John Munnelly’s career in logistics spans over 25 years during which time he has experienced the industry from all angles both third party and in house operations with previous roles with TDG, Ryder, Littlewoods and Sainsbury’s. John has built up a wealth of experience and knowledge relating to all aspects of retail distribution, particularly specialising in operational startups for large scale automated solutions, transport operations, Direct to Customer Home Delivery and Omni-Channel fulfilment. John has successfully managed a number of high profile and technologically advanced projects. Working closely with suppliers such as Siemens, Knapp, VanDerLande, Witron and Manhatten Associates at all stages of project development and post implementation running John has become an expert in his field. For the last 5 years John has been the Senior Project Manager responsible for the design, build and implementation of John Lewis’ new Semi-automated National Distribution Centre at Magna Park, Milton Keynes. This highly acclaimed development which went live in 2009 is industry leading, enabling one pool of stock to be used for all shop deliveries and customer fulfilment. John Lewis has recently announced its intention to expand this facility by introducing a second warehouse which will be connected to the existing site forming a campus with an operating footprint in excess of 2 million square feet.