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Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (BISCI) organised the Event 'Dare to Be Circular' at the MECC in Maastricht on Thursday, 2nd March.

BISCI is happy to present to you the BISCI Event 2023: Dare to be Circular. 

Ton Geurts, Business Director, BISCI and Hans Willems, Senior Advisor, BISCI were at the Maastricht Awards event on 19th September organised by Gemeente Maastricht at the City Hall of Maastricht to present a key note on the topic “Duurzaamheid en Innovatie bij Ondernemingen”. Edith Schippers, President, DSM Europe was a special guest at the event.

BISCI, the Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation, wants to contribute to the innovation and competitiveness of individual companies and organisations in various sectors and helps strengthen the region’s economic infrastructure of the province of Limburg and beyond.

Continuing the yearly BISCI tradition of Summer drinks  at Ton's vineyard in Maastricht for the third time. 

Performance-based contracting (PBC) is a contractual approach for relationships that entails emphasis on the evaluation of outcomes or KPI’s. Although the potential benefits are appealing – increased asset performance, availability and utilization – PBC has not been successfully implemented in maritime so far.

Ron Cörvers who leads one of the UM/SBE research spearheads - Fair and Smart Data speaks with Ton Geurts, Business Director, BISCI and Shreyas Sridhar, Project Manager, BISCI about his experience with research and leading the Maastricht Sustainability Institute.

How can we empower smallholder farmers to use the tools of data technology to compete in the digital economy? This will be one of the main questions of the panel discussion entitled “Data technology for the Benefit of Smallholder Farmers” hosted by the Fair and Smart Data spearhead (FSD).

The current geo-political tensions in the world will continue to present us with major procurement challenges in 2022 and far beyond. We hear from all sides about price increases at suppliers; including sea transport, wood, plastics, pallets, cardboard, sugar, palm oil, from 20% to more than 700%! The Dutch retailer Albert Heijn argued that the 20% increase was “inadequately explained by cost increases,” but Nestlé argued that their price increase is “inevitable” because of global inflation.

In the past two years alone, the management of supply chain flows has meant having to deal with trade wars, logistics breakdowns, labor shortages, demand shocks, natural disasters, and unprecedented regulatory turbulence—oftentimes concurrently. Considering the persistence of this context, can anyone blame supply chain managers for having come to accept a disruption-laden operating environment as some sort of perverted new normal?