Bram Desmet

Some notes from the ‘Imagine2030’ conference of supply chain insights Jeremiah Owyang of Crowd Companies was 1 of the keynotes on the #imagine2030 conference of supply chain insights. CC is a Silicon Valley startup bringing change in large companies. It centers on the “collaborative economy” (AirBnB), “crowd business models” (Uber) and “autonomous world” (autonomous driving & robotics) disruptions. Much of Jeremiah’s keynote at the Imagine2030 conference was centered on the example of how the car industry is currently disrupted and massively moving towards a fully autonomous fleet of cars. The figure below shows data from Morgan Stanley which promises we…

Over the last 2 weeks two good things in my life came together My Phd in Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization, which I started 10 years ago and finished in 2009 My more recent work on balancing Service, Cost and Cash using the concept of the ‘Supply Chain Triangle’ Together they define the (role of) Supply Chain in 2030. The Supply Chain Triangle, shown in Figure 1, captures the struggle in companies to balance service to customers, supply chain costs, and cash. Figure 1: The Supply Chain Triangle First, the company needs to deliver service to customers, the quality of which is…