Inchainge Connect 2023

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Undergraduate and postgraduate education related to logistics and supply chain management is generally not different between industrialized and developing or emerging countries. The LSCM concepts remain the same, but the list of priorities, physical restrictions caused by poor infrastructure, and a lower degree of technological application pose a challenge in adapting the educational curricula at university level. Additional to the insights about the general teaching challenges in developing countries (e.g. in Sub-Saharan Africa), the use of gaming approaches, remote education, and case study development will be discussed. During times of COVID-19, and potential unrest such as in Ethiopia, capacity building in higher education is even more challenging and requires extra layers of planning, time, and understanding for the local context.

Andre Kreie (MSc, PhD) is Director Global Logistics Education with the Kühne Foundation based in Schindellegi, Switzerland, and also works as Vice Dean at the German Foreign Trade and Logistics Academy (DAV) in Bremen, Germany. He is a Business Economist and holds a PhD and Masters in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Dr Kreie also completed a professional multi-year traineeship with a logistics company to understand and apply all operational procedures required in sea-, air-, and land-transportation. Prior to joining the Kühne Foundation, Dr Kreie gained further work experience in the supply chain business with a globally operating logistics service provider and worked as project manager for logistics design and operations with a leading European DIY-retailer. Dr Kreie has been teaching intensively in business programs at different universities and further education institutions and his research interest is on organizational and network learning, and supply chain risk management to enable the adaptations of logistical systems to a changing environment. Dr Kreie won the International Emerald/EFDM Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for his PhD thesis on “The Adaptation of Supply Chains to Climate Change”. Present activities for the Kühne-Foundation involve global projects in advanced and higher education in logistics with a particular focus on university capacity building in logistics and supply chain management, i.e. Bachelor, Master, and PhD-Degree programs in LSCM. Further, Dr. Kreie leads the logistics training unit which addresses operational transportation topics as well as leadership and strategic elements for young professionals and more experienced management. The Kühne Foundation Global Logistics Education Program currently targets the regions Europe, East-and West-Africa, Central Asia, and South-East Asia.

Andrea Sordi serves as Academic Director of the Global Supply Chain Executive Program and Clinical Professor at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville USA. A Supply Chain Strategist and ‘Innovationist’, passioned about Social Sustainable Supply Chain Management, particularly in the Procurement space, Andrea holds a degree and a PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on Food Processing and Biotechnology from the University of Genova, Italy and an MBA in Global Supply Chain Management from the University of Tennessee. People focused, coach and strong talent developer, Andrea has strong value in people, diversity, trust and authenticity; his personal purpose is ‘nurturing others to fulfill their potential and find their success to create a better world’. He is a Global Business Executive with 20 years track-record Integrated Supply Chain experience across different FMCGs (Danone, Kraft Foods, Mondelez). People driven leader, he led major procurement and supply chain transformations building innovative people, digital and process capabilities, contributing to reshape the Procurement discipline and its strategic positioning. Andrea has a large experience in Indirect and Outsourcing services where he led the global sourcing team at Mondelez for several years. A real world citizens, he lived in 5 different countries both in Europe and US and worked across all continents, and speaks 5 languages. Andrea’s areas of teaching and research focus on Supply Chain Strategies, Procurement Capabilities and Supply Chain Sustainability. Speaker and author of industry researches and papers, he collaborates with major consulting firms and industry associations on advancing the procurement discipline. He serves as a member of CoupaSoftware Executive Customer Board and as Senior Advisor for GROOA AS leadership consulting and coaching firm.

Aicha has a master of science in data analytics (vrije universiteit) and a teaching degree (vrije universiteit).  Aicha has work 5 years in actuarial sciences before joining the teacher force at the Rotterdam University of applied science where she has been a lecture for almost 8 years. She teaches courses in the areas of Statistics, Data analytics, IT and management and has also the ambition to do her PhD. in Data science.

