May 2018

  In his foreword to my book and in earlier linkedin posts, Frank Vorrath, talks about the evolution towards a supply chain ecosystem. The idea was initially launched by Prof Martin Christopher from Cranfield University that we are no longer competing companies against companies, but as...

  In an earlier blog we have already analyzed that different strategies lead to different supply chains and that supply chain is often mistaken for operational excellence or lowest cost only. In this we analyze whether all partners in a Supply Chain Ecosystem share the same...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] On June 7th Prof. dr. Bram Desmet will be part of a 3-day program in Antwerp by hosting a hands-on workshop and keynote speech on how supply chain, strategy and finance are related. By joining forces with Value...

How much inventory do you really need? Companies try to answer in 2 ways: top-down and bottoms-up. In a top-down approach, we define an ‘overall’ target for our business unit, based on a benchmark, or based on last years’ performance. In a bottoms-up approach, we...