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.
— Plant Director, Philips
 
 

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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.
— Global Head of Technical Innovation, Roche
 
 

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.
— Director, Value Chain Excellence, Johnson & Johnson
 
 
 

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