- Restructured incentives and process flows at an Industrial knife manufacturer to improve on-time performance from 30% to 95% and reduced lead-times from 11 weeks to a market competitive 4 weeks.
- Productivity improvements at a Steel Tank manufacturer through many small semi-automatic tools.
Negotiations
- Stepped in to assist management with contentious union negotiations prior to divestment on two occasions, both sucessful.
Safety
EH&S
I believe that EH&S management is both morally and operationally essential.
If you can not manage a plant safely what can you manage?
I am proud to say I have helped improve safety everywhere I have worked.
- Developed a portfolio wide EH&S policy and program.
- Rolled out to all portfolio companies within 23 months.
- Have audited many industrial facilities from saw mills, paper mills to industrial manufacturers
ERP/Analytics
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Requirements definition, implementation and on two occasions stepped into emergency re-