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Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva, Ch

Meyrin, Ge, Ch

I join LEM right after a difficult ERP migration. Urgency was to stabilize situation to allow business to recover. This has been achieved within 18 months. In the meantime, I completely reorganize the IS team and initiate a complete transformation program of the IS landscape to build strong foundations to obtain more agility enabling fast business transformation.After 3 years, thanks to all efforts made by my team I’m proud that cost by user of Information Systems has been reduced by 12% while Users’s Satisfaction raise by 12%.

Geneva, Ch

Realization of various consulting mandates aiming at optimizing the management of the Information Systems and Supply Chain, based on my dual competence- Provide support for the development and/or optimization of Planning Backbone (Strategic Plan; Sales & Operations Planning; Master Production Schedule; ..)- Guiding the transformation of Supply Chain by combining both the rational and emotional aspects of the changes with an "end-to-end" approach including Information Systems & Change Management- Driving deployment and / or optimizing of ERP and APS usageConference speaker: S&OP: Supply Chain’s control towers (Paris, October 2014)

Plan-Les-Ouates, Geneva, Ch

At the end of this mandate, I chose to keep the managerial responsibility of the Supply Chain and thus joined the Executive Committee of the brand. In this role, I continued the professionalization of the Supply Chain Management, for example by strengthening the control based on the S&OP process or optimizing logistics flows. At the end, the Supply Chain department was positioned as a control tower and coordinated all planning activities through the Maison and its 21 subsidiaries.Conference speaker: How to setup S&OP (Paris, September 2011)

Plan-Les-Ouates, Geneva, Ch

In addition to my role as Head of IS, I conducted a one-year organisational study leading to the implementation of a Supply Chain department within Piaget. During this year I served as Transition Manager in charge of this function and have accompanied the Managers and their teams in the operational implementation of a new way of working while continuing to control the IS Department.

Plan-Les-Ouates, Geneva, Ch

Being Head & IS Organization, my first mission was to develop an IS strategy for the brand within the group, while merging existing services at Headquarters and Manufacturing and implement an Organisation function. I conducted both rationalization projects of infrastructure and others more "business"- oriented, such as the establishment of a Project Steering Committee or the implementation of SAP R/3 for Finance. A rationalization and cost-cutting policy has allowed me to reduce in 2 years the IT budget of about 40% in a context of budgetary pressure.From April 2005, I managed the creation and organization of a Master Data Management team. Starting early 2006, acting as Business representative for Piaget, I handled the implementation of SAP, first with a pilot site in the United States, followed by a global logistics platform based in Switzerland and the European subsidiaries rollout.In parallel, I worked on the establishment of a planning tool distribution (APS) and its integration into the existing IT landscape and on various Organisation projects which followed the merger of the two sites of the brand.

In January 2005, I was elected to the ”Conseil de la Fondation de Prévoyance Richemont” and appointed to the Investment Committee managing the Foundation’s investments. Having been nominated in April 2010 Supply Chain Director and therefore a member of the Brand’s Executive Board, I retired from this role.

Plan-Les-Ouates, Genève, Ch

I joined Patek Philippe, taking the opportunity to learn SAP and managed the installation of this ERP. In 5 months, I discovered the watch making world, the SAP environment and launched Sales and Distribution (SD) and Stock Management (MM) modules. Then other projects followed: Human Resources, Finance, and Production Management. Having completed my projects, I became the SAP Competency Centre Manager and so managed a team of 7 people, including four employees recruited by me. This team consists of a SAP Competence Center and a Helpdesk to improve user’s support. Last project, the migration to SAP version 3.0f to 4.6B which has achieved in 6 months.

Meyrin-Satigny, Geneva, Ch

After graduating as Engineer with the Polytechnic School of Lausanne at 22 years of age, I joined Firmenich for a MFG/PRO project regarding Logistics in Geneva. Upon project completion, I worked on the European rollout of this tool and the development of interfaces between all European sites. At the same time, I trained two people to replicate the same job in Asia and South America. Last project, the integration of production automation in the Geneva plant within the same ERP.

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Supply Chain Management

Master'S Degree, Microengineering, Specialisation In Production Management