About Your Speakers

Currently Sr. Vice President, Supply Chain with Reliance Industries Limited, India’s Largest Private Sector enterprise, Sukumar has close to three decades of experience handling different segments of the Supply Chain both at the Operational & Strategic level in firms from diverse industry segments. Beginning his career with the Public Sector HINDUSTAN COPPER, Sukumar has worked through organizations like HINDUSTAN CIBA-GEIGY (now NOVARTIS), PARKE-DAVIS & WARNER LAMBERT (now part of PFIZER) and briefly even with MIEBACH LOGISTICS INDIA Pvt. LIMITED in India.

Among his other responsibilities, Sukumar has trained the company employees in TQM extensively earlier on, has worked in a consulting assignment with the erstwhile PriceWaterhouseCoopers and with ORACLE in India as the Industry Expert for the Life Sciences and Consumer Products Group.

Sukumar has worked briefly in the US with a SAP Certified Solution provider in Houston, Texas where he was involved with the overall Operations Function of the firm.

Sukumar believes Supply Chain is an intricate science that calls for the convergence of many skills. Anyone with a penchant for Process Management (having internalized the philosophy of Total Quality Management and imbibed the by now famous Theory of Constraints propounded by Eliyahu Goldratt), who also has a keen understanding of the fundamentals of the human psyche, will represent according to him, the perfect elixir for churning the juice out of a Supply Chain Management responsibility. Although this recipe is stringent, Sukumar says he stands by his Bill of Material!!

A Post Graduate in Economics and Masters in Marketing Management with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Materials management, Sukumar speaks on any aspect of Supply Chain Management and has apparently drawn very good reviews of not only the manner in which he presents, but also the thoughts he provokes among the audience! He was voted the BEST YOUNG MATERIALS MANAGER in India in 1990, based on a competition organized by the International Federation for Purchasing & Materials Management (IFPMM), Sweden and the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM), Mumbai.

Since 2004, Christian has been the European Supply Chain Manager for Solvay. He is responsible for planning, logistics, transportation, packaging and order processing activities for PVC production in Europe.

With his team of 25, Christian is responsible for:

• The development and implementation of S&OP structure within Solvin.
• Implementation of service segmentation approach
• Outsourcing of some packaging activities
• Segmented tendering approach for Transport to increase resources availability & achieve costs savings
• Development of C02 reduction program

Global Business Integration Manager Roger Kerckhoffs has 25 years of experience in the international process-industry. He has worked for companies active in commodity-chemicals, specialty chemicals, food and pharma. He has held strategic and operational positions in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Logistics and Purchasing, leading teams of up to 100 people. In his current assignment he is responsible for the global S&OP-process within DSM-Specialty- Resins, a Business Unit of Royal DSM with a turnover of about € 500 mln. In this function he fulfils 3 roles : he ensures continuous improvement of the structure and scope of the S&OP-process, he facilitates the monthly S&OP-cycle and he serves as executive-secretary to the Global Management Team. Via the S&OP-process, DSM-Specialty-Resins ensures integrated management of sales, marketing, supply-chain, manufacturing and finance.

Roger Moore has more than 40 years experience in a variety of supply chain and logistic management roles with major producers in the European chemical industry.

After commencing his career with Procter and Gamble, in 1979 the opportunity came to move to Dow Chemical in the UK . Later assignments took him to France and then Switzerland. Roger returned to the UK in 1990.

In 1994 he moved to The Netherlands as European Distribution Manager for the Chemicals Division of Air Products and Chemicals inc. He established an integrated supply chain organization leading a multi-national team responsible for distribution operations, service procurement, inventory planning and customer services.

In 2007 he successfully launched his own consultancy / interim management company in The Netherlands. In 2008 he joined Ineos Nova as European Supply Chain Manager. In 2012 following changes in the ownership of Ineos Nova and the formation of the global styrenics joint venture between Ineos and BASF , he joined the new company , Styrolution, as Customer Services Manager for the polystyrene business unit.

Roger has chaired the annual Logichem conference since 2004.

Andreas is Senior Vice President at BASF – The Chemical Company. Starting with the company in 1990 in the Corporate Engineering he designed and realized various plants ranging from flue gas cleaning systems, fertilizer plants to aromatic extraction units for steamcrackers located in major Verbund-sites in Germany and Europe. During the late 90s he joined Corporate Logistics in order to kick-off the new discipline of Supply Chain (SC) Management for one of the major chemical divisions. After a short “stop-over” in a SC competency center function Andreas took the chance to restructure BASF’s agrochemical supply chain in Europe, Africa & Western Asia and to integrate production into this unit, which supplies products with more than 1.7 bil € annual turnover to the markets. Since January 2012 he is in charge for BASF's Global Supply Chain unit covering SC strategy, development of SC processes and change mgt activities. Andreas holds a diploma in mechanical engineering and a PhD in process engineering.

