www.poka.io

sedApta

sedApta is an international formed group formed by the union of technology companies based in Italy, Germany, France and Brazil. Each company is a leader in their industry, and together we share over 30 years of experience in IT Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management.

The integration of planning and execution is becoming increasingly important, allowing manufacturing companies to equip themselves with tools that can improve responsiveness to last-minute variations in demand in terms of both production and purchasing. A key factor lies in a company’s ability to synchronize procurement and manufacturing aspects: the first one concerns development and the integrated management of supplier networks, the second one the production network. Today many companies operate within global supply networks, including customers, suppliers and production plants in different countries, and this complicates the synchronization of all the different actors.

Based on over 30 years of industrial experience, the sedApta Suite is an all-in-one solution to optimize processes along the entire supply chain. The Suite features an integrated set of our Sales & Operations Planning solutions, Manufacturing Operations Management solutions, and process optimization solutions. The integrated modules are supported by our innovative Process Orchestration, Support & Analytics platform, which serves as a “digital backbone” and allows companies to continuously improve business process by promoting a culture of change.

www.sedapta.com

Shell Energy

Shell is an international energy company with expertise in the exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future. We also invest in power, including from low-carbon sources such as wind and solar; and new fuels for transport, such as advanced biofuels and hydrogen. Shell's purpose is to power progress together with more and cleaner energy solutions. We believe that rising standards of living for a growing global population are likely to continue to drive demand for energy, including oil and gas, for years to come. At the same time, the need to tackle climate change means there is a global transition under way to a low-carbon energy system.

https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies.html

Tamturbo

Tamturbo was started in 2010 around the founding idea that the world needs a more environmentally friendly alternative to producing compressed air – we cannot continue wasting our most valuable resources, energy and environment. Our Unique technological advances combined with ingenious engineering work has brought to life a range of compressors that far surpasses the legacy technologies both in performance and in significantly lower life cycle cost. Our Touch-Free™ technology enables reliable and fully Oil-Free design and eliminates risks of compressed air contamination. In the end, we provide exactly what is needed – Just Air.

Born in one of the compressor capitals of the world, Tampere Finland, Tamturbo is expanding its footprint globally through distributors and partners. The compressor product family is complemented by a range of value adding products and services for efficient management of the compressed air production. From mobile container-based compressor rooms to multi-compressor control systems to 24/7 remote monitoring and service so that our partners and customers can feel Care-Free knowing that we have their compressed air production secured!

www.tamturbo.com

UKG

At UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), Our Purpose Is People. Built from a merger that created one of the largest cloud companies in the world, UKG believes organisations succeed when they focus on their people. As a leading global provider of HCM, payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions, UKG’s award-winning Pro, Dimensions, and Ready solutions help tens of thousands of organisations across geographies and in every industry drive better business outcomes, improve HR effectiveness, streamline the payroll process, and help make work a better, more connected experience for everyone. UKG has more than 12,000 employees around the globe and is known for its inclusive workplace culture. The company has earned numerous awards for its culture, products, and services, including consecutive years on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list.

www.ukg.com

Zaptic

Zaptic provides a connected worker platform for job instruction and collaboration for frontline teams, and a no-code toolkit designed to accelerate digital transformation of daily operations. 

Our mission is to improve the lives of frontline workers, by supporting safety, autonomy, productivity and continuous learning in frontline jobs. 

Using Zaptic, global manufacturing and service organisations are closing an industry 4.0 blindspot by moving daily operations out of spreadsheets, paper and tribal knowledge. 

Companies such as Carlsberg, Hovis, Celgard, Solenis and Monster are using zaptic to not only unlock measurable improvements in productivity, quality and safety, but also enable a smooth transfer of knowledge between the retiring and new generation of workers to improve market resiliency. 

www.zaptic.com