Julien is Team Leader Material & Demand Planning at Straumann Group in Basel. He has been teaching for PMI for 6+ years. Julien has 13+ years experience in production planning processes, material management and logistics. Julien is APICS CPIM, CSCP, CLTD and SCOR-P as well as CDDP certified.

He started his career as a Supply Chain Project Engineer and managed the introduction of planning but also master data processes and new ERP as a Business Process Engineer. He has led a team of 35 people, in charge of the end-to-end supply chain of a major producer of natural and organic cosmetics and medicines. He’s now leading the Demand & Material Planning for a global leader in tooth replacement and orthodontic solutions.

Daniel has spent 10 years in the medical and machinery industry in the fields of Finance, Process and Lean Management as well as Supply Chain.

As Procurement and Material Planning Manager, he was responsible for forming a central planning function. His team was in charge of managing the supplier side, reducing raw materials stock and implementing a planning process for MTO products.

In his current role as Head of Materials Management, Daniel is in charge of an organization of 50 employees in logistics, purchasing and planning. He has successfully led the consolidation of the supply chain functions of two production facilities into one.

Daniel is APICS CPIM and CSCP certified and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Kai heads the supply chain department at BioNTech AG Mainz. He has been teaching for PMI since 2016. Kai has 10+ years of experience in operations but also strategic supply chain management in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. As engineer in microsystems technology and MBA, he holds an APICS CPIM certification.

Kai started his professional career at Schott AG Mainz as process development engineer for optical coatings. After two years in technical Marketing at Merck KGaA, Kai worked 3 years as inhouse Consultant for Merck on different projects focusing on operations and SCM. He left Merck as head of Demand Management Global SCM Colour Pigments and moved to Boehringer Ingelheim. At Boehringer Ingelheim Kai coordinated global SCM activities for all Americas, Europe and Asia/Australia. The last 2 years at Boehringer Ingelheim Kai lead the supply chain of the biggest Blockbuster Spiriva® focusing on production planning. In October 2017 Kai joined the BioNTech AG Mainz as department head supply chain.

Wolfgang is Head of Supply & Demand Planning DACH at Groupe SEB in Frankfurt am Main & responsible for the monthly S&OP cycle with focus on demand planning as well as ensuring availability of goods.​

He has 12+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management, especially in the areas of Planning & Logistics. The main focus of his work is on the optimization of planning processes, accompanied by the continuous development of the Supply Chain IT landscape.​

To date, he has held various roles in operational planning, project management & leadership functions, primarily in the consumer goods (Unilever, Danone) and chemical/pharmaceutical (Merck) industries. In addition, he is co-founder & managing director of a company in the beverage industry.​

Johannes is Director Supply Chain Excellence with focus on Forecasting and Sales & Operations Planning at Fresenius Medical Care in Bad Homburg, Germany. In his current role he is responsible for implementing global guidelines and processes aiming to improve forecast quality, create global transparency and make planning processes more efficient. Until 2020, Johannes has gained 10 years of operational planning experience as Director for Supply Chain Planning and Owner of the Executive S&OP Process for the Region EMEA at Fresenius Medical Care.

Johannes holds a Master in International Business Administration from the Northumbria University at Newcastle and started his career at Fresenius Medical Care in 2003 as Junior Controller.

At PMI he is a trainer for the business simulation game “The Fresh Connection”.

Natalie is Senior Logistics Manager for external warehouses and CMOs at Merck in Darmstadt. She has been teaching for PMI since 2016. Natalie has 20+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical sector, successfully facilitating and linking between regional organizations, third party customers and supply chain organizations. She is APICS CPIM certified.

She started her professional career at Merck as Order Manager and area Operations Manager. Being part of the start-up team she implemented processes necessary for the newly established organization for the 3rd party business. As a Supply Chain Business Franchise Leader and later on a Global Product Supply Leader, she gained experience in the classical tasks of Supply Chain Management as well as steering a cross-functional team. As Senior Logistics Manager, Natalie manages interactions with 3PLs, continuously evaluates and implements improvement opportunities into action. She ensures full GDP compliance of logistic processes.

Thomas is an expert in digitalization and data integration in end to end operations applying Industry 4.0 and IIoT practices. Currently Leadership Partner at Gartner and previously Director Digital Transformation at RFS, also Operations Innovation at Nokia. He has led various S&OP activities at Nokia while being an educated BPM Business Architect with many years of transformation experience.

Thomas served on the board of APICS Supply Chain Council and has an engineering degree from the University of Connecticut as well as an executive education from IMD business school in Switzerland.

Ramona is an international project manager for major strategic projects and trainings in Supply Chain Management at Voith Group. Among her successful projects are the development of a global SCM controlling, the optimization of purchasing in China and the introduction of a Sales & Operations Planning process. In 2016, she was honored with the Supply Chain Management Award by LOGISTIK HEUTE and PWC Strategy & for the design of a closed-loop planning process, the sustainable roll-out and the corresponding analytics cockpit. Ramona is APICS CLTD certified.