Background/ experience: PhD in chemistry and started within Bayer 15 years ago in pharmaceutical and agrochemcial research. Afterwards working in Operations/ manufacturing as a plant manager in Germany and board assistant in headquarters. From 2005-2008 located in Shanghai managing the Bayer CropScience Industrial Operations in Asia Pacific, including responsibility for 16 manufacturing sites across Asia Paciifc as well as Sourcing from China and India. Since 2009 globally responsible for Supply Chain Management and production strategy of Bayer CropScience.
Mayor challenges are: since 2009 the reduction of inventories for BCS, the implementation of a new Supply Chain operating model and at the same time facing increasing volatility in our business environment.
Why am I attending: because I would like to meet and discuss with peers from similar industries to learn and exchange about current and future challenges of our Supply Chains and how to address them.

Rolf Habben-Jansen is the CEO of Damco since 1 January 2009. Based in Copenhagen, he is responsible for all of the global activities of Damco.

Rolf Habben-Jansen came from a position as Head of Global Customer Solutions with DHL. He was responsible for the account management and growth of the top 100 customers across all of DHL's Business Units since 2006.

Before that, he headed up the Contract Logistics activities of DHL in most of Mainland Europe since 2001.

In the 1990's, Rolf held various senior positions in Nedlloyd and Danzas, both of which were merged into DHL later.

Rolf Habben-Jansen is born in 1966, married and has two children. He is of Dutch nationality, and holds a degree in economics from Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Peter has been playing a leading role in different Supply Chain topics over the last 20 years. He joined Monsanto in 1990 and was fulfilling several roles in Planning, Customer Service & Logistics for the Monsanto Chemicals division. He became Operations Manager for the Biotech manufacturing facility in Austria in 1995. In 1999, he was appointed EMEA Supply Chain Manager for the Monsanto Agro-chemical products with a very strong cross functional focus on Procurement, Planning, Customer Service, Product Portfolio, Logistics and Inventory Management.
In 2005, Peter started up a new Supply Chain Competency Center based in Antwerp, Belgium. This Competency Center is focusing on improving the EMEA Business & Supply Chain processes and forms the liaison between Business and IT for the 3 Monsanto divisions: Agro-chemicals, Seeds & Vegetables. This Competence Center has been transformed to a Business Process Competence Center coping with Mfg, Quality, Supply Chain and Finance related Business Process Improvements & Projects.

Peter Devos has a Master degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Leuven and another Master in Industrial Management.

Laurent Hanssen joined AkzoNobel in 1996. He held various positions in the Netherlands and abroad in Logistics and Supply Chain.
Now he is Director Global Supply Chain and CRM for AkzoNobel Functional Chemicals, Akzonobel’s largest business unit, part of the Specialty Chemicals business area. That business unit consists of a number of different businesses that produce a variety of chemical intermediates, performance chemicals and end-use consumer products on global scale. Many of these chemicals can be found in the items you use every day such as detergents, personal care products, crop protection, micronutrients, building materials, paint, pharmaceuticals and food.

Roger Bloemen is Vice President, Global Supply Chain for Solutia. Within Solutia, Supply Chain is a corporate function and he is managing the global Supply Chain for the 3 divisions form both the business as the regional execution side. Before this, he has been Vice President Supply Chain Europe/Africa for the Scotts Miracle Gro and has held different regional senior Supply Chain functions for Monsanto in the US, Australia, France and Belgium. He holds Master degrees in Bio Engineering, Industrial Engineering and and Business Administration from University of Leuven, Belgium, and also has an executive MBA from Stanford University. He gives frequent lectures on Supply Chain strategy at key business schools around the world

Julian Amey joined ICI in 1978 as a control engineer. He had roles in engineering, production management, and production planning (on secondment in the US). From 1991 he had responsibilities for aseptic manufacture and new product introduction.

In 1994 Julian coordinated supply chain re-engineering in Zeneca Pharmaceuticals until in 1998 he headed up Zeneca’s Supply Chain Group. At the merger with Astra in 1999 Julian was appointed Vice-President of Supply Chains & Logistics and led work from 2002-2004 to implement lean approaches in AstraZeneca’s supply chain.

In 2005 Julian was seconded to Global R&D to lead and support change activities, before returning to Operations to lead the Transformation & Strategy Group. From 2008 he resumed leadership of the Global Supply Chain. He retired from AstraZeneca at the end of 2009 and joined Warwick University in 2010 as a Principal Fellow with advisory responsibilities for supply chain and operations management.

