Henk Akkermans's research addresses the issue of how interorganizational supply chains and networks, where no single party exerts full control, can nevertheless effectively co-ordinate their behavior. His focus is on technical, innovation-driven sectors (such as electronics, aerospace, telecom, process industry and the maritime sector), but also on health care and public infrastructure.

Henk Akkermans is fundamentally interested in the interactions between shop floor operations and customer demand, and in the roles that management information and cognitive limitations in decision-making play in this. His interest stretches all the way from new product/service development onto maintenance, repair & overhaul activities. In order to obtain deeper insight in these complex issues, he develops system dynamics simulation models of real-world settings.

Henk Akkermans has a special interest in the role of Japan in international business and in the exceptional importance of smart maintenance for our present-day economy. He is also the director of the World Class Maintenance foundation in Breda.

Current positions/responsibilities:

Full Professor, Supply Chain Management, Tilburg University TiSEM

Director, Stichting World Calss Maintenance, Breda

Independent consultant, Research in Business BV

Past employment:

2011-2015: Scientific Director Dutch Institute World Class Maintenance, Breda

2005-2015: Professor by Special Appointment Chair Supply Network Dynamics, Tilburg University

2000-2006: Minase BV, Tilburg

2000-2004: Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. Technology Management, Eindhoven

1996- 2000:Origin, Business Consulting, Eindhoven and Breda

1995-1996: McKinsey & Co, Amsterdam, Chicago & Houston

1991-1995: BSO, Business Consulting, Breda and Utrecht

1990-1995: Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. Technology Management, Eindhove

1988-1990: Utrecht University, Dept. Social Sciences, Utrecht

1987- 1988: Philips International, Corporate IT, Eindhoven

Henk Akkermans teaches the course Supply Chain Modelling, a rqequired course for both the Master Supply Chain Management and the Master Information Management. For this course his book Supply Chain Dynamics (2015, ISBN 978-94-002-1608-2) is used See also www.supplychaindynamics.org

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Current positions/responsibilities:

Full Professor, Supply Chain Management, Tilburg University TiSEM

Director, Stichting World Calss Maintenance, Breda

Independent consultant, Research in Business BV

Past employment:

• 2011-2015: Scientific Director Dutch Institute World Class Maintenance, Breda
• 2005-2015: Professor by Special Appointment Chair Supply Network Dynamics, Tilburg University
• 2000-2006: Minase BV, Tilburg
• 2000-2004: Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. Technology Management, Eindhoven
• 1996- 2000:Origin, Business Consulting, Eindhoven and Breda
• 1995-1996: McKinsey & Co, Amsterdam, Chicago & Houston
• 1991-1995: BSO, Business Consulting, Breda and Utrecht
• 1990-1995: Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. Technology Management, Eindhoven
• 1988-1990: Utrecht University, Dept. Social Sciences, Utrecht
• 1987- 1988: Philips International, Corporate IT, Eindhoven

Henk Akkermans's research addresses the issue of how interorganizational supply chains and networks, where no single party exerts full control, can nevertheless effectively co-ordinate their behavior. His focus is on technical, innovation-driven sectors (such as electronics, aerospace, telecom, process industry and the maritime sector), but also on health care and public infrastructure.

Henk Akkermans is fundamentally interested in the interactions between shop floor operations and customer demand, and in the roles that management information and cognitive limitations in decision-making play in this. His interest stretches all the way from new product/service development onto maintenance, repair & overhaul activities. In order to obtain deeper insight in these complex issues, he develops system dynamics simulation models of real-world settings.

Henk Akkermans has a special interest in the role of Japan in international business and in the exceptional importance of smart maintenance for our present-day economy. He is also the director of the World Class Maintenance foundation in Breda.