Creating real value in the supply chain

I consider ESCF the connection to a broader, cross industry, Supply Chain community, a platform that enables sharing of thoughts and a link to young supply chain top talent.
Peter van Egerschot Logistics Director Dow Europe

Pro-active network and platform for companies and students to find each other, and develop on supply chain innovations supported by a well-managed program.
Patrick Ramakers Business Development & Associate Director Global manufacturing & supply chain projects at RoyalHaskoningDHV

A leading platform where academia and business come together for sharing experiences, raising knowledge and building networks.
Joeri Kuik Vice President Supply Chain Management - MediaMarkt Saturn

The ESCF platform, with the participation of leading companies in their fields and universities with world-class expertise in Supply Chain Management, working together in an informal setting, provides us with excellent opportunities to share ideas, to compare best practices, to learn from each other and, where possible, to work together on shared challenges.
Harrie de Haas Vice President Integrated Business Planning, ASML

A forum of supply chain professionals I easily connect with. Each event provides me with 2-3 worthwhile ideas.
Roeland Baaijens Executive Vice President Global Logistics at Hilti

About ESCF

ESCF is the leading collaboration forum in solving practical and scientific supply chain challenges by using technology and empowering talent, innovative thinking, and out-of-the-box solutions.
The ESCF ecosystem organizes interaction with her members to further develop knowledge in and around supply chains. Access to talent, our students and researchers, is crucial. In a non-competitive way and mutual trust, opportunities for the members of (cross-industry) to innovate are addressed. The researchers of ESCF are part of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences. Have a look at the research areas of the department and the researchers.

Talent-Knowledge-Network

Talent

ESCF offers companies excellent students and supply chain professionals of TU/e to carry out projects, address innovations, create awareness of supply chains’ scientific and practical knowledge. Their competencies like innovative thinking, out-of-the-box solutions, and adaptiveness help companies further develop their business. They form the talent of our forum.

Knowledge

ESCF creates real value in the supply chain by generating, exchanging, and integrating scientific and practical supply chain knowledge.

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Network

The ESCF network is based on the spirit of trust and reliability. The network shares the best scientific and practical knowledge in a non-competitive way and by peer-to-peer contacts.

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ESCF news

ESCF Theme-oriented in 2025

December 19, 2024

As we look ahead, we’re excited to announce our plans for an innovative program in 2025, designed to further enhance our collective knowledge and network in the supply chain domain. In the coming year, we’re implementing a significant change in our approach. We’ll be transitioning from our community-based structure to a more focused, theme-oriented framework. […]

Brian Willems winner ESCF Student Award 2023-2024

October 10, 2024

The Annual Conference on the 17th of September was closed by the ESCF Student Award 2023-2024 ceremony. Brian Willems won the fourth edition of the ESCF Student Awards with his thesis “The Truck and Container Problem with Intermodal Delivery Options” conducted at Van den Bosch. All nominees created a poster explaining their thesis. By clicking […]

ESCF Circular program LINCIT in the spotlight on Dutch national TV

March 12, 2024

To enable wider dissemination of LINCIT, we took part in the television program SBS ‘Doe maar duurzaam’, which will be broadcasted on March 16 on SBS6. This happens to coincide with the week of the circular economy. The Dutch TV program focuses on innovative solutions to various sustainability issues. It weekly portrays how we all […]

Our communities

ESCF ecosystem

To generate more value for the ESCF members, ESCF ecosystems extend into several communities: Customer-Driven Transformation (CDT), Data2Move, ESCF High Tech Community, LifeScience and Servitization. Smaller players like SMEs and start-ups mainly participate in one of our communities, while full ESCF members participate in all communities. We allow start-ups, scale-ups, large and multinational organizations to join the ESCF ecosystem.

CDT

The Customer-Driven Transformation (CDT) community is the eco-system on the interface of the End-to-End Supply Chain. Academics and students collaborate with prominent industry partners to create network communities and deliver results that are both practically and scientifically relevant.

Data2Move

Data2Move focuses on digital solutions in supply chains, where algorithms and AI are exploited to create decision support to create resilient and transparent operations.
The Data2Move companies collaborate with TU/e academics and students to deliver results that are practically and scientifically relevant.

EHTC

High-tech supply chains deal with the complexity of products, long lead times of components, the speed with which research and development of new products require adaptations to supply chain relations, and the customer product configuration process. These key challenges are addressed in the High Tech Community.

LifeScience

The LifeScience community wants to be at the fore-front of supply chain innovation in the health care, by improving supply chain and manu-facturing decision-making to support affordable well-being of patients. Bringing Talent, Knowledge and Network together in the ESCF LifeScience community:
Smart decisions for a Healthy Supply Chain.

Servitization

Servitization implies a shift from a product-centric organization to a service-centric company. Our ambition is to create awareness of the servitization challenges, both technical and organizational in nature, and to provide solutions to overcome these challenges. We guide the sustainable and profitable transition towards servitization.