Rob van Stratum MSc, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, CLTD, CPF

Rob is Master Instructor CPIM and CSCP at APICS and Instructor forecasting at www.ibf.org

Until 2019 Rob has been teaching at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven, SCM and Change Management in BSc and MSc courses. He is a senior lecturer and also guest teacher at, University of Plymouth and the Dutch Open University. He is co author of 4 textbooks on BPM and Change Management.

At APICS Rob acts as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) in CPIM and CSCP. In the IDP (Instructor Development Program) he is Master Instructor in CPIM and CSCP and Lead Instructor in TTT/LDI. Rob has trained many APICS in-company Classes e.g. Akzo Nobel (Holland), Panalpina, IBM, Novartis, and Samsung. Rob is partner in Supply Chain Education s.r.o. in Praha, Czechia, the Czech APICS Channel Partner.

Before his academic career Rob has worked as a consultant in SCM and has specialized on forecasting. He has implemented ForecastPro in many companies throughout Europe. He started his career as an IT Project Manager and has worked on many MRP implementations. You can see his profile on LinkedIn http://nl.linkedin.com/in/robvanstratum . Rob was born in 1952 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, studied Engineering at TU/e (Eindhoven  University of Technology) and still lives near Eindhoven with his wife and three sons.