NOAX Consulting

iNnovative and Operational Art of Excellence (NOAX) helps business leaders provide leading-edge services, create unique digital experiences and run high-performing teams. This requires capabilities and IT solutions to produce high-quality data, to streamline business processes and to build agile organizations. With 15+ years of relevant experience, the NOAX team of senior consultants is equipped to support organizations in their transition journey towards operational excellence and embrace new technologies.

Owner

FAVV-AFSCA

As a member of the Data Advisory Board, I'm in charge of:   
- Data quality assessments: This involves analysing data to identify current data quality issues
- Developing standards and conventions to ensure data consistency
- Supporting data cleansing where necessary  
- Putting in place rules to check that data complies with defined rules and constraints, such as data protection regulations
- Supporting the organisation in populating the data dictionary: establish the metadata management framework to make it easier to understand and use the data
- Help setting up monitoring mechanisms to detect data quality problems over time
- Training and educating members of the organisation on the importance of data quality to encourage a data quality culture

Data Architect in Data Quality & Data Governance

Edenred

In charge of assessing data governance maturity at Edenred and propose a 3-year roadmap to increase data quality.

Senior Data Consultant Strategy & Marketing

Fost Plus

Roll-out a Project Management Office (PMO) in Fost Plus to improve projects delivery and value creation.
- Building up from scratch a PMO, including defining: strategy, methodology and governance. And embed PMO in the organization.
- Defining the IT requirements to support the introduction of a portfolio funnel within Fost Plus, using the latest version of Microsoft Project Online
- Partnering in developing stakeholder dashboards in Power BI.

Project Portfolio Manager

amfori - Trade with Purpose

Develop a data strategy for amfori.
Responsibilities:
-	Analyzing and incorporating all aspects of data management, including discussions and workshops with employees from data management roles and other roles across all IT functions
-	Ensure best methods in data quality are in place or amended for the organisation
-	Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to identify objectives for future adjustments to data strategy

Data Strategy Consultant

Proximus

Supporting business in onboarding MVNOs to Proximus networks.

Senior Project Manager Architecture, Data & Strategy

Galloo

Developing the ETL strategy for customer data migration to SAP S/4HANA.

Data Migration Consultant

Lhoist

My mission: Harmonize global Lhoist best practices in Sales & Logistics
The vision: Achieve Sales Excellence through 1st-time-right principle in order to automate Quote-to-Cash (QTC) process 
My primary focus:
- Develop a Sales reference model to converge to a globally harmonized QTC process
- Animate a global QTC Experts network to exchange on best practices
- Liaise with Lhoist Business Leaders to define roadmap for implementing best practices in Sales
- Define a perfect order metric to steer continuous improvement in Sales
- Introduce new features and tools in collaboration with Lhoist Global IT

Sales Excellence Program Manager

Brady Corporation

Key individual accountabilities are:
- Institutionalize product data quality throughout the corporation via the definition and implementation of a MDM framework
- Steer a team of Data Stewards covering all geographies and business units
- Accountable for master data process improvements
- Report metrics to MD Executive Sponsors and Data Governance Council
- Ensure overall compliance with corporate Master Data Policies
- Remain current with MD best practices and develops annual improvement plans
- Privileged IT stakeholder to solidify Brady's data models
- Develop and defend business cases for master data solutions

Corporate Master Data Governance Program Manager

As European Master Data Manager at Brady I'm responsible for the development, formulation and implementation of Master Data concepts, strategies and programs to support the needs and goals of the European Brady Businesses, such as: improve safety, exceed quality and delivery expectations, reduce operating costs, reduce inventory, realize growth, and drive overall productivity.

As the Master Data driving force I'm engaging, influencing, training and mentoring people at all levels throughout the EU organization in Brady Business Performance Systems (BBPS) core skills and tools (Process mapping, Problem Solving Techniques, …) concerning Master Data interactions, challenges and opportunities.
I'm educating, mentoring and providing guidance to local Master Data Managers throughout the EU region in order to realize the higher productivity, waste reduction initiatives and appropriate governance principles.

Being result oriented I'm identifying measurable KPI’s and communicate achieved Master Data improvements through the completion of successful projects.

