Supply Chains in today’s world have changed and morphed drastically in the last 24 months for manufacturers in all industries: High Tech, Pharma, Automotive, Retail, and others. These events have created an even more compelling business case for real time systems and the need for predictive planning and analytics. The key use cases are: production planning & scheduling, inventory management, lean manufacturing, asset & raw material optimization, IoT enablement, and demand & capacity planning. This is further complicated by the lack of full supply chain visibility and the need to ‘What If’ and accurately forecast at a detailed level for these use cases.
The focus of this webinar is to identify how Machine Learning, Visualizations, and streaming technology can directly increase the accuracy and output of systems to drive revenue, cut costs, and include 'Human in the Loop.’ This event is designed in a 'Speed Dating' format, focusing on key topics for under 15 minutes in order to maximize the insights. During this online meetup, you'll learn from our Confluent & Expero experts how to unlock the potential in your organization. We will feature Expero technology lightning talks followed by a short Q&A.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- Key Challenges in Supply Chains: Illustrate why Confluent in combination with Visualization, Graph, & Machine Learning utilize 'Human in the Loop' for maximum accuracy and productivity
- Increase Accuracy & Forecasting by 10%: Utilize Machine Learning & Graph technology techniques with Graph and other platforms to increase more accurate and dependable outcomes
- Actionable Visualization: Creation of deep link dependencies for explainable machine learning and predictive outputs for schedulers, planners, and executives for more accurate and dependable outcomes
- Leverage Confluent, ML & Visualization: Practical examples of how to ‘Bolt On’ Confluent, ML & Visualization to rapidly cut costs & increase profit. Break the spreadsheet cycle and leverage current infrastructure & ERP connections.
- Creation of Real Time ‘What If’ for Preventive & Predictive Analytics: The ability to create tools and visualizations for executive and planners to optimize in real time for: profit, time, truck operators, fleet management, loads, cost | profit management, routes, weather, risk, and many others
- Explainable Machine Learning: Examples of how ‘human-in-the loop’ increases profit and throughput with practical uses and methods in conjunction with ML & visualization
Session 1 (12 min): Why Streaming, Visualizations, ML & Graph combined with visualizations can be game changers for supply chains. 'The art of the possible' (Demos) for real time planning and analytics systems - management, planning, and ML & data practitioner view
Session 2 (12 min): Details on how Streaming technology like Confluent in conjunction with ML with other technologies can create real time options, optimize cost & revenue, increase accuracy, and move towards predictive forecasting and active scenario analysis
Session 3 (12 min): How does Confluent accelerate and change the game with Supply chain and IoT. Illustrations of the ecosystem elements fit together
Session 4 (12 min): Hands-on with Confluent and ways to get started with Streaming, ML, visualizations, & other technologies for a cohesive approach to Supply Chain and IoT
Session 5 (5 min): Open Q&A
Kai Waehner works as Technology Evangelist at Confluent. Kai’s main area of expertise lies within the fields of Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning / Deep Learning, Cloud / Hybrid Architectures, Messaging, Integration, Microservices, Stream Processing, Internet of Things and Blockchain. He is a regular speaker at international conferences such as Kafka Summit, O’Reilly Software Architecture or ApacheCon, writes articles for professional journals, and shares his experiences with new technologies on his blog (www.kai-waehner.de/blog).
