Top Supply Chain Management executives from the International Finnish companies have now the possibility to apply for the membership of European Advisory Council (EAC).

The MIT Supply Chain 2020 (SC2020) Project is a multiyear research effort to identify and analyze the factors that are critical to the success of future supply chains. This pioneering project will map out innovations that underpin successful supply chains as far into the future as the year 2020.

Initiated by the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, the global research project involves dozens of faculty, research staff, and students at MIT and other institutions around the world.

Two advisory councils, the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) and the European Advisory Council (EAC), made up of supply chain executives from leading companies, are playing a crucial role in helping to shape the work and generate new ideas. SC2020 research is broad and far-reaching, and is designed to meet a series of objectives in two phases:.

Phase I: Understand excellent supply chains and the underlying strategies, practices, and macro forces that drive them.

Phase II: Leverage what is learned during the first phase, to project the future using scenario generation and planning methodologies. The work will highlight what actions organizations should take to help ensure supply chain excellence.

Top Supply Chain Management executives from the international Finnish companies have now the possibility to apply for the membership of European Advisory Council (EAC). Final decision will be made at MIT. Current EAC membership includes the following persons:

Jeremy Bentham Borealis Group
Pedro Bueno BSH Spain
Rolf Buscher Deutsche Post/DHL
Jaume Ferrer Accenture
Koen Goossens InBev/Interbrew
Hans de Graaff Texas Instruments
Axel Hopp Metro Group
Peter Van Laarhoevn TPG
David G Lapre Roche
Carlos Nieva Lucent
Kurt Wilhelm Reber Novartis
Hans Martin Schweizer Infineon Technologies
Peter van Vlient SAP
Martin Whitcombe Unilever

The EAC will have two face-toface meetings per year, Different EAC members may
host meetings at their corporate facilities. In addition, one or two webcasts each year may be used to supplement these face-to-face meetings.

What do you gain from the membership?

Together with other corporate supply chain executives, staff from the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), and MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics you can help to shape the work and generate new ideas. By looking further into the future than most business research initiatives, the SC2020 project hopes to deliver practical breakthroughs on the design and management of future supply chains.The project also aims to help companies understand the forces that are changing supply chains so that they can be better prepared for the future. This work can create value in society through improvements in transportation, logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) practices.

Lisätietoja EAC:stä ja SC2020 projektista antaa Heikki Kekäläinen, Logistra Consulting, etunimi.sukunimi@logistra.fi