Red Sofa interview | Daimler Truck’s Marion Gillich on tracking supplier risk with AI and digital tools
Marion Gillich, head of supplier risk management at Daimler Truck took to the Red Sofa at ALSC Digital Strategies Europe to discuss the company’s digital transformation, including how Daimler collects data from suppliers and uses it to predict and manage supplier risk.
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As head of supplier risk management at Daimler Truck, Marion Gillich said the company uses digital tools including AI to monitor supplier risk on the production side - be it risk from financial health, geopolitical risk, natural catastrophies or regulations.
“There is no one fits all solution,” she said. “We focus on the risk we want to look at, otherwise it becomes blurry.”
Daimler looks at the data it already has, to check if it is high quality and if it can use that data to plug into its supplier risk model.
She said the company is also looking at the depth of the risks identified, beyond tier-1s, using AI technology. Then, Gillich’s team looks at the visualisation of that data for its internal teams to understand it.
Experts from VW, Audi, BMW, Catena-X, Toyota, JLR, Infineon, CATL, Mercedes-Benz, SEAT, Daimler Truck and more gathered on stage at this year’s Automotive Logistics & Supply Chain Digital Strategies Europe, which took place 3-4 December in Munich, Germany.
The speakers discussed how to form a more co-creative, resilient and sustainable supply chain, providing insights into using the latest digital advancements to tackle uncertainty, volatility and cost pressures. Follow our recap blog to get insights, news and Red Sofa video interviews from the event.