Lars Kuch Pedersen

Lars Kuch Pedersen has spent over two decades working inside supply chains, first as a Procurement Analyst and Supply Chain Manager operating across the Nordics, later as a Head of Procurement for an international wholesale business across Europe. In 2013, Lars founded LeanLinking in Aarhus, Denmark, with a clear thesis: procurement teams in regulated industries needed a purpose-built SRM platform, not another module bolted onto an ERP. Thirteen years later, LeanLinking serves global Top-100 brands and SMEs across manufacturing, pharma, food and beverage, chemicals, and wholesale, helping procurement teams replace fragmented supplier workflows with structured, auditable governance.

Lars writes on supplier performance management, supplier onboarding, supply chain risk, and the operational realities of running procurement in regulated industries. His content draws directly from the governance challenges LeanLinking’s customers face: how to enforce supplier scorecard thresholds without manual data entry, how to maintain audit-ready supplier qualification records at scale, and how to convert supplier data into commercial leverage at contract renewal.