Explore the practical use cases driving Mars' ePP/ DS implementation within their S/4HANA transformation. Gain valuable insights into how a leading global organisation is approaching enterprise planning and scheduling in a real-world context.
What You'll Learn
Richard Wilkins, Mars will be delivering a session which will provide an understanding of Mars' strategic approach to implementing Embedded Planning and Production Detailed Scheduling (ePP/DS) as part of their broader S/4HANA transformation journey. You'll discover the specific business challenges they're addressing, the solutions they're deploying and the lessons learned along the way.
Russell Sadd, Westernacher shares how Robert McBride Ltd, a leading European household and professional cleaning products manufacturer, successfully transitioned from SAP APO Demand Planning to SAP IBP for Demand. This session explores the rationale behind the move, contrasts legacy and IBP capabilities and highlights key lessons learned as SAP APO approaches end‑of‑life. Join the session to gain practical insights for planning your own IBP journey.
Through practical examples and honest discussion, you'll gain insight into:
- The key use cases driving Mars' ePP/DS implementation strategy
- How enterprise planning and scheduling capabilities integrate within S/4HANA
- Real-world challenges encountered during the transformation process
- Practical approaches to planning complex supply chain scenarios
- Best practices for ensuring successful adoption across the organisation
Connect and Collaborate
This event offers an opportunity to connect with peers facing similar challenges and to learn from their experiences. Whether you're at the beginning of your S/4HANA journey or well into your transformation, you'll benefit from the shared knowledge and practical insights from others navigating the same path.
The interactive format encourages open discussion, allowing you to ask questions, share your own experiences and build valuable connections within the UKISUG Supply Chain community.
The sessions will be facilitated by the UKISUG Supply Chain Group Leads, Richard Wilkins,Mars and Mark Belmore, Alstom Group, who will guide the discussion and ensure broad participation. Their combined expertise in supply chain transformation and community leadership ensures a balanced, informative session that addresses the topics that matter most to you.
Who Should Attend
This session is ideal for:
- Supply chain professionals planning or implementing S/4HANA
- Enterprise architects designing planning and scheduling solutions
- Project managers leading digital transformation initiatives
- Business analysts evaluating ePP/DS capabilities
- Anyone interested in learning from real-world SAP implementation experiences
Event Agenda
Event Speakers
Community Chairs
Mark Belmore
Over 30 years of experience, within the rail industry with Alstom in a variety of roles across its European Operations from hands-on manufacturing to production control, procurement to customer support, inbound warehousing, product distribution and supply chain improvements. More recently creating a London Materials hub delivering long-term material forecasting and short term material planning solutions within SAP. This has now moved to being a UK-wide role delivering material planning solutions for the legacy Bombardier business within Alstom.
Richard Wilkins
Richard is the Make-to-Deliver Transformation Director at Royal Canin, where he leads a team designing global supply chain solutions for the first S/4HANA implementation at Mars Inc. A Chartered Engineer with an MBA and a background in the consumer products and food industry. Prior to Mars, he worked in manufacturing, maintenance and digital roles at Toshiba, Gillette and P&G. In 2022 he was selected as one of the top 100 changemakers in UK manufacturing by The Manufacturer for his work on digital innovation.
Committee Members
Amy Smith
Amy has worked in a technical SAP role for the last 18 years. Her current role as Technical Build Lead for the Environmental Health and Safety area within the supply chain has meant that she has managed to build her own team of technical specialists in this area and has mentored and supported them throughout. She has a vast amount of knowledge in relation to GLM Labelling, SDS Creation and Substance Volume Tracking and has managed and built many SAP implementations for a leading global chemical company. For the last four years, she has been proud to be a part of the SAP Co-Innovation labelling team, helping to shape the future of SAP Labelling for supply chain. She is really excited to continue this work and also to get to know more of you in the community.
Bethany Roden
