Dr. Holger Schober is an international expert in procurement, logistics, and supply chain management with experience designing and setting up procurement academies for major companies. He has taught thousands of managers on five continents. Currently he is the Executive Director of PSM Academy and has academic positions at European Business School and CEIBS. Some of his achievements include successfully designing an Executive MBA program, Europe's first logistics academy, one of China's largest corporate learning centers, and India's first procurement academy in manufacturing.
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Dr. Holger Schober
Current position: Executive Director, PSM Academy (www.psm-academy.com)
Short profile International expert in Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management as well as in Learning and
Development (Corporate Learning Centers, HR, MD) with industry, consulting and academic background
Has designed and set up almost 50 so-called procurement / SCM academies for leading companies such as
BASF, DHL, Dell, Volkswagen, Henkel etc.
He trained and taught thousands of mangers on all five continents (areas: management, procurement, SCM)
Native German, since 2007 based in China with a strong Indian footprint (lived for one year in India)
Academic
positions and
network
European Business School (Germany): Program Director Executive MBA, Director Executive Education
CEIBS (China): Visiting faculty ExEd / Program co-director “Procurement enrollment programs”
Global network to leading universities in Singapore (NUS), USA (Rutgers Business School),
Switzerland (HSG), Germany (University of Nuremberg), Belgium (Louvain University) etc.
Selected
achievements
Successful design, development, market introduction and accreditation of an Executive MBA program
Design and setup of Europe’s first logistics academy for automotive distribution (ECG Academy)
Setup of one of the largest corporate learning centers in China’s elevator industry (TKE SEED
Campus China)
Setup of India’s first procurement academy in the manufacturing industry (Reliance Procurement
Academy)
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Dr. Holger Schober
Selected impressions