Dirco De Corso

Partner & Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator

** Development of project plan, rollout approach & project tools. ** Overall project management for SAP Transport Management rollout for all organizations in Asia-Pacific. ** Leading local country project managers & external SAP Consultants.

** Business support for all sales operations in Asia-Pacific including training of staff as well as local skills development. ** Coordination of international cross-border projects & support of global key-account business. ** Development of marketing strategy & business development instru-ments for local & regional markets. ** (Change to Panalpina due to department move to Germany)

** Member of the Asian Management Team. ** Responsible for strategic & operational supply chain projects. ** Business support for logistics operations in Asia-Pacific as well as training of staff for supply-chain-related processes. ** Supervision of regional logistics costs & supply chain performance. ** Business support for logistics operations in Asia-Pacific as well as training of staff for supply-chain-related processes. ** Supervision of regional logistics costs & supply chain performance.

** Review of the existing logistics setup in ASEAN. ** Responsible for the feasibility study of a regional distribution centre. ** Conceptualisation of the setup & overall project management. ** In charge of the regional tender for the outsourcing of warehousing with a third-party provider. ** In charge of the global outsourcing tender for transportation.

** Assisting the Head of Logistics in operational & strategic projects. ** Responsible for the introduction of a warehouse management sys-tem in the central distribution centre in Switzerland. ** Planning, supervising & supporting the Warehouse-management-system- & SAP-interface for distribution centres in Spain & Italy. ** Conceptualisation & planning of the extension of the central distribu-tion centre in Switzerland.

** On-site project coordination with local staff as well as internal SAP consultants & SAP-Key-users. ** Supervision of overall implementation progress incl. testing, cus-tomizing to local requirements & training for staff. ** Go-live & after-go-live support for all streams.

** Assisting the Chief Operating Officer in ad-hoc operational projects. ** Member of a business-re-engineering project, resposible for in-depth operational anaylsis as well as point of contact for internal & exter-nal consultants. ** Responsible for the review of the operation & IT-system of the Cus-tomer Service Center.

** Conducting academic research in print- & online-media. ** Responsible for the preparation of client presentations.

Copy-editing & proofreading of press-releases & publications in German, English & French

Kaizen training with on-site practise at Hitachi & experience exchange with Kaizen-leaders at Takoman, Yazaki, Toyota & GE Healthcare.

Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator.

** Japanese Law & Business, Chinese Law & Business, IT & Energy Law, Competition Law, M&A, Finance, International Taxation, Procedure ** Master-Thesis: “Impact of recent global anti-bribery and anti-corruption developments on compliance programs of international logistics service providers”

Business forecasting, innovation management, entrepreneurship.

** Logistics & distribution, marketing, communication, services, entrepreneurship. ** Master-Thesis: “Expansion of European companies in Southeast Asia – Focus on Market-Entry & Distribution” ** Bachelor-Thesis: “Positioning of Logistic-Service-Providers in networks of Auto-motive Industry”