Gary Burns is a Supply Chain Operations Manager at Lyondellbasell. He possess expertise in supply chain, supply chain management, logistics, procurement, transportation and 26 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Logistics and Supply Chain operations is a tricky area to manage. A large snow storm is enough to take conditions from good to worse with long recovery times. Balancing effort towards such day-today operational issues against building long-term best practices and strategy is the biggest challenge facing Supply Chain Operations Leaders. Gary’s interest in modeling Logistics is par excellence and understands the challenges posed by significant variability in supply, demand, transit times and asset availability. Gary welcomes ideas and and will quickly get his hands dirty if needed. His analytical acumen far exceed managers I have worked with in this area. Gary is a pleasure to work with and is a solid asset to the organizations he represents." and "I have served with Gary Burns in the National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) as a fellow Board of Director and member of the League’s Rail Transportation Policy Committee for several years. Gary has a broad knowledge of supply chain operations in general and of the rail industry in particular. Gary consistently demonstrates teamwork, an ability to think strategically, and skill in promoting strong working relationships."