Robert Beideman Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Be

You know GS1 as the inventors of the barcodes that are printed on everything that you buy. GS1 is an international not for profit association with feet on the ground in more than 116 countries and with over 2 million member companies. GS1 is dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains globally and across sectors. The GS1 system of standards is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world.

Brussels, Be

Responsible for Retail and E-Commerce initiatives and for global outreach and engagement across the 116 countries in which GS1 operates. Team vision is to expand the relevance of GS1 into demand-side and Internet/Web-facing business processes and to engage businesses, organisations and industries on how to transform, adapt and grow through successful execution of their omnichannel strategies. Team responsible for maintaining and evangelizing GS1's digital strategy and for engaging across all retail sectors. Responsible for strategically positioning GS1 as an enabler for companies to speak the same language and to more efficiently and effectively connect with each other and with their customers. Areas of expertise spanning Omnichannel Transformation, Semantic Web and Linked Data, Web Visibility, Digital Asset Management, Unique Identification on the Web, Web Data Authenticity, Mobile Identification, Seller Identification, Inventory Visibility, and Fulfillment Model Optimisation.

President, EPCGlobal, Inc. and Member of the EPCGlobal Board of Governors / GS1 Innovation Board.

Paris, Ile-De-France , Fr

The ICC Digital (Trade) Standards Initiative (DSI) is a collaborative cross-industry effort to enable standardization of international trade to connect existing digital "industry islands". The ICC - with 45 million corporate members - seeks to coordinate all parties.

Waldkirch, De

Full P/L responsibility for corporate division focused on large-scale customer engagements leveraging integrated software, hardware, and services solutions for a global customer base in the Logistics Automation market space (Retail, Transportation & Logistics, Airports, Postal and Parcel)• Grew sales by 25% CAGR for 6 straight years.• Increased Global Market Share by 40%.• Increased Sales penetration in top 100 Retail Distribution Accounts by over 400%. Developed and led a multi-year strategy to guide organization to successfully penetrate over 60 top accounts, each resulting in tangible incremental, sustainable revenue. Nearly every new account was a major Competitive Conversion.Implemented Consultative Selling Training programmes. Worked as part of a core team to train a global Sales team on the skills necessary to perform as world-class consultative Sales Executives.Expanded Solution offerings to include Software Solution Sales and Performance Consulting Sales. This effort yielded significant revenue in just the first year, and differentiated the company from all competition.Leveraged experience in program oversight of large-scale system integration efforts to drive efficiency improvements by streamlining communications and interactions between Sales Executives and the internal Product, Project and Solutions organization. Leveraged business interactions with the Executive Board, the US Executive team, and the teams that I led to ensure our customer’s success, resulted in on-budget and on-EBIT performance every year of my tenure, and not a single lost customer.Direct Sales Contributor on company’s largest global account.

Lippo Di Calderara Di Reno, Bologna, It

Re-architected the Systems Engineering, Product and Programme Management and Application Engineering divisions of Accu-Sort Systems to significantly reduce both solution development time and cost of Sales.• Reduced time from solution concept to proposal from 2 weeks to less than 3 days. Improved accuracy of requirements definition process, as well as streamlining interactions between Sales, Product, Engineering, and Manufacturing.• Cut Cost of Sales by over 15% through targeted training, allowing the Sales teams to function more autonomously.• Developed complete technical training materials for all new product and solution offerings. Provision of consistent and comprehensive systems engineering services to our sales force and our customers.• Cut project overruns to zero within 1 year. Created a complete Systems Engineering process flow to allow teams to more efficiently manage all aspects of complex hardware and software solution deployments.

Lake Mary, Fl, Us

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Business

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics