Dirk Pieter van Donk and Kirstin Scholten receive grant for a project on Supply Chain Resilience

Professor Dirk Pieter van Donk and associate professor Kirstin Scholten, together with project partners, have received a grant of €1 million (€400.000 for the UG) from the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics (TKI Dinalog) for a new research project titled “Next Gen Supply Chain Resilience: Short-Term Wins, Long-Term Gains”. The project is part of a large consortium, which includes Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, consultancy and implementation firm Involvation and over 10 industrial partners.

From corona crisis to credit crunch and from climate change to geopolitical conflicts; these disruptions have highlighted the importance of resilient supply chains. Every business has faced these disruptions and does not want to be surprised again.

In an earlier research project, professor Dirk Pieter van Donk and associate professor Kirstin Scholten (UG, Faculty of Economics and Business), Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, and consulting firm Involvation developed a Supply Chain Resilience QuickScan. In the current follow-up research project, the QuickScan will be expanded to a wider variety of organizations (in multiple industries and regions) and broadened to the entire supply chain and surrounding ecosystem. In doing so, this follow-up research aims to provide new tools that support organizations in improving their supply chain resilience capabilities. The project is sponsored by TKI/Dinalog (Financed by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management) and will run for three years, until October 2026.

For the Faculty of Economics and Business, the project includes a PhD position within the faculty’s Department of Operations. The PhD candidate in this position will be supervised by Van Donk and Scholten. The professors are enthusiastic about this follow-up project. “The previous project already enabled us - through close cooperation with and access to organizations - to gather rich data that provided new insights, we will continue to do so and the addition to the team of a PhD candidate will enable us to do more and better. The project will also help to further strengthen our productive line of research into supply chain resilience”

Questions? Please contact Dirk Pieter van Donk or Kirstin Scholten.