This month’s cover star is Marisa Schoeman, Diageo’s VP of Planning & Logistics for Africa. We spent some time with Schoeman at Diageo’s London HQ to hear how the beverage giant’s growth in Africa is being enabled by a robust supply chain transformation with the customer at its heart.
Diageo plc is a British multinational alcoholic beverage company whose 30 malt distilleries in Scotland – that can only make Scotch whisky – are responsible for producing one in every three bottles of Scotch worldwide, with over 100 brands, such as Johnnie Walker, J&B and Buchanan’s. Its leading brands outside whisky include Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Gordon’s.
At Diageo, Schoeman is responsible for directing the transformation of Diageo’s supply network operations in Africa, creating a simplified and integrated network designed to unlock agility, innovation, and long-term value.
“Our ambition is to grow Africa, Diageo’s fastest growing region, into a multi-billion-pound imported spirits business,” she says. “But for that, we need a flexible, segmented supply chain. Africa represents huge untapped potential as a developing environment and our consumer base is growing all the time. So, for us there is a very big focus around how we grow into a multi-billion premium spirits business…”
And that’s not all…
Elsewhere we have a host of big-name interviews from Kinexions 2025 – including Qualcomm and IBM – an exclusive report from the Exiger Executive Forum. Not only that, but we also sat down with Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of ASCM, to dig into the organisation’s current focus points, and how its conference – CHAINge – is addressing the supply chain landscape’s needs. And… we also have some highly insightful leadership pieces from DPW New York, including fascinating reveals from Beroe, Pactum AI, TealBook and AlixPartners on a host of topics relating to AI in supply chain.
Enjoy!
