Logicon24 Agenda

Reimagine Supply Chain: A Better Way Forward

The challenges facing supply chain leaders today have not changed, but they are fundamentally bigger, more rapid, and frequent. What has changed are the tools to address these challenges and Logility is at the forefront of that innovation. Hear Allan’s vision for how the industry can collectively reimagine supply chain and chart a better way forward.

Unlearning to Learn: The Past Doesn’t Hold the Key to the Future

In the world of supply chain, knowledge and experience are essential. However, the ability to let go of the past to recognize what’s possible in the future can mean the difference between transformation and stagnation. Join Simon Anderson – futurist, award-winning author, and expert on emerging technologies – to hear why unlearning and relearning have become as important as learning itself. And to learn why removing organizational blinders can hold the key to thriving in the highly competitive supply chain environment.

Executive Panel: Building a Future-Ready Supply Chain

For supply chain leaders, success is a delicate balancing act of managing today while also planning for the future. How are your peers deciding where to place their bets? What keeps them up at night? And is anyone really using GenAI? Join us as we explore these and other questions with supply chain leaders who walk a mile in your shoes every single day.

The Cybersecurity Supply Chain Conundrum

High profile cyberattacks that disrupt supply chains and upend not just organizations but also economies have become commonplace. The threat is real – and growing. Join Rachel Wilson, Director of Cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and former NSA Senior Executive, for information every supply chain leader should know. You’ll learn about today’s threat landscape and get practical, applicable advice for reducing risk in an environment where one mistake is all it takes.

How Logility is Reimagining Supply Chain:
Innovation Roadmap

The Logility product team is deeply focused on delivering market-driven innovations designed to drive both incremental and transformational improvements to your supply chain planning processes. Join Kevin McInturff, Logility’s Chief Technology Officer, for a walkthrough of the Logility Roadmap, including what’s new and what’s ahead. Covering everything from new AI-first solutions that will change the way you think about supply chain to improvements designed to increase efficiency, productivity, and collaboration, this session is designed to inform and inspire.

Discussion Forums

Get interactive with keynote speakers and Logility clients to ask the questions you really want answers to. Each discussion forum is designed to provide you the open space to learn and collaborate with experts in the field.

Discussion Forum #1: Change Management Strategies

Hosted by futurist and author Simon Anderson, this forum will focus on tackling the challenges around change management and creating a ‘Future Ready’ organization. If you’re preparing or implementing big changes, this is the discussion for you. Bring your questions and best practices to explore innovative strategies to drive organizational transformation.

Discussion Forum #2: Cybersecurity Risks & Mitigation

Hosted by Rachel Wilson, former NSA executive and head of cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley and Aaron Moffett, Information Security Manager, Logility, this forum will focus on addressing questions around cybersecurity threats and best practices to mitigate those risks. If you’re looking for better ways to protect your data and keep your systems secure this is the discussion for you.

Discussion Forum #3: Emerging Technology Adoption

Hosted by Jim Kilpatrick, Head of Global Supply Chain Operations for Deloitte CA along with Allan Dow, Chief Executive Officer for Logility, this forum will answer questions around emerging technology adoption. If you have questions around developing a strategy to adopt generative AI or other new technologies, questioning how to make the case for the investment or prove the value, this is the discussion for you.

Discussion Forum #4: S&OP Transformation

Hosted by Angie Taylor, Vice President of Sales Operations, PPC Flex, this forum will focus on S&OP evolution strategies to help keep supply chain organizations competitive. If you want to hear more and ask questions about Angie’s experience transforming PPC Flex’s sales and service model to support significant sales growth, this is the discussion for you.

Discussion Forum #5: Attracting the Next Generation of Supply Chain Professionals

Hosted by Sean Rierdon, Executive Director US/CA Supply Chain, Clarios, this forum will focus on answering questions and sharing best practices around attracting and retaining the next generation of supply chain professionals. If you’re wanting to learn new ways to harness tenured knowledge and expertise, with new ideas and expectations from the next generation, this is the discussion for you.

