 | Robert Boute – KU Leuven Robert Boute is a Professor of Operations Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven and Vlerick Business School, and a principal investigator at Flanders Make. His research focuses on inventory control and supply chain management. Recent work includes digital operations, smart logistics, and predictive analytics for service and maintenance applications. He was named one of the 40 Best Professors Under 40 by Poets & Quants in 2016 and received the 2017 Franz Edelman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. |
 | Rob Zuidwijk - Erasmus University Rob Zuidwijk is Professor of Global Supply Chains and Ports at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research focuses on coordination in sustainable global supply chains, synchromodal transport networks, and inter‑organisational logistics systems. His work has appeared in leading journals including California Management Review, Transportation Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Communications of the ACM, and Production and Operations Management. He is actively involved in international research projects on logistics and container transport, plays a key role in Smartport, and serves as Captain of Science for the Dutch Topsector Logistics. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Erasmus University and has been a visiting scholar at UCLA |