EMEA Master Data Manager

Accenture

Delivering SAP projects in time, on budget and against value. (Modules SD-MM-LE-PP-FI-CO-VIM)

Project Manager

🫵 Impossible is temporary! (M. Ali)

🗣️ I’m expert in optimizing your business process performance to shape a better and sustainable future.

👨🏻‍💻 Lately, I’ve been focusing on transforming data chaos into business value. I believe data serve only one purpose: to contribute to every organisation’s objectives.

💡 Do you seek for advice on getting Data Governance right?

✨ I'm wishing you all a year of trusted data, clear ownership, and governance that truly #connects business, digital security, and AI.

🤝 If #datagovernance resonates with you as a connecting force, let’s connect in 2026!

Axel Maeyens

CXO Transform

Digital Business Transformation Management

LinkedIn

Modeling Courageous Leadership: Intelligent Disobedience

Big Data - Fundamentals

ECCMA

ISO 8000-110:2009 Master Data Quality Manager

DataCamp

Introduction to R

Vlerick Business School

Ichec Brussels Management School

Abdijschool Zevenkerken

Dutch

English

French

✔️ Strategy Consultant | CxO Advisor | Actor in business transformation

Plant Operations  Applications Manager at Lhoist

Retired - Former Lhoist Southern Europe Logistic Manager

Strategic and Operations Management, People Management, Process Management

Maximizing Strategic Connections   |   Advocacy and Growth   |   Data, Process, and Analysis for Impactful Outcomes

Customer Service Director at Lhoist

Supply Chain Senior Manager na Lhoist | Mestrado em Logística

Initiative objectives:
- Harmonize Quote-to-Cash process globally across Lhoist Business Units.
- Institutionalize a culture of continuous process improvements in Sales and Logistics.

Initiative outcomes:
- Definition and approval of a global reference model for Quote-to-Cash process.
- Definition and follow-up on “perfect order” metric to increase customer satisfaction.

Shape Excellence @ Lhoist

Engineering Program Manager

IT Programme Manager at Amari Metals Limited

Jane Fitzgibbons

Sr Director - Global IT at Brady Corporation

Retired

Senior Principal at Slalom

Sr. Director, Merchandising Content & Search

Marketing Operations Specialist at Brady Corporation

Certified Nursing Assistant & Health Unit Coordinator at Aurora St. Luke's South Shore

Mission of the initiative is to enable and enforce “Single source of truth” for product information through the definition, institutionalization and enforcement of global data quality metric, product information standards, processes and organizational alignment.
Implementation of STEP 6.0 platform.

Project outcome:
Single content repository with global product taxonomy to support business growth on multiple digital platforms for e-commerce.

Global Product Content Management @ Brady

Partner at Deloitte | SAP enabled Business Transformations

Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect at BCG Platinion - A company of The Boston Consulting Group

Technology Innovation

Senior ABAP developer at Flexso Digital

Wind Business Director - Luminus

Directeur aankoop - Directeur des achats @ CM - MC (Christelijke Mutualiteit / Mutualité Chrétienne)

Sr Business Development Manager for family owned companies

SAP Senior Project Manager at NRB

Full dematerialization of the P2P process with automated invoice posting (through invoice scanning and optical character recognition). 

Project goals:
- Optimising and streamlining end-to-end P2P process by
- Automating posting & approval of supplier invoices
- Eliminating paper based invoice process
- Strengthen the Finance control over spending
- Strengthen internal controls
- Improve the suppliers relationship by eliminating late payments

Project outcomes:
- Implementation of SAP MM, ICC, VIM and BI reporting.
- Standard SAP configuration of purchase VAT management.
- Setup and support of a central team for operational sourcing.

Purchase-To-Pay improvement @ EDFLuminus

Project Manager/Product Owner | SAP S/4 | Pragmatic | Bringing People & Technology Together |

VP Information Management at Bynder

Operations Director

Enterprise Transformation. 
A Systemic Approach on Changing Social Systems.

Seasoned Self-Employed Procurement Professional // Owner Hof ter Heidje

Consulting Partner at PwC Belgium

Procurement at Tessenderlo Group

Owner Orka Group (BE, BG & ES) & Chairman NPO Kookploeg Solidair (Ghent & Ostend)

Seasoned Finance Professional | CFO | FP&A | HR | IT | Procurement

Retired Teamlead Sap PM PP MM WM QM PS

Tessenderlo Group decided to purchase indirect goods/services according to a standardized, best-in-class process to achieve excellence in procurement.

