Reveal

Presents

Tariffs, Disruptions & Margins:
How SAP Leaders Are Unlocking Profit and Resilience

An Executive Roundtable Dinner for Finance, Supply Chain & Operations Leaders

Networking Dinner at The Chicago Firehouse Restaurant

Successfully Held on September 11th, 2025

Reveal

Presents

Tariffs, Disruptions & Margins:
How SAP Leaders Are Unlocking Profit and Resilience

An Executive Roundtable Dinner for Finance, Supply Chain & Operations Leaders

Networking Dinner at
The Chicago Firehouse Restaurant

Successfully Held
on September 11th, 2025

WHAT WE DISCUSSED

Global manufacturers face tariff volatility, supply chain disruptions, and relentless pressure on margins. Many organizations blame SAP, but the truth is different: most companies aren’t using the SAP they already own to its full potential.

This roundtable was your chance to learn how peers have overcome these challenges and turned SAP into a powerful engine of resilience and profitability.

Who Attended this Roundtable

Designed exclusively for Director-level and above leaders at SAP-driven enterprises:

  • Finance Leaders (CFO, VP Finance):
    Free up millions in working capital, improve cash flow, and reduce SG&A costs without new software.
  • Operations & Supply Chain Leaders (COO, VP/Head of Supply Chain, VP Operations):
    Cut inventory by up to 35% while raising service levels by 32%.
  • Functional & Middle Management Leaders:
    Reduce spreadsheet chaos, improve employee morale, and build trust in SAP as the single source of truth.

Why They Joined This Dinner ?

  • Peer-to-Peer Exchange
    Learn directly from senior executives—not vendors—about the decisions that delivered tangible results.
  • Concrete Proof Points
    “$11M in savings in one year”
    “Most profitable year in a decade”
    “35% inventory reduction with improved service levels”
  • Timely Insights
    Discuss how SAP leaders are adapting to tariffs, global disruptions, and shifting customer demands.

Featured Voices

  • “Reveal showed us that SAP wasn’t the problem—it was how we were using it. Once our teams trusted the system, morale improved, attrition dropped, and we finally hit our customer service targets.”
    — Supply Chain Leader, Moen
  • “By learning how to truly leverage SAP, we reduced inventory by 35% while improving service levels. It was a breakthrough moment.”
    — Former Reveal Client

What Were the Takeaways

  • Proven strategies for boosting EBITDA by unlocking existing SAP value
  • Benchmarks from executives who’ve achieved double-digit service and inventory improvements
  • Practical frameworks to reduce risk-prone manual processes and reliance on spreadsheets
  • New peer connections facing the same Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain challenges you are

AGENDA

6:00 PM – 6:15 PM

Welcome

6:15 PM – 7:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Dinner

8:00 PM – 8:20 PM

Networking

8:20 PM – 8:30 PM

Closing

SOLUTION EXPERTS

Ed Elsbury

Partner at Reveal Value

Ed Elsbury is a Partner at Reveal responsible for developing and building client relationships and strategies focused on improving supply chain effectiveness and ensuring client satisfaction. Ed has more than 25 years of strategic business experience providing solutions designed to improve distribution efficiencies, reduce operating costs and increase product margins.

His experience includes technology, manufacturing, distribution, and finance helping clients from Fortune 100 to private equity firms. Some clients Ed has helped transform include Sysco, Huntsman, Phillips 66, Tenneco, Mitsubishi, Campbell’s Soup, Sears, Nalco and Delicato Family Wines.

Martin Rowan

Managing Partner | Speaker | Practitioner at Reveal Value

Martin’s passion is to help companies leverage their current technology investment to optimize their integrated, extended supply chains to achieve a world class status. His 20+ years’ experience covers a wide variety of industries across multiple countries with specific focus on driving transformational change within the organization and their core value chain.

He has helped transform some phenomenal organizations across the globe, such as; US Navy, Campbells Soup, GE, Carlisle, HD Supply, Ryerson Steel, General Motors, Mittal Steel, Sanyo, Insight and Asics, to name a few.

He is also passionate about how supply chains can play a key role in helping the underprivileged communities and is therefore very active in local and international “give-back” programs that have helped hundreds of abused, abandoned and dangerously neglected children in need. Martin speaks frequently at conferences typically on topics around the importance of an optimized supply chain. In the last few years, he has spoken in Spain, France, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, UK and the United States.

VENUE

The Chicago Firehouse Restaurant

1401 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, United States

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