Lafarge South Africa has announced the appointment of Vishal Devan as the new General Manager: Supply Chain for Lafarge South Africa. The position is newly created following the company’s decision to adopt a more integrated Procurement model.
Devan has over 10 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management and has worked for various multi-national companies including Nampak, SABMiller, Sasol and Toyota South Africa.
Devan holds a BSc Engineering Degree from the University of Natal and a BCom Financial Management Degree from UNISA. He has received Dean’s Commendations for numerous distinctions for his MBA which he is completing at Wits Business School (University of Witwatersrand).
He led a local and international team to develop state-of-the-art optimisation software recently featured at the European Supply Chain summit.
Devan is part of Lafarge South Africa’s Executive Committee and reports directly to the Country CEO, Ken MacLean.
Additional information is available on the website at www.lafarge.co.za
