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Risk is Inevitable–Disruption is Optional: Building a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain
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Risk is Inevitable–Disruption is Optional: Building a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain

July 5, 2023

Reginaldo has a rich history at Unilever spanning over 30 years with extensive supply chain experience in both developed and emerging markets.

After graduating from Universidade de Sao Paulo as an electrical engineer, Reginaldo started his journey at Unilever Brazil as a trainee in 1991. Just two years later, he was responsible for building a new factory and the production of a new category – powder detergents.

Since then, through leadership positions across Unilever’s supply chain in North America, Latin America and Central America, Reginaldo has been at the forefront of transforming our supply chains, ensuring they are future-fit.

In his most recent role, Reginaldo served as Executive Vice President of Unilever Mexico, Central America and Greater Caribbean overseeing 11 countries, 12 product categories and high levels of growth despite the pandemic. Before this he oversaw our supply chain in North America and Latin America, generating double digit growth in the profitability of one of our largest regions.

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Authentic Leadership and Rising to the Challenge of New Supply Chain Business Realities
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Authentic Leadership and Rising to the Challenge of New Supply Chain Business Realities

July 5, 2023

Ivanka Janssen is the Chief Supply Chain Officer of Philips. Ivanka is one of the most prominent supply chain executives in our network. She has had a long career across different facets of the supply chain in several companies across the fast-moving consumer goods industries and for the last three years, she has been leading the supply chain function for Philips.

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Global Supply Chain: We STRIVE for the Best
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Global Supply Chain: We STRIVE for the Best

July 5, 2023

Thierry Tricot is Schneider Electric’s Senior Vice President of GSC Europe since December 2022, leading manufacturing and distribution operations for the region, with an end-to-end SC responsibility covering safety, quality, customer satisfaction, procurement, upstream and downstream supply chain as well as fabrication and assembly.

With more than 12 years of experience at Schneider Electric based in France and Germany, he led various global teams (Equipment and Transformers Supply Chain, Quality and Supply Chain Strategy for the Energy Business) transforming the Supply Chain and driving profitable.

Thierry Tricot is a driven leader with strong international exposure and experience to manage and turn around businesses in competitive and fast changing environment. Before joining Schneider Electric, Thierry worked (1991-2003) at Alstom as Technical Director, being responsible for the development of new products and technical support to the sales forces, and then at Areva as Engineering To Order Plant and Business Managing Director, this till 2010 when the company (Electrical Distribution Business) was acquired by SE.

Thierry holds a Master in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France). He has served for 8 years as administrator of the Regensburg University and is currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Schneider Electric Germany GmbH.

Thierry is actively supporting the development of Women Handball in Bavaria.

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Generative AI and Supply Chain Transformation
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Generative AI and Supply Chain Transformation

July 5, 2023

As a Partner and General Manager, Mike leads the product and engineering teams responsible for Microsoft’s Supply Chain Business Applications. He brings 18 years of leadership experience across Operations, Management and Technology. Mike has held roles in the US and Internationally with companies ranging from a few hundred employees to tens of thousands. Having led teams across in various organizations (Amazon [Last Mile Global Expansion, NA Retail], Convoy [Marketplace Growth], Nike [NA Demand Planning], Best Buy [multiple]) there’s always a theme of technology and the movement of goods. At Microsoft, his product and engineering teams are building technology to help customers and partners accelerate their supply chain using cloud, AI and edge technologies.

Originally from Canada, Mike holds multiple patents in supply chain and loves speaking/advising on the intersection of supply chain and technology. He holds an MBA (focused on Supply Chain Management) from Pennsylvania State University, a LSS Green Belt, and a BA from Simon Fraser University. He currently resides in Seattle with his wife and two children.

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Building A Resilient Supply Chain in all Contexts
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Building A Resilient Supply Chain in all Contexts

July 6, 2023

Fares Sayegh is Procter & Gamble’s Senior Vice President, Product Supply Fabric Care, Global Supply Network Operations and Manufacturing Disciplines. A native of Lebanon with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Fares began his career in 1988 at Procter & Gamble in Saudi Arabia. Over the past three decades Fares assumed several leadership positions in supply chain, commercial and Global Business Services /IT roles. Before his current role, Fares took over the European Product Supply market operations which he ran until the beginning of this year. Since 2004 Fares has been residing in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Strategies to Embrace, Reimagine, and Optimize the Supply Chain of the Future
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Strategies to Embrace, Reimagine, and Optimize the Supply Chain of the Future

July 5, 2023

Vineet has 37 years of global experience in the CPG industry in several functions and countries. He recently retired from Nestlé as Senior Vice President, Global Head of Supply Chain. In this role he managed global responsibility for strategy, operational performance, and transformation projects for E2E supply chain including demand & supply planning, physical logistics, customer service, materials management, digital supply chain, etc.

