Bob Betts

Bob Betts is a founding partner at Blocnets, Inc. Prior to co-founding Blocnets, he held management and executive positions with several companies including IBM and SAP. Most recently, Bob was Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain for SAP, where he was responsible for moving SAP from 5th to 1st ranked by supply chain revenue. For the last eighteen years Bob has been working with CPG / Retail companies, aerospace and defense contractors, the U.S. Military, and medical device manufacturers integrating SAP with newly emerging technologies including Kinaxis, Logility, and SAP HANA. The focus of these efforts is to design, integrate, and deploy complex collaborative Supply Chain Networks.

Bob has worked in the information technology field for over thirty years. During this time, he has had the opportunity to speak at multiple business and technology conferences, has co-authored two books, and is co-holder of 64 U.S. technology patents. Bob has had the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging business and technological problems. Projects include the first and second generation IBM PCs, Worldwide Military Command and Control System, the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, and the NASA Space Station Freedom.

In 1985 Bob was introduced to supply chain management when he was assigned to resolve a plant level microprocessor shortage at a PC assembly plant. Since then, he has worked globally on some of industries most sophisticated and extensive global business networks with companies including IBM, SONY, Mitsubishi, Metro, Intel, P&G, PepsiCo, Johns Manville, WhiteWave Foods and Fonterra. As a consultant and company executive Bob has worked on supply chain and related business issues in the paper, high tech, metals, oil & gas, CPG / retail, beverage, and chemicals industries. He has conducted projects for the Army Materiel Command, the Army Aviation and Missile Command, and Rock Island Arsenal. He is also a founding member of the MIT Supply Chain Innovation Forum.