BY SUSAN K. LACEFIELD, EDITOR AT LARGE
THE DC VELOCITY Q&A
thoughtleaders
Recently honored with
CSCMP’s prestigious
Distinguished Service Award,
Kathy Wengel—Johnson &
Johnson’s top supply chain
executive—has dedicated her
career to building diverse
teams that create world-class
supply chains.
AS A CHILD, KATHY WENGEL LOVED TO BUILD WITH LEGO BRICKS.
She enjoyed selecting blocks of different sizes, shapes, and colors and then bringing them together into a unified whole.
Her job today as executive vice president and chief global supply chain officer
at the health-care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is not much different. For
instance, she recently co-led an effort to redesign and rebuild J&J’s supply chain
and quality operating models. This entailed taking all of the disparate parts of
the health-care company’s global operations—and those of its suppliers and
customers—and melding them together into an integrated process that’s focused
on the end customer.
Wengel and her team proved to be master builders. The redesign propelled
J&J’s operation into the ranks of truly world-class supply chain organizations.
In 2019, the company captured the number-eight spot on the analyst group
INTERVIEW WITH KATHY WENGEL
The master
supply chain builder