Ramona began her career in operational responsibility as Global Order Manager for a global formwork and scaffolding manufacturer. In 2011, she moved on to Strategic Planning as Demand and S & OP Planner. She then built up the strategic department  ​​supply chain excellence, which accelerated the organization significantly on the topics of process optimization, standards and visionary thinking.

Stefan is Director of Education and Research at PMI Production Management Institute GmbH, and is responsible for trainer qualification and education program content and didactics. Stefan has more than 14+ years experience in training and education. He holds all supply chain certifications offered by PMI and works as trainer for S&OP and Supply Chain Management. Stefan is an instructor for APICS certifications and the business simulations “The Fresh Connection” and “The Cool Connection”.

In the past, Stefan was Director Education at Inchainge, the company that developed the business simulations “The Fresh Connection” and “The Cool Connection”. He worked as senior lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences for 7+ years. Prior to this he was employed as regional sales and operations planner at Philips Consumer Electronics Headquarters in Amsterdam and as controller purchasing mainstream CE at Philips Consumer Electronics in Eindhoven.

Andreas spent 30+ years in the Chemical Industry and 20+ years in Supply Chain Management. As a plant Supply Chain Manager dealing with hands-on day-to-day management of raw materials and finished product, as Regional Supply Planner and later as Global Supply Chain Manager dealing with finished product supply, demand and inventory on a large scale. He has worked as an internal Supply Chain Consultant for the plastics, paint and food businesses and as a Regional Project Manager in the enterprise he worked for.

Before he joined the Supply Chain world, his responsibilities were in an Operations environment with improvement tasks as a Process and Quality Engineer. Later he changed to managing Manufacturing units in supervisory roles. During a Continuous Improvement assignment he certified as Six-Sigma Black Belt. Andreas is a qualified Chemical Engineer and completed his Master Thesis at Michigan State University in the USA. He is currently self-employed and works as a SC consultant and APICS/ASCM trainer.

Thilo is Global Senior Expert Business Process Optimization at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen. He has been teaching for PMI and also company-internal for many years. Thilo has 16+ years of experience in process and IT-system design, global implementation projects and continuous improvement projects. Thilo is APICS CPIM and CSCP, CDDP and PMP certified and is certified TFC trainer.

He started his professional career at BASF as global Business Expert and Supply Chain Manager for the Performance Pigments Division. He was for many years global process owner and global gatekeeper for Sales and Operations Planning at BASF Group and led global Supply Chain, S&OP, Planning and Inventory Optimization projects.

Bruno is Interim Manager with focus on ensuring re-engineering in two plants to achieve adequate performance and competitiveness as well as their further development.

He has 20+ years of experience in SCM and Operations, has always developed strategies and implemented them in the course of re-engineering and transformation (employees, culture, processes, structures).

Bruno started at Eckrich+Schwarz before transforming the Theo Müller Group into an SCM organization and taking over tactical planning. At the Lapp Group, he was responsible for trimming the 18 production plants for performance and profitability before, among other things, taking over a plant as Operations Manager and winning numerous benchmarks and an international innovation prize. Responsible for logistics in EMEA, he consolidated the footprint at DANAHER and significantly improved performance. After making significant changes in the SCM area at MANN+HUMMEL, he took over the Speyer plant. Today he acts independently as an interim manager.

Thomas is Head of Supply Chain Management at Sievert Baustoffgruppe. He has been teaching for PMI for 4+ years and has various APICS certifications. Thomas has 28+ years of experience in business process design, operations and logistics in different branches of industry, e-commerce and retail. He is APICS CSCP and CLTD certified.

Thomas started his professional career as a Project engineer and Head of Logistics in France and Germany. In 2000, he moved from industrial- into project- and customer service related business and developed modern 3-PL concepts and e-commerce processes. For 10 years, Thomas has been Head of Supply Chain and Logistics at Sonae Arauco Deutschland GmbH and responsible for S&OP implementation and profitability business design.

Daniel is a Supply Chain professional who started his Supply Chain career with the Dallas based Chemical company Celanese Corporation. Within Celanese Daniel held various Supply Chain roles with increasing responsibilities. As a project leader he managed various projects resulting in multimillion savings and process optimizations. Currently Daniel holds the position of Senior Specialist OPEX within Celanese. In this role he is responsible for managing the European logistics operational excellence team as well as managing Global (M&A) projects.

Daniel is APICS CSCP and CLTD certified, and part of the instructor development program at APICS. In 2017 he started teaching CLTD courses in Germany and the Netherlands, and serves as a member of the CSCP certification sub-committee in Chicago.

Ramona is Global Materials Manager at Destaco Europe GmbH (Dover Corporation). She has 8+ years of experience in lean manufacturing, global supply chain and S&OP processes. She is APCIS CPIM and CSCP certified.

