IPG GROUP participated in 11th Logistics Forum Lake Constanz in the Festspielhaus Bregenz. The forum was organized by Verein Netzwerk Logistik (VNL) for 300 participants under the motto “Logistics – a tightrope walk!? From digital vision and real manageability”.
Industry 4.0 has already slowly, yet decisively, set its foot in production systems and processes. Nevertheless, gap between digital visions and reality still represents stumbling stone to its implementation. Only intelligent solutions with appropriate interplay between supply chain organization and innovative technologies can help overcome this challenge. Such a setting may, and sometimes should, bring completely innovative business models, so that sustainability of supply chain and its resiliency to failures are preserved. Technology development continuously push the boundaries of opportunities in digitalizing physical flow of goods, and by doing so, adds significant contribution to improving service and sales and reducing costs.
Logistics Forum Bodensee offered a platform for knowledge transfer, exchange of experience and networking. It brought specialists lectures and established experts on visions and use cases of how solutions were implemented by companies from industry, trade and services. The participants got valuable insights from broad range of fields, including logistics, purchasing / procurement, production, distribution, SCM and HR.
Lecturers and topics:
- Michael Prohaska (the tean) – “Digital disruption – Are you still sitting confortably?”
- Peter Stetyer (Ivii) – “Humans 4.0 and robotics at Pankl Racing”
- Carsten Vollrath (IPG GROUP) – “Purchasing without future, future without purchasing?”
- Thomas Stoehr (Schaeffler) – “Digitalization in purchasing using the example of Schaeffler AG”
- Jodok Batlogg (CRATE.IO) – “Industry 4.0 in manufacturing: an example”
- Marcus Kottinger (Axians ICT) – Watson Plant Advisor – digital helper in the Smart Factory”
- Walter Bostelmann (Kellner & Kunz AG) – “Digital production supply in real time – From classic trade logistics to networked system of providers”
- Michael Stalzer (Hartlauer) – “Logistics solutions as part of Customer Centricity in Retail”
- David Moosbrugger (Hans Künz) – “New business models and process change at Künz based on intelligent data usage”
- Natascha Gasser (Gebrüder Weiss) and Irene Häntschel-Erhart (Xvise) – “Digital learning in transport and logistics industry”
- Ralf Mittermayr (Saubermacher Dienstleistungs) – winner of the Austrian Logistics Prize 2018 – “Digital and disruptive solutions for (waste management) logistics”
“Herzrasen 2.0 – To pursue and achieve ambitious goals with donor heart” was the title of Elmar Sprink’s motivational closing lecture. Here, the endurance athlete and author talked about his “tightrope walk” and how to “achieve his goals with courage and discipline”.