Chris Poole

Research Managing Vice President
Gartner

Supply Chain and Sales experience across Manufacturing (Diageo, Procter and Gamble) and Retailing, (Musgrave Retail Partners,Kingfisher, B&Q) and Consulting, (PA Consulting)

Expertise in creating and operating Consumer Driven Supply Chains which deliver value by balancing service offering with cost effectiveness

Specialties: Leading large scale Physical Distribution Operations, Supply Chain Collaboration, Customer Service, Demand and Supply Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Order to Cash, Logistics, Network Design and Project Management

Co-chair of the UK grocery industry group Efficient Consumer Response (twice) and was a Non Executive Director of the industry standards organisation GS1