Speaker: Markus Mehrtens

Markus Mehrtens has early focused on logistics. He graduated his retail distribution and logistics business studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia and University of Leipzig. After professional stations in Australian logistics, he has accomplished logistics projects across Europe. In various logistics consultancy and logistics project management roles for Metro AG, e.g in Valencia, Zagreb and Kiev, he has worked in warehousing and transportation considering all temperature regimes and flow types. Thereby he specialized in the entire lifecycle of contract logistics. After then being responsible for the international procurement of contract logistics at the DIY retail market leader in central and Eastern Europe he joined the MediaMarktSaturn RetailGroup. There he oversees group-wide the partnering life cycle with logistics service providers. In the corona crisis he navigated MediaMarktSaturn RetailGroup’s logistics response. Within the groups’ Supply Chain Management leadership team he is responsible for Logistics Sourcing, Logistics Partnerships and Supply Chain Analytics.