09:30 a.m.

Welcome
Lutz Blankenfeldt, Business Unit Manager Strategy, Commercial & Marketing, trans-o-flex

09:40 a.m.

Challenges in Pharmaceutical Logistics
Martin Reder, CEO trans-o-flex

09:55 a.m.

“360-Degree” Panel Discussion with External Experts:
Focus on Reliable Patient Care – Overcoming Challenges, Ensuring Safety
External stakeholders: representatives from politics, academia, associations, and the customer environment

10:55 a.m.

Coffee break

11:15 a.m.

Significance of CSR in pharmaceutical logistics
Régis Lesieux, Regional Director Business Excellence & CSR Europe, GEODIS
Michael Löckener, COO trans-o-flex
Tamara Schulz, Head of Quality Management & ESG trans-o-flex

11:35 a.m.

“360-Degree” Discussion with trans-o-flex:
What is trans-o-flex doing to ensure security of supply and meet the challenges?
trans-o-flex contact persons from the specialist departments

12:35 p.m.

Lunch break

1:30 p.m.

Security of supply in healthcare logistics – how trans-o-flex meets individual customer requirements with a diverse range of services
Eugen Günther, CSO trans-o-flex & customers

2:30 p.m.

Get together: Networking & expert talks at topic-related round tables

3:30 p.m.

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Martin Reder
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
trans-o-flex Express GmbH & Co. KGaA

has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since February 2024. He brings with him more than three decades of experience in operations, sales, customer service and product management at the express services companies TNT and Fedex. Most recently, he was Managing Director Special Services at Fedex Express Germany since 2017, responsible for Northern, Central and Eastern Europe in more than 20 countries. The trained logistics specialist previously held numerous management positions in the TNT organisation. Among other things, he was Managing Director of TNT Value Added Logistics (high availability logistics) and had product responsibility for the same-day service “TNT HEUTE”. He also developed special logistics solutions for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries as well as for media and motor racing. As Chief Operating Officer for TNT Express Germany, he was responsible for 31 branches with around 3,500 employees.

Eugen Günther
CSO
trans-o-flex Express GmbH & Co. KGaA

has been Chief Sales Officer (CSO) at trans-o-flex since November 2021 and speaker of the management board at trans-o-flex ThermoMed Austria GmbH since May 2022, where, as a wholesale and foreign trade specialist, he has gone on to make a solid career for himself. He started in the sales team back in 2010, before moving into key account management in 2014 and then going on to become regional sales manager for southwest Germany in 2015. In 2016, he took over the management of the sales division – initially on a temporary basis. In 2019, he was given this job on a permanent basis. Prior to joining trans-o-flex, Günther worked for several years at TNT Express and also in sales at a company in the healthcare sector.

Michael Löckener
COO
trans-o-flex Express GmbH & Co. KGaA

has been Chief Operating Officer (COO) of trans-o-flex since August 2024. The qualified freight forwarding agent and certified transport specialist first joined trans-o-flex Express in 2015 as Regional Operations Manager North. In July 2018, he took over as Managing Director of trans-o-flex ThermoMed GmbH. Since April 2019, he has also served as Managing Director of trans-o-flex Training & Service GmbH, which specialises in training and development. From January 2022 until his appointment as COO, he was additionally Head of Operations for trans-o-flex Express GmbH & Co. KGaA, which is responsible for its day-to-day operations. Löckener brings decades of logistics experience in the CEP (courier, express and parcel) industry to his role at trans-o-flex, having previously held various positions at the logistics service providers Fiege, TNT and GLS.

Tamara Schulz
Division Manager Quality Management & ESG
trans-o-flex Express GmbH & Co. KGaA

Tamara Schulz has held the position of Division Manager Quality Management at trans-o-flex since July 2023. In this role, she has overall responsibility for quality management within the trans-o-flex Group. Her remit covers the areas of technology and qualification, temperature monitoring, regional quality management, and audit and document management.

From August 2025, Tamara Schulz will also take on responsibility for the ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) division, thereby expanding her remit to include the management and implementation of sustainability initiatives within the trans-o-flex Group.

