If you look at most of our manufacturing plants,
Schneider is there providing all different types of solutions.
We are learning and collaborating on several individual
proof of technologies and proof of concepts in terms of industry,
Internet of Things, digital factories, and digital plants.
To truly understand how Schneider has driven their digital transformation, has driven
their digital factories
and take those learnings and lessons and then put it back into our experience.
Schneider Electric has been a strong player,
helping us to learn and also collaborate on experiences that really matter
in terms of digital factories and digitalizing our plants.
We've historically, 100 years back, been a hardware manufacturer.
We make lots of pieces that do really cool things,
bringing those things together in a connected capacity
that captures the information or the data, rather
that drives that informational output is what really matters.
It's EcoStruxure, right?
So Schneider sees the world in a three tiered approach.
Those connected devices that gather all of that data, we're able
to put that data in a methodology or an information pack
that can be processed through advanced analytics to identify
what's really happening in the factory and where they need to make tweaks.
So we see it an end to end perspective.
Part of the reason that we're good at this is we're a manufacturer.
We have 200 plus factories around the world.
Where we're, for lack of a better phrase, eating our own food.
These are the things that we're really good at.
And recently rated two years in a row now by Gartner as number four
in supply chain management.
This is a test and learn that we wanted to do with real content
where we are trying to optimize our give away,
which is once we manufacture a product, there's a lot of variance in the product
and we want to reduce the variance to a minimum.
Schneider really helped us to conduct a proof of technology
using their existing technology, where they capture the data
and use their existing models to give an optimized outcome.
It has been a very interesting proof of technology
working with Schneider on that and a lot of learnings
how we can optimize our plans by simulating the digital way of the process,
at the same time ensuring that we are applying data
and AI in the back end to get to optimize results.
They've seen us as a big gray
box guy for a long time and there's a lot more to what we offer.
It's not just about automation, it's not just about sustainability.
It's not just about electrical distribution, power,
surveillance, you know, security and access control.
It's about bringing all of those things together that bring an efficient
manufacturing operation that is secure.
Looking at the bigger picture, we see the world moving away from hardware.
We see it moving into a decoupled environment
where it doesn't matter what the policy is.
What matters is the data set that's behind that.
And how do we crunch that data to provide information again
for better output for the client so that they can become
more efficient, more sustainable, less waste,
better metrics, better sustainability and the planet.
Schneider is a great leader in its own space of electrical
and digital manufacturing support versus Mars.
We are pretty much leaders in our manufacturing processes
in manufacturing, food and pet food products.
So bringing that synergy and experiences together has become
a really important thing in
how we learn from each other and how we make a difference.
And what's really cool about working with Mars
and one of my favorite things is that they are in fact open.
They live by the five principles, one of which is mutuality, right?
What's what is mutually beneficial for all stakeholders?
And they talk about these, these are their culture and these are
the things that matter to them.
So from a relationship perspective, at times I find it challenging
because there's so many things going on, but we're in a great space.
And I'm I think I'm pretty fortunate to have Mars as a client and look
forward to another ten years.