- Dow’s Digital Journey: Focusing on technology-driven planning, ordering, and logistics for streamlined decision-making.
- Logistics Commercial Excellence Forum: Highlighting the cross-functional forum with a structured decision-making framework to accelerate execution.
- Creating Value: Focusing on margin and efficient execution, ensuring effectiveness for customers, efficiency for Dow, and sustainability for our planet.
- Supply Chain Risk and Resilience Strategies: Using the Red Sea example to illustrate how risks are managed and stability is maintained.
- Future Initiatives: Exploring End-to-End supply chain mapping and scaling AI and machine learning applications.
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Jeff Tazelaar
Global ISC Innovation Director
Dow
Jeffrey Tazelaar is the Global ISC Innovation Director leading the Digital Fulfillment Center team at Dow. In this role he leads a group of innovation experts located in a world class digital center on the next generation of technologies, processes and organization alignment that will drive best in class customer and employee experience across Demand Planning to Fulfill.
Prior to this role Jeff was in Enterprise Architecture and Global Leader in SC Visibility where he set the strategy and global technology standards for visibility, track, trace and authentication technologies associated with Dow’s global Supply Chain.
Jeff has vast experience in software solutions and AutoID/RFID systems through work experience ranging from the largest retailer to systems integrators deploying solutions for the Department of Defense, CPG, Automotive and Food value chain participants. In these roles he managed the design and development of complete visibility solutions for Fortune 500 companies and various government agencies to fully realize the benefits of technology.
Mr. Tazelaar holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degrees in Packaging from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He also studied overseas at the University of London, where he analyzed and contrasted the British/European and United States packaging systems. He has completed coursework for his Ph.D. in Packaging from MSU with a focus on the measurement and justification of corporate digital programs with a current status of ABD.
