Discover the latest insights from a cutting-edge discussion featuring Toyota North America, PwC and Celonis on how to leverage process mining and optimisation to create digital twins, contain costs and free up working capital.
Updated September 10 with on-demand video
The speedometer of change is increasing. Automotive companies need to react swiftly and flexibly, increase productivity, and embrace change across logistics and supply chain management — or risk being left in the dust. This livestream featuring Toyota North America, along with experts from Celonis and PwC, demonstrates how to keep up across supply chain and logistics transformation.
The increased complexities of supply, inbound and finished vehicle logistics in an unpredictable and disruptive global economy mean that stakeholders need a new model for supply chain and logistics networks. However, current transformation efforts have to keep evolving, to not only ensure they meet the needs of the moment, but future proof the supply chains themselves.
Process-led supply chain transformation gets your supply chain working as one, by fixing the processes that make it run. Moving the dial further, process intelligence gives you a living, moving, digital twin of your business processes, end-to-end. For the first time, everyone has a common language for how your business is running, visibility into where value is hiding, and the ability to capture it. In this engaging livestream panel and discussion, learn more about how Toyota and other manufacturers are managing process-less transformation across supply chain and logistics.
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Speakers
Brennan McKinlay is a seasoned strategic operations executive with over 20 years of experience in leading high-performance teams to drive cost reductions and achieve corporate objectives. Currently serving as an executive transformation leader in finished vehicle logistics for Toyota Motor North America, he excels in optimising operational efficiency while enhancing productivity. His long tenure in Toyota’s production engineering division, along with time spent in enterprise strategy and demand and supply management, inform his well-rounded approach to business problem solving and leadership. He holds an MBA and an MS in Finance, both from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a degree in manufacturing engineering technology from Brigham Young University. McKinlay is also proficient in Japanese, having passed the JLPT N1 exam.
Kenny Petzold is a Senior Manager with PwC’s Finance Transformation Practice with a focus on quantitative process optimisation and digital business process mining (BPM). During his more than eight years at PwC, Kenny has advised organisations on leveraging process mining and analytics to improve operations. He has led process transformations, fostered end-to-end approaches, and enhanced overall performance, efficiency, and capability utilization. He holds a degree in industrial engineering, along with a master’s in finance and computer science.
As an Industry Lead at Celonis, Julian is responsible for customer communities, and industry-specific initiatives & use cases in automotive and manufacturing. Julian looks back on 5 years at Celonis which he spent mostly around customer-facing roles in value engineering and account management, serving Celonis’ biggest customers in automotive & manufacturing. Julian holds degrees in industrial engineering with a manufacturing focus from technical universities Darmstadt & Munich.
Since 2011, Celonis has helped thousands of the world’s largest and most esteemed companies yield immediate cash impact, radically improve customer experience, and reduce carbon emissions.
Its Process Intelligence platform uses industry-leading process mining technology and AI to present companies with a living digital twin of their end-to-end processes. For the first time, everyone in an organization has a common language for how the business runs, visibility into where value is hiding, and the ability to capture it. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA with more than 20 offices worldwide.
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