Position Title: Supply Planning Specialist - Supply Chain

Company: Coca Cola European Partners

Location: Londerzeel, Belgium

Start Date: Jan 2019

End Date: April 2019

         Strengthened the supply planning team, focus on balancing purchase vs refurbishment taken into account monthly sales budget,           production capacity and resources.

         Selected Achievements:

                     Constructed a stock plan for equipment and parts

                     Established and maintained contact with the EMEA suppliers

                     Communication with operational teams regarding stock status and priorities

                     Proactive communication/actions with key-players to prevent problems

                     Participates in the monthly Sales & Operations (S&OP)

Position Title: EMEA Supply Chain and Customer Service Analytics - Supply Chain

Company: Hedgren

Location: Rums, Belgium

Start Date: Dec 2017

End Date: March 2018

         As a part of EMEA Operations & Customer Service department, extracted ERP data as inbounds, outbounds, backorders reports to           analyze different processes across the whole supply chain; created monthly or ad hoc sales reports, backed up customer service

         on daily orders entry process.

         Selected Achievements:

                     Continuous maintaining & monitoring purchase orders process

                     Weekly Inbound & outbound logistics analysis

                     Forecasting and sales analyses of all SKUs

Position Title: Global Demand Manager - Supply Chain

Company: Zoetis

Location: Zaventem, Belgium

Start Date: April 2016

End Date: May 2017

Maintained sales history of 10K SKUs of more than 40 countries grouped into 8 regions for statistical forecast modelling by classifying them into low, medium and high volatile. Data preparation and cleansing has been major prerequisite to forecast modelling. Provided Monthly updates on SKUs classification, out of stock alerts and SKUs ABC updates upload for SAP APO DP, Fusion Ops reporting applications

Selected Achievements:

Developed monthly statistical forecast model by ensuring historical demand data are captured and cleansed.

Managed product classification through demand volatility per SKU (XYZ) and value segmentation (ABC)

Managed Statistical Forecasting Models and ensure the best model is applied for each specific SKU

Position Title: Strategic Buyer - Procurement

Company: Donaldson Filtration Solution

Location: Hassrode, Belgium

Start Date: January 2013

End Date: August 2013

Strategic sourcing on global basis of assigned range of production as well as non-production materials for the European entities by creating continuous improvement of the supply chain in terms of quality, cost, availability and innovation.

Selected Achievements:

Assisted the realization of Europe purchasing new Capital and Operational SOP by opting the Donaldson US purchasing policy, preparing flow chart, scopes and publishing all on the company intranet

Developed required documentation and guidelines for preparing RFQs, SOW and bidder evaluations, contract compliance matrix for the Europe purchasing department

Supervised and coached supplier selection team in all steps from RFQ preparation to e-auctioning, supplier scoring and debriefing phases

Delivered strong annual saving of 200k € within 6 months by requesting multiple RFQs, suppliers benchmarking, market analysis and / or negotiation techniques

Ongoing communication & interaction with other affiliate and corporate groups to consolidate the EMEA sites requirements to have better position regarding tender and price negotiation

Assisted the EMEA manufacturing sites with their capital and operational investment approval procedure (i.e. search alternative supplier, request multiple RFQs, risk management and cost leadership)

Managed and saved cost on European wide tenders such as: Rental cars, car fleet, promotional items

Position Title: Supply Chain Manager (Interim position)

Company: ICOS VISION

Location: Hassrode, Belgium

Start Date: August 2011

End Date: November 2009

Reviewed and analyzed purchase requisitions, coordinated purchasing activities with manufacturing and planning to acquire inventory in a cost effective and timely manger.

Selected Achievements:

Managed the subcontractors’ inventory with regard to the production (make to order) needs to decide what, when, how much and where to purchase

Contacted existing / new suppliers and requested price, lead time, MOQ, packaging quality information to update the SAP supplier and product databases

Updated the purchasing procedure and the SAP reports procedures

Tested a new reporting application by creating the purchasing KPIs dashboard for the whole department and / or for individual buyers

Position Title: Commodity Manager

Company: Cabot

Location: Hassrode, Belgium

Start Date: March 2008

End Date: March 2009

Negotiates large volume contracts at local, regional or global level related to a specific portfolio of goods and services. Develops and implements purchasing policies and procedures for assigned portfolio.

Selected Achievements:

Saved up to 130k $ during the first few months joining the company on negotiating the price rates with the suppliers

Built and maintained positive business relationships with suppliers and internal users

Negotiated contracts and Finalized two critical contracts with the suppliers via the company legal department within very short time period

Managed the supplier feedback and complains regarding purchased goods, reduced the existing KPI (number of days a complain stands open in system) by 30%

Maintained and updated regularly the company supplier database with price rate, contract, supplier contact information

Position Title: Senior Consultant

Company: Alti

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Start Date: December 2005

End Date: December 2007

Recruited to create professional sales demo using client data, participate in multinational BI implementation projects, collect and analyze client reporting system to generate an efficient data model and to build customized reports on top of this model supporting the client business objectives.

