About

Harun Güvendi is an experienced Production Planning & Logistics Manager at Mondelēz International with a career spanning nearly two decades. He has previously worked at Diageo and Diageo Brands BV, where he held positions of Sales Planning Assistant Manager and Supply Chain Project Manager, respectively. At Diageo, Harun was responsible for supervising the Demand Planning and S&OP process as Sales Planning Assistant Manager. He led the annual sales business plan in collaboration with the director of sales, marketing team, and financial leadership. He managed 300 active SKUs by monitoring daily sell-out trends and setting monthly sell-in and sell-out objectives for 13 different sales regions. Harun also drafted new launch proposals and established a customer inventory management plan process. He developed a statistical simulation model to figure out the effects of different parameters on sales. At Diageo Brands BV, Harun was assigned to the Global Route to Consumer team as a Supply Chain Project Manager. He led the "Cost to Serve Automation" project, which aimed to implement a BI-driven automated Cost to Serve system depending 99% on SAP data. He collected market data and tested the built model for different business units, planned long-term roll-out of Cost to Serve model to all 21 markets in Diageo. He also led the Supply Chain piece of Spain and GTME for Project Icecap that targeted to develop a business case to synchronize the end-to-end supply chain and create a smooth sell-in pattern, reducing costs, increasing effective trade spend driving growth in sell-out. Harun holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) degree in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University. He has 18.78 years of relevant experience in the field. Harun is a skilled professional with expertise in production planning, logistics management, demand planning, and supply chain management. He is an excellent team player, a problem solver, and a strategic thinker.