Ashish Mendiratta is a seasoned professional specialized in Supply Chain Management. His 25+ years of career includes working with a number of globally renowned and leading Indian organizations like Gillette, Nestle, BILT, Philips and Kohler. In his previous roles Ashish was Director-Supply Chain, Asia Pacific at Kohler and Director-Supply Chain, India & Pakistan at Philips. Ltd. He completed Masters in Industrial Engineering from NITE in 1989 and holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IT Roorkee, 1988. Over last few years he has been actively engaged in developing Supply Chain Talent and has worked on various assignments with well-known companies, that include
Nestle, Nivea, Castrol, Becton Dickinson, Carlsberg, DB Schenker etc. on supply chain competency assessment & development. He is a certified trainer in the business simulation “The Fresh Connection’

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Björn Claes is Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at The Open University Business School in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. His research interests are related to the behavioral aspects in operations and supply chain management and to business processes in general. His work has been published in journals such as Human Resource Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Prometheus, Supply Chain Forum, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, among others. He regularly teaches courses (including The Fresh Connection) at Kedge Business School in France, at IE Business School in Spain, and at Cranfield School of Management in the UK.

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) solutions are often presented as win-win-win instruments for the involved buyers, suppliers and financial service providers. However, the perspective from the parties initiating the SCF solutions receives most attention, which are usually the buyers and financial service providers. Often payment term extensions are used when introducing SCF, and therefore suppliers need to carefully assess these offers. In this presentation the perspective of all involved parties, before, during and after adoption, is given. It will give insights for suppliers on how to assess SCF offers, and for buyers and banks on how to introduce SCF and communicate with suppliers. The SCF instruments discussed will be Reverse Factoring and Inventory Financing.

Christiaan de Goeij is a project manager and researcher in the field of Supply Chain Finance at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, and Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He started his career as a policy advisor in Economic Affairs and worked at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce and the Province of South Holland. After that he became a researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the field of Airport/Seaport Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

At Windesheim he is teaching supply chain courses using business simulation gaming and managing large-scale research projects on Supply Chain Finance with corporates, SMEs and industry associations in The Netherlands. Furthermore, he is writing project proposals for grants. In 2017 he won the RAAK-award for best applied research project in The Netherlands.

Dr. Christopher A. Boone serves as an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Marketing, Quantitative Analysis & Business Law at Mississippi State University.  Professor Boone has extensive experience teaching supply chain courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels and has received awards for teaching excellence at multiple universities.  Professor Boone is also an award-winning scholar. His primary research interest is supply chain strategy and decision making. Topical themes of his research include studies on supply chain resiliency, service parts management, logistics service quality, product recalls, digital transformation, data quality, and supply chain analytics. Prior to entering academia, Professor Boone served 22 years in the United States Air Force.  During his military career he served in a variety of logistics and transportation related assignments and commanded both an operational and combat logistics squadron.

Chuck Nemer is a trainer/consultant with 40 years of experience in Supply Chain Management, Lean, Leadership, and APICS. He has a Bachelors degree in Accounting from the University of Minnesota, a Masters degree in Leadership from Augsburg College in Minneapolis Mn. He holds CPIM, CSCP,  and CLTD certification from APICS, and an on-line curriculum development certification from the Wisconsin Technical College System.

Aside from teaching at an urban based university in St. Paul Mn., Chuck is also an Education Associate for  Inchainge supporting universities in the USA who utilize The Fresh Connection, The Blue Connection, and The Cool Connection in their classroom.  He currently works with approximately 40 universities and 3000 students annually in supporting the use and play of the simulations in the classroom.

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Corine van der Sloot is an experiential learning, and Supply Chain Management professional, with over 20 years of business experience. She has held positions in different roles in multinationals (Philips), SME’s, her privately owned company, and was managing partner of a start-up company. At Inchainge Corine is Global Director of Education, as well as Senior Trainer. Corine is connected with the global leading universities in Supply Chain Management, and working on further business development of the academic market for the business simulation games that Inchainge has developed. Corine has an APICS certification and has finished different modules of the MIT EDX Supply Chain Management course program. She is an entrepreneur, always looking for opportunities, signaling those opportunities, and she dares to take risks if it serves a good purpose. Corine is board member of CSCMP Benelux RT, and is the Dutch representative of BVL (German SCM and Logistics Association) in the Netherlands. In her private live Corine is married, has two children, and is active as a running trainer.

Denyse is an Associate Professor in the Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management group at Cranfield University, UK. Denyse has a PhD in Quality Management from the University of Nottingham, an MBA from University of Miami and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the West Indies. She is particularly interested in Sustainable Supply chains which includes a focus on Net Zero targets and Nature based solutions and also Circular SCs. Denyse has held Course Director roles for 15 years at Cranfield across a range of postgraduate programmes. Prior to joining Cranfield, Denyse worked at Nestlé in the Headquarters in Switzerland and also in Australia. In general given her background in the Food sector she is particularly interested in looking at the challenges that Food value chains face.Denyse has lived in Trinidad, USA, U.K., Germany, Switzerland and Australia. In her previous roles she has worked with teams across a very wide range of countries including Pakistan, India, Japan, South Africa, Indonesia and Singapore. This has provided Denyse with first-hand experience of the differences in operations and cultures and the subsequent challenges to managers.

