2024-03-21 Energy Analytics

Expertise abounds

I was fortunate this year to climb Mt Killimanjaro. I joined a group of 12 other climbers. I knew 1 other, Adil Kahn, CEO of SafePaas. He was climbing with his son Kasim, whom I had not seen for some 15 years. Everyone on the climb was wonderful, but I learned a lot from talking to Kasim. Some of what I learned was just the different perspective from someone of a different generation. But some of what I learned was very relevant to my work at NHS Supply Chain, and Kasim was gracious enough to share it with my colleagues.

Kasim works for a company called Wood Mackenzie. They provide consulting services to the energy sector. Some of their expertise is in the engineering aspects: mechanical engineering of the energy production, chemical engineering of energy storage. They also have expertise in the energy supply chain: forward buying, hedging strategies, index tracking, negotiation strategies.

It was really interesting to see the overlaps in priorities and techniques between the energy supply chain and the healthcare supply chain. It helped us think about how we can best serve the National Health service and whether we have access to the data that would allow us to provide similar services.

NHS Supply Chain in general and the Analytics and Data Science community in general would like to extend their gratitude to Kasim for sharing his expertise.

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