Hugh Williams

Hugh Williams

Hugh has been consulting in the Supply Chain sector for more than 25 years and delivered millions of pounds of business improvement to clients all over the world. Hugh's consultancy career began in 1983 when he joined Creative Output to work alongside Dr Eli Goldratt, manufacturing guru who wrote "The Goal," and conceived the Theory of Constraints" (TOC), both of which the supply chain planning community have embraced as seminal bodies of work. This experience inspired and shaped Hugh's successful consulting career and his business venture, Hughenden Consulting, which he launched in 2001. In addition to directing and managing Hughenden Consulting, Hugh lends his considerable consulting expertise to a range of services including creating dialogue, understanding and buy-in between project sponsors and senior management colleagues. Hugh also mentors executives on how their companies can manage and even profit from organisational complexity through best practices in supply chain planning. Hugh has earned a reputation as a lively keynote speaker and has appeared on many platforms for professional and commercial software organizations across UK, France, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Hugh is a regular columnist for in Supply Chain Movement magazine and contributes frequently to various industry journals. "Setting up Hughenden allows me to focus on the most challenging aspects of change; the people and processes in Supply Chain Planning, where the real benefits lie. It is something of a return for me to the early days with Eli of persuading people why and how to change for greater effectiveness. You can buy all the technology in the world and you can design really effective processes all you like, but you will always fall short of the mark if you don't have the buy-in and acceptance of those people who need to learn how to work in a different way: that's where Hughenden Consulting really excels." Click here to view Hugh's public LinkedIn profile

Rising to the challenges of the demand-driven economy

Dec 19, 2013
This autumn conference season I had the pleasure of chairing two supply chain conferences for eyefortransport: the 4th Annual Life Sciences Supply Chain Summit EU and the European Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum.

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