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. I wrote about a future supply chain that was more autonomous, decision centric and human-machine collaborative. You can check out my published articles and commentaries. Most started out here as a blog.

Now the future of what I’ve been envisioning for almost a decade has arrived, I find myself having less urge to write about it. A chapter has closed. 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