During his distinguished career, Vineet has held senior leadership roles in Management Teams for 25 years and has had extensive multi-functional experience in a variety of roles ranging from strategy formulation to global transformation projects in business as well as technology. An Indian national, he completed his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1986 before embarking on his career.

Vineet sits on the board of Nestlé Enterprises SA, but his contributions extend beyond Nestlé. Vineet is passionate about development and poverty redressal, human rights, sustainability and reducing inequalities. Vineet’s leadership as the co-chair of the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) of the Consumer Goods Forum and his work as a key member of The Future Insights Network’s Coalition demonstrate his passion for driving sustainability, re-defining the role of business in the society, and developing supply chain profession to its full potential.

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Procurement of the Future: Partnering with our Suppliers
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Procurement of the Future: Partnering with our Suppliers

July 6, 2023

Bart Jongen has extensive, end-to-end Supply Chain & Procurement experience that includes S&OP, Operational Supply Chain Management, Logistics (W&D), Procurement (Direct & Indirect), Program & Project Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Digital Implementations for 30 years within the Consumer Products, Medical Devises and Services, Lighting Solutions, Airline Maintenance, Indoor Climate Solutions, Wind Energy, Manufacturing, 3/4PL and Advisory sectors

He specializes in Change Management, Supply Chain Transformations, Project & Program Management (ERP & Advanced Planning), Cost Management, Supply Chain Excellence, Process Improvements, Network Optimization, Insourcing, Outsourcing, Supply Chain Organizational Design and Capabilities , Customer Collaboration, Supplier Relationship Management, Contract Management, Procurement, Sourcing as well as Mergers & Acquisitions

Before joining Volvo Cars early 2023, Mr. Jongen worked for global organizations such as Philips, IMI, Air France-KLM, Vestas, LM Wind Power & Gartner acting at executive level in strategic design, deployment and operating optimized supply chain & procurement solutions.

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Panel: Increased Energy Costs, Inflation, and the Supply Chain
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Panel: Increased Energy Costs, Inflation, and the Supply Chain

July 5, 2023

At EUSCES23 we recorded a panel discussion on increased energy costs, inflation, and the supply chain.

From breaking down today’s economy and markets through the lens of global supply chains and supply constraints, to discussing renewable energy sources vs. fossil fuels: Which should we be focusing on throughout our supply chains and what changes need to be made for future efficiency and reliability? Give it a listen!

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Focusing on the Next Generation of Supply Chain
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Focusing on the Next Generation of Supply Chain

July 6, 2023

David is a thought leader and industry expert in the field of Global Supply Chain. David spent 23 years with Microsoft Corporation as General Manager of Global Supply Chain and Supply Chain Technology officer, he was involved in every product launch from Windows 2000 through to the most recent Surface and Xbox products. He has built and managed numerous global teams, has led across multiple disciplines including Manufacturing, Strategic Sourcing, Fulfillment and Logistics, Forecasting, Planning and Channel Management. He has played a key role in major acquisitions including Nokia, built world class teams and continuously evolved Microsoft’s Supply Chain capabilities in a multi-channel environment.

As Supply Chain Technology Officer David was additionally responsible for determining the next generation of technologies that could augment and enable Supply Chain capabilities. In this capacity he worked with numerous Private Equity and Venture Capital partners to understand potential opportunities and the overall industry landscape for technology in Supply Chain.

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Leveraging 4IR During a Significant Supply Chain Transformation of a Consumer Goods Business
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Leveraging 4IR During a Significant Supply Chain Transformation of a Consumer Goods Business

July 6, 2023

Holbach has been working at Henkel in various executive positions in Supply Chain, Operations, Purchasing and Sales since 1996, when he started in Corporate Purchasing after finishing his master’s degree. This was followed by various assignments in Germany. Having finished his PhD during a sabbatical period, in 2002 he moved to Mexico integrating two newly acquired businesses. Thereafter he returned to the headquarters and was in charge of global purchasing for the Laundry & Home Care business for several years until 2007. Holbach subsequently took control of the global supply chain for the same business, and a few years later gained global responsibility for the manufacturing operations.

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Our Customer-Centricity Transformation Journey
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Our Customer-Centricity Transformation Journey

July 6, 2023

Bettina Castillo is a leader with a big passion for building a resilient world-class supply chain together with internal and external stakeholders. She strives to deliver exceptional quality to the IKEA customers and people connected to the IKEA supply chain. Always with value-based leadership, connecting business and people with a focus on simplicity throughout changing environments.

