3A Supply Chain was founded by Anant Jain, a supply chain planning advisor with over 25 years of experience. As CEO, Anant guides company strategy, builds partnerships, and helps clients address supply planning needs across various discrete manufacturing industries. Most recently Anant worked as an Executive Director at Ernst & Young. Prior to founding 3A Supply Chain, Anant was an independent consultant helping companies digitally transform their supply chain planning processes and technology capabilities. Before that worked in industry with MedAssets (healthcare group purchasing organization) and JCPenney. His first stint as a management consultant was with KPMG in their strategy and operations practice focusing on supply chain planning. Anant started his career with i2 Technologies, where he played a number of roles, in consulting, product management and product marketing in Europe, India and the United States. His clients include British American Tobacco, Lego, Caterpillar, Panasonic, Quiksilver, Infineon Technologies, Dell, Nissan, Zales, Delhaize, Ford, Mattel, National Oilwell Varco, Anheuser-Busch InBev and many others. Anant holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and a BEng in Manufacturing Engineering and Management from the University of Dundee in Scotland.
3A Supply Chain has a logo of the endless knot, which is important in several Eastern religions and represents an endless cycle. It symbolizes the inter-twining of wisdom and compassion, the ultimate unity of everything, with no beginning or end. In Sanskrit Anant means endless, limitless or infinite. The endless knot is considered to be the interplay and interaction of the opposing forces in the dualistic world of manifestation, leading to their union, and ultimately to harmony in the universe. From a supply chain perspective, the knot signifies how everything is linked and interconnected, in many cases not very well and in a complex manner. 3A Supply Chain plans better to remove the knots, break the constraints and create harmony in the supply chain.