After completing her dual degree in Business Administration, specialising in freight forwarding, transport and logistics, at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, as well as her practical training at trans-o-flex, she continued her professional career at trans-o-flex. From 2014 to 2018, she worked in operational development. She then took over as head of the Quality Management department at trans-o-flex Express from 2018 to 2021. Most recently, from 2021 to 2023, Schulz held the position of Head of Quality Management at transmed Transport GmbH.

Régis Lésieux
Director Business Excellence & CSR
GEODIS

has been with GEODIS since 2005 and is currently responsible, as Director Business Excellence & CSR for GEODIS EUROPE, for the areas of Stakeholder Satisfaction, ISO-QESH, Security, Pharmalogistics, and Sustainability in Europe and South Africa. Previously, he held various international leadership positions at GEODIS, Daher, and DHL. He began his professional career in the fields of training and higher education before specializing in quality, process, and sustainability management.

Lésieux studied at EDHEC Business School in Lille (France) and obtained an MBA from the Barney School of Business at the University of Hartford in the USA. As part of GEODIS executive development programs, he completed an Executive Master at ESCP Europe in Paris (France) as well as an online executive program at Harvard Business School. In addition, he completed an online specialization in sustainability management at EcoLearn in Paris (France).

From 2023 to 2025, he taught business management with a focus on ISO-QESH and sustainability at DHBW Mosbach.

Prof. Dr. Francas
Professor of Data and Supply Chain Analytics
Worms University of Applied Sciences

is a Professor of Data and Supply Chain Analytics as well as the holder of the Research Professorship for Artificial Intelligence and Analytics in Business and Life Sciences at Worms University of Applied Sciences. Previously, he held a professorship at Heilbronn University and worked as a management consultant and project manager for an international consulting group. In this capacity, he led global projects in logistics and supply chain management for companies from various industries.
In addition, he heads the Healthcare Supply Chain Institute, a think tank and consulting center for supply chain management and logistics in the life sciences. In his practical work, he particularly supports companies in the analysis and design of global supply chains as well as in improving their supply chain processes.

His main areas of work are analytics and artificial intelligence, logistics and supply chain management, pharmaceutical supply chains, and resilience. His research results have been published in leading academic journals and have been covered by public media such as ARD, ZDF, FAZ, Handelsblatt, and DIE ZEIT, as well as by trade media such as Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung and Logistik Heute.

Prof. Dr. Francas also serves as an expert reviewer, speaker, and keynote speaker. Among other roles, he was invited as an individual expert on the ALBVVG (“Supply Shortage Act”) in the German Bundestag and regularly speaks to federal authorities, policymakers, and companies.

Dr. med. Kai Joachimsen, MD, MBA
CEO
Bundesverband der Pharmazeutischen Industrie e.V.

is a licensed and doctoral physician as well as a graduate in business administration. He completed his studies in human medicine in Marburg, Münster, and Vienna. His experimental doctorate was in radiology and cardiology (magnetic resonance imaging in cardiomyopathies). He received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Northwestern University Kellogg in Chicago and WHU in Vallendar.

He held senior positions in the pharmaceutical industry at GlaxoWellcome/GSK as Head of Marketing & Business Team Respiratory, was Department Head for Respiratory & Cardiovascular at Boehringer Ingelheim, as well as Business Unit Head, Head of New Commercial Model, EMEAC Franchise Leader, and Global Franchise Leader at MSD/Merck Inc. in Munich and New Jersey. In 2012, he assumed sole management of Chiesi GmbH Germany and additionally served as CEO in the private equity sector.

Since 2018, he has been with BPI e.V. and since 2019 has served as Chief Executive Officer and member of the board.

Thomas Porstner
Managing Director and Legal Counsel
PHAGRO | Bundesverband des pharmazeutischen Großhandels

is the Managing Director and Legal Counsel of PHAGRO | Bundesverband des pharmazeutischen Großhandels. The association represents the interests of its member companies in all professional, economic, legal, and regulatory matters relating to full-line pharmaceutical wholesale in Germany. In addition, Thomas Porstner is Managing Director of PHAGRO-Service GmbH, which offers services primarily for recall management (APG procedure) as well as inventory value loss compensation systems for products distributed through pharmacies by full-line pharmaceutical wholesalers.

