Unlocking AI-Driven Business Impact Across Sales & Operations
ROUNDTABLE
How can manufacturing leaders convert artificial intelligence investments into measurable gains in profitability, capital efficiency, and optimization across the full production lifecycle?
Manufacturers are facing operation turbulence with supply volatility, cost inflation, and labor shortages. Meanwhile, market expectations for sustainability and responsiveness continue to accelerate. Traditional planning and execution models are no longer sufficient alone. As a result, many organizations continue to experience margin erosion, inefficient inventory positions, inconsistent production performance, and limited visibility. In this environment, how can leaders ensure their operations are agile enough to protect profitability and respond to constant change?
Artificial intelligence offers meaningful opportunity, but only when supported by theright alignment. Strategy must clearly define the financial outcomes that matter most — whether improving working capital, increasing asset productivity, or reducing operational risk. Infrastructure must enable secure and integrated data flow between commercial and operational environments. Doing so requires transformations across all layers of the business. Data must be unified, business processes optimized and AI leveraged to tackle the challenge ahead.
This roundtable will explore how senior manufacturing leaders are connecting planning and production, activating operational intelligence in real time, and building secure IT/OT foundations that accelerate time to value.
Event host
Sunita Kannan
Jouko Koskinen
About Fujitsu and Microsoft
Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology (ICT) company, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki in Japan. It is one of the world's largest IT services providers, ranking sixth globally by annual revenue and the largest in Japan. Fujitsu operates in over 100 countries, providing a wide range of technology products, solutions, and services. The company focuses on ICT solutions, including cloud computing, data centres, networking, AI, and cybersecurity. Fujitsu invests heavily in research and development to drive innovation, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and digital transformation. Fujitsu Uvance is a strategic initiative aimed at creating a sustainable world through digital innovation, focusing on areas like health, environment, and trust. Fujitsu aims to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. They strive to contribute to the growth of society and their customers by leveraging their technological expertise.
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Microsoft creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more
Discussion topics
Breaking down the disconnect between commercial forecasts and production realities to reduce excess inventory, avoid service failures, and respond faster to market volatility.
Shifting from static reporting to real-time operational intelligence that improves throughput, quality, asset utilization, and cost control.
Modernizing data architecture, strengthening IT/OT collaboration, and embedding governance so artificial intelligence becomes a trusted driver of operational decisions.
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