3rd Edition of European Supply Chain Leaders Ranking

Top 28 Supply Chain Executives in Europe 2017
Supply chain management is a people’s business. Like chess, it requires strategy, resources and most importantly, competent and visionary leaders behind the board making the right decisions. For the 3rd consecutive year Supply Chain Media in collaboration with Inspired-Search evaluated and created a ranking of the Top 28 Supply Chain Executives in Europe.
By Martijn Lofvers, Marieke Lenstra and Christian Plesca
Unilever’s Marc Engels was named as Europe’s top Supply Chain Executive. Marc Engel has been Chief Supply Chain Officer at Unilever since February 2016. He started working for Unilever in 1990 as an Operations Manager. He stayed for three years, worked for Shell for two years and then returned to Unilever where he has worked in various roles ever since. He is the #1 SCM Executive based on company performance, with an EBIT growth of 3.45% in 2016, and a very active presence, both online with press releases and offline through interviews and attending conferences. Additionally, he is a Board Member of Unilever. Headhunters and professional peers in the SCM industry also voted him number 1.
Read the full article with explanation of the methodology and biographies of the top 10 in Supply Chain Movement 27.
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Complete list of Europe’s top supply chain executives
No | Name | Job title | Company |
1 | Marc Engel | Chief Supply Chain Officer | Unilever |
2 | Chris Tyas | Senior Vice President Supply Chain | Nestlé |
3 | Dirk Holbach | Corporate SVP, CSCO | Henkel |
4 | Johannes Giloth | Chief Procurement and SC Officer | Nokia |
5 | Susanne Hundsbæk-Pedersen | SVP Devices and SCM | Novo Nordisk |
6 | Paul Keel | SVP Supply Chain | 3M |
7 | Sikko Zoer | VP Customer Care & SC EMEA | Medtronic |
8 | Ivanka Janssen | VP Supply Chain Drinks Europe | PepsiCo |
9 | Sami Naffakh | SVP Supply Chain EMEA | Estee Lauder Companies Europe |
10 | Marc Joseph Gross | CSCO | Heineken |
11 | Roberto Canevari | CSCO | Burberry |
12 | Fares Sayegh | VP Supply Chain Europe | P&G |
13 | Jan Roodenburg | VP Enterprise Group – EMEA SC & Operations | HP |
14 | Ingrid Ebner | Director EU Supply Chain | Amazon EU Sarl |
15 | Ralf Bussche | CSCO | BASF |
16 | Patrick Dittli | Global Director Supply Chain Management | Metro |
17 | Thomas Schachner | SVP Global Supply Chain | Grohe |
18 | Mourad Tamoud | EVP Global Supply Chain Operations | Schneider Electric |
19 | Bernard Amoury | VP WW Supply Chain | Sanofi-Aventis |
20 | Stephan Gotthardt | SVP Supply Chain Europe | Teva |
21 | Daniel Helmig | Head of Supply Chain Management/CPO | ABB |
22 | Edwin van der Meerendonk | VP European Operations | Walt Disney |
23 | Philip Hodges | EVP Group Supply Chain | Carlsberg |
24 | Henri-Xavier Benoist | VP Logistics and Supply Chain Europe | Bridgestone |
25 | Alexander Bähr | Director SC Information and Integration | McDonald’s |
26 | Philippe François | VP Global Supply Chain | Novartis |
27 | Wim van Aalst | CSCO | Waitrose |
28 | Christrian Patras | SVP Supply Chain/Operations | PepsiCo |