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Chemical Manufacturing CIO Roundtable
The Future Unleashed: AI Uses and Exponential IT Implications in Pharmaceutical & Chemical Manufacturing
Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 4:00pm ET
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Deep Insights Tailored to Your Industry
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Top Industry Trends
Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Industry Benchmarking
Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
How CIOs Can Get Manufacturing Demand Planning Right
Improving demand planning has an impact on both the top-line and bottom-line.
Strategy Alignment
Improve OT Governance to Drive Business Results
- Identify: Discover the methods, people, tools, and approaches that can be used to ensure you have a streamlined OT governance model in place.
- Prioritize: Further determine a tiered approach to assembling teams and tools.
- Align: After establishing your teams and understanding your gaps you will have a systematic approach for pulling in the right people with the right tools at the right time. Operations and IT will be tightly aligned.
Strategy Alignment
Chemical Manufacturing Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the Chemical Manufacturing industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
Strategy Alignment
Chemical Manufacturing IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Chemical Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Chemical Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Generative AI Use Case Library for the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry
Info-Tech’s use case library provides practical guidance to help manufacturers accelerate value-driven Gen AI use case adoption.
Top Trends
Ensure Your Products Have a Compliant Manufacturing Supply Chain
- Identify: Understand the compliance, certifications, standards, and regulatory activities that are important for your business sector and products.
- Prioritize: Further determine which tools can be used for tracking and tracing information for conducting internal audits and generating reports for governing bodies.
- Align: After establishing what technologies are needed for compliance, form the team in accordance with initial setup and ongoing management of compliance across all suppliers as well as considerations for management of in-transit control processes such as customs and CTPAT.
Top Trends
Chemical Manufacturing Circular Economy Report
- Unprecedented challenges in the Chemical Manufacturing industry are forcing organizations to innovate and reduce time to market with an emphasis in recyclability and durability.
- Learn about how the circular economy affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Chemical Manufacturing Skills Gap Report
- Given the rapid pace of IT transformation due to the advent of Industry 4.0 technologies and the IT/OT convergence, traditional Manufacturing IT departments are facing a major shortage in the skills required to be successful.
- Learn about how skills gaps are affecting both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Chemical Manufacturing IT/OT Convergence Report
- The IT/OT convergence will bring new levels of connectivity to the manufacturing shop floor, creating great opportunities for remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and vendor support.
- Learn about how the IT/OT convergence affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
Chemical Manufacturing IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
Peer Benchmarking
Chemical Manufacturing IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business to be a reliable operator and effective partner, all while finding time and resources to be innovative.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating on our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical insights to position your IT team to be more strategic.
Peer Benchmarking
Chemical Manufacturing IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their clients are unsatisfied with the quality of service they are receiving from IT.
- Understand important focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Chemical Manufacturing IT organizations.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Digital Twins in Manufacturing
Embracing digital twin technology in the manufacturing industry offers a myriad of advantages, including:
- Enhanced Product Development: Digital twins enable rapid prototyping and virtual testing, reducing the time and costs associated with physical prototypes.
- Optimized Production Processes: Manufacturers can simulate different production scenarios to identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and improve overall efficiency.
- Predictive Maintenance: Digital twins facilitate predictive maintenance by analyzing real-time data, allowing businesses to address maintenance needs before equipment failure occurs.
- Reduced Downtime: With real-time monitoring and predictive capabilities, digital twins help minimize unplanned downtime, leading to increased productivity.
- Improved Quality and Safety: Manufacturers can ensure product quality and safety by identifying and rectifying issues in the virtual environment before they manifest in the physical world.
- Informed Decision Making: Data-driven insights from digital twins empower manufacturers to make well-informed decisions, driving continuous improvement.
- Remote Monitoring and Control: Digital twins enable remote monitoring and control of assets and processes, enabling efficient management across distributed locations.
Core Industry Technologies
Using Supply Chain Control Tower for Competitive Differentiation
A supply chain control tower allows organizations to:
- Predict problems across the supply chain.
- Enable real-time information and decision-making capabilities.
- See where goods are and any bottlenecks that may be occurring.
Core Industry Technologies
Operational Efficiency Through Predictive Maintenance
- Predict: problems based on tolerance.
- Enable: proactive actions (predictive instead of reactive maintenance).
- See: prevention of downtime, increased productivity, and higher customer satisfaction.
Core Industry Technologies
Sustainable Autonomous Packaging Solutions
Failure to define and meet sustainability goals will mean:
- Significant reputational damage in addition to fines and legal action
- Inability to remain competitive in an evolving marketplace
- Being a less attractive option for customers actively looking for more sustainable solutions
Core Industry Technologies
Advanced Inventory Management
Effective, technology-led inventory management can help address supply chain challenges. This research presents a playbook to deploy advanced technology and improve your inventory management maturity. Critical components of this playbook include an overview of inventory management systems and their advanced capabilities, an introduction to KPIs for effective performance management, and a technology maturity map to show you what good inventory management looks like. This will ultimately arm you with the ability to plan better, procure more efficiently, and fulfill in an optimized manner across more channels, customer types, and geographies.
Core Industry Technologies
Understand Sustainability Compliance in Chemical Manufacturing
Failure to define and meet sustainability goals will mean:
- Significant reputational damage in addition to fines and legal action.
- The inability to remain competitive in an evolving marketplace.
- Being a less attractive option for investors, customers, and employees.
Core Industry Technologies
The Connected Factory
- Identify: The kinds of compliance, certifications, standards, and regulatory activities that are important for your business sector and products.
- Prioritize: Further determine which tools can be used for tracking and tracing information, for conducting internal audits, and for generating reports for governing bodies.
- Align: After establishing what technologies are needed for compliance you will form the team in accordance with initial setup and ongoing management of compliance across all suppliers as well as considerations for management of in-transit control processes such as customs and CTPAT.
Core Industry Technologies
Chemical Manufacturing IoT Platforms Report
- The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to radically change the Chemical Manufacturing industry, providing deeper insight into manufacturing operations and generating a wealth of data to support better business decisions.
- Learn about what IoT platforms are, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how they can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Chemical Manufacturing – Manufacturing Execution Systems Report
- Quality and time to market are two of the primary drivers for the rise of manufacturing execution systems (MESs).
- MESs have proliferated and improved over time while continuing to expand their footprint in the manufacturing process.
- Learn about what an MES is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Chemical Manufacturing ERP Report
- Unprecedented challenges in the industry are forcing organizations to innovate and reduce time to market, driving enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology.
- Learn about what enterprise resource planning is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Chemicals Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
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