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Laurence Noël

Head of Automotive @ Capgemini, EVP | Board Member

200 “nails” a day in the head? AI can help with that. I recently read an article in which a Supply Chain leader for a leading automotive OEM described the difficulty of their role today. “We are all voodoo dolls in supply chain logistics, receiving 200 “nails” a day in our heads …” What I believe he meant was that there are so many potential threats and risks to the supply chain today that it’s simply impossible to monitor and manage them all … at least not without a very large team. As we know, the automotive supply chain has experienced several major shocks in recent years and – with the stop-start transition to electric mobility – many established OEMs are feeling the strain of having to operate two largely different supply chains (for ICE and EV). This strain comes at a time when they are facing increased competition from new entrants and growing pressure (backed by legislation) to reduce environmental impact. In short, they need to minimize risk and improve competitiveness, but without compromising on their #sustainability missions. This is a major, existential challenge, especially given the complexity and distributed nature of today’s automotive supply chains. This is where partnership with innovative startups and the application of new technology can have a dramatic positive impact. And this is exactly what we’re doing with Prewave – a provider of supply chain intelligence services. Using the power of AI, we’re able to map 1.3 million global suppliers, analyze 150+ risk categories, ‘make use of’ data and information in 400+ languages, and deliver real-time insights to supply chain professionals. It might not prevent every ‘nail’ from heading your way, but it does mean that you’ll be prepared and able to take evasive action. At the Paris Motor Show recently, I had the chance to talk to Prewave CEO and Co-founder, Harald Nitschinger about his impressions of the challenges currently being faced by automotive OEMs, and how our collaboration and use of AI-powered solutions can help automotive OEMs to efficiently scale up their monitoring, management, and risk-mitigation capabilities. Check it out Capgemini Automotive

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Hello everyone, we are here at the Paris Motor Show with Serval Nightingale, the CEO and cofounder of Pre Wave. So nice to meet you and nice to see you here at the Paris Motor Show. I'm Lawrence Noel, I'm the head of the global automotive industry. I kept Gemini so all I think it's your first time at the Paris Motor Show. What would be your takeaways from this show? Yes, it's my first time and I think it's interesting to see still the innovation happening in the automotive industry and the transition to electric vehicles being well underway. I think the the race is still on for me. It's of course interesting what this means for the supply chains because the electric vehicle supply chain is really a different supply chain. It's a much more global supply chain. It's often the longer supply chain. Um and yeah, that means that what we are doing also will be staying relevant for the next year, Sir. So for me being in this industry for years, it's super. I'm super happy to see that the Paris Motor Show is back and we have so many mobility and the automotive players here showcasing their last innovation and their last product. We can see also in this hall, which is a whole 5, that there is also no new players coming and now there are challenging and shaking. So the ecosystem with their own innovation, but yes, on the business standpoint, we can see that the transformation is on. I mean all the player or focusing and driving innovation, focusing on getting up to speed on software, bringing sustainability in the game, mastering their supply chain for sure and also elevating the customer experience. And for us it's. So a super opportunity to have some really impactful and insightful discussion with our clients and players and to see how we can help them further. So just you were mentioning what you're doing basically which is the complexity of the supply chain. How do you it's, it's clearly a key priority for the automotive field and for our clients. How do you how do you see this? I mean the. Let's say the holistic overview of the supply chain before going through what you're doing at 5:00. We have many moving pieces. Yeah, you mentioned already. Sustainability. Which? A few years ago was still voluntary companies looking to position themselves as a sustainable brand. Today it's more and more compliance. It's also not I, I, I want to, but I have to, yeah, With the CS Triple D and the CRD and the first issue regulation and the ULPA and the battery regulation and that can go on. Yeah, yes, yes. And all of those are bringing already the need for visibility and transparency into the supply chain. It's not just the first script 3. Let's go free scope 3 master, but also CS triple D value chain. It's always about understanding the value chain. Yeah. And of course, this is the data companies don't have. Yeah, And this is where we come in. Because yes, we can provide risk assessment and monitoring for the first year. The large automotive OEMs and we work today with more than 10 automotive OEM's. They have already 50,000 suppliers on the first year. So if we go into the second tier, third tier, we go into the hundreds of thousands of suppliers and we need to work with AI to show where is the risk. You cannot do it manually. Yes, risk mitigation is sure an important topic. What what we can see also is, I mean, the supply chain is clearly on top of the. The pigs that company or focusing on now, because we've seen that those last past year, all the Geo political issues, ecological issues as well and all the disruption that has been causing the supply chain. It's it's it's a big topic. And on top of that, now we have this market with EV coming on top of IC and the market with EV with the regulation with the incentive is like kind of up and down. So it's difficult to. Manage the supply chain in those condition and and for sure what you're doing and you're gonna. Tell us that in maybe in more details, but technology and her eye it's probably a big game changer. Yeah. So if you can just elaborate a bit of what you're doing at three ways that would be yes. I think it's it's it's really a special time where. The cost pressure and the pressure to be more efficient but also be resilient is really. Increasing, yeah, because. What does it mean to have an unreliable supply chain? It means that you have shutdowns. It means you need to reactively invest in mitigation. Air frating, crisis team, all of that costs. But of course it's clear it also costs to invest in resilience, yeah. So to invest up front. So the the key point is we have to do that and. How to hit the nail on the head, you have to know exactly where the risk is and where the impact is and where to build up a second source, where to diversify their supply chain, but where you can maybe stay with a single source because the risk impact picture is actually OK and this is what our software can give. It is clear picture on where to focus. And that gives the opportunity to say. I can reduce the risk, I can be more resilient, meaning I'm I don't have this business impacts with shutdowns. And I can do it in really a cost efficient manner with a clear return on investment, yeah. And then of course, in addition, let's leverage that also for the sustainability challenges. Sure. So because they are often. The business value is not so clear. It's just we have to do it efficiently. We cannot have 20 people working on the regulation topics when we can afford two people and they will need to be efficient and AI and the solution we offer helps also to ensure that analysis. It's it's helps in mitigation and building scenarios that could be a solution different scenario depending on the on the topic, which is great so. I mean. Obviously, the situation in in is tough today in supply chain, but I'm super excited that we are able to collaborate with company like used to bring the best to our clients in this difficult time. Thank you very much. I'll thank you.

Guillaume Waline

Data driven business || Strategic alliances at Prewave

Laurence Noël very interesting and insightful conversation, the start of a promising collaboration

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