{"id":17216,"date":"2021-08-27T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/27\/dhl-supply-chain-makes-strategic-leadership-appointments-in-asia\/"},"modified":"2021-08-27T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T02:00:00","slug":"dhl-supply-chain-makes-strategic-leadership-appointments-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/27\/dhl-supply-chain-makes-strategic-leadership-appointments-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"DHL Supply Chain makes strategic leadership appointments in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Noel Singgih and Michael Lai are appointed&#13;<br \/>\nas Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer respectively <\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Strategic moves come at an opportune time&#13;<br \/>\nwhen the division is ramping up its digitalization agenda, to drive long-term&#13;<br \/>\nvalue for customers <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a027 August 2021 &#8211;\u00a0DHL Supply&#13;<br \/>\nChain, the world&#8217;s leading contract logistics provider and a business division&#13;<br \/>\nunder Deutsche Post DHL Group, has appointed Noel Singgih as its Chief Information&#13;<br \/>\nOfficer (CIO) and Michael Lai as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Asia Pacific.&#13;<br \/>\nBoth Singgih and Lai are industry veterans who have proven track records in&#13;<br \/>\ntheir respective areas of expertise and were instrumental in the success of many&#13;<br \/>\nkey initiatives implemented in the organization. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/172265\/Noel-Singgih.jpg#image-172265\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Noel Singgih, Chief Information Officer, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/172258\/Michael-Lai.jpg#image-172258\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Michael Lai, Chief Operating Officer, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>They take over from Steve Walker, who has recently been appointed Chief&#13;<br \/>\nExecutive Officer for the division&#8217;s regional cluster which includes Thailand,&#13;<br \/>\nVietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. Walker, Singgih and Lai are part of the regional&#13;<br \/>\nmanagement board.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DHL Supply Chain has a strong pool of talent in Asia that makes it easy&#13;<br \/>\nto identify from within the right fits for these roles. Noel has been with us&#13;<br \/>\nfor more than ten years now and his capabilities are evident from the digital&#13;<br \/>\nprojects that he has helped to spearhead in the region, commented Ryan. &#8220;I&#8217;m equally&#13;<br \/>\nconvinced that Michael&#8217;s experience in optimizing operations in different&#13;<br \/>\ninternational markets, including Greater China, makes him the perfect choice to&#13;<br \/>\nfurther enhance our standardization processes, and to derive and drive best&#13;<br \/>\npractices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Driving the accelerated digitalization agenda to&#13;<br \/>\nfuture-proof our customers&#8217; supply chains<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Prior to this&#13;<br \/>\nappointment, Noel Singgih was most recently CIO for Global Service Logistics, E-commerce&#13;<br \/>\nand Warehousing in DHL Supply Chain. During his tenure, he contributed&#13;<br \/>\ndecisively to the global IT strategy for e-commerce and spearheaded several digital&#13;<br \/>\nwarehouse IT solutions for key customers in the region. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Singgih joined&#13;<br \/>\nDeutsche Post DHL Group a decade ago as Senior Director for Infrastructure and&#13;<br \/>\nService Management. He has held several management positions including CIO for&#13;<br \/>\nthe division&#8217;s Greater China team from 2016 before taking on the additional&#13;<br \/>\nrole of COO in 2017 to 2019. In this new role, Singgih will continue to report&#13;<br \/>\nto Markus Voss, CIO &amp; COO DHL Supply Chain and be based out of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pandemic has&#13;<br \/>\ndemonstrated that it&#8217;s critical to keep a keen eye on the horizon ahead, and&#13;<br \/>\naccelerate digital transformation to future-proof our customers&#8217; supply chains.&#13;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m honored to be given this opportunity to bring direct impact and influence on&#13;<br \/>\ndeploying the very best digital solutions and innovations for our customers,&#8221; added&#13;<br \/>\nSinggih. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Operational excellence is key to customer&#13;<br \/>\nsatisfaction <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Michael Lai was most recently the COO and Head of Solutions and&#13;<br \/>\nInnovation at SF DHL Supply Chain in China, a role he assumed in 2019 after&#13;<br \/>\nspearheading the strategic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhl.com\/global-en\/home\/press\/press-archive\/2019\/dpdhl-group-and-sf-holding-conclude-landmark-supply-chain-deal.html\">partnership<\/a> between&#13;<br \/>\nDHL Supply Chain and SF Holding in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. He was responsible&#13;<br \/>\nfor shaping the operations culture by combining best&#13;<br \/>\npractices and governance from DHL with local practices. He also actively&#13;<br \/>\npursued innovative and digital technologies, implementing various&#13;<br \/>\ndigitalization and data analytics topics to drive operations excellence.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Lai has spent 18 years with DHL where he held senior management roles&#13;<br \/>\nbased out of Taiwan, South China, Macau, Hong Kong and Germany. In 2011, he relocated&#13;<br \/>\nto Bonn, Germany to work on developing the Deutsche Post DHL Group&#8217;s global&#13;<br \/>\nstrategy where he earned his chops in managing merger and acquisition projects&#13;<br \/>\nfor the supply chain division. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Lai said, &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly honored and excited about this regional role&#13;<br \/>\nand look forward to meet with our teams to better understand our operations across&#13;<br \/>\nthe multi-cultural cities in Asia to see where I can add value to existing&#13;<br \/>\nprocesses and best practices. When it comes to the pursuit of operational&#13;<br \/>\nexcellence, I&#8217;m convinced that our laser focus on delivering customer&#13;<br \/>\nsatisfaction will help lead the way in continuous improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-27\/91849\/dhl-supply-chain-makes-strategic-leadership-appointments-in-asia\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Singgih and Michael Lai are appointed&#13; as Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer respectively Strategic moves come at an opportune time&#13; when the division is ramping up its digitalization agenda, to drive long-term&#13; value for customers &#13; &#13; SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211;\u00a027 August 2021 &#8211;\u00a0DHL Supply&#13; Chain, the world&#8217;s leading contract logistics provider and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}