About Our Speakers

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.

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.

After studying Business Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe Andreas Claussen joined BASF in 1994. He gained international experience in both Supply Chain Management and Information Management in various responsibilities and projects. He held positions in Germany, the UK and the US dealing with Supply Chain Process Optimisation, SAP R/3-implementation as well as physical logistics. Currently he is responsible for the Supply Chain Network Europe comprising Operational Logistics in the European Business Centers, Process Governance and Inhouse SCM Consulting.

Key supply chain project(s) you are currently working on:
Service Differentiation, Performance Management, enabling business success in emerging markets

What you foresee being your supply chain’s key challenge for the next 12 months, and how are you planning to overcome this?
See above; assign resources and run projects to handle above questions

What would you like to take away from LogiChem this year?
Overview industry trends, new ideas for tackling SCM-challenges, new contacts and network opportunities

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.

Key supply chain project(s) you are currently working on:
Global Supply Chain organization alignment; Demand Planning; end to end Business Process standardization and simplification

What you foresee being your supply chain’s key challenge for the next 12 months, and how are you planning to overcome this?
Manage Demand fluctuations, S&OP; supply chain visibility

What would you like to take away from LogiChem this year?
Networking, learning from peers how they tackle their similar issues & challenges

Mr. Danny Van Gansen has over 25 years management experience in chemicals industry covering the area’s of IT , Procurement, and Supply Chain in local and corporate management roles.
He graduated from Antwerp University in 1983 as Master in business economics and obtained an Executive MBA degree in 1991. He joined Andersen in IT consulting in 1983 and transferred to BP Oil in 1985.

Before taking his current position end 2009 he gained experience as logistics manager for a major polyolefins production site, corporate demand and supply planning manager, corporate European customer service manager, IT development manager, senior raw materials buyer and corporate logistics services procurement manager.

Besides above line management positions, he was also involved in strategic projects such as the integration of a new fertilizer business into Borealis, the design of supply chain concept for a new Polyolefins JV in UAE, asset divestments projects , a SCOR pilot project , a merger project of PCD into Borealis and in the initial establishment of Borealis as a merger between Neste and Statoil.

Mary Scheibner is the Global Supply Chain Director for Process Catalysts and Technologies at BASF. She has over thirty years experience in all facets of Supply Chain Management including materials management and planning, customer service, purchasing, transportation and distribution, and foreign trade. She has experience in both operational and strategic functions as well as project management, process improvement, system selection and implementation. Mary recently served as the North American business representative to the Global Supply Chain Steering Committee for BASF. Prior to her current position, Mary led the internal consulting organization for BASF in North America.

Mary has been active in the Supply Chain Council, a global nonprofit organization whose methodology, diagnostic, and benchmarking tools help make dramatic and rapid improvements in supply chain processes. She served on the Board of Directors for five years and as Chairman of the Council for two years. Mary also served as Chairman of the Education and Training Committee.

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. 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.

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.

Dirk Backhaus has a PhD in chemistry and started within Bayer 15 years ago in pharmaceutical and agrochemical research. After this, he worked in Operations/manufacturing as a plant manager in Germany and board assistant in the Bayer headquarters. From 2005-2008, he was located in Shanghai, managing the Bayer CropScience Industrial Operations in Asia Pacific, including responsibility for 16 manufacturing sites across Asia Pacific as well as Sourcing from China and India. Since 2009, he has been globally responsible for Supply Chain Management and production strategy of Bayer CropScience.

What you foresee being your supply chain’s key challenge for the next 12 months:
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.

What would you like to take away from LogiChem this year?
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.

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.

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

Key supply chain project(s) you are currently working on:
Based on an assessment, we developed a program to increase the Supply Chain professionalism and ensure we have a structure ready for supporting the new economical market charaterised by increased flexibility required, less loyal customers, focus on working capital. This program is divided in 4 main streams, S&OP, IT developments, in-site logistics, people development.

What you foresee being your supply chain's key challenge for the next 12 months:
Flexibility, working capital.

What would you like to take away from LogiChem this year?
Benchmark on major challenges, benchmark on our SC positioning in terms of developments and maturity.

