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Breda, Nb, Nl

Antwerpen, België

Balance supply and daily demand for commodities in EMEA region, produced on 2 sites• Supervise the actual supply situation regarding customer order fulfilment and internal demand; ensuring confirmed delivery dates are met• Continuous improvement of the efficiency of SCM deliveries with all stakeholders

Antwerpen, België

Managing and improving the actual supply situation regarding customer order fulfillment

Eersel

Establishment of new Central Planning function for mass market cigars (5 factories):• Set-up new department: Central team of supply planners (2 FTE) responsible for Production Planning and Inventory Management: ensuring SFG and FG availability• New planning process: Integration of replenishment activities (end-to-end responsibility) and applying product segmentation in planning; • Stakeholder in S&OP process• Improving and integrating systems to support the planning processKey achievements:• New Supply Planning team established• Applied the end-to-end replenishment and product segmentation in the planning

Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands

Link between management and operations for manufacturing site (~1400 FTE) in areas of:• Strategy preparation: Analysis of long range volume developments, guiding budget process, investigating business opportunities and improvements• Cost savings: Responsible for KPI ‘Productivity’ incl. related process improvements on site and EU region level• Management Support: Running cross-functional projects (headcount benchmarking and process optimizations), preparation of business updates for internal & external management and employeesKey achievement: • Implemented new process to monitor and track progress of productivity initiatives and realized 3% reduction of annual costs

Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands

Overall coordination of organization restructuring and transition from 7 to 5 days working mode of manufaturing site (~1400 FTE):• Restructuring of all production departments reducing ~125 FTE and impacting ~1100 FTE)• Creation of transition plan, defining headcount and cost impacts• Aligning stakeholders incl. communication with social partners• Coordination of equipment transfersKey achievement: • Successful implementation of new working mode with targeted reduced headcount

Neuchatel, Switzerland

Managing team responsible for capacity planning of ~35% of PMI’s cigarettes production capacity (8 PMI factories in EU, supplying 150 markets worldwide)• Supporting the establishment of European Cluster organization • Ensuring production capacity in European Region is matching market requirements• Monitoring market forecast activities, demand & supply planning• Strategic/tactical portfolio allocation for finished goods• Supply Chain Planning optimizations incl. SAP APO upgrade implementation, inventory reductions and cash-flow improvementsKey achievements: • Received excellence award for establishment of new European Region organization• Rewarded for complex portfolio re-allocation impacting 15 markets and 6 factories

Bergen Op Zoom Area, Netherlands

Responsible for mid-term Production Plan of PMI’s largest manufacturing site in Europe (~2000 FTE)• Inventory Management and ensuring market supply • Product life cycle management, new product initiatives coordination• Special situation management• SAP APO implementationKey achievement:• Implementation of new health warnings /design on cigarette packs (EU Directive) for full portfolio without negative impact on market supply, production performance and nihil costs of outdated products

Bergen Op Zoom Area, Netherlands

Part of Productivity Improvement team (6 FTE) responsible for:• Capacity improvements and extension analysis• Scheduling optimizationsKey achievement:• Full bottleneck analysis for capacity extension of tobacco processing plant in extremely short timeframe of one week

Master'S Degree, Industrial Engineering & Management Sience

Activities and Societies: Active for study association a.o. organizer of study tour to South-Africa "Research into opportunities.

Secondary School, Vwo, Atheneum

Primary School