Carlos Mena is Director of the Centre for Strategic Procurement and Supply Management at Cranfield and head of the Executive Procurement Network (EPN).has been responsible more than ten research projects in supply chain related fields such as global sourcing, sustainable supply chains and collaboration. In these projects he has collaborated with world leading organisations such as ASDA (Wal-Mart), British Airways, Coca-Cola, Ford, M&S, Tata, Tesco and P&G.