Richard Lloyd

Founder — Convex Supply Chain

Richard Lloyd is the founder of Convex Supply Chain, an independent planning consultancy in Cantabria, Spain. He has spent thirty years on supply chain transformations on four continents, starting in factory planning at Unilever in Brazil, then at i2 Technologies and One Network Enterprises, o9, TCS, and Blue Yonder. Alongside the commercial work, he has worked on global health supply chains in West Africa. His book, Successful Integrated Planning for the Supply Chain: Key Organizational and Human Dynamics (Kogan Page, 2018), argues that planning programmes succeed or fail on the human and organisational side. His essays on decisions and the people who make them are at convexsupplychain.com. He also writes plays and novels.