In this session, you will learn in detail what the application of the Integrated Learning Approach could look like for a Circular Economy course with The Blue Connection integrated into it. Which learning methods to apply, which sequence of activities to follow, how to engage students and which assignments to use for the grading? By attending, you will find answers to all of these questions, and more…

Ed Weenk MSc PDEng is an experienced lecturer, corporate advisor and workshop and training facilitator. His professional passions are sustainable operations and supply chain, managers and management, projects and project management, train¬ing and teaching, and business simulations and experiential learning.

He has extensive practical experience since the mid-1990s in managing interna¬tional logistics and distribution projects at strategic and operational level and is a strong believer in the principles of experiential learning. Alongside his practice as an independent professional, he is delivery partner and authorized trainer in the Inchainge business simulations of the Netherlands and the Palatine Group in New York.

Ed collaborates as a Senior Associate Professor at business schools such as EADA Barcelona (Spain), Maastricht School of Management (the Netherlands), TIAS School for Business and Society (the Netherlands), Antwerp Management School (Belgium), WU Wien Executive Academy (Austria), Rotterdam School of Management (the Netherlands) and Centrum Graduate School of Business (Lima, Peru). His specialization is on the topics of operations and supply chain management, circular economy, project management, and intra- and entrepreneurship.

Ed has previously written a management book, The Perfect Pass: What the manager can learn from the football trainer, published in English, Spanish and Dutch, about the importance of seeing the big picture, having good internal and external alignment and achieving coherence at all levels. In 2019 his second book was published, titled Mastering the Supply Chain: Principles, practice and real-life applications, now available in English and Dutch. Similar to Mastering the Circular Economy, this book combines relevant theory and frameworks with practical appli¬cation through a business simulation.

Egge Haak (57) started his career with several Supply Chain management positions in the industry. Egge made the transition to business consultancy in 1996. In 2001 he started Involvation, a mid sized consulting company in Supply Chain Management. As a partner he is involved in a large number of supply chain improvement projects. In 2010 he founded Inchainge, the company that drives several business (learning) simulations (like The Fresh Connection, The Cool Connection and The Blue Connection) on a global level.

He is the entrepreneurial type, building new things form scratch and working on new innovative ideas. Egge likes the motto of Maria Andretti (former F1 driver) : “ when everything is under control, you are driving too slow”

Egge likes sports like sailing, skiing, tennis and hockey.

Egge has a three kids (Karianne – 16, Minke – 19, Timo – 20) He lives in a small village in Mid-East of The Netherlands, near the woods.

Dr. Felisa Preciado Higgins is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and a Clinical Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Smeal College of Business. Dr. P, as many have come to know her, describes herself as a woman on a mission to change the world, one student at a time.

Dr. Higgins served as a 2016-2017 Administrative Fellow for the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses prior to assuming her role as Associate Dean. She was awarded the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2015, and the Smeal College of Business Fred Brand Jr. Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence in 2014.

She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Florida A&M University. Prior to joining Penn State, Dr. Preciado worked for Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KCC), where she was responsible for implementing process improvement solutions and demand planning methods throughout Latin America. Her previous work experience also includes the automotive and apparel industries.

Professor at Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau

S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) is a well-established process in many professional companies, as it can add enormous value. For any process to work well, the people running it need to have the right skills and competencies and S&OP is no exception.

There are several reasons why many companies struggle with competency development and creating buy-in for S&OP though. In this presentation, we will analyse the reasons why and explain how simulation can be highly effective in addressing these issues.

Dr. Hans van der Drift is partner at Involvation, a company that specialises in Supply Chain Management and optimisation. Hans is responsible for Involvation’s S&OP-IBP practice and has been involved in numerous consulting and training assignments in many different industries.

