Stephen
Rinsler FCILT FRSA MCIPS MInstRE
Stephen has
extensive experience in the manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing
sectors, covering the entire supply chain from procurement, forecasting,
inventory management to warehousing and distribution operations.
His senior management
experience includes positions in Unilever (UK and European procurement
and supply chains). He was Services Director for Exel Europe, with
a brief that included procurement, risk, health and safety and legal.
He was SVP Operations at Volt Europe, where he introduced web-based
processes to provide an innovative outsourcing service for temporary
recruitment. He has acted as a procurement and supply chain consultant
for a High Street retail group.
He has designed,
developed, negotiated and implemented large scale purchasing and
outsourcing contracts in several industry sectors in the UK and
across Europe, and has driven large scale procurement and supply
chain audits that have generated substantial savings. He has built
inventory forecasting models for clients, and full discounted cash
flow models for warehousing and distribution operations in the manufacturing
and retail sectors; he has completed a materials management IT systems
specification for a Middle East Utility.
Stephen is the immediate past Chairman of the Chartered Institute
of Logistics and Transport (UK), a VP of CILT, a past chair of the
CILT Supply Chain Faculty and a visiting Fellow of the Royal Military
College of Science. He is a Lt Col in the Engineer and Logistics Staff
Corps RE(V), a Senior Advisor to the Joint Supply Chain Management
Board and an honorary Professor of Logistics and Engineering at the
University of Nanjing, PR China .
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