Selected Achievements:

Prepared a feasibility study demo in BO XI release using actual client data to make project acquisition

Developed general presentation on enterprise reporting system meant for sales

Upgraded a client KPI reports for Cognos 8

Analyzed and developed the datamodel to automate a client financial department reporting to generate weekly or monthly reports using the existing Oracle or Excel databases

Consulted as business analyst & project manager to one of the top multinational client active in distribution logistics sector

 

Position Title: Senior Consultant

Company: Valoris

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Start Date: June 2005

End Date: July 2005

Engaged as business analyst to fill an immediate gap in their BI team working on client site, regain the client trust, and improve the team cooperation while assessing the client different business unit needs

Interviewed functional people to assess their reporting needs in the BI pre-study phase of a large service company

Applied the QFD concept to visualize and rate numerous business requirements identified in all departments

 

Position Title: KPI Manager

Company: Amcor Flexibles

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Start Date: January 2002

End Date: December 2004

Project manager for integrating manufacturing databases of 8 production plants, reduced KPIs reporting time from 20 to 3 days via analyzing data reporting flow and redesigning the system, improved data quality from 80% accuracy to 99%

Selected Achievements:

Project manager for integrating manufacturing databases of 8 production plants

Reduced KPIs reporting time from 20 to 3 days via analyzing data reporting flow and redesigning the system

Improved data quality from 80% accuracy to 99%

Improved management reporting quality (monthly management instead of 6 months, enhanced the summary data presentations)

Increased awareness regarding KPIs collections through graphical presentations such as Trends charts, benchmarking charts, etc

Provided the required information for the consulting companies involved in the project

Organized meetings, prepared progress reports

Supervised the data entry application in pilot plant

Organized workshops and trained individuals during the roll out to the all the sites

Acted as member of Customer service & Logistics, IT security team, Logistics steering committee, Baan implementation project team

 

Position Title: Process Engineer / IT Officer

Company: Amcor Flexibles

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Start Date: October 2000

End Date: December 2002

Process flow charting and documenting of the major plants in major countries in Europe, applying quantitative techniques to measure the site performances and developing a benchmarking system, customizing BAAN standardized reports according to the business users need

Selected achievements:

Supply chain process mapping of major European plants

Introducing a quantitative methodology to measure process intangibles

Comparing the sites quantitative results to simulate best-in-class business processes in order to develop a common reference model for supply chain management in the whole group

Developed key logistics performance indicators and templates for European wide logistics performance measurement

Other professional experience (concurrent with Ph.D. education)

OM Partners Brasschaat, Belgium

May 2000

Training received with certificates in two of OM Partners product: Detailed Scheduling (GMP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS)

i2 Technologies Brussels, Belgium

Aug – Nov 1998

Customer Support Consultant (major training received with certificate on two of i2 products; Supply Chain Planner (SCP) and Demand Planner (DP))

Monsanto Antwerp, Belgium

Jun – Sep 1995

Conducted EMAS (ISO 14000) Environmental Quality Auditing of Monsanto manufacturing site

Verifying the extend to which Monsanto Antwerp’s Environmental policies, programs, management system and performance; meet the requirements of the EMAS regulation.

BASF Antwerp, Belgium

1993 - 1994

Internship in Quality Control Project of PVC Production Process (for these analyses SAS modules listed under Software /Programming skills were used)

Introduced statistical control charting

Evaluated the SPC training program of operators

Inspected the input - output relationship by observing changes in quality characteristics of input materials, recipe or the Control parameter

Forecasted the control parameter

Modeled the bulk density

Goldratt Institute New Haven, USA

1992 (Two weeks)

Management Training, Odyssey Jonah Course

In this two-week training program, the thinking processes and methods of the Theory of Constraint are taught to the participants. This methodology helps managers to more effectively answer the following questions:

What to change?

What to change to?

How to (cause the) change?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Belgium

1991-1992

Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering

Research in Composite Materials

The ability to predict the growth of damage in composite materials under fatigue loading is a necessity in order to optimize the use of such materials. In this regard, in continuation of what have been done at MTM composite group on damage mechanisms, the fatigue behavior of a CFRP (epoxy) quasi-isotropic system was studied. The undertaken tasks in this study were such as:

Plate laminating of carbon / epoxy prepregs.

Controlling the laminated plates’ quality by Ultrasonic

Cutting and polishing the edge of specimens

Measuring mechanical properties of specimens (e.g. E modules, residual strength)

Fatiguing the specimens and monitoring its damage development by aid of NDT (X-ray radiography, Acoustic Emission)

Procter & Gamble NTC, UK

July – Sep 1990

Summer internship in Process Development Dept.

The detergent production process is simple and consists of two major steps: blowing and packing with storage in between. Blowing is an old technology, where several materials are blown into a large reactor. Because this technology is outdated and because the nature of products is changing, detergents are getting more compact, the production has changed from continuous blowing to a new batch production process. Given these changes, it was important for the company to fine-tune the production process to arrive at the desired characteristics of the new product. In this regard, the following activities were carried out:

Conducting factorial analysis experiments on a pilot plant process

Controlling the product quality by chemical, physical and mechanical tests