Karen can help you understand best practice initiatives taking place in the industry and ensure your supply chain is ready for the challenges ahead.

As a senior business analyst in the supply chain team, Karen is responsible for managing ECR UK workgroups on sustainable distribution and on-shelf availability as well as running ECR’s bi-monthly on-shelf availability survey.

Broadening IGD’s knowledge base on sustainable supply chains, Karen authored the Sustainable Distribution report and developed the ECR UK Sustainable Distribution Toolkit, which provides practical guidance on transport collaboration, the use of consolidation, transport technology, improving vehicle utilisation, the use of alternate transport modes and how to capture and record road miles savings.

Karen contributes to training and collaborative based programmes involving participants from across the food industry and is a trainer on IGD’s supply chain workshops and Postgraduate Certificate in Food and Grocery Industry Management.

Karen also manages IGD's annual Supply Chain Summit, bringing representatives from across the supply chain together to share best practice.

Prior to joining IGD, Karen gained 13 years experience in operations, demand planning and supply chain development with RS Components, InBev UK and Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Karen has a BSc (Hons) in Operations Management and a Postgraduate Diploma in Logistics Management

If you would like to know more about how Karen can help your business, please contact us.