Wolfgang Partsch (born August 29, 1945) is an Austrian academic and business leader that is a pioneer in the domain of

supply chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels, through which raw materials can be developed into finished produc ...

(SCM). As an author of various standard works he gained wide international recognition.

Education

Wolfgang Partsch was awarded PhD in physics in 1970 by the

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with a thesis on the exploration of natural resources.

Career

In 1979, the German monthly business magazine “

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” published an article where Partsch described a supply chain concept explaining that efficiency could be achieved considering the interdependency among all areas of a company. Subsequently, he joined Booz Allen & Hamilton and was part of the team that, led by Keith Oliver, developed the first official

Supply Chain A supply chain is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them to end consumers or end customers, while supply chain management deals with the flow of goods in distri ...

concept and coined the term. By that time, Partsch was the leading manager in a Supply Chain implementation project for Landis+Gyr in Switzerland. The results of this project were published in Germany's leading economic magazine “ WirtschaftsWoche", being the first time that an implemented project case under the term “Supply Chain Management” appeared in print in a newspaper as has been recognized by the CSCMP. In 1983 he founded the first company worldwide specialized in SCM. In the following years he has held various consulting roles for international companies like

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, Aventis, Nestle and

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. During the 80s and 90s he became a person of reference in the Supply Chain Management arena mainly in German speaking countries.Den Brexit-Sturm überstehen, Handels Journal, January 2020, https://www.handelsjournal.de/unternehmen/logistik/artikel-2020/den-brexit-sturm-ueberstehen.html From 1995 to 1999 he led the Supply Chain Consulting practice of

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as Chairman of the Global Supply Chain Network. Since 2000 he has been active as a senior executive and trusted advisor for the boards of global industrial and trading companies. His experience is also used by some Supply Chain Consulting firms including mSE Solutions.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Partsch, Wolfgang 1945 births Living people Supply chain management University of Vienna alumni