September 11-13 2018

Marriott at Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI

Produced by In collaboration with Host OEM: Message from the Producer

To prepare for the fourth annual Best Practices for Automotive conference, an extensive research project took the conference team across North America in a series of focus groups. After meeting with professionals across all automotive sub-segments and surveying hundreds more, top themes like connected manufacturing (Industry 4.0), analytics-based decisions, the need to standardize and embrace change emerged as the most impactful for driving opportunity and growth in today’s complex business environment.

With this voice of the customer driving the content, the 2018 Best Practices for Automotive conference will deliver thought-leadership and expert insights on how to stay on the cutting edge by embracing digital technologies and strategies. General Motors, Adient, BMW, Toyota and other leading companies will share their success stories on hot topics like evolving automated technologies, Blockchain General Motors, Adient, and on-demand manufacturing. Plus, SAP will deliver exclusive future-focused roadmap sessions covering the BMW, Toyota and other tools your organization needs to maximize on software and leading companies technology investments. will share their success The event is a key convergence for SAP industry leaders, decision-makers, analysts, users and solution providers. stories on hot topics Tap into the collective wisdom of the community, build lasting relationships with your peers and discover invaluable like evolving automated insights for innovation this September in Detroit!

technologies, Katie Walker Blockchain and Conference Researcher & Producer on-demand manufacturing.

Produced by In Collaboration with Host OEM:

02 auto.bestpracticeconferences.com | #BP4Auto Featured Speakers

The Networked Future: How to Make Mobility Data Work Blockchain for Future of Mobility for Consumers & Businesses

Uli Muench Stefan Krauss Nick Pudar Global Vice President, Industry Business General Manager Discrete Industries, SAP Director, Corporate Strategy, General Motors Unit Automotive, SAP

Radical Innovation Through BMW’s Cosmic S/4 HANA Success Story Agile Experimentation

Mikkel Holm Jensen Jakob Gajdzik Sven Roemer Co-founder, Diplomatic Rebels; Partner, Prehype Project Manager, Finance IT, Partner, Deloitte & (Former) Senior Design Manager, LEGO Group BMW AG

Adient’s Ariba Trifecta: Communication, Deployment & Hypercare Gestamp’s Smart Shopfloor: A PoC with Leonardo & a Connected Warehouse

Michael Hare Manali Phatak Pablo de la Puente Senior Manager SAP Project Services, Adient Manager IT Business Relationship, Adient Corporate Information Systems Director, Gestamp

03 #BP4Auto Visit auto.bestpracticeconferences.com for a full list of our 2018 speakers Conference Schedule

Arrival Day - Tuesday, September 11

3:30 PM Registration Opens

5:00 PM Welcome Reception

Conference Day 1 - Wednesday, September 12

7:15 AM Breakfast & Exhibition Viewing

The Networked Future: How to Make Mobility Data Work for Consumers & Businesses 8:15 AM Keynote Uli Muench - Global Vice President, Industry Business Unit Automotive, SAP Stefan Krauss - General Manager Discrete Industries, SAP

9:15 AM Keynote Panel Driving Change: Creating the Next Generation of Vehicles

10:00 AM Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing

INNOVATION SUPPLY CHAIN MANUFACTURING FINANCE

General Motors Transforming & Simplified Supply Chain Solution with Drive Digital Transformation with SAP S/4 Central Finance: Goodyear’s Disrupting with SAP Continental Industry 4.0 Journey Towards “One Version of the Dan Mahlebashian - Global Business Mark Mazur - SAP Center of Excellence Frank Platt - Senior Director, Global Truth” 11:00 AM Solutions, Executive Director, Leader, BearingPoint Manufacturing, SAP Jeff Will - Global IT Manager SAP General Motors Continental Speaker Finance CoE, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Otto Schell - SAP Business Architect, Company Opel

Satisfying Business Needs Faster with Satisfying Honda Supplier & Returnable Gestamp’s Smart Shopfloor: A Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating the Agility of SAP Fiori UX & Mobile Packaging Requirements Using SAP JIT PoC with Leonardo & a Connected Financial Insights for Automotive Applications Calls & Scanning Warehouse Companies 11:50 AM Onyedika Onwudiwe - SAP CoE Global Alain Grenier - Senior Business System Pablo de la Puente - Corporate Carsten Hilker - Global Solution Owner, Director, Adient Analyst & EDI Coordinator, Waterville TG Information Systems Director, Gestamp S/4HANA Finance (Central Finance), Leonardo De Biasi - Business Heiko Edelmann - President & CEO, PMC SAP Development Director, TechEdge USA America Eric Bramley - Senior Manager, Deloitte