Robert Shellman is chief executive officer and president of Odyssey Logistics &Technology Corporation. As the OL&T founding executive, Shellman identified early on that the complexity and inefficiency of global logistics in the process industry inhibited the sector's ability to improve supply chain effectiveness. His vision for a solution to this strategic challenge blended technology, process management, and specialized technical expertise and forms the cornerstone of the OL&T services portfolio.

Prior to launching OL&T in 2003, Shellman served as president of UniGlobal Logistics, a third party services company with clients such as Shell Chemical, EQUATE (Kuwait) and Honeywell, as well as its parent, Union Carbide Corporation. Under his leadership, the company spearheaded the contract services concept and managed cargoes valued in excess of $8 billion on a global basis. Prior to leading UniGlobal, Shellman spent 19 years at Union Carbide, where he progressed through the ranks, amassing cross-functional experience in supply chain, operations and channel management with several of the company's branded product groups, including Eveready and Energizer (batteries), Prestone (automotive products) and Glad (home products).

Shellman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York, as well as a second Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Accounting from the C.W. Post College

Richard Holmes is a Partner with Lodestone Management Consultants with responsibility for Business Excellence and Performance Improvement. He brings over 30 years of supply chain and manufacturing experience, starting his career with the ICI Group in European Operations and subsequently in Business Consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Richard works with multi-national companies in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Consumer Products industries supporting them in global restructuring of the their manufacturing assets, supply chain organisation and business process design. He is one of the driving forces behind Lodestone's thinking with regard to industry trends, the impacts of externalisation and the response of the global supply chain.

Kai Schröder is Managing Consultant and Head of Chemicals Sector at Lodestone Management Consultants. With university degree in international economics and thesis in supply chain Kai joined BASF group and was working along the value chain from Mining / Oil & Gas / Petrochemicals / Chemicals Intermediate and Plastics (Polyurethane and Styrenics) in various functions. Assignments in Europe, Central and East Asia enriched intercultural competence. Focus of his activities were the lean operation, transparency and control over complex supply chains and business models. In 2008 Kai founded his own Management consultancy The Chemical Consultant with focus on competitive effectiveness along the added value production chain. In 2011 Kai joined Lodestone to develop the Chemical sector with focus on integrated projects of Supply Chain, Business and SAP Excellence.

Vincent is Project Manager in the Supply Chain of INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe. He specialized in the management of complex projects ranging from re-engineering to SAP implementations.

He is Electrical and Mechatronic engineer, 47, graduated from Universtié Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium.

Vincent works in the pet-chem industry since 21 years. He has got 14 years experience in Manufacturing with automation of grass-root plants, management of engineering & construction office, maintenance and IT. Then, he took the role of Project Manager in the Supply Chain of INEOS Polyolefins, leading various projects involving infrastructure, process streamlining, IT, re-location, change management, etc. His latest assignments are in the integration projects of the newly formed Olefins and Polymers division.

Marc Van der Veen is the Global Manager of Strategic Change for Supply Chain in Dow Corning Corporation, and has been in the position since May 2009. Prior to that, Marc was the Manager of Logistics for Dow Corning Europe, and was responsible for Logistics in Europe, the Middle East, and Russia.

Since joining Dow Corning in 1985, Marc has held a number of key manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and planning positions at the company’s plants in Shanghai in China, Barry in Wales and Seneffe in Belgium. While in Shanghai, he setup Dow Corning China’s logistics infrastructure and capabilities. During that time, he also developed expertise in applying strategic analysis and economic evaluation to supply chain engineering and re-engineering.

He is based in Belgium.

Since February 2011 head of global supply chain organization at Kemira and member of the Business Management Board. In charge of Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, as well as Logistics and Customer Service world wide.

2009-2011 headed the New Equipment Business of KONE Corporation in Asia Pacific. Based in Shanghai, responsibilities covering the full chain of activities from sales and marketing to delivery and installation of elevators and escalators in all KONE Asia Pacific markets, as well as the ownership of KONE offering portfolio and offering development roadmaps in the region.

2005-2009 Vice President, Delivery Process, in KONE global headquarters. In charge of the global development and harmonization of KONE Delivery process, including demand-supply planning, sourcing, manufacturing, as well as order fulfillment related processes and the supporting IT solutions.

Before joining KONE a career in management consulting, executive education, and research, most recently in Capgemini Finland as the head of Business Process Consulting practice.

MSc and PhD in Industrial Management from Helsinki University of Technology.