Before joining Involvation in 2008, Hans worked 15 years at Unilever, where he started as an internal supply chain consultant and subsequently became responsible for the supply chain of Iglo and later Lever Fabergé. In the latter job, he was the driving force behind the MCC (Manufacturers Consolidation Centre), the joint distribution centre of Lever Fabergé and Kimberly-Clark. This centre was awarded several national logistics prizes, because of its innovative and environmentally friendly design. During his last four years at Unilever, Hans worked as Plan Program Director for Europe. During his years at Unilever and Involvation, he built up a broad experience in supply chain optimisation and management, including S&OP, demand and supply planning and distribution.

Hans holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology.

Prof. Igor Lopes is an Industrial Engineer from the Technological University of Havana, he received a PhD in Technical Sciences focusing in Logistics and Supply Chain (2013), is active in Teaching, Research and Business Consulting. He has accumulated more than fifteen years of experience as a teacher at Universities in Cuba and Latin America, and ten years of experience in joint work with Universities Worldwide, especially in Germany. Igor is also an Education Associate of Inchainge supporting universities in Latin America to utilize The Fresh Connection, The Cool Connection and The Blue Connection in their classrooms.

Jan H. Jansen (1955) holds state degrees in Economics and Statistics (MO KX & MO Q; equivalent to M.Ed) since 1978; during his professional career he had several updates in Finance at the London School of Economics and in Business Administration at the University of Hertfordshire.

He started (1978) his teaching career at a grammar school (Stedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem) and continued (1985) to become a senior lecturer at Arnhem Business School (faculty of economics of HAN University of Applied Sciences) in subjects like: Economics, Finance, Management Accounting, and Supply Chain Fiaince)

Lecturing as well abroad at:Handelshochschule Leipzig, University of Aruba, University of Westminster (London), Plekhanov Institute (Moscow), Chelyabinsk State University, FH  ESB Reutlingen, FH Gelsenkirchen-Bocholt, FHTW Dresden, IUT Vesoul, FH Wildau, Duy Tan University – Da Nang),  and KdG Antwerp.

Since 2001 he also joined the research group of Logistics & Alliances of HAN University of Applied Sciences of Professor Dennis Moeke.

Research topics:

• Supply Chain Finance[1]
  • Conceptual model of SCF for SMEs
  • IT platforms for SCF (FinTec)
  • O2C (and P2P) project
  • SCF Quick Scan
• Didactics of Economics & Finance
  • Serious gaming (TCC, TBC and Stocktrak)
  • Innovation in learning & teaching (incl. Hybrid learning & teaching)
  • Curriculum development

Mr Jansen is participant in several international networks of higher education (Canada, Belgium, UK, France, Germany, Russia and Vietnam) and leading editor website (www.efle.eu) / acting secretary of EFLE (= European Forum of Logistics Education).

[1] See also the website: http://principlesofsupplychainfinance.nl/

Supply chains are increasingly complex: in such an increasingly uncertain world, supply chain risk is often nested within complex networks composed of multiple tiers of interconnecting companies, tangled in a web of connections spanning geographies, tiers and industries. That’s why some corporates are moving from managing their immediate suppliers to look into their ‘Nexus’ suppliers: critical or strategic suppliers that sit beyond the first tier, with whom a corporate doesn’t have a direct commercial relationship, but that can ‘make or break’ a supply chain. In this session we will go through the basics of the Nexus supplier concept, see a practical application and discuss why the concept is critical for corporates and why one might want to consider including it in our programmes for students approaching supply chain management.

Luca Gelsomino is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, as well as the Academic Director of the Supply Chain Finance Community and a Senior Researcher at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences (all in the Netherlands). His research interests include Supply Chain Finance, the interface of finance and operations and Circular Economy. He teaches in the field of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, as well as Managerial Accounting and Financial Analysis. He received his PhD from the School of Management at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on the impact of Supply Chain Finance on the financial performance of supply chains.

