Potapov Sergey Sergeyevich

Sergey
Sergeyevich
Potapov

Logistics Director, head of digital project development, business trainer and supply chain management consultant, member of the Project Association, member of the Council of Supply Chain Professionals

More than 20 years of experience in logistics, supply chain management and business consulting

Successfully delivered projects implementing ERP, CRM, SRM, TMS, WMS, YMS and TOS — systems for automating logistics business processes

Launched and organised the operation of 9 startup projects — large logistics centres with storage areas of more than 30,000 sq m

Master's degree from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, programme "Strategic Supply Chain Management"

Main business training topics

Digital transformation and delivering IT projects in supply chains and logistics

Supply: procurement management, supplier relationships and effective negotiation

Claims handling, implementing ISO 10002-2020 "Quality Management

Customer Satisfaction. Guidelines for Complaints Handling in Organisations"

Transport logistics in trading and manufacturing companies

Sea multimodal freight transport

Building an effective motivation and controlling system

Effective sales of logistics services and quality management

Practical experience

2022 — Digital Transformation Director at a large logistics holding

2017 — 2022 — Director of the Logistics Department of an international industrial company

2016 — 2017 — Head of domestic Russian service

2012 — 2016 — Development Director

2008 — 2012 — Head of the Logistics Department

2006 — 2008 — Head of rail transport

Education

2020 — Certified specialist of A. Kozlova's original programme "Negotiation Management"

2019 — Project Management Institute, certificate "Project management 2.0"

2019 — SYNERGY Business School, certificate of A. Fridman's original programme "Developing Management Competence"

2018 — KIT-MEDIA, certificate of A. Fridman's original programme "Professional Planning for Regular Management"

2018 — ADI LLC, advanced training course "Specifics of Foreign Economic Activity"

2017 — Bauman University, advanced training course "Foreign Economic Activity, Customs Management"

2017 — St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI, advanced training course "RFID — Technologies and Their Application in Logistics"

2014 — 2017 — National Research University Higher School of Economics, master's programme "Strategic Supply Chain Management"

1998 — 2005 — Higher medical education

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

Planning functions

Logistics network design, re-engineering, strategic planning

Management functions

Managing projects related to the automation of logistics business processes

Managing logistics business processes: procurement, warehousing and transport logistics

Managing warehouse processes, multimodal freight transport, cross-docking operations

Managing the foreign trade unit, customs clearance, coordination with the customs service and related company departments

HR management: improving labour productivity; staff motivation, staff training, preparing presentations and running training seminars in the company

Business process automation: managing projects implementing digital and IT solutions, describing business processes, drafting technical specifications for the IT department, monitoring execution

Control functions

Building a controlling and monitoring system for logistics processes

Monitoring import and export deliveries. Supervising export development projects

Efficiency improvement functions

Optimising logistics business processes in line with the company's corporate strategy

Increasing service sales, increasing customer loyalty

Improving business planning and cross-functional coordination processes

Increasing company productivity, implementing Lean Production and SCM methods and approaches

Increasing the company's competitiveness by improving the quality of its services

Building collaborations

Business training experience

2022 — present — business trainer at the E&Y Academy of Business

2018 — 2022 — associate professor at the Higher School of Economics, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Faculty of Marketing and Further Business Education, Moscow Business School

Lecturer at training seminars of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development

Presentations and publications

03.2024 — Speaker at the Next Generation Young Professionals Forum, organised by CILT Central Asia, Astana

07.2022 — speaker on the platform "Small Business, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development"

10.2021 — speaker at the SCM Congress "Realising Export Potential in Supply Chains"

09.2020 — speaker at the St. Petersburg Logistics Business Forum "Organising Logistics in Export Projects"

09.2020-11.2020 — speaker at the online conferences "Logistics for Small and Medium-Sized Business" and "Logistics in Start-up Projects" of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development

05.2020 — speaker at the online conference "Cross-Functional Coordination in Supply Chains, Specifics of Foreign Trade", organised by the Moscow Exporter School

12.2020 — publication "Gemba as the 'Front Line' for the Manager" in the international scientific journal Management, No. 4 (56) 2020

09.2020 — publication "Transit Strategy" in Rossiyskaya Gazeta

07.2020 — 09.2020 — leader of the volunteer research crowdsourcing project "Building a Model of Analytical and Project Competencies" with the support of the Project Association;

04.2020 — publication "How to Choose a Delivery Service So That Customers Are Satisfied" in the journal Kommercheskiy Direktor

03.2020 — publication "The 'Green' Van" in the journal RBC+

03.2019 — publication "Unmanned Delivery" in the online media Retailer.ru

10.2018 — publication "How B2B Logistics Is Changing under the Influence of B2C" in the journal Logistika No. 10-18