SPS Connect 24.11. - 10:40 - 11:00 a.m.
Suddenly no toilet paper!
The limits of digitalization and what the pandemic teaches us. How did the early warning systems work? Have the hype topics such as networks, AI, big data and blockchain helped?
Find out more about the results of the current study "Resilient supply chains" (BVL, SALT, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences). What do we learn from this for risk management, KPIs, network structure and the tension between costs vs. flexibility? And last but not least: The contribution that SAP Digital Supply Chain can make with the Industry 4.Now approach.
Matthias Riedel, Head of Solution Advisory - Digital Supply Chain at SAP, welcomes you to his presentation on "Suddenly no toilet paper! Limits of digitalization & what the pandemic teaches us".
Date: November 24, 10:40 - 11:00 a.m.
About Matthias Riedel
Matthias Riedel studied business informatics in Bamberg and Columbia, USA. His professional career initially took him to Coopers & Lybrand (Process Consulting), Siemens AG (Corporate Logistics/ Inhouse Consulting) and Rudolf Wild GmbH (VP Supply Chain). In 2003, he joined SAP, where he worked as a consulting manager in Business Consulting and later as VP in Global Partner Management.
In 2007, he left SAP and went to Moscow to build up the SCM division at BDO Consulting. The global economic crisis prompted him to return to Germany in 2009, where he took over responsibility for the Siemens business at Capgemini as Global Account Executive.
In 2014, he returned to SAP as Chief Consultant and since then has been responsible for Airbus, Volkswagen and BASF, among others, from Business Transformation Services (BTS) as Program Manager/Business Architect (topics relating to SAP overall strategy, consolidation and S/4HANA transformation).
Since 2017, Matthias Riedel has been responsible for presales in the areas of Digital Supply Chain, PLM and Manufacturing for SAP Germany.










