Walter Jacobs has over 32 years of experience in all aspects of process automation and plant optimization in the oil and petrochemicals industry. He worked for Shell, DSM and SABIC in technical, consultancy and managerial functions in manufacturing plants as well as for corporate departments. His main interest is the integration of manufacturing operations and supply chain planning. Currently, Walter is responsible for the work processes and applications used for model-based optimization of production planning and scheduling of SABIC’s olefins sites in Europe. He also performs business analyses and studies in the Supply Chain Management department of SABIC-Europe.