Bart Meers
Global Executive Head of Logistics, Warehousing BSH Home Appliances Group | BSH Home Appliances Group
Bart, a graduated Master in Business Economics from Belgium and UK universities, has 28+ years’ experience as a strategic logistics and supply chain management executive. Across the US and Europe, Bart has been stationed in multiple countries during his career at Caterpillar and Robert Bosch. He has engaged in diverse industrial and automotive supply chains at Caterpillar and its contract logistics customers for 20+ years. There-after, he has been based out of the Robert Bosch Corporate Supply Chain HQ in Stuttgart for 4 years in various strategic roles. Since July 2022, Bart has joined the Robert Bosch Consumer Goods business unit B/S/H/, headquartered in Munich, as Global Executive Head of Logistics, Warehousing with responsibility for Supply Chain Network Design, SAP EWM deployment, Purchasing of Warehouse contract logistics and global Warehouse process governance across 180+ worldwide warehouses.
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Automation Requires the Perfect Orchestration Between Hardware, Software, AND People: Why We Need to Invest in Our People to Make Automation Happen!
Investment in automation often concentrates on hardware and software spend. We invest time and energy in perfect testing and project execution. Yet we need the people on the shopfloor to eventually make it happen. So how do we extend our focus to integrating our people into making a change and creating the impact we foresee through automation?