Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation

Introductory Interview - Bart Vos, Scientific Director at BISCI

Bart Vos, Scientific Director at BISCI, gives a brief introduction about his role at BISCI and UM, his views on team building and an insight into his activities on a normal working day. 

Introductory Interview - Ton Geurts, Business Development Director at BISCI

Ton Geurts, Business Development Director at BISCI, gives a brief introduction about his role at BISCI, his views on sustainable development and an insight into how he enjoys life in Maastricht.

Ton Geurts shares his experience on working from home during COVID

Working from home has become the norm for many of us these days. Some love it while some would prefer to go back to their old routine. And yet, there are many reasons to believe that working from home, or at least a more flexible way of working, is the new normal. In this article, BISCI's Business Development Director Ton Geurts shares his own experience with home working, some of the lessons he's learned along the way along with his views on the future of home working. 

First month at BISCI: the perspective of our two newest team members

Grant and Shreyas officially joined BISCI on 1 July as project managers. In this role, they work closely with Business Development Director Ton Geurts and support projects involving sustainability and digitalisation. After one month on the job, they share their first impressions and thoughts. 

BISCI Summer Meeting 2020

After over three months of virtual meetings, emails and video conferences, Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (BISCI) had its first in-person Summer Meeting on 10 July.

Blog: Major Supply Chain transformation ahead?

Earlier this month, Procurious (a global business network for supply chain management professionals) published its first Supply Chain Confidence Index. The study reveals that nearly all (97%) of the 600+ SCM professionals surveyed experienced a supply chain disruption related to COVID-19.

BISCI contributes to research article on future of Purchasing and Supply Management

Ton Geurts, Business Development Director at BISCI, has recently contributed to a research article on the future direction of purchasing and supply management. 

A snapshot of the first BISCI event

The Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation had its first event at the Brightlands Greenport Campus hosting around 200 guests with exiting workshops around digital and sustainability.

Catching up with BISCI: ambitious agenda to create digital and sustainable supply chain innovation

Set up by Maastricht University and the Province of Limburg in early 2019, the Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (BISCI) drives state-of-the art digital and sustainable supply chain innovation, combining expertise from knowledge institutions, businesses and government. Last week, we caught up with BISCI’s business development director Ton Geurts and BISCI’s scientific director Bart Vos to get an update on the institute’s first year and find out about their plans for the future.

Article: Innovating obsolescence management in a service logistics network

A network of companies has been involved in the maintenance of maritime equipment for the Royal Dutch Navy. How can this complex network of organisations improve the way they work together to enhance availability of ships and uninterrupted missions due to missing spare parts for maintenance?

BISCI workshop during Dutch Food Week

During the Dutch Food Week, Bart Vos hosted the interactive workshop ‘Sustainable food, how does it get on our plate?’ at BISCI’s home turf, the Villa Flora in Venlo. While the focus of the Dutch Food Week is mainly on what we eat, Bart’s workshop addressed how we get food where we want to consume it.

BISCI participates in funding workshop on shorter logistics chains & bundling

BISCI participated in a workshop hosted by TKI Dinalog for the Nationale WetenschapsAgenda (NWA)-route 16 on ‘Logistics, Transportation and Mobility’ on Friday 4 October.

Ton Geurts joins BISCI as new Business Development Director

Ton Geurts will join BISCI as Business Development Director. He will support Greenport Venlo logistics and supply chain management from the Brightlands Campus in the Limburg region through smart and sustainable innovations.

Kars Mennens to join BISCI research team

Kars Mennens will help expand BISCI, build up a network of supply chain industry partners, develop training and education, and work on sustainable innovations in the sector.

Smart mobility and the human factor

Self-driving cars, truck platooning, robots running distribution centres. Developments in automated traffic and transport are going very fast, but where does this leave human beings?

BISCI endorses the need to innovate in the digital era

BISCI shares the vision expressed at the inNOWvate event to innovate the supply chain in the digital era.

Gartner’s 2019 Supply Chain Top 25 is out

Dutch chemical company Akzo Nobel has entered the Supply Chain Top 25 for the first time. Unilever has moved to the "Masters" category.

TNO and BISCI – natural partners joining forces

High-level delegations from Maastricht University and TNO's Traffic and Transport team met with regional industry representatives on 17 May to explore ways of working together.

BISCI workshop with Fontys and LIOF

Video-report on the highly interactive workshop with participants from Fontys and LIOF.

Bart Vos joins Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation

Professor Bart Vos of the Tilburg School of Economics and Management will join BISCI after the summer.

BISCI is for every entrepreneur

BISCI welcomes call for innovation and collaboration in logistics

BISCI is happy to contribute to the ambitions expressed by the Netherlands infrastructure minister at a major logistics conference in Rotterdam.