Mourad Tamoud joined Schneider Electric in 1997 as Supply Chain & Logistics Manager. In 2012 he became Senior VP of Global Supply Chain China, a post in which he had oversight of manufacturing and distribution operations for the region, and was responsible for safety, quality, customer satisfaction, procurement, and supply chain.

Mourad was first appointed to the position of Executive Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations for Schneider Electric in June 2016.

As of January 2019, Mourad added Procurement to his responsibilities and served as Chief Supply Chain Officer overseeing the end-to-end supply chain: including Procurement, Industrial Operations, Logistics & Network Design, and Planning, as well as driving the strategic agenda for the entire Supply Chain organization. He is also a member of the Schneider Electric Executive Committee.

In this episode of the Alcott Global Podcast Leaders in Supply Chain podcast, host Radu Palamariu talks to Mourad about the following:

From engineering school to supply chain and logistics
Challenges Schneider Electric faced during the pandemic and how they addressed it
STRIVE and the Zero Carbon Project
Thoughts about artificial intelligence
How to hire right and key advice for the future

For more podcasts in this series, visit the Alcott Global website.

Schneider Electric’s Mourad Tamoud talks STRIVE strategy for SCM Excellence