Orchestrating Outcomes

Lights-out manufacturing may be 50 years out, maybe 100 years out, or maybe it's a never-in-my-lifetime kind of a thing, or any lifetime. But the thing is, if you aspire to that, you will move in the right direction.

Arun Giddu

Director of Supply Chain

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Amazon has made the notion of two-hour, two-day delivery as status quo. What we're seeing on the healthcare side is more and more healthcare providers are starting to think, 'You know what, we need to have the same attitude.'

Guy Courtin

VP, Industry & Global Alliances

Tecsys

Data for data's sake really is just data at the end of the day. I think where [the industry] struggles a little bit is to apply that information and apply it in a way that gives us something that is meaningful and useful.

Dan Bell

SVP, Innovation & Strategic Operations

Marken

Sometimes you can't jump in the Lamborghini. You’ve gotta start with the Toyota... It takes a good person, a good leader to understand: Yeah, I want that, but I'm not there yet. I don't have the master data. I don't have the expertise.

Jeff Borden

VP, North American Supply Chain

Sandoz

Where do I see the next exciting part of the journey? It's all of this data, all of this information that we've got. How can we identify the real, actionable, and differentiating insights from that data that will allow tomorrow's shipments to be handled more perfectly?

Jon Chapman

VP of Pharma Healthcare

Kuehne+Nagel

Lights-out manufacturing may be 50 years out, maybe 100 years out, or maybe it's a never-in-my-lifetime kind of a thing, or any lifetime. But the thing is, if you aspire to that, you will move in the right direction.

Arun Giddu

Director of Supply Chain

Thermo Fisher Scientific