Course: Supply Chain Innovation: How Technology Can Create a Sustainable Future

In this video you will learn about the various aspects of sustainability in supply chains. You will appreciate why precisely assessing sustainability is usually a highly complex endeavour. You will …

Supply chain innovation can be encouraged in many ways. Consumer organizations and NGOs can initiate programs to increase awareness of sustainability and innovation. Individual companies, Industry sector organizations, government, and …

In this step you will learn what types of innovations exist. The role of ICT in supply chain innovations will become clear. Collaboration is key in making it happen. It’s …

Innovations are meant to increase supply chain performance. As innovations take effort and investment this should ‘pay’ back. The return does not necessarily need to be financial. Performance improvement has …

In this video you will learn about supply chain innovation. You will be introduced to examples in various industries. You will see how new technologies and new supply chain structures …

Welcome back to our course on Supply Chain Innovation. In this week we will discuss what shape and form sustainability in supply chains can take. We will share with you …

Thank you for learning with us in Week 1 of our online course on Supply Chain Innovation. In this week we introduced you to the major concepts for this course. …

The overarching challenge in the next decades will be to design supply chains that meet future economic, environmental and social requirements, in short that are “people, planet, profit” oriented. There …

Why do we need to innovate supply chains? In this video we look at developments in the market. Consumer demand is an important driver. We discuss the long tail, illustrating …

In this animation our lead educator Jos van Hillegersberg explains the basic concepts of a supply chain. We also show how product structure and supply chain are related. Make or …

Current supply chains and logistic processes place an unacceptable footprint on scarcely available resources and cause serious environmental and social problems. Fortunately, new technological developments may help to reduce these …

In this step we explore the meaning and significance of logistics and supply chain management in the global economy we’re witnessing today. We will investigate why worldwide logistics flows have …

Supply chains are an indispensable need in any global economy where worldwide sourcing and manufacturing have become the norm, even stronger after the revolutionary developments of Information and Communication Technology …

In the coming weeks you will meet several experts from the University of Twente in this course. As this is a multidisciplinary course, you will see that we have quite …

You’ve reached the final step of our course on Supply Chain Innovation. Congratulations with this achievement! Professor Jos van Hillegersberg wraps up this course and says thank you for joining …