Getting Started with Generative AI

The world of generative AI is rapidly evolving, presenting both immense opportunities and complexities. Join experts as they explain this groundbreaking technology and provide practical guidance for businesses eager to harness its potential. This session will equip you with the essential knowledge about risks, how we solve them, and value to embark on your generative AI journey with Logility.

Real World Use Cases

Explore the practical applications of generative AI in addressing critical business challenges. Delve into real-world examples of how organizations are leveraging Logility’s generative AI solution, Logility Expert Advisor (LEA) to optimize planning, manage supply chain complexities, and enhance financial performance.

Use cases include:

Supply Chain Health
Constraints Visibility
Root Causes of Dropped Demand

Demand Sensing with Life Sciences

In a discussion with a large Life Sciences company we will explore how AI as applied for demand sensing can help with understanding the order patterns of your customers, their inventory, and their sell out information. This understanding will not only improve forecast accuracy substantially, but it will also reduce the unexpected fluctuations and give early signals on customer behavior allowing a more effective and efficient organization.

Process Orchestration and Collaboration

Cross-functional workflows that align activities and document critical business processes are essential to your business. Find out how Logility’s Decision Command Center can support the need to easily train new users, break down organizational silos, and lay a foundation to mature your planning process.

Hamilton Beach: The Case for the Cloud

After using Logility’s self-managed supply chain planning solutions for over a decade, Hamilton Beach was ready to optimize inventory levels, accelerate turns, respond to market demands faster, and speed decision-making in the cloud. Learn about their move to Logility’s SaaS solutions in anticipation of seamless upgrades, lower supply chain penalties, and increased profits.

Moving to the Cloud: What’s in it for me?

Need more hours in your day? Learn how a move to the cloud can save time and improve efficiency by streamlining daily planning processes, automating updates, reducing risk, and simplifying support. With more time for analysis, planners are elevated to a more strategic role.

Mastering Stochastic Planning: Optimizing Inventory Amid Intermittent Demand

Learn to identify non-normal demand distributions, automate inventory policies, and apply stochastic planning for low and lumpy demand. Increase service levels, lower investment in D items, and better manage your bottom 80% of SKUs using probability-based inventory optimization.

Logility User Tips & Tricks

Join David Leonard, an expert Supply Chain Manager and Logility user, to learn essential tips for managing forecasts, optimizing safety stock, and enhancing supply chain efficiency. Discover how Glen Raven grew top line revenue and improved service levels without increasing inventories.

Simon Anderson is an international futurist keynote speaker, applied foresight expert, executive advisor, and award-winning author. With a mission to help executives and organizations move beyond resilience and become future ready, Simon translates complex emerging trends and technologies into actionable insights and strategies using his Future Ready Formula™.

Featured in worldwide publications, Simon co-authored the award-winning book Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow. He was a co-founder of the Future Ready Economies network, and now partners with economic development professionals to prepare and adapt their communities and regions for a successful future.

Session: Unlearning to Learn: The Past Doesn’t Hold the Key to the Future

Allan Dow, Chief Executive Officer of Logility, and President of American Software, has 30+ years of supply chain technology experience focused on bringing innovative solutions to global organizations that optimize supply chain management. Allan has led Logility to be a pioneer in AI-first supply chain solutions blending Generative AI, advanced AI-driven algorithms, machine learning, and predictive analytics to help deliver integrated planning and operations across the end-to-end supply chain. Logility was recently named a leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions.

Outside of his work with Logility, he is an active member of the Empty Stocking Fund (ESF), a program focused on providing children in poverty a brighter holiday season, and champions other local organizations focused on ending food security in Atlanta, GA where Logility is headquartered. In addition, he volunteers with Georgia Tech to educate and support early in career supply chain professionals about the opportunities available to them post-graduation.  

Mr. Dow holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine. 