Bettina is the Global Supply Operations Manager at IKEA Supply, the organisation responsible for the development of IKEA´s transport and logistic services capacities and its operations, as well as the responsibility for managing the physical flow of IKEA products from the suppliers to the stores. Together with 400+ passionate co-workers around the world, she sets and steers the global development agenda and secures performance excellence in the area of global supply operations.

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Keeping Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability at the Heart of Supply Chain Operations
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Keeping Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability at the Heart of Supply Chain Operations

July 6, 2023

Lelwyn Dsouza has been at Ecolab for 8 years. They are responsible for the roles of Senior Vice President Supply Chain Europe leading the end to end SC for Western Europe, Central Eastern Europe and Russia. This includes ownership of end to end P&L responsibility including safety, Quality, Procurement, planning, Manufacturing, logistics, engineering, other functional disciplines and Supply Chain VP’s who are aligned with Divisions.. Prior to Ecolab, he worked at Procter & Gamble and at Novartis/Ciba-Geigy with a total 33 years of work experience . He is a Mechanical Engineer with a Post graduate Diploma in Business management.

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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership
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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership

June 12, 2023

Marvin Cooke is the EVP – Manufacturing for Toyota Motor Europe.

Based in Brussels, Marvin oversees all of Toyota’s European Manufacturing Companies, Production Engineering, Logistics, the Toyota Production System and the Production Control functions.

Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and has held numerous management posts of increasing seniority throughout Europe. Today Mavin is leading Toyota’s European Manufacturing team along the journey from being an Automobile Company to becoming a Mobility Company.

He will also be a member of the speaker faculty of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit next week in Barcelona speaking about, “A Lean Approach to Carbon Neutrality,” but first we get to ask him a few questions on the bluEPrint.

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The Future of Decisions. Now.
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The Future of Decisions. Now.

June 27, 2023

As Head of Customer Operations at Unilever, Juan Carlos Parada is leading an innovative, customer-centric agenda designed to digitise and optimise the company’s complete end-to end value chain. Through their technology first approach, Customer Operations is driving transformation across the business; powering Unilever’s future-fit operations, creating full operational integration with customers as One Supply Chain, and delivering on their vision to become the FMCG industry first E2E value network operation that drives superior customer experiences to enable growth.

Fred Laluyaux is the CEO of Aera Technology, a company transforming the future of work through Decision Intelligence — the digitization, augmentation, and automation of decision making. An entrepreneur at heart and Silicon Valley veteran, Fred brings an impressive track record building successful startups and driving technology innovation. Prior to launching Aera, Fred was the CEO of Anaplan, which he grew from 20 to 650 employees, and a $1B+ valuation. He also held several executive positions at SAP, Business Objects, and ALG Software.

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New Role of Generative A.I in Achieving Supply Chain Orchestration: Featuring Microsoft’s Next Generation Journey
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New Role of Generative A.I in Achieving Supply Chain Orchestration: Featuring Microsoft’s Next Generation Journey

July 5, 2023

As director of market solutions, Chris is responsible for leading the commercial and technology strategy for the Managed Services division at C.H. Robinson. His role includes identifying market solutions, setting commercial strategy, and aligning supporting technologies and global processes to drive growth, and deliver on TMC’s mission for connecting, automating, and optimizing the world’s supply chains. Prior to his current role, Chris was the Global Account Manager overseeing the TMC relationship with Microsoft and was a member of the global implementation team.

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Technology as an Enabler of Smart Supply Chains
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Technology as an Enabler of Smart Supply Chains

July 5, 2023

Mike Bhaskaran is the Group Chief Operating Officer, Digital Technology for DP World. He is responsible for driving the digital transformation of all parts of our value chain globally and operates all aspects of our technology presence, driving global business process improvement and systems implementation.

Mike has valuable experience in Blockchain, e-commerce technology, and driving innovative digital capabilities in complex supply chains at scale. Mike started his career within Engineering before moving into Distribution Operations and Supply Chain at Dell Computer Corporation. Prior to joining DP World, Mike was the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Staples Inc.

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Building Competitive Advantage and Resiliency with Connected and Autonomous Supply Chains — A Conversation with Puneet Shukla of EdgeVerve, an Infosys Company
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Building Competitive Advantage and Resiliency with Connected and Autonomous Supply Chains — A Conversation with Puneet Shukla of EdgeVerve, an Infosys Company

July 21, 2023

At the 2023 edition of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit series held in Barcelona, Spain, June 19-21, we spoke with Puneet Shukla, the Regional Head of EMEA for EdgeVerve, an Infosys Company, about how companies are leveraging technology to build both resiliency and competitive advantage into their supply chains through interconnected autonomous operations. How should organizations adjust their Digital Transformation journeys to reshape their existing operations? How do these new tools and capabilities shape the day-to-day working lives of workers? What should decision-makers keep in mind as they weigh their options? All this and more is discussed in this interview. Give it a listen!

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