Christiane Schmidt

Global Demand Planning Manager
​Colgate-Palmolive Company, Global Supply Chain

In my role as Global Demand Planning Manager I am part of Colgate’s Center of Expertise for Planning. I lead the development and implementation of global strategies for Demand Planning and effectively coordinate best practices across Divisions.
In my role I am building strong networks of global Supply Chain individuals while developing collaborative and strategic partnerships with Demand Planning colleagues across internally as well as externally. My responsibility contains to continuously seek opportunities to improve planning results through redesigning collaboration processes and enhancing planning tools.
Working very closely with the Global Customer Planning Team I developed, launched and redesigned the monthly planning process (S&OP) resulting in a better, simplified and more efficient collaboration discipline which shall lead us to stronger and aligned planning supporting Colgate’s growth.