Ramona graduated B.Eng. (Industrial Engineering) in Romania and MBA in Frankfurt. She started her professional career in 2011 at Eaton, progressing from an Operational Leadership Program into a Material Specialist position role and afterwards into a Lean Engineer role. She joined Destaco in 2015 as Materials Manager Europe being responsible for improving supply chain with a lean approach; centralizing planning and purchasing in Europe (5 locations). In 2017, she was promoted to Global Materials Manager being responsible for S&OP global process implementation and owner of global inventory strategy and budgeting. She developed a tool to drive healthy inventory by treating High Runners and Low Runners differently.

Patrick is Intercompany Supply Chain Manager at Lindt & Sprüngli International (AG) in Switzerland. He is responsible for the Lindt to Lindt Supply Chain processes with focus on process governance, systems improvement, education and training as well as special projects such as setting up end-to-end supply chains for newly established markets.

Patrick started his career in Operations as Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma Manager and has 8+ years experience in Supply Chain Management. He has worked in different industries such automotive, heavy-machines, chemicals and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG).

Patrick holds a university degree in Mechatronics, is Six Sigma Black and APICS CPIM, CSCP and SCOR-P certified.

Daniel is the COO of purefood GmbH, a social food startup, and heads Supply Chain Management/Operations, operational Finance and IT. He completed an Executive MBA at  Kühne Logistics University. For his thesis, he did research on the value of the European serialization obligation for the improvement of pharmaceutical supply chains. This research topic was derived from several years  experience in the position of plant manager  with G. Pohl-Boskamp.

Beside plant operations Daniel also gained experience as project manager in strategic supply chain management for emerging markets and in technology transfer of productions to CMOs with Merck Serono. He started his career after graduating as a chemical engineer in R&D with B.Braun Melsungen with focus on pharmaceutical process development, packaging integrity and scale-up for commercialization. In short, by these diverse positions he personally embraces value chain thinking from the customer to R&D and vice versa. Daniel is APICS CPIM and CSCP certified.

Andreas  is Supply Chain Manager at Nexans. He has been teaching for PMI and also company internal for many years. Andreas  has around 20 years of experience in Supply Chain, Purchasing, Logistics & Operations Management. He provides leadership, strategy and coaching for Supply Chain Transformation Projects, SIOP Process implementation and continuous development within volatile and uncertain environments. Steadily striving for differentiation through Innovation completes his profile. He is a certified APICS instructor.

He started his professional career at Siemens AG in various Strategic Purchasing and Sourcing functions within the Communication sector. He led and improved the category management for various segments at Nexans Group and Country level Purchasing. As Supply Chain Manager at Nexans he is responsible for leading and developing the global end to end supply chain operations to reach highest level of customer satisfaction.

Christian is Supply Chain Consultant and Continuous Improvement Coach. He has been teaching for PMI and also company internal for many years. Christian has 25+ years of experience in process reengineering, quality and continuous improvement projects. He is APICS and DDI Instructor, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean Practitioner and Lean Coach.

He started his professional career at Inpro as an Project engineer for production technology for Automotive Application Technology. As head of the Lab Application and the Quality Technology Group at Dupont Performance Coatings he introduced Lean Processes and Cross functional Quality assurance processes including Sales, Technology and Supply Chain. As the Senior Supply Chain Consultant at Axalta Coating Systems he was responsible for the development, implementation and improvement of the Axalta Production System for Europe.

Thorsten Zedel is Leading the Supply Chain Organization for D/A/CH at P&G Health Germany and responsible for S&OP, Supply Planning and Customer Service. He has been teaching for PMI and also for the Provadis School of International Management & Technology, as well as the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) for the last five years. Thorsten has more than 18 years of experience in Sales & Operations Planning, Master Planning and Detailed Scheduling and Customer Service. In addition, he is APICS CPIM and CSCP certified.

He started his professional career at Celanese in Customer Service and was leading the demand planning process in his early years. As Supply Chain Planner at Celanese, he became responsible for the managing the regional supply network and inventories in Europe, as well as the S&OP process. In his role as Head of Production Planning at Merck, Thorsten was responsible for the detailed production scheduling and sequencing for complex multi-purpose production units. At Celanese, Thorsten managed a network of 6 production plants across Europe in a complex batch-production environment.

In September 2020, Thorsten has been selected to become a member of the ASCM CPIM Part 2 Exam sub-committee. While serving in the CPIM Part 2 Exam sub-committee, Thorsten is not allowed to teach APICS CPIM Part 2 for three years

Mike is Senior Commodity Buyer at Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE), and is responsible for sourcing strategy and management of steel product suppliers for Europe. He has 35+ years experience in purchasing and logistics. He has been an APICS CSCP instructor for PMI since 2014.

Mike started his supply chain career with the U.S. Air Force as a logistics officer. He then worked in the telecommunications, pharmaceutical and education sectors, before joining VCE in 2007. Since then, Mike has served as strategic buyer, Purchasing Manager, and Logistics manager before taking his current position.