CHRIS VAN VELUWEN
CHRIS VAN VELUWEN
TITLE: SENIOR MANAGER PROCESS GOVERNANCE & ANALYTICS
COMPANY: HENKEL ADHESIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Chris VanVeluwen is a Senior Manager for Process Governance & Analytics, leading global BI and analytics initiatives. He focuses on scalable performance frameworks, KPI governance and the transformation toward integrated decision intelligence. With strong expertise in supply chain analytics, AI enablement and crossfunctional alignment, Chris drives standardisation and measurable business impact across regions. He works closely with business and IT teams to translate data into actionable insights and continuous performance improvement.
Chris van Veluwen, Senior Manager Process, Governance & Analytics for Henkel Adhesive Technologies, has been building the technical infrastructure to make this shift towards data-led integration possible. His team’ s end-toend BI system gives functions visibility across the whole supply chain, replacing isolated performance views with a shared picture of how things are actually going.
“ It all starts with data sharing,” he says.“ Henkel [ Adhesive Technologies ] has made a lot of investment in a BI environment where we can easily share information across the whole enterprise. The idea is that functions really collaborate end to end, not trying to improve their individual aspects in isolation, but collaboratively looking at the entire process and finding opportunities for improvement together as one team. That’ s the true spirit of integration.”
Leanne Chen, Vice President of Supply Chain North America and Mexico for Henkel Adhesive Technologies, draws the picture in terms her teams understand immediately. In a world of growing complexity, she argues, silo-based decision-making is no longer adequate for business success.
“ We should stop hoping we’ re going to go back to the pre-COVID situation,” she says.“ The world is getting much more dynamic and complicated. While we’ re making decisions, we cannot just make a silo decision anymore, all the pieces are changing every day. You have to look at it as a whole because, if you can’ t even see clearly, you can’ t make a decision.
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