Sessions: Reimagine Supply Chain: A Better Way Forward & Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

Jim Kilpatrick is the global leader of Deloitte’s supply chain and network operations consulting practice. Deloitte is a leading global supply chain and operations consultancy, working with clients across industries and the public sector to provide solutions for complex operational challenges and to improve supply chain capabilities. Kilpatrick has been driving Deloitte’s supply chain alliances, ecosystem partnerships, and asset development by leveraging rapidly advancing digital and physical automation technologies to enable smart factories, smart distribution centers, and digital supply networks.

In his over 30 years with Deloitte, Kilpatrick has led many global end-to-end supply chain transformation programs, impacting global supply chain optimization and leveraging advanced supply chain systems and technologies to enhance capability and improve performance. He deems building digital capability as critical to moving beyond traditional service, cost, and asset optimization and embracing new supply chain imperatives of resilience, sustainability, and agility, finding the right balance in reimagining supply networks for the future. Kilpatrick is a frequent speaker and author on supply chain management. He received his MBA from the University of Toronto and received a degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is a professional engineer and Lean 6-Sigma Master Black Belt.

Session: Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

With 16 years of experience at Clarios, Sean Rierdon is a strategic business optimizer recognized for driving high-impact transformation across large global business divisions. He possesses deep expertise in finance and operations, executing strategies that improve overall efficiency, data-driven decisions, customer service, and cost savings. Prior to his time at Clarios, Sean was a Director at Johnson Controls leading diverse financial initiatives. Sean holds a bachelor’s in accounting from St. Norbert College, and an MBA from Marquette University. He is also an active Board Member for Next Act Theatre.

Session: Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

Angie Taylor serves as VP Sales Operations for PPC Flex with a diverse background in product development, supply chain and sales and operations planning.

In her current role, she leads Sales Operations across the PPC enterprise and has responsibility for the Consumer East Customer Service and Supply Chain Operations Teams. Angie has effectively led the transformation of the organization’s sales and service model to support significant sales growth within existing and prospective customers.

Session: Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

Kevin McInturff Chief Technology Officer of Logility, has 20+ years of experience in product and engineering roles.  He spent his early career as an engineer on a plant floor working in industrial automation and plant information systems before moving into enterprise SaaS software. Under his leadership Logility has accelerated the pace of innovation and focused on delivering high quality product, a superior user experience and solutions that enable supply chain organizations to anticipate disruptions as opportunities to reap competitive advantages. He is passionate about understanding and meeting client needs with innovative solutions while building great engineering and product culture within his team.

Outside of his work with Logility he actively volunteers with the 501st Legion a non-profit who partners with other organizations to brighten the lives of the less fortunate and to bring awareness to positive causes on both a local and global scale. Kevin is a lifelong learner, an artist, and avid practitioner of the art of tsundoku.

He has earned a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Masters of Science, Management of Technology from Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. Kevin lives in Smyrna, Georgia with his wife and three daughters.

Session: How Logility is Reimagining Supply Chain: Innovation Roadmap

Rachel Wilson spent the first 15 years of her career at the National Security Agency (NSA). Over the course of her NSA career, she held several key senior executive level leadership positions focused on counterterrorism operations, intelligence services and cyber exploitation operations around the world.

Rachel is currently a Managing Director and Head of Cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, responsible for protecting the cybersecurity of Wealth Management, Investment Management and Prime Brokerage systems, and the integrity and confidentiality of Firm and client data. 

Rachel is a sought-after speaker for technology, financial, and professional forums being recognized across  global stages and winning many awards for her work.

In her private capacity, Rachel advises individuals, corporations and institutions on cybersecurity best practices and strategies. She serves on the Advisory Board of WATSCO Inc (NYSE: WSO) and on the CISO Advisory Board of Amgen Inc (NASDAQ: AMGN).  Rachel is a leading thinker on protecting children and teenagers from cyber threats and loves educating young people and their parents on how to be safe citizens on the internet. Rachel holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the University of Chicago. Rachel and her husband live in New York City with their two children.

Session: The Cybersecurity Supply Chain Conundrum