Toronto, Canada

Charles
Vansteelant

Supply Chain · Operations · Product Launch

Sixteen years at the intersection of procurement, operations, regulatory compliance and commercial execution — from sourcing in Asia for the European market to launching 100+ SKUs a year into regulated markets on three continents. Hands-on, and I finish things.

See the live projects → LinkedIn
SKUs to market
100+per year, stage-gated
OTIF
85 → 95per cent
Regulated inventory
$15Maudited by KPMG & Deloitte
Markets opened
5EU-GMP, TGA-GMP and beyond

What I actually do

The work keeps the same shape across industries: find where the operation leaks time, cash or compliance, design the process that stops it, and make the change outlast the person who built it.

Operations & inventory

  • Cycle counting, inventory accuracy, audit readiness
  • Multi-site and 3PL coordination
  • Regulated stock under SOX and licence conditions
  • Teams of 15–20 across shipping, receiving and vault control

Launch & market entry

  • Stage-gate from bench trial to first production
  • Technical transfer between R&D and operations
  • EU-GMP and TGA-GMP market requirements
  • Export documentation and compliance

Selected projects

Built, not described. Both pages are live, self-hosted, and recompute their numbers on every visit — open one and refresh it. The data is synthetic; the data models and the reasoning are not.

Live · built 2026

Stock coverage & replenishment dashboard

A planning dashboard built on an SAP S/4HANA data model. It reads material master, stock by status, open purchase orders and goods movements, then answers the question a planner actually has on Monday morning: what runs out before the next delivery lands — and is anything already on its way?

The distinction is the point. A material below its reorder point with no open PO needs a purchase order. One with a PO arriving late needs a phone call to the supplier. A dashboard that collapses the two into one red light wastes the planner's morning.

SAP S/4HANA modeln8nPostgreSQL DockerCaddySelf-hosted
Data modelMARA · MARD · EKKO · MSEG
RefreshPer request
DataSynthetic
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Live · built 2026

Equipment fleet status & movement

Asset tracking on an SAP Plant Maintenance and Logistics Execution model, for an operator that installs, rents and services projection, sound and lighting equipment across film productions and cinema venues. 640 serialised units, 124 venues, 8 depots, 4 workshops — every unit in exactly one of six states: in use, free, allocated, in transit, in maintenance, broken.

The dashboard exists because the state alone is useless. In transit for three days is normal; for forty the unit is lost and someone is paying for a dark screen. So every state carries a threshold, and the page ranks only what has crossed it, worst first, with the capital those units are holding up. The thresholds are a policy choice, and the page says so.

SAP PM / LE modelSerialised assetsn8n PostgreSQLDockerSelf-hosted
Data modelEQUI · IFLOT · STO · MSEG
RefreshPer request
DataSynthetic
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Experience

Jun 2025 — Mar 2026Toronto

Program Leader, Global Operations Business Development

Aurora Cannabis Inc.

  • Led cross-functional initiatives for expansion into Germany (EU-GMP) and the UK, reporting to the VP of Innovation & International Operations
  • Built program charters, RACI frameworks and success metrics, with weekly reporting to the executive team
  • Evaluated solutions to increase product volume for international markets against capacity, compliance and distribution constraints at once
Feb 2022 — Jun 2025Toronto

Senior Manager, Product Launch

Aurora Cannabis Inc.

  • Took 100+ SKUs a year from bench-scale trial through scale-up to first production, across edibles, oils, concentrates, pre-rolls and dried flower
  • Drove OTIF from 85% to 95% with product development, regulatory, quality and operations
  • Led launches into Germany (EU-GMP), Australia (TGA-GMP), New Zealand, Poland and the UK
  • Built the product launch team from one person to three
  • Owned change control: documentation, training and handover to operations
Jan 2020 — Feb 2022Toronto

Supply Chain Manager — East

Aurora Cannabis Inc.

  • Ran inventory and supply chain across five, then three Eastern Canadian sites, with teams of 15–20
  • Designed a full cycle count program reaching up to 99% accuracy on key categories
  • Cut cycle count execution from three weeks to two–five business days
  • Brought a 3PL distribution centre from 80–85% accuracy to 90%+ within a year
  • Managed up to $15M of regulated inventory under SOX, with year-end counts alongside KPMG and Deloitte
  • Coordinated export compliance to Europe, Australia, the Cayman Islands and Israel
Jul 2016 — Jan 2020Toronto

Supply Chain Assistant → Senior Supply Chain Specialist

Winters Instruments

  • Built a centralized quotation library standardizing pricing and material options across product lines
  • Created a quotation master file improving accuracy, conversion tracking and supplier performance management
  • Ran the RFQ process with authorized factories and led training for order processing staff
Apr 2015 — Feb 2016Toronto

Bilingual Transitions Coordinator

Assante Wealth Management

  • Managed advisor transitions between dealers — system access, fund transfers, client database migration
  • Resolved escalations across IT, dealer support and compliance
2010 — 2014Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Junior Buyer → International Buyer / Product Manager

CIAD

  • Grew a product range to €10M a year, up 30% over three years at roughly 20% margin
  • Managed 50+ active suppliers across Asia, India and Europe, negotiating orders from 1,000 to 40,000 units
  • Sourced at trade fairs in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai, with supplier audits
  • Ran product development for B2B accounts including Staples and Kraft Group, to European standards

Education & languages

Education

Master's — International TradeLille 3 · 2008–11
BTS Commerce InternationalGaston Berger · 2006–08

Languages

FrenchNative
EnglishBilingual
GermanProfessional