Kaushik has more than 25 years’ experience in Business and Digital Transformation engagements globally, in leadership roles in Asia-Pacific and the USA. Currently, Kaushik runs his own boutique consulting practice as a Value Advisor for Digital Technologies, Supply Chain, and Sales PerformanceKaushik’s diversified industry leadership experience covers Consumer Products, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Industrial Manufacturing, Financial Services and Telecommunications across Asia and North America. This has included career stints with SAP, Oracle, PwC Consulting and IBM. He has driven business transformation programs across multiple industries and counts among his clientele PPG, HP, Equinix, Fuji Xerox, Canon, Foxconn, Huawei, Motorola, Uniqlo and Standard Chartered Bank among others.Before starting his own consulting and training initiative, Kaushik was at SAP as the Vice President of Industry Value Engineering and Presales Group for SAP, South East Asia. In this role he led Business Value selling, Market Planning, Account Planning and Business Development initiatives, across all product areas and industry verticals. He was also a member of the APJ Management Development Board at SAP.Prior to SAP, he was with Oracle, where he operated in multiple roles; as the ASEAN Insight leader (a Technology Value Consulting group), Global Supply Chain Tiger Team lead for APAC, APAC Product Management leader for Supply Chain products and in Pre-Sales.Kaushik is passionate about consulting, facilitating and mentoring. He is also associated with SMU, NTU and IIM Udaipur as Visiting/Adjunct Faculty where he takes Digital Transformation and Supply chain courses for Graduate and Undergraduate students.Kaushik holds a PhD in Supply Chain Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering from NIT Trichy, both being top-tier educational institutes in India.

Khan Muhammad Saqiful Alam, Program Manager, Trust and Safety, South Asia Region, TikTok

Saqif is at present working in the Trust and Safety zone in TikTok, looking after the South Asia Markets. Besides that he is also a Commonwealth Scholar in National University of Singapore (NUS). His area of research is in Innovation and Application of Machine Learning in Business Strategy. Besides this, he is an analytics adviser of Intelligent Machines Limited (a company working with machine learning and big data) and Upksill (a professional training and certification platform), and work on several other strategic and analytics consultancy projects. He is also a professional trainer for Light Castle Partners, Upskill, GP Accelerator and NUS Executive Education School, and the community manager for Google Business Groups Sonargaon. Recently he have worked with IBA, Dhaka University to introduce the first ever Business Analytics course for undergraduates doing BBA. He did his MSc in Operations and Risk Management from University of Manchester and did his BBA from IBA, Dhaka University.

His consulting and work areas of focus are – data-driven decision making, application of machine learning in businesses, helping businesses be strategically data driven, strategic risk management and simulations. He also specializes on startup scaling up and strategic planning. He has also published in world renowned journals research articles on decision making and future scenarios.

• Current State

• Impact of COVID-19 – E2E Disruptions

• Issues & progress on port congestion

• Key threats (Geo-political tensions)

• Factors affecting Supply Chain and driving Decoupling

• Decoupling – Outlook by 2025

• Shifting from Single Bottom Line vs. Triple Bottom Line

• Digital Transformation

Nick Vyas is the Academic/Executive Director and Co-founder of the Center for Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) at the University of Southern California. As Associate Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations, Nick teaches Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain Finance, and Emerging Technologies. Previously Vyas managed global operations for Duty Free International, Sears, Federated Stores, and Toys R Us.

Noah Schaul is a Business Development Manager. He is originally from Luxemburg, lived in the Netherlands for 6 years, and currently lives in Barcelona, Spain. It was in the Netherlands where his studies and professional career started and are now still developing, as a business development manager at Inchainge. He is one of Inchainge’s master trainers for the circular business game The Blue Connection and a contributor to the textbook Mastering the Circular Economy. Very passionate about everything related to circularity, Noah is developing applied circular learning programs and inspiring companies to go circular in The Netherlands and beyond!

For the past few years (2017 to date) Oliver J. Ntenje has been involved in the development of the new International Business program of the International School of Business at the HAN University of Applied Sciences. He has been involved in the development of the complete 4-year bachelor program, and the minor Data Driven Decisions Making in Business. In both cases, experiential learning has been key in the curriculum.

From his role as coordinator of the Free Space, member of the assessment committee, he has worked tirelessly with his colleagues and management to come up with a fantastic program.

