Hi, I’m Niels, author of the blog Supply Chain Trend.

Since the early 2000’s, I’ve improved business performance as consultant, global supply chain manager and integrated business planning manager in a variety of countries, industries and companies.

We’re now in the era of AI where we need new operating models that strive to get the most out of human-machine interactions.

As a Decision Intelligence expert at Aera Technology I’m at the forefront of this era. I design and implement intelligent agents that make autonomous decisions, or augment a knowledge worker to do so.

Between 2016 and 2025 I was a contributor, IBP editor and Decision Intelligence column editor at Foresight. You can check out my published articles and commentaries. Most started out here as a blog.

I’m also a children’s book author and self-published 7 children’s books. After writing this blog for 15 years, I stopped early 2025, to take a break from writing for the unforeseeable future. I might still post, just know it will be few and far between.

I’ll keep all the content online. Feel free to start a constructive conversation with me about any topic that I cover.

cheers,

Niels

PS Thoughts and opinions have always been my own