Folkert Bloembergen is a seasoned chemical engineer with over 30 years of international experience in various Supply Chain and Commercial management roles across Poland, the Czech Republic, the USA, Germany, and the Netherlands predominantly in the Chemical Industry. Currently, he serves in as the Global Director of Business Processes, Trade Compliance and Master Data in the Supply Chain at LYB, where he leads teams across the world in shaping the organization to support new company strategies.
On top of his TU Delft Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Folkert holds an MBA from Erasmus, Rotterdam School of Management,

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In the continuous and changing environment the Supply Chain has the very interesting challenge to deal with all those changes whether it is driven by company and business strategies or enforced by external factors such as regulations. How to be agile but still embed new routines in well-established and standardized departments?

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