 Good morning, everyone. Sorry, we are late, but let's wait for a few moments while other tenders join and then we can start the talk. So, hello and welcome everyone. My name is Vivek Kailani. I'm a manager of research program and analytics at digital supply chain institute. Digital supply chain institute is a part of center for global enterprise. A New York based nonprofit organization working on global management applied management practices. What, during this expert connection is what we are trying to do is trying to explain the digital supply chain. And that's how I center for global enterprise has developed. Put together an institute which works on different applied research topics and proof of value projects for different companies around the world. This session are short 15 minute short question, but they are full, full with information that can really help you gain some of the skills and help you understand what business are required in terms of digital supply chain transformation. We hope to have a little time for Q&A at the end, but if we don't please feel free to reach out to us at any time and we are happy to have a detailed conversation about any of the questions. So today's session is our fourth session in the series, which is about DSC technology enablers during today's session. We'll talk about technology solution and the digital supply chains. We'll talk briefly about the 3D printing example, then we'll briefly jump into the DSC blockchain value framework and then we'll set the stage for the next and the final session of the expert connect series. So those of you who are new are joining us today for the first time during the first session of the series, we talked about the digital supply chain and at DSCI working with the global supply chain. So we came up with four categories under digital supply chain and those four categories are demand, people, technology and risk. Over the last two weeks we talked about demand and people and we talked about different examples on how to stimulate demand, but also how to gain some of the how to do culture shift, but also how to gain some of the skills needed to do digital supply chain transformation. So today we'll talk about managing technology. So let's quickly talk about technology, evolution and digital supply chain. So SAP was a member of digital supply chain, Hans was a great partner at that. And this is a quick quote from Frans to win in the digital economy. We have to reimagine how we design, play, make deliver and operate our product and assets. And to all of these things I think technology is a critical part of that and critical function to achieve these objectives. And technology is a building block to eliminate friction and increase customer simplicity because if you remember digital supply chain is all about customer centric platform model. It also has to optimize human and automated workflows and gains. And we talked about one of the examples where one of the members of DSCI is trying to measure order fulfillment without any human interaction. And that they are now at 80% of the accuracy. So how to achieve that I think technology can really help in that aspect and to achieve that KPI. And the third one is to enable confident data-driven decision-making. I think up to now traditional supply chain was always focused on intuition-based decision-making but now companies are trying to use the data they have, which is really powerful. But up to now they weren't using it to a full extent. So I think using it perfectly and getting the insight out of it, I think technology can be really helpful. So initially if you look at the opportunity versus value chart, cloud and mobility services actually came to provide speed and execution in accessing the data throughout the enterprise because most of the enterprise before were siloed. And now they are trying to access the data and they're trying to put all the data sources and connecting it to cloud. So it's easy to access data between different functions. Next is automation and IoT. So trying to get new data sources from delivery side. If you're logistic or trying to provide logistic information to your customer, IoT can be really helpful and also helpful into your manufacturing process as well. So it's a sensor driven and automated process. And next is blockchain. And we'll talk more in detail about blockchain, but blockchain is really helpful in collaborating with your supplier and customers. And even between your function, if you're trying to share the data and trying to put together a record of something that can really give you an insight on the delivery side or also on the functionality side. And the next is AI and ML. So AI and ML can really help you improve your demand forecast. Another functionality, it can also help you in your product development side as well. So we'll talk more about that. So if you read the front side flip before we talked about some of the game changer. If you look at the real time big data analytics mobile sensors IoT and social media data are really game changing game changing data sources that can that can help companies improve their KPIs in terms of a demand forecasting inventory levels or inventory overflow. Next is digital impact on manufacturing delivery. So that's where AI and robotics reprinting drones and driverless vehicles can be really useful. And when we wrote the paper back in 2016 blockchain was still at a hype mode, but it was still a game changing technology that can really help supply chain. At the time, people were only talking about blockchain in financial services, but at the time be a setting that the value that blockchain provides can be really useful in supply chain in terms of tracking and getting visibility and sharing data different suppliers and customers. So let me give you a quick example on on 3d printing. So on the armor is one of the member of the Institute and also the chief operating officer of the under armor is a culture of the Institute. So right now and arm of is developing their shoes using 3d printing technology. So they have different the whole shoe is not the 3d printed but some part of the shoe is printed for some shoes. It's a heel is 3d printed late I feel for some is midsole and some is also and how and why they are doing it. So let me give you an example on how they are connecting different dots between the product development 3d printing and the different mobile. And the different mobile application. So here on this is the under armor over choose which is a connected choose which has a sensor which sends data to the mobile application which is not my run. And they also collect data through different galaxy or Apple Apple watch or any kind of connected device that record your fitness data by using and collecting all the data they have to use it in the under armor lighthouse where they are trying to develop different. 