Jaco Voorspuij is a well-seasoned Supply Chain professional with some 35 years’ experience covering Manufacturing as well as Transport and Logistics.
Starting 1990 he helped implement ERP software as well as design and develop add-ons in leading enterprises across Europe. From 1997 until May 2015 Jaco Voorspuij worked with DHL (and predecessors) on warehousing systems, transportation management, Business & Systems integration, Solutions Design & Architecture and IT Business Development for a number of the largest Clients of DHL and on some of the most challenging projects and Programmes that DHL has run and is running for those Clients.
Supply Chain innovation is a key theme in Jaco’s career so he joined GS1 in 2015, where he took responsibility for developing the Transport & Logistics sector. The most powerful innovations only really thrive when they interoperate well with the existing environment using common global data standards. Jaco helped develop several of those innovations and standards over his career across all modes of transport and all distances including urban logistics. In addition, Jaco managed the product development of location-based services as part of the GS1 Registry Platform (GRP) further facilitating the use of global data standards by supply chain stakeholders.
Jaco has been and is currently involved in several ground-breaking projects funded by the European Commission developing and implementing innovative and effective solutions to facilitate much better collaboration between Supply Chain stakeholders and actors in Transport and Logistics also in the context of Maritime and Ports. Some of the results of those projects have now been adopted all over the world.
For the past 10 years, Jaco has served as key member of the International Taskforce Port Call Optimization (ITPCO), well over 6 years (and counting) as co-chair of the taskforce.
Jaco is currently Chief Consultant at FixLog Consulting and member of the Smart Logistics Platform Alliance (SLP Alliance).
He is a key player in the ASTM F49 committee “Digital Information in Supply Chain”, and chair of the subcommittee for Best Practices now focussing on the challenges related to “Container Availability”.