12:30 PM Lunch & Exhibition Viewing

Robotic Process Automation: Workshop: Who Moved My Cheese? The Power of Digital Product Navigating Maquiladoras & the Current Goodyear’s Journey into Back-Office What Can Supply Chains do NOW to Platforms: Product Development with NAFTA Environment: Your SAP & Automation Capability Prepare for the Impending Digitization SAP Product Structure Management Financial Systems 1:30 PM Derrill Wakefield - Global IT Director, The Wave? Michael Brolly - Business Systems, Bill Hahn - Principal, Tax - Automotive, PwC Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Martin Rowan - Senior Partner, Reveal Applications & Processes, Caterpillar Brian Vogt - Principal/Partner - Advisory Services, PwC

Cybersecurity & Effective Protection of Speeding Ahead: Driving Accuracy, Leveraging S4 Central Finance to Corporate Assets Efficiency & Customer Compliance in Navigate Disruption 2:20 PM Ronald E Fisher - Infrastructure Labeling with SAP & IoT Jared Alamat - Executive Leader, Global Assurance & Analysis Division Director, Soma Venkat - Vice President, Finance Transformation, General Motors National & Homeland Security Information Technology, CooperStandard John Grant - Partner, EmTeeGee

Toyota Canada’s Launch to SAP S/4 SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Creating a Global Manufacturing Structuring Success; Harnessing HANA Materials Platform Trusted Answers & Technology Across Kim George - National Manager, Matt Blyth - Vice President, Strategic Nidamaluri Nagesh - Vice President, Regulatory Landscapes to Drive 3:10 PM Enterprise Business Solutions, Toyota Customers - Procurement & Business TechMahindra Competitive Growth Canada Networks, SAP Samir Mehta - Vice President of Digital Chris Carlstead - Managing Director, Mark Swallow - Associate Partner, IBM Transformation, TechMahindra Indirect Tax, Thomson Reuters

3:50 PM Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing

Radical Innovation Through Agile Experimentation 4:50 PM Special Guest Keynote Mikkel Holm Jensen - Co-founder, Diplomatic Rebels; Partner, Prehype & (Former) Senior Design Manager, LEGO Group

5:30 PM Evening Reception

04 auto.bestpracticeconferences.com | #BP4Auto Conference Schedule

Conference Day 2 - Thursday, September 13

8:00 AM Breakfast & Exhibition Viewing

9:00 AM Welcome

Blockchain for Future of Mobility 9:10 AM Keynote Nick Pudar - Director, Corporate Strategy, General Motors

Connected Vehicles & Delightful Driver Experience Laurens Eckelboom - Vice President, Head of Business Development SAP Vehicles Network, SAP Keynote 9:50 AM Automotive OEM Telco Company Parking Industry Leader

10:30 AM Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing

STANDARDIZATION DIGITAL STRATEGY DATA & REPORTING AFTERMARKET

BMW’s Cosmic S/4 HANA Success Story Transforming All Spend to Drive Greater BOSCH’s Multi System into One Innovative Dealer Interaction at Jakob Gajdzik - Project Manager Finance & More Sustainable Value Automotive Systems Landscape: Komatsu Enabled by the SAP Cloud IT, BMW AG Pete Komendarek - Corporate Consolidation Made Simple with Platform Sven Roemer - Partner, Deloitte Procurement Controller, Raymond Automation Roger Touhy - SAP Solution Architect, 11:30 AM Corporation Andreas Mellen - IT Manager, BOSCH Komatsu Abhi Mukunda - Corporate Procurement Dr. Steele Arbeeny - Chief Techology Chet Harter - Vice President Digital Analyst & Systems Lead, Raymond Officer, SNP Business Systems, SAP Corporation

Driving Standardization & Harmonization Combine Business Networks & Speed Up Your SAP Rollout Without Discussion: How Ford Embraces within BorgWarner Turbo Systems Technology with Electromobility Getting Caught in Data Risks Complexity for Commercial Excellence Lars Berggren - Director Integrated Digital Twins DeAnna Cunningham - Senior IT in Aftermarket Parts Sales & Pricing Business Planning, BorgWarner Turbo Uli Muench - Global Vice President, Manager, CooperStandard Marie Doyle - Global Business Vendavo 12:20 PM Systems Industry Business Unit Automotive, SAP Launch Manager, Ford Motor Company Michelle Nemeth - Process Integration Manager, Ford Motor Company Mitch Lee - Profit Evangelist, Vendavo

1:00 PM Lunch & Exhibition Viewing

Adient’s Ariba Trifecta: Communication, Design Thinking to Drive Realizing True Efficiency: Using Dealership Dashboards: Managing Deployment & Hypercare Organizational Change Reporting to Achieve Real-time Through KPI’s Michael Hare - Senior Manager SAP Kelly Stalcup - Organizational Change Global Enablement Pete Kleffner - Senior Director Business Project Services, Adient Consultant, Volkswagen Dana Antoun - IT Leader Americas, Systems, Rush Enterprises 2:00 PM Manali Phatak - Manager IT Business Shannon Finn Connell - Partner, WABCO North America Relationship, Adient EmTeeGee Kelli Long-Sisco - Director of Customer Services, iConnect Inc