3d printed structure for the shoes. While they do that they also do different testing on it try to collect user data on that trying to collect social media data on that and that reaction and put it back to back to the app and back to the development team. So overall it's a circular design where they're really trying to use 3d printed technology to reduce the friction between consumer consumer feedback and the delivery of a product and trying to make that product as much as excellent in terms of under armor's motor is all about delivering performance in health and fitness. So I think trying to achieve that object by using 3d printing technology while also using the map by run to collect different data. That's really great. And let's quickly talk about blockchain. So as I talked earlier in 2017. Blockchain was really at the hype. It was all about Bitcoin height. People were trying to sell blockchain as a solution. But in 2019 it's trying to find its right place in 2020. I think companies are not looking at the right solution but it's a part of a solution. And at the ACI we have discovered that we have done many proof of value projects with different companies around the world in different areas. And I'll share one of the example as well. And trying to right now blockchain is emerging as a blockchain as a service and also blockchain as a microservices because you can't sell blockchain or you can't implement blockchain on itself because it's too expensive. And the value it brings it's not that useful unless you identify a particular use case a particular value case. So how how to think about when you think about enterprise blockchain enterprise blockchain enables cross enterprise transformation when single leisure is in practical or not trusted. So when multiple parties involved within supply chain and supply chain has multiple parties involved. I think it's the best case to use blockchain where transaction entered by multiple parties in fact. So if you have order coming from your suppliers and you are delivering some of the product to your customer. I think that's where you can really use a blockchain. And at the ACI we do not believe in proof of concept. We believe in proof of value because as a technology blockchain really works at the framework of blockchain really works but the problem that companies are facing right now while we have talked to many companies 100 hundreds of enterprise around the world. And the main problem they have is identifying a right solution, the right problem where blockchain can really help. Right. So I think one of the skills that you you want to think about is how to apply a blockchain to a particular problem and not just think about I have a blockchain. So where should I put it right. So think about the business problem that can really solve and that can increase value or increase revenue because in digital supply chain it's all about increasing revenue. So how it can increase your revenue or decrease cost while using blockchain. So let me share you a quick framework that we use at the SCI. And it's a three part problem. So the first solution, the first tool is around BFI, we call it Blockchain Fitness Index. So we developed this interactive tool to allow, allow enterprise to quickly assess an applicability of a blockchain solution to a particular use case that they are trying to use. Right. So as I told earlier companies are really struggling to identify a business problem that can be really helpful and creating value. So this tool can really help them identify if it's really helpful in terms of creating value or not. So if you go through the assessment and you evaluate, you'll get a score between 1 to 15. So if your score is more than 12, that business problem is really can use blockchain right now. And the second is performance and gap analysis. So what we do once we identify that blockchain can really be useful, then we select identify different importance of the proof of value. Then identify current metrics that can be improved, assess current performance and establish target performance. And then we do the gap analysis. And then we share that with enterprise. And the third is we create a business case afterwards in evaluation of the proof of value. And after that only we try to do a proof of value with any blockchain company. So those of you are really interested in blockchain. We have some interesting papers that can really help you understand different aspects of blockchain and how it can be applicable to different business problems. So please feel free to go to our DSA website and download it. I'll give you a quick example. So we work with a company called Edison. That was our first blockchain proof of value project. And by doing this, a study in blockchain will secure their website. We improved cycle time by 34%. We increased productivity by 29% and improved quality of the product by 11%. So unless you identify a real use case, you can't get this kind of improvement in your KPI. So going through the BFI, going through the BRI, I think can really help. And after that you should invest, but before that you should not invest in the blockchain solution. I think we are already at 15 minute mark. But if anybody has any questions before we close the call, feel free to raise your hand. And I'm happy to answer any questions in terms of 3D. We didn't talk about AI and ML, but I'm happy to answer any questions in terms of AI and ML as well. So I'll wait for a few moments if we have any questions. So again, thank you all for joining today. It's a 15 minute short webinar, but we hope you find it very useful. Next week we will have a last session in the series, which is on DSC risk and competitive advantage. And we'll meet at the same time. Feel free to contact me or Chris at CG if you have any questions and we'll be happy to have a chat at any time. So again, thank you everyone for joining today and we'll see you next week.