Johannes Janssen

Johannes Janssen joined GetAhead Supply Chain Solutions with over 25 years of global procurement expertise. His career has been marked by significant contributions in supplier scouting and production monitoring for the Volkswagen Group, primarily in Asia.

Janssen’s proficiency spans a wide array of procurement categories, including metal sheet, casting parts, and advanced materials like composites.

Since the early 1990s, he has played a pivotal role in expanding Volkswagen’s supply chain into new and emerging markets such as China, India, and Malaysia.

This expansion included key positions like leading the supplier audits at Skoda Mlada Boleslav from 1998 to 2000 and heading supplier audit and component sampling at VW India’s Pune Plant between 2009 and 2012.

Janssen’s responsibilities also involved overseeing supplier audits for the VW Group in Wolfsburg, scouting opportunities in ASEAN, Iran, and Russia from 2012 to 2015, and managing group quality assurance for production readiness at VW China in Beijing until 2017.

Based in Vietnam, Johannes Janssen oversees GetAhead Supply Chain Solutions’ local QA activities in Southeast Asia and India.