Rich Becks
Rich Becks is a 25 year Supply Chain veteran who has held various excutive supply chain and procurement positions in several disc drive and data storage companies such as Seagate Technology, Maxtor Corporation, and Iomega Corporataion. He is curently serving as the Senior Vice President of Demand-Supply Solutions for E2open Inc. and as such is responsible for product strategy and business development.
EcoNet Blog is all about how Supply Chains will cope with changes brought on by resource depletion, ever increasing regulation of hazardous and raw materials and corporate social responsibility expectations that are becoming essentially a “license to operate”.
The blog’s purpose is to understand and anticipate the “perfect storm” that is developing between corporations short term core business expectations and those of its long term evironmental sustainability obligations. The blog will also explore the transformation from linear Supply Chains into multi-tier Demand Supply Networks and how the emergence of SaaS platforms are accelrating this change. This blog is not meant to be a commercial for E2open nor any other Supply Chain service provider but rather is meant to shed light on how businesses are changing by becoming more “asset light”, more brand focused and product IP centric. The blog will highlight how companies such as E2open are responding to these chanllenges but it is open to all companies to particiapte and collaborate. We welcome your thoughts.
Blog Rules for discussion and posting articles:
1. Keep it on Topic
2. Be Truthful and Transparent: disclose who you represent
3. Be Nice: respect different points of view. Shed light not heat.
4. Share what you know and have a willingness to learn what you don’t know
5. Ask questions: engage other points of view
6. Help us to get it right
Welcome to the EcoNet Blog.
Rich Becks