Project outcome:
Design, build and implement a Microsoft Sharepoint application called 'Guided Buying portal' which seamless integrates with SAP and contains following content and functionalities in order to bring the right information to the right people in appropriate time:
- Procurement process overview
- For each spend category information towards preferred vendors and corresponding buying channel (e.g. Free text Requisition Form, eCatalogue, Assisted Spot buy, ...)
- Category specific procedures & policies for ordering, returns, approvals, etc.
- Access to Form based requisitioning with automatic PREQ creation in SAP
- User Support & Contact information: Context relevant FAQs, help desk, ...

PURe @ Tessenderlo Group

It implementation new financial consolidation and global reporting tool

Managing Director SAP business group at Accenture Belgium & Luxembourg

Global Head of Organizational Development at ASML

Head of IT for CS at ASML

Objective of Enterprise MDM strategic initiative is to define path towards master data being treated as a corporate asset within SABIC, read: ensure master data is effectively owned, managed and controlled as the “source-of-truth” across the entire organization. 

Project outcome:
Approval of an holistic approach (but “Think big… start small”) towards master data beyond SABIC geographical regions, organizational units and value model programs to lift master data to a global level and promote business insights.

E-MDM @ SABIC

Senior Advisor

Responsable Pôle SAP

Program Manager

Global Functional Forms IT

Global ERP Team lead & Architect

Senior SAP Financials Consulant (SAP ECC & S/4HANA)

P2P Program is a global initiative within SABIC meant to generate significant savings while drastically increasing quality of services.
Main objectives are:
- lower operational costs (e.g. automate vendor invoice posting)
- facilitate purchasing effectiveness by increasing contract coverage
- improve purchasing process efficiency

Project outcomes:
- Definition of a global vendor invoice approval process that met all cultural sensitivities.
- Implementation of SAP VIM module (Vendor Invoice Management).

Procure-2-Pay @ SABIC

Director Application Development

Service Delivery Leader - Support Functions - chez CEVA SANTE ANIMALE

QHSE  Applications Manager - WWPG at Akzo Nobel Powder Coatings

IT Executive: Driving Process standardization, Global M&A IT,  ERP optimization, AkzoNobel's S/4 transformation

Europe SAP Lead - Resources Industries (Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, Natural Resources) at Accenture

SAP implementation to replace MFGPro legacy system across EU (built template with roll-outs to FR, UK and DE)

Project goals:
- Reduce intercompany administration
- Maintain the rapid service levels already in place within Cromadex sites for sales order processing
- Produce sales information required to manage the sales force
- A fully trained workforce
- Standardise on common business processes
- Standardise on common data elements
- Improve OWC through improved stock management
- Maintain data integrity and control
- All issues resolved one month after go-live

Project outcome:
Successful SAP ERP greenfield implementation with introduction of new and impactful Make-to-Deliver business process turning cans of paint sales into selling litres of paint. Guaranteeing effective support of JIT delivery model and increasing packaging flexibility to support business growth.

Cromadex @ AkzoNobel

Accenture SAP AAPAC Business Group Transformation Lead (CTO)

Commodity Management consultant

Managing Director at Vuealta

Senior Director Supply Chain Logistics. 
Commodity Trading and Shipping.

Owner at Tamara Henderickx Handmade Jewellery

People & Talent Executive - helping organizations unlock value and potential by transforming the future of work and talent

Senior Director - EMSO Supply Chain Business Partner @ Teva Pharmaceuticals | Executive MBA

Finance Coordinator at BHP Billiton

Associate Director at Accenture

1SAP @ BHPBilliton

Business Unit Controller

SAP GTS Consultant

Finance Manager bij Nyrstar Belgium

Director Business Applications Umicore

CFO Lhoist Group

Head of Group Treasury and Corporate Finance

CopperTrust @ Aurubis

People Manager | Program Director | Business & Digital Transformation | SAP | P&L Manager

CEO of American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc., Vice President, Member of the Executive Committee at Air Liquide

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