Leading Supply Chain Excellence
Learn how to reinvent and optimise the design of your supply chain to improve long-term financial performance.
This three-day executive Masterclass provides the latest thinking in the resilience and sustainability of supply chains and explores the opportunities of AI and data to support supply chain decision-making.
Masterclass Expert: Professor Robert Boute
Dates: 9 - 11 December 2024
Location: London, United Kingdom
Group size: Limited to 25 Participants
“High value! Insight into industry trends, common topics and maturity levels when transforming digital.”

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Practical, actionable and interactive learning
Collaborate, benchmark and exchange ideas with other practitioners to ensure that your organisation is fit for an age of digital disruption.
Masterclass overview
Day 1: Strategic Supply Chain Network Design
Learn how to optimize your supply chain from a cost and working capital perspective.
Discover the tools to determine your optimal inventory levels.
Quantify the business case behind centralization and product standardization.
Day 2: Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains
Learn the tools to decide when to offshore and re-shore supply chain operations.
Explore the opportunities to reduce your logistics carbon footprint.
Discover the techniques to share the gains of supply chain collaboration.
Day 3: Intelligent, Data-Driven Operations
Explore the possibilities of AI for supply chain optimization.
Learn how machine learning can be applied to improve supply chain operations.
Discover the use of machine learning for forecasting and supply chain decision-making.
“Excellent insights and examples for digital manufacturing. Great networking opportunities.”
Meet our Leader
Robert Boute: Full Professor and Partner at Vlerick Business School
Professor Robert Boute’s research focuses on digital operations, supply chain management and re-shoring manufacturing. His recent work includes the use of AI in inventory control and predictive analytics for maintenance optimisation.
He was named one of the 40 best professors under 40 by Poets & Quants in 2016 – and was laureate of the 2017 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and Management Sciences.
“Exposure to broad concepts in manufacturing, supply chain and applications of digital.”