In his role, Thomas Porstner represents PHAGRO to political institutions and authorities at both the national and European level. He maintains regular exchange, in particular, with the German Bundestag, the Federal Ministries of Health and Economic Affairs, the European institutions, other stakeholder associations, and the authorities responsible for monitoring pharmaceutical wholesale.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors, the Public Policy Committee, and the Legal Committee of the European Healthcare Distribution Association (GIRP). At the Federal Association of Wholesale, Foreign Trade, Services (BGA), he volunteers as Chairman of the Legal Committee.

Before joining PHAGRO, Thomas Porstner was Head of Legal and Public Affairs at Pro Generika e.V., the German association of generic and biosimilar companies. Prior to that, from 2002 to 2008, he served as Legal Counsel and Head of the Legal Department at the Federal Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (BPI). He began his professional career as a research associate at the Europa-Institut of Saarland University. In 1999, he worked as a consultant for social and health law in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and subsequently, from 2000 to 2002, held the same position as a parliamentary consultant for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.

Thomas Porstner studied law at the universities of Rostock and Göttingen. He completed his legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Celle, where he also passed his second state examination. He specializes in German and European pharmaceutical, health, competition, and antitrust law. His other professional focuses include regulatory and compliance issues, GxP requirements, market access questions, and pharmaceutical pricing law.

In addition to his association work, Thomas Porstner has been and continues to be active as a lecturer, author, and editor. He is a member of the advisory board of the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Law at the University of Marburg. He regularly publishes articles on pharmaceutical law and health policy topics and serves on the editorial advisory board of the German journal for pharmaceutical law. He is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), the Federal Association of Corporate Lawyers (BUJ), the CDU Economic Council, and the Berlin Bar Association.

Achim Sponheimer
Partner, Director, European Pharma and Life Sciences Industry Lead
Miebach Consulting

is Partner, Director, and European Pharma and Life Sciences Industry Lead at Miebach in Germany. He began his career in consumer goods logistics in Ireland and Germany before joining Miebach in 2005. In 2012, he became a Partner, and in 2016, he took over the leadership of the Pharma & Life Sciences division.

Achim has extensive expertise in pharmaceutical logistics and specializes in GMP-compliant production logistics, for example, for cleanroom environments as well as for optimizing production processes.

Achim Sponheimer holds a degree in industrial engineering (Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur) from TU Berlin.

Lutz Blankenfeldt
Business Unit Manager Strategy
trans-o-flex Express GmbH & Co. KGaA

has been with trans-o-flex Express since 2016, where he is responsible for the areas of Strategy, Marketing & Commercial. This also includes managing all of the company’s activities related to customer relationship and product management.

After training as a freight forwarding agent and completing a business administration degree at D.A.V. in Bremen, Blankenfeldt began his professional career in 1995 at TNT Express in Troisdorf. From 2000 to 2004, he led product management and marketing at GO! General Overnight, helping GO! to establish a unified nationwide market presence. From 2005 to 2006, he completed another business degree part-time at the University of Warwick. At the same time, he took on a central role at TNT in Troisdorf as Director of Marketing and Sales, before moving on in 2008 to work internationally for TNT in Brussels as Director of Marketing, where he was responsible for the company’s presence in CEE.

Before joining trans-o-flex, Blankenfeldt completed another course of study at the INeKO Institute in Cologne and worked for two years as a person-centered and systemic coach for small and medium-sized enterprises, supporting them in developing business plans and business models. To this day, he regularly works as a trainer, coach, and facilitator.

Barbara Uitz
Head of After Sales Service & Processes
Wort & Bild Verlag Konradshöhe GmbH & Co.

has been working at Wort & Bild Verlag since 2009, one of the leading media companies in the field of health and medicine. The company is particularly well known for the “Apotheken Umschau,” which has been one of Germany’s most established and widely circulated health magazines for over 70 years.

For around four years, the qualified media specialist has been heading the After Sales & Process Management department. In this role, she is responsible, among other things, for the central coordination and scheduling of the monthly delivery of more than seven million pharmacy customer magazines by trans-o-flex. In addition, Barbara Uitz oversees the implementation and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. She accompanies the relevant processes and coordinates the involved interfaces.