Tim Hotze leads Operations Planning at Target Corporation, overseeing S&OE, S&OP, IBP, long-term strategy, and end-to-end network planning. He manages the Supply Chain Execution Control Center and Network Optimization, driving cost-service improvements and capacity investments. In 2022, he assumed leadership of Enterprise Capacity Planning, designing flexible, multi-echelon network strategies. Previously, Tim was SVP of Network Planning, Global Intelligence, and Last Mile, including fulfillment and sortation center operations. Prior to this, he held senior roles at Amazon and was Global Head of Supply Chain Solutions at Panalpina. Tim serves on the IBF Advisory Board and holds a joint Master’s in Engineering and Supply Chain from TU Darmstadt.
You will learn:
- How are the demand planning and process execution dimensions interconnected
- Why do you need to think about both, planning and execution to create business outcomes
- What is a realistic plan and not a forecast
- What is an operating concept and how does this tie back to your planning engine
- What is a feedback loop and how to you need to create an iterative approach for your problem solving
- Creating the connective tissue – why it is so important to think about these topics holistically