Your IT and Supply Chain projects

                IT projects
                in supply chain
              

I offer you 3 types of missions:

                  Architecture
                  Framing a project
                

What is architecture?

At the start of a project—and throughout its execution—architecture helps clarify the stakeholders’ objectives, formalize them, and ensure that the project’s development stays aligned with those goals.

I can frame large-scale programs or portfolios of 200+ applications, especially within industrial environments.

Enterprise Architect
Framing a program: Defining the scope, objectives, constraints, and delivery approach of a multi-year set of projects before they move into execution. In other words, setting the foundations: what to build, why, with whom, how, and under what conditions.
Application portfolio management: Steering, rationalizing, and evolving the full set of applications within a domain or organization to ensure consistency, performance, compliance, and alignment with business strategy.
Solution Architect
Framing a project: Defining the scope, objectives, constraints, and delivery methods of a project before launch — setting the foundations for a clear and achievable implementation.
Selecting a market software (WMS, TMS, ERP, etc.): Defining selection criteria, identifying potential vendors, and conducting evaluations.

Project highlights:

Framing an artificial intelligence platform for football clubs — aligning business objectives with AI capabilities, defining roadmap and cost, structuring project phases, and assembling the delivery team.
Shaping the vision for a PLM system across the Michelin group, covering production, quality, finance, and supply chain — spanning 120 factories and 6 product lines.
Leading the selection of an ERP system for one-third of Michelin Europe’s sales operations, supporting automotive manufacturers.
Procurement of a planning tool for Michelin service offerings.
Redesigning the order orchestration architecture (Oracle DOO) at Michelin — assessing limitations in existing systems and proposing a new approach.
Selecting and deploying an S&OP platform for the Michelin group.

                Designing your solution
                Advanced development
              

For highly complex or innovative challenges, where off-the-shelf tools fall short of your expectations, I design and build sophisticated, tailor-made applications:

Selecting advanced algorithms and defining requirements: Designing the technical approach and writing the algorithms that bring the solution to life.
Development and coding: Writing robust, production-grade code and fine-tuning it to your specific context.

Project highlights:

Developed an online jewelry e-commerce platform in 2004 — at a time when everything had to be built from the ground up.
Built a SaaS platform at Storrito — an online tool for scheduling Instagram Reels, featuring on-the-fly video generation, scheduled publishing, and a built-in video editor.
Developed tooling for a digital twin project (ongoing).
Designed an innovative and lightweight solution for precise inventory tracking (Kafka-based stock booster).
Served as process leader for production planning and its implementation in OM Partners systems.

                Optimization and Simulation
                Analytical AI
              

Analytical AI is a branch of artificial intelligence (see Eurodecision), featuring methods particularly well suited for industry and supply chain challenges:

Simulation: Measuring system performance to analyze different scenarios.

Optimization: Exploring possible solutions to identify the one that best fits your objectives.

Graph algorithms: Finding the shortest path, the maximum flow, and other combinatorial solutions.

Decision support: Techniques and methods for identifying the best trade-offs — especially when multiple or fuzzy objectives are involved.

Modeling uncertainty: Representing and exploring the unknown through probabilistic modeling.

Project highlights:

Simulation of a flexible workshop — academic research. Modeling and simulating a flexible transport system within a flexible manufacturing environment.
Scheduling for a hot-forging workshop — Aubert & Duval. Short-term scheduling of forging operations to maximize press utilization, while respecting reheating constraints (minimum and maximum times between operations).
Make-or-buy analysis for textile fibers — Michelin. Using procurement contracts while respecting minimum and maximum purchase thresholds, to maximize profit while meeting demand.
Optimization of the distribution network — Michelin. Design and deployment of logistics distribution networks. Developed in SQL, and running in production at Michelin for over 15 years.
Simulation of a tire factory — Michelin. Development and deployment of a tool for automatically generating realistic mid-term production schedules.

                General skills
              

To successfully deliver all these projects, I have developed and refined a broad set of skills: project management (both Agile and Waterfall), team leadership, building and validating projects with executives, writing specifications, and performing testing.