Part One: Network Optimization and Digital Twinning | SupplyChainBrain

Part One: Network Optimization and Digital Twinning

Deloitte Consulting

June 20, 2022

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is Episode 1 of our Webinar series with Deloitte Consulting. Register for Episode 2.

Webinar Description

Leading companies are adopting new strategies to prepare for the impacts of the next inevitable disruption. One such strategy is the use of next-level simulation technology to build digital twins that can simulate individual supply chain elements such as factories and warehouses – as well as entire supply chains and ecosystems.

Supply chain simulation using digital twins is the next major advance in how companies can make the most of their existing analytics tools and data

Twinning helps identify problems BEFORE they occur. You can develop and test solutions FASTER and CHEAPER with LESS RISK.

What you will take away:

Optimization - Learning what it is and how to do it
The concept of twinning will be demystified and made real
Approaches on how to simplify the optimization of your supply chain

Speakers:

Thomas Boykin, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

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