Gerry Lenaerts

Dir. Supply Chain

Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

Experienced Member of Board of Directors with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics and supply chain industry. Professional skilled in Strategic Sourcing, Negotiation, Project Management, Business Process Innovation and Business Development.

Experience

  • Dir. Supply Chain at Profel
    Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

    Mission: optimizing the Supply Chain organisation, with a focuss on Sourcing & Purchasing and on Automation & integration of logistic flows throughout the whole value chain of the Enterprise.

  • Chief Innovation Officer at GIS International
    Apr 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Mission: transformation of GIS towards innovation and quality minded organization, adopting new disruptive technologies and automation in standard processes allowing to focus on Strategic Sourcing. During the initial period we gathered 32 innovative ideas, of which we have transformed into 7 projects. for one of them we received subvention from Vlaio

  • GIS Europe ()
    • Business Architect Director (ICT)
      Apr 2010 - Mar 2015 · 5 yrs

      Mission: transformation of GIS towards a push system for transaction (instead of pulling by users) and increase level of automation across all facets of the organization, developing new solutions for customers and implementing a Balanced Scorecard.

    • European Business Development Director
      Sep 2006 - Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Mission: transformation of GIS from transactional model towards Customer Centric organization. Contracting new deals (+145 million euro), increase European sales pipe and categorize existing customers and define per category the sales approach.

    • Supply Chain Director South Europe
      Apr 2003 - Aug 2006 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Mission: transform the GIS organization towards operational excellence, including ISO certification and standardising the core processes.

  • Corporate Purchasing at Alcatel-Lucent
    Feb 2000 - Mar 2003 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Working Group Leader (WGL) • European WGL custom-made chips (ASICS) • Member steering committee Alcatel-ST • Commodity Sourcing Manager (Belgium) • Spend analysis, contract management, VMI • Implementation and optimization of new tools: o QEACS: contract management tool o SAP: ERP system o ACE: web platform to exchange overstock between plants o CRDB: technical item master database Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia) is the trusted transformation partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries such as defense, energy, healthcare, transportation, and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP and optics technologies, applications and services.