Gene Mueller is Global Head of Commercial Excellence at Clariant International based out of Switzerland. In his current role sponsored by the Executive Committee he works with Global Business Unit Heads to create change management and performance improvement initiatives targeting pricing, sales effectiveness and complexity reduction in the areas of sales & marketing. As an accomplished senior executive with over 22 years of experience, he has held several leadership roles within marketing, sales, operations, & finance. Prior to his current role, Gene was Head of the Clariant restructuring Project Management Office. In North America he was Vice President and Business Unit Head of the Detergents, Industrial and Consumer Care businesses. Gene is bi-lingual,is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt andholds a diploma in Economics and an MBA from Rutgers University. He also completed Executive post graduate studies at Insead, France.

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.

Key supply chain project(s) you are currently working on:
Implementing global Demand planning and Sales&Operations planning processes
Harmonization of the customer service center processes (Order to Cash)
Next generation Category Management for Sourcing
Warehouse network optimization

What you foresee being your supply chain’s key challenge for the next 12 months, and how are you planning to overcome this?
Demand uncertainty leading to inventory balancing challenges
Raw material cost development

Above projects are key to overcoming these

What would you like to take away from LogiChem this year?
The challenges should be pretty much the same for everybody in the industry, so it would be interesting to hear how others are tackling them

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

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.

Key supply chain project(s) you are currently working on:
Like many companies operating in today’s fast-paced, global business environment, improving efficiency of our supply chains is key to our operations. My current focus is on process automation and standardization across Dow Corning’s supply chains. In addition, I am involved in similar supply chain activities related to our relatively new manufacturing plant in China that has helped the company better serve the Asian market.

What you foresee being your supply chain’s key challenge for the next 12 months, and how are you planning to overcome this?
I believe we are operating in a time where there will continue to be a higher level of volatility than what we have seen in the past. We have witnessed the impact on business of a number of international events, such as natural disasters in Japan, social and political unrest in the Middle East, and financial instability Europe and elsewhere. Therefore, risk management processes and the ability to conduct scenario analyses will be crucial.

With its global supply chain network, Dow Corning is fortunate to have the right mechanisms in place to continue smooth processes and operations for our customers around the world. We rely on our company’s SAP ERP system to help us plan for various scenarios and execute successfully in the face of volatility.

What would you like to take away from LogiChem this year?
LogiChem is a great opportunity to learn and share best practices in supply chain management between companies. In order to succeed in the supply chain arena, it is very important for us to stay connected, be aware of the trends, and closely follow new developments. I am sure LogiChem will provide a good platform to do so.

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.

Chemicals and Supply Chain Management Practice

• Ingo Aghte is a partner in McKinsey’s EMEA Chemicals Practice. He is also a co-leader of McKinsey’s European Supply Chain Management Practice. He joined McKinsey in 2002.

Area of work and experience

• Ingo is supporting global Chemicals Companies in transforming their Supply Chain, Procurement, driving productivity and quality in their Shared Services as well as in optimizing their Cash Flow and Working Capital levels.
• In the area of Supply Chain Management, he supports Chemicals clients from both commodity and specialty background in reducing supply chain cost, optimising customer service as well as improving the composition of raw material, intermediate and finished goods stocks.
• Ingo has deep expertise in the area of cross-functional supply chain performance transformations. Here, he has successfully served clients with the aim of achieving the best possible alignment between commercial functions and Operations in regard to making optimal cost/EBIT/service trade-offs along the entire supply chain.

Education/prior work experience

• Ingo holds a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen, which he obtained in the field of Supply Chain Planning.
• Prior to joining McKinsey, Ingo started his professional career at the RWTH Aachen's Institute for Operations Management (FIR), where he worked as a consultant and project manager. He also ran his own boutique consulting outfit in the area of logistics and production optimization before joining McKinsey.

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.

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.

In 2011 Robert Peels left Royal DSM and started Flostock consultancy to make a new way of demand forecasting available to the industry. The Flostock approach has been presented at a series of conferences and was published in numerous journals, magazines and websites, with recent examples in European Coatings Journal, ICIS Chemical Business and www.logistiek.nl.
In DSM he was strategy director in coating resins, in which capacity he analyzed the financial crisis and built a forecasting model with Eindhoven University of Technology. This model did correctly predict demand over the last 2 1/2 volatile years, based on the insight that industry demand is determined by the end markets and -in the crisis- by inventory reduction. Before that he was business director and before that sales manager, supply chain project manager, and European patent attorney, starting with a degree in biochemistry and business economy.

