The Supply Chain Orchestration Forum – Benelux

Coordinating Complexity: From Fragmented Planning to Real-Time Supply Chain Orchestration

Supply chain leaders today face a shared challenge: global networks are more complex and volatile than ever, yet many organisations still rely on fragmented planning, disconnected systems, and sequential decision-making.

This often results in visibility gaps across functions and regions, slower responses to disruption, and decisions made without a full view of downstream impact. Incremental improvements to traditional planning approaches are rarely enough to match the pace of change.

This session explores how leading organisations are moving toward real-time, connected orchestration of supply chain decision-making, enabling faster, more aligned responses to volatility and improved coordination across the end-to-end network.

It will also examine common pitfalls on this journey, including siloed optimisation, limited scenario discipline, and challenges in cross-functional alignment, and how these can be addressed when building more adaptive operating models.

Strategic Perspective on Orchestration at Scale

This session introduces Kinaxis’ vision for the adaptive supply chain – designed for a world where volatility is constant and traditional; sequential planning no longer keeps pace. It outlines a shift toward autonomous concurrent orchestration, where decisions are made continuously, end‑to‑end, and grounded in a single, shared model of truth. The presentation explores how decision intelligence – combining concurrent planning, optimization, machine learning, and AI agents – enables organizations to sense disruption earlier, assess impact instantly, and adapt intelligently. It also highlights the evolution of the Kinaxis Maestro platform, including data fabric foundations, ML‑based forecasting, advanced optimization, and agentic AI working alongside human decision‑makers. Attendees will gain a clear view of what it takes to build enterprise‑wide decision‑making into supply chains that adapt in real time and turn volatility into advantage.

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The Adaptive Supply Chain Imperative: Navigating Volatility with Confidence

Across complex, global supply chain environments, volatility has shifted from episodic disruption to a constant operating reality. Senior supply chain and operations leaders are under increasing pressure to make faster, better-aligned decisions across planning, manufacturing, logistics, and execution—often while balancing competing priorities around resilience, service, cost, and sustainability.
While organisations have invested significantly in advanced planning, analytics, and AI, many continue to face a common challenge: translating intelligence into decisions that can be trusted, aligned, and acted upon at enterprise scale. Fragmented processes, siloed data, and manual intervention often slow responsiveness precisely when speed and confidence matter most.

This executive roundtable brings together senior supply chain and operations leaders for a closed-door, peer-level discussion on how organisations are evolving toward more adaptive, orchestrated decision-making models. The session will explore what it takes to move beyond reactive planning toward supply chains that can continuously sense change, evaluate trade-offs, and act with confidence in an increasingly complex environment.

Moderated by an independent facilitator and hosted by Kinaxis regional leadership, the discussion is designed to be insight led, practical, and interactive – focused on leadership perspectives, operating-model shifts, and real-world lessons rather than technology demonstrations.

Key discussion themes

• From planning to orchestration:How are organisations evolving beyond traditional planning cycles toward more adaptive, real-time, and coordinated decision-making across the supply chain?
• Decision-making at speed and scale:What enables supply chain organisations to respond quickly without sacrificing confidence, alignment, or control – and where do decision bottlenecks persist?
• AI as a decision enabler:Where is AI genuinely improving the speed, quality, and confidence of supply chain decisions today, and what separates scalable progress from stalled initiatives?
• Trust, governance, and accountability: As intelligence becomes embedded in critical processes, how are leaders ensuring transparency, governance, and accountability in decision-making?
• Cross functional alignment: How can organisations build confidence in decisions that span supply chain, finance, and commercial teams, particularly when trade-offs carry significant operational and financial impact?
• Leading through continuous volatility: How is the role of the supply chain leader evolving, and what capabilities will define success in an environment of ongoing change?