21st PQM-Dialog: Digitalization in the Supply Chain
- 22.05.2023
- Event Review
Event organizer Martin Adam together with Matthias Böhmer, Fitz Fahringer, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Michael Gschwandtner, Patrick Stoll, Lisa Kolar, Virgil Rabulet, Ivan Partic, Guido Simonis and Peter Holleis (from left to right).
The PQM dialog was organized for the 21st time by the ERP Systems & Business Process Management course, together with the Standortagentur Tirol and the Kufstein Chamber of Commerce. Around 115 participants attended the event in the festival hall.
The keynote speech, delivered by Mag. Annette Trawnicek, managing director of Hewlett-Packard Austria, dealt with the ever-increasing importance of data exchange between companies. The European GAIA-X initiative, which aims to implement a common Europe-wide set of rules, was used as an example.
Lisa Kolar, MA, Head of Communication at the Data Intelligence Offensive in Vienna, presented champi4.0n, a project in which various companies in the timber industry are testing the data sharing mentioned in the keynote address. Guido Simonis, an advisory partner at PwC Germany in Cologne, then showed how the SAP ERP software can be used to plan and track orders and enable traceability.
VARIOUS WORKSHOPS WITH EXPERTS
In one of the two parallel sessions that followed, Stefan Grüll, CEO and founder of S1Seven in Vienna, presented a digital material passport for metal. Among other things, this enables test certificates to be transferred from suppliers' IT systems to customers' software without media discontinuity. Avoiding media disruptions in data transmission was also the focus of the second session with Matthias Böhmer from Atos and Dr. Virgil Raibulet from Henkel.dx. As members of the automotive network Catena-X, they presented a digital passport for car batteries that enables traceability in the supply chain.
Digitization solutions in the supply chain of a transport company and a food retailer rounded off the examples in the two parallel sessions. Michael Gschwandtner, Director of Digital Business at the freight company LKW WALTER, used various IT solutions to show how customers or freight companies can view the status of orders in online portals. Peter Holleis and Ivana Partic from ICT Spar in Salzburg reported on how they digitized the supply chain from the web shop to the delivery of the ordered goods and the handling of complaints.
DIGITALIZATION FROM AN IT DEPARTMENT PERSPECTIVE
The event was rounded off by a presentation on technical debt in companies by Prof. Dr. Patrick Stoll, CIO of the Scheu Group in Iserlohn. Among other things, he pointed out the importance of standardized master data and a coordinated application landscape in order to implement the diverse strategic digitization initiatives in companies.
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- About the series of events
- About the degree program in ERP Systems and Business Process Management