Roberto Cigolini graduated cum laude in Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and now he is a professor of Supply Chain Management and of Production Management with the Department of Management Eco-nomics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. His main interests are primarily related to business planning and control, supply chain planning, collaborative planning, forecasting & replenishment and supply chain finance. He is director of the Global Executive Master in Operations and Supply Chain Management (GEMOS) at MIP – Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business. He is a visiting professor at Eada Business School Barcelona (Spain) and at Krannert School of Management (Purdue University, Indiana, US). He is also a member of the teaching body of the PhD program in Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and founding member of the Technical Committee on Semiconductor Factory Automation (IEEE Robotics and Automation Society).