TC is WAM's Vice President of Industry Solutions, focusing on responding to the needs of supply chain planning executives with solutions to achieve optimal performance and productivity. He works closely with planning teams to identify tangible benefits from supply chain planning improvements. He then expands on this by developing implementation roadmaps to guide companies through the challenging step-by-step process of adopting new business practices. TC also oversees many of WAM's value-added partner relationships which extend the company's outreach through localized support across the globe.

TC has over 20 years of experience in supply chain decision technologies. He held leading roles at Aspen Technology, contributing to the development of the company's flagship product line, MIMI, and managing the launch of their eBusiness solution. As Director of Supply Chain Planning for Aspen, he delivered planning solutions for leading process industry companies including DuPont, Dow, Proctor & Gamble and Pfizer. He has authored many articles on supply chain planning trends and best practices and regularly lends his expertise to speaking engagements in industry events. TC holds degrees in computer information science from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Rutgers.

For more than 20 years Thomas has been working in the supply chain arena. Graduating from Dortmund University with a Masters degree in mechanical engineering, he began his career at the well-known Fraunhofer-Institute for material-flows and logistics. He worked for different management consultancy firms in the area of supply chain and logistics before he joined BearingPoint in 1999. Throughout his career he became an in-depth specialist focusing on restructuring complex supply chains effectively. He has been working for clients in the consumer goods’ industry as well as the chemical and life-science industry with projects on Strategic Planning of Supply Chain Networks with respect to plant and warehouse network configuration, transportation systems, inventory management and service level adjustment. In 2011 Thomas became Head of the BearingPoint European Competence Center Logistics & Distribution

Jan is Head of the BearingPoint CS Business Process Management Competence Center. He joined BearingPoint in 2001. As an experienced Program Manager, Jan is mainly working with multi-national clients in the Process and Manufacturing industries. He and his team are experts in developing sustainable Business Process Management strategies and their successful implementation very often related to the alignment of Business and IT organizations.

Prior to joining BearingPoint Jan worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Munich and Beijing (PR China. ). He was Co-Founder and CIO of e-DAS.com ltd., a Chinese internet start-up in Shenzhen (PR China).

Jan holds a Master degree in Economics from Trier University (Germany) and started his professional career as investment specialist at Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt (Germany).

Vice President Marketing & Sales, Infraserv Logistics and
Managing Director Contargo Industriepark Frankfurt-Höchst GmbH

Before joining Infraserv Logistics in 2010 Georg worked for some major logistics service providers in the areas of warehousing and distribution. He is an expert for the design and implementation of successful collaboration scenarios and strategies when embedding external partners into your supply chain.

I am a Supply Chain Professional with 10 Years of experience within operational supply chain leadership, supply chain development and product management within the Biotech and Chemical industry.
Proven track record within supply chain leadership, development and optimization of End-to-End Supply Chain.

Specialties:

• Operational supply chain leadership
• Strategy Development
• Warehouse Management
• Product Management

Companies of employment:

• Chr. Hansen (2003-2010)
• Danisco (2010-2011)
• DuPont (2011-

Education:

• Industrial Engineer
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• LEAN Agent certification
• SIMI Diploma in innovation management
  

Born 1957 in Cologne. Studied law and took his second state examination in 1988 in parallel to his education in WEW as fitter and welder with passing several wilder exams and comparable jobs in other industrial companies. Additional education time in motion studies (REFA) and accounting. From 1989 he worked as first assistant of the Managing Director and since 1992 as Managing Director.

Maarten van den Biggelaar started his career 32 years ago as an Analytical Chemist in the R&D department of Sigma Coatings (now part of PPG). He pursued a career in Operations and was responsible for several production locations and global supply chains. He achieved important efficiency improvements by implementing advance process-automation and IT . He now holds a position as Manager Supply Chain Planning at PPG Industries, Inc in Amsterdam. His Business Unit, Protective and Marine Coatings, deals with complex and advanced global logistics, as a large part of their customers are actually sailing around the world. Maarten is responsible for introducing global demand planning and streamlining the business processes around it