Reliably Planning for Irregular Demand: Improved Business Value by Growing Deploying Metrics that Actually The “DBM Evolution” in SAP S/4 HANA IBP Improves S&OP at Yazaki SAP Center of Expertise Capability Improve Shop-floor Performance Saji Oommen - IT Director, Jaidah Group 2:50 PM David Weinkauf - S&OP Director, Yazaki Derrill Wakefield - Global IT Director, Phil Alessi - Executive Vice President & Guenter Lasser - Head of Business The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Managing Director, Proudfoot Development, Proaxia

3:30 PM Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing

4:00 PM Conference Concludes

Visit auto.bestpracticeconferences.com for the most up-to-date agenda.

05 auto.bestpracticeconferences.com | #BP4Auto Sponsors

Produced by

Eventful Conferences is an award-winning research and conference company that specializes in crafting conferences that celebrate the people, technology and innovations transforming the way we work. A team of passionate and dedicated professionals have spent the over 20 years building and nurturing SAP communities and conferences across lines of business and down industry verticals. Working closely with SAP and ASUG, Eventful is proud to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Best Practice for Automotive conference, utilizing our much-celebrated customer engagement model, which uses the community - customers, partners and SAP - to architect, build, deliver and then attend the event. The Best Practices for Automotive conference is truly created by the community, for the community. To learn more about Eventful Conferences and our upcoming events please visit

www.eventfulconferences.com

In Collaboration with

Learn. Connect. Influence. Innovate. What it means to be a member of the world’s largest SAP user group. No matter what your niche is in the SAP ecosystem, a membership with the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) is designed to advance your career and company by providing you with access to customer-driven education, a channel to influence SAP product and service direction, and a forum for innovation. At ASUG, more than 100,000 members connect year-round to share information, insights and ideas through national events and regional Chapter meetings, participation in Special Interest Group (SIG) webcasts and online discussion forums, and the timely reporting by ASUG News and Research Services on all matters relevant to them as SAP professionals. Visit www.new.asug.com to find out how you too can become part of ASUG and share experiences, successes and expertise with your peers.

www.asug.com

As the market leader in enterprise innovation and application software, SAP (NSYE: SAP) empowers automotive companies to accelerate product innovation, improve quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and sell and service vehicles more profitably, driving market share growth in a highly competitive global market. The world’s most successful automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and sales and service organizations rely on SAP software to provide the foundation that drives performance and a competitive edge. SAP’s automotive software can help you manage geopolitical and demographic changes, enterprise mobility, responsive supply chains, short development cycles, high service expectations, enabling a Live Business helping you Run Simple by reducing complexity. SAP solutions connect processes with industry-specific solutions in the Cloud, on premise, and through mobile devices. For more information, visit

www.sap.com/industries/automotive.html

06 auto.bestpracticeconferences.com | #BP4Auto Sponsors

Silver

Bold Vision. Brilliant Execution.

Associate Association

Media CIOReview

07 auto.bestpracticeconferences.com | #BP4Auto Visit auto.bestpracticeconferences.com for the most up-to-date sponsor list. Pricing & Accomodations

Early Regular Late

Price Per Pass Price Per Pass Price Per Pass $1,999 $2,299 $2,599

To inquire about ASUG Member Rates or Team Rates, please call Eventful Conferences at +1 914 509 5354 or schedule a time with our sales team here.

Accommodation

Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center

The event is located at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, Michigan, approximately 20 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The hotel soars 70 floors above the Detroit River and is situated on the RiverWalk, next door to Hart Plaza, and is within walking distance to some of the city’s best restaurants, sports and nightlife.

Address: 400 Renaissance Drive W, Detroit, MI 48243 Phone: +1 313 568 8000 Room Rate: $189 + Tax Per Night Room Block Deadline: Friday, August 20 Book auto.bestpracticeconferences.com/venue

Terms & Conditions Cancellations cannot be made less than 28 days prior to the conference, after which time Eventful Conferences will only accept alternate delegates. All requests need to be communicated to Rick Booms [email protected] or at +1 914 509 5354. Cancellations directed elsewhere or received after this cut-off time will not be eligible for refund. If circumstances or events beyond the control of Eventful Conferences cause cancellation to all or any part of the conference, Eventful Conferences will refund the appropriate portion of the registration fee. Eventful Conferences is not responsible for travel arrangements, travel fees or any expenses incurred by you as a result of such cancellation.