Dr. Wolfgang Partsch

Author, Inventor of Supply Chain at MD Dr. Partsch & Partner

Previously spoke at: TFEST24, TFEST25

About Dr.

Dr. Wolfgang Partsch is an Austrian academic and business leader recognized as a co-inventor of Supply Chain Management. With a PhD in Physics from the University of Vienna, he pioneered the supply chain management concept at Booz Allen & Hamilton in the late 1970s-early 1980s, with the first published case study appearing in Manager Magazin in 1979. He founded the first SCM-specialized consulting firm in 1983 and later served as Chairman of Ernst & Young's Global Supply Chain Network.

About TFEST26

TFEST26 is Europe's most senior supply chain conference, taking place December 1–2 2026 at Colosseum Berlin. It brings together 400+ Director-level and above leaders — Chief Supply Chain Officers, VPs, and senior directors from Cisco, Henkel, Estée Lauder, Diageo, Schneider Electric, Novartis, Mars, and others — for two days of peer benchmarking, candid practitioner firesides, themed roundtables, and pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings.