Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine, the executive's user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, nominated Dr. Maren Martens, Vice President Optimization & Consulting at Axxom Software AG, as Provider Pro to Know in the supply chain industry. The renowned magazine honors Dr. Martens as thought-leader in the supply chain industry, helping companies to cope with actual challenges in logistics and supply chain management.

Dr. Martens was recognized for her successful work at Axxom as well as for her outstanding research activities on network optimization. At Axxom, as Vice President Consulting & Optimization she is responsible for several international supply chain optimization projects. With her long lasting experience and know-how in network optimization she and her team helped numerous customers to design their supply chain lean and efficient, so that they were able to realize significant saving potentials and to increase their supply chain performance.

In addition, Dr. Maren Martens is responsible for several research projects with established organizations and universities and thus significantly helped to further develop Axxom’s supply chain and logistics optimization software ORion-PI®. For example, Axxom studies opportunities for realizing versatility improvement concepts in supply chains in cooperation with industry and research partners in the context of the ”POWer.net” research project. The project is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

"Our annual list of Provider Pros to Know highlights the many thought-leaders who are helping to shape the Supply Chain industry and advance Supply Chain as a respected discipline in the enterprise," said Barry Hochfelder, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "Their efforts in developing the tools, processes and knowledge base necessary for Supply Chain transformation, and in promoting new approaches to supply chain enablement, have earned them a place on this year's Provider Pros listing."