Yasser Alkazzaz is Global Practice Director, Manufacturing Planning & Scheduling for Infosys. He has 34 years of experience optimizing supply chain and manufacturing operations in a variety of industries including discrete and process manufacturing, heavy equipment (ETO, MTO & MTS), A&D, CPG, pharma, high tech, metal, and most recently, in plant engineering and construction projects. Yasser spent 10 years in supply chain software solution and consulting leading projects in strategy development, supply chain transformation, network design, planning and optimization, risk modeling, operations & performance management, and IT/process alignment. In addition, Yasser spent 10 years developing and leading projects in manufacturing operations, planning and scheduling optimizing throughput, lead time and improving operating expenses, on time delivery, and quality. In particular, Yasser developed and used different approaches and technologies of planning, scheduling and MES/IoT for manufacturing operations optimization, supervision, and shop floor controls using Delmia-ORTEMS -- a technology he developed during his PhD thesis and a company “ORTEMS” he co-founded in France in 1989