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Enabling professionals in and around supply chains to create value by generating, exchanging and integrating knowledge and collectively exploring the future.

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

The European Supply Chain Forum is powered by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). ESCF works with over 50 leading global players sharing problems and insights related to Supply Chain Management and has become an ecosystem of multi-disciplinary professionals interested in operations and supply chain management. The unique value of ESCF is that it combines talent, knowledge, and network in one ecosystem. Via ESCF you can scout and acquire top talent in Supply Chain Management, link to academic knowledge, and a high-level network of peers.

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Talent-Knowledge-Network

In order to create more value for the ESCF members, ESCF ecosystem extends into a number of communities: Data2Move, ESCF High Tech Community (EHTC), Customer-Driven Transformation (CDT) and Servitization. Smaller players like SME’s and start-ups also participate in our communities. While ESCF full members can participate in all communities, a community member mainly operates in her community. By doing so, we allow startup, scaleup, large and multi-national organizations to join and participate in the ESCF ecosystem.

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Recent ESCF news

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 […]

Arrival of new community: ESCF LifeScience

January 31, 2024

Lately, we have been addressing more and more LifeScience issues. That is why ESCF started a community with a LifeScience background. The community focuses on collective exploration of research topics, including automated decision-making, yield enhancement, artificial intelligence, digital twins, intelligent planning, and seamless logistics within Life Science manufacturing supply chains. By fostering a collaborative and cross-disciplinary ecosystem […]

Our communities

Data2Move

Data2Move is a community on the interface of the Internet of Things, Big Data and Logistics/Supply Chain Management. Academics and students from TU/e collaborate with prominent industry partners to deliver results that are both practically and scientifically relevant.

EHTC

High Tech Systems have some unique properties that should be taken into account in supply chain management. These properties include the complexity of the products themselves, long lead times of components, etc. This combination creates high volatility in demand, which makes it complex for organization to do business.

Customer-Driven Transformation

The Customer-Driven Transformation initiative is a research community and eco-system on the interface of the End-to-End Supply Chain. Academics and students from TU/e collaborate with prominent industry partners to create network communities and deliver results that are both practically and scientifically relevant.

Servitization

Servitization becomes a growing trend. This implies that firms shift from a product-centric business model and logic to a service-centric approach. Our ambition is to create awareness and provide insights and solutions for servitization challenges, which are both technical and organizational in nature.