Mihaela Rusen

Most planning transformations fail. I'm here to make yours the exception.

Senior supply chain planning expertise — OMP implementation, capability building and interim leadership - for manufacturing organizations.

🟣 I help manufacturing leaders close the gap between planning ambition and operational reality — across process design, digital transformation and capability building.

Decades of hands-on experience across chemicals, pharma and consumer goods. No generalist frameworks. Just senior expertise, delivered where it matters.

🧩 What I do:

🟣 OMP FCST and OPR Implementation

🟣 Demand Planning and Master Production Planning Process Design

🟣 Master Data Management

🟣 Planning Training & Capability Building

🟣 Change Management

🟣 Senior Fractional & Interim Planning Lead

🟣 Subject Matter Expertise Workshops in Demand and Production Planning

🟣 Reach out at and let's have an honest conversation about where you are and how I can help.

Key Project: OMP End-to-End Implementation | €7B Global Food & Beverage Manufacturing Organization

🟣 Leading the deployment team for a full OMP E2E rollout (Demand Planning, MPS, DPS) operating across multiple production sites and markets globally.

🧩 Supply Planning (OMP OPR — MPS & DPS) 20 planners · 3 factories

Hands-on team lead and senior functional consultant across the full supply planning scope: business requirements mapping, SAP-to-OMP data migration, multi-sourcing scenarios, shared production and co-manufacturing complexity, solver model design for MPS and DPS, HALB and FERT solver scenarios, capacity planning, multi-user setup, and changeover matrices.

🧩 Demand Planning (OMP FCST) 20 planners · Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand

Hands-on team lead across the full demand planning scope: demand planning logic, statistical forecasting engine, product lifecycle management, multi-user configuration, KPI framework, breakdown rules, segmentation, line schemes, scenario management, valorization, and conflict resolution.

🟣 Roles carried simultaneously: deployment team lead & coach · training lead · senior functional consultant

• o Coordinating a new demand planning process across regions as part of Oliver Wight IBP implementation: process design, trainings, KPI review

• o Training and coaching a brand new team into their global roles within 3 months; fostering a team mindset and process improvement focus;

• o Sharper planning due to stronger collaboration between global and regional teams by delivering training session on the use of statistical forecast, timeline reviews, streamlining input and output (focusing on the links with the marketing and supply review process)