I am a Senior Agricultural Value Chain Expert with 37 years of experience in various tropical agricultural
value chains. In all these years I have witnessed many good efforts to help farmers to improve the
sustainability of their farms and increase incomes for the farming families families – and whilst farmers
could not or would not adopt the recommended interventions, I am convinced that we can succeed in
working with these families and deliver increased and diversified income through diversified agroforestry
systems and building on principles of regenerative agriculture. I also know that we can integrate Satellite
Imagery, IT and Internet of Things (IoT) at farm level for the benefit of farming families as well as for the
organizations and companies that support them – but we have to change or ways of working with farmers,
set up more farmer-oriented Service Delivery Mechanisms and de-risk investments necessary to improve
the farms.
I am passionate about three things:
1. the transformation of monoculture farms to agroforestry systems that deliver higher economic and
environmental benefits than the existing farms, including building the asset value of a farm
2. to improve farmer adoption of recommended interventionsthrough leveraging Behavioral Economics
– in order to understand farmers’ concerns and aspirations to identify bottlenecks and incentives, and
build confidence, motivation and competences for farmers and families and
3. Embedding innovative Service Delivery Mechanisms as economically viable and efficient ways of
working in companies’ value chains.
At heart I am a technical person, but I embrace mechanisms to drive behavior change. I have often
observed that good technical innovations and improved practices have failed as many farmers do not
adopt them – and we thus need to understand better what the limitations, challenges and opportunities
are from a farmers’ point of view. Insights from behavioral sciences and especially behavioral economics
to address challenges and improve motivation and close the adoption gaps are necessary.
I am fortunate that I can build on 34 years of experience and expertise as a commercial and sustainability
director with Mars Incorporated, which formed a strong basis for the last 3 years with Bright Life Farming
Pte. Ltd., the company I founded in November 2018. I was fortunate to live and work in West Africa and
Asia which allows me to work across different cultures and languages. The countries I am most familiar
with are Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines
My expertise and experience are included in my CV but in short, they include (i) analytical skills and critical
thinking (ii) agronomy and smallholder farm economics, (iii) agroforestry and regenerative agriculture, (iv)
new extension mechanisms that fit organizations’ capacity and farmers’ needs (v) MEL systems to
measure progress and de-risk farm level finance, (vi) use Satellite and Internet technology at farm level,
(vii) translating complex academic information into practical interventions and (viii) most importantly,
bringing all these things together in practical on-farm interventions.
I am comfortable both in corporate environments and with development organizations through my many
years of work with Mars and their suppliers such as Barry Callebaut, ECOM, Olam, Touton and others, as
well as with development organizations such as the World Bank, IFAD, USAid, IDH, BMGF, USDA, the
Rainforest Alliance, Yayasan Inisiatif Dagang Hijau, the Grameen Foundation, Solidaridad and others.
My main objective is to work with companies and organizations to develop and embed economically
viable Service Delivery Mechanisms as viable and profitable business in their value chains, and work with
farmer directly to support them with the development of sustainable, diversified agroforestry farming
systems that provide ‘living income’ and economic resilience to farming families whilst delivering high
quality, sustainable produce for traders, processors and manufacturers. The ecological, environmental
and climate change impact are of benefit to all value chain partners and to the world at large.
I design new approaches, interventions and systemsthat are long-term beneficial for companies and drive
behavior change at farm level towards sustainable practices through building trust and confidence.
Together with a shift from transactional business to long-term business relationships, companies will
benefit from long term availability of the volumes and quality of produce they need whilst farmers benefit
from support to develop more professional farming competences as well as access to inputs and
differentiated markets. Companies need to invest in long-term contracts and provide support for farmers,
whilst farmers need to adopt new practices and become loyal suppliers of high-quality crops.

Deep-Tier-Supply-Chain-Finance is a new financing concept applicable in tightly organized Supply Chains. The idea is that, within a Supply Chain, every value-added step is immediately paid for as soon as the goods are accepted by the “next-in-line” participant in the chain. The goods flow and the flow of funds thus become tightly  coupled. This not only results in efficiencies in finance related costs, but also in a far reaching transparency throughout the entire chain.

Prof. Dr. Ir. Pieter Klapwijk, born in Amsterdam, grew up in Brussels. He is currently active as one of the co-founders of the startup AgOS, which combines blockchain with Supply Chain Finance for agricultural supply chains. He is also emeritus professor in Supply Chain Management Economics and Supply Chain Finance at Nyenrode Business University. He is also a director and co-founder of the Supply Chain Finance Community and an independent consultant in this field.

Tracy L. Cheetham is an APICS Recognised Instructor and Instructor for Inchainge simulations. She is a corporate educator, and her specialty is facilitating experiential learning workshops based on best-in-class supply chain content (Demand Driven Institute; ASCM and APICS) coupled with Inchainge business simulation. As an Education Associate for Inchainge, she provides support to educators from Texas and Oklahoma through to the East Coast of the USA.  She has extensive practitioner experience and facilitates workshops for global companies (eg: GKN, GSK, UN, LVMH, Albea, Essilor). She contributes as a volunteer and has served on several ASCM/APICS committees including Chair of ASCM Research, Innovation and Strategy Committee and a Past President of SAPICS.