Accelerating our digital transformation to become fit for the future

Digitalisation is a key enabler for our strategic ambitions. In 2022, we accelerated our digitalisation efforts as a team, reflecting on our vision and roadmap while listening to the needs of our internal and external stakeholders. Today, we continue to work hard on our transformation into a future-proof organization. The digital world offers numerous benefits, and we are eager to reap them all.

Automation and collaboration

In the past year, we further facilitated our production operations through automation, the integration of machine data, and the digitalisation of shop floor information. We also automated our data exchange with customers and suppliers through a variety of interfaces. Moreover, we launched a new hybrid work environment supporting lean collaboration, both internally and externally.

Talents and tools

Special attention goes to our talents, as we are implementing an agile collaboration and governance framework for digitalisation initiatives across the company. To prepare our employees and our company for what lies ahead, we substantially invest in up-skilling and re-skilling. And we want to increasingly engage our collaborators and technology partners by making our tools more effective and easier to use.

Ready for action

In 2023, we will further leverage our innovative technologies to solve business problems and tap into new opportunities. Our aim is to become a process-thinking organisation with modern and performant supporting systems that provide actionable data, open to our internal business clients, customers, and suppliers, as well as to our consumers.

The journey continues

In the coming year, we will continue to gradually assess and modernise our current information systems. Where needed, we will replace them with smarter ones that are adapted to changing requirements, with more automation and advanced analytics capabilities. In 2023, we will already deliver some key building blocks of our digitalisation roadmap, such as an advanced supply chain planning system and an enhanced data integration and business intelligence platform.

The ultimate goal of our digitalisation efforts is to even better serve our partners, customers and consumers, and to offer improved products that match their needs.

Peter Bal Chief Information Officer