Dr.-Ing. Wilderich Heising is a Partner & Director at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He is a core member of BCG's Innovation Center for Operations and very active in BCG's Health Care, Industrial Goods and Consumer Products practice areas. His focus at BCG is on advanced manufacturing and supply chain topics such as additive manufacturing, 3D printing, digitalization, the factory of the future, Industry 4.0, supply chain of the future as well as on manufacturing and distribution strategy and network optimization. He leads the additive manufacturing topic as well as the network strategy and optimization topic for BCG globally. Moreover, he leads BCG’s engagement in the AM | Navigator initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Technical University of Berlin