Emerging Technologies
How digital twins can help navigate supply chain disruption
A digital twin is a dynamic, digital representation of an object or system that allows you to model complex processes and aids difficult decision-making.
Wolfgang Lehmacher
Corporate CEO and board member, business angel, operating partner and adviser. Former Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries, World Economic Forum, and Partner and Managing Director (China and India), CVA. President and CEO Emeritus, GeoPost Intercontinental. Former Head of Eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Regions, and Country General Manager Switzerland, TNT. Member of the advisory board of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, Singapore, Ambassador of the European Freight and Logistics Leaders Forum, Brussels, Advisor of Global:SF, San Francisco, and founding member of the Logistikweisen, a logistics expert committee under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry BMDV, and NEXST, a think tank initiated by Reefknot, Kuehne & Nagel and SGInnovate, Singapore. FT, Forbes, Fortune, BI and Nikkei contributor; author of articles, white papers and several business books.
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