Volker Rügheimer is a highly experienced supply chain executive with more than ten years' experience in the automotive after sales supply chain. He has a proven track record of developing solutions delivering substantial and sustainable impact on business performance and results. Rügheimer started his professional career in one of the top 10 auditing firms in Germany in advising companies on IPOs. Later, as managing partner of a consulting firm, his focus for many years was on the financial restructuring and strategic realignment of primarily manufacturing industrial companies. Rügheimer joined the Volkswagen Group in 2011 and took on various management tasks in the supply chain for the Group After Sales in Germany and abroad. In Russia, Rügheimer was responsible for the market's supply chain for several years in an economically volatile and uncertain environment. In his current position at the Group After Sales Headquarters, Germany, Rügheimer's focus is on the development of global end-to-end supply chain strategies and digitization initiatives for the volume brands of Volkswagen Group After Sales, which not only ensure the safeguarding of customer supply and the profitability of the business model, but also meet the requirements of resilience and sustainability. Rügheimer graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt with a diploma in business informatics.
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