Peak Planning addresses the growing complexity faced by manufacturing, wholesale, retail and logistics companies. Increasing demand volatility, scarcity of materials, supply chain disruptions, import tariffs, fluctuating exchange rates and continuous cost increases are putting traditional planning approaches under severe pressure. As highlighted in last year’s track, static planning is no longer sufficient in a world defined by uncertainty and rapid change.
In the breakout sessions, solution providers demonstrate how companies can move beyond reactive planning towards dynamic, scenario-driven decision-making. Through the use of Digital Supply Chain Twins, innovative Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) software, and AI-driven forecasting and demand sensing, companies can simulate “what-if” scenarios, anticipate risks and balance demand, supply and financial objectives. These technologies enable more resilient and agile global planning on the tactical mid-term horizon.
Break-out Sessions
1.30 - 1.50 PM
From ordering to planning
Speaker: Jan Kraaijeveld, Sales Director at Slimstock
Most supply chains don’t plan — they react. Low stock? Order. Problems? Order more. Surplus? Stop. This isn’t planning, but a reflex. ERP systems, fear of missing out, and Excel adjustments reinforce this. Ordering feels like control — but it’s merely treating the symptoms. And in a world of growing volatility, shorter product lifecycles and more SKUs, that approach no longer scales.
The shift: from reacting to orchestrating. Scenarios instead of fixed parameters, orchestrated decisions instead of manual corrections, focusing on value rather than just availability.
Many companies have the data. But they lack the structure to make decisions based on it.
The winner in the supply chain isn’t the one who orders the fastest — but the one who makes the best decisions.
2.00 - 2.10 PM
Complex supply chains deserve simple planning
Speaker: Wouter Samama, Co-founder & CEO, OAASIS (ex-P&G, ex-Kraft Heinz)
Supply chain complexity is real. Volatile demand, dozens of suppliers, tiered pricing, multi-site production, constrained capacity, dependencies. And the planning process became as complex as the chain itself. Planners are drowning in dispersed systems, spreadsheets, chasing data and firefighting instead of making decisions, trying to keep up.
The irony: the companies with the most complex supply chains but best performance have the simplest planning processes and most powerful systems.
This session makes the case that great planning is not about adding more tools, more meetings, or more data. It is about getting the fundamentals right. Drawing on experience at P&G and Kraft Heinz — and on real implementations at fast-growing mid-market companies — Wouter Samama shows what genuinely simple, effective planning looks like in practice: clear cycles, the right constraints, AI doing what AI is good at, and planners freed up to think rather than firefight.
For mid-market companies this is now within reach. The same methodology of solver-based optimisation and AI-driven planning that large corporates use is now made accessible. And the impact for supply chain is disproportionately large for companies making making that step change.
Complex supply chain. Simple planning. Serious results.
2.20 - 2.30 PM
New Frontiers in Supply Chain Decisions with AI
Speaker: Evrim Övünç, SVP Sales & Marketing EMEA at Sophus
The biggest challenge in making good decisions is understanding and aligning their end-to-end supply chain implications. Sophus will explain how its technology evolved with AI to deliver prescriptive, optimised answers even to tactical and operational questions.
2.40 - 2.50 PM
The Future of S&OP: Why AI Is No Longer Optional
Speaker: Jack Cheesbrough, CEO at I-Plan
Join Jack for a forward-looking discussion on how artificial intelligence is transforming Sales & Operations Planning for I-Plan customers. This session explores why AI is no longer a luxury but a necessity in today’s volatile supply chain landscape. Discover how early adopters are gaining meaningful advantages. Learn how I-Plan is helping its customers stay ahead of the curve by embedding AI into the heart of their planning processes.
3.10 - 3.30 PM
Where continuous planning becomes agentic
Board delivers Analytical AI, Generative AI, and persona-based, domain-specific AI agents enabling continuous planning and accurate forecasting. Built on a single, unified platform, Board brings financial and operational planning together to drive aligned, confident decisions.
3.40 - 3.50 PM
Supply Chain Design Is Dead. Long Live Supply Chain Design.
Speakers:
Christophe Frere, VP of Sales EMEA at Optilogic
Robert Kaufholz, Director, Solution Design EMEA at Optilogic
When the next tariff drops, trade route closes, or demand signal shifts overnight, every team with a planning tool will run the same playbook. The organizations pulling ahead aren't better planners, they're designers. Here's how AI-driven supply chain design compresses weeks of scenario analysis into hours, removes the constraints that planning can only work around, and puts decision-ready insights in the hands of the people who need to act fast. Stop optimizing your constraints and start eliminating them.
This track is for:
- Supply chain, planning, and operations leaders
- Demand, supply and inventory planners
Topics & challenges
- Demand volatility and uncertainty
- Cost pressure, scarcity, and global disruptions
- Misalignment between demand, supply, and finance
What does this mean?
- Real‑world use cases of scenario‑based planning
- Insights into next‑generation S&OP and IBP
- Practical guidance on moving from reactive to proactive planning
How to read this overview
The matrix above shows how the three break‑out themes connect across the supply chain and decision horizon. From Resilience Ridge (strategic, long‑term) to Peak Planning (tactical, mid‑term) and Mount Visibility (operational, short‑term), each theme addresses a different layer of supply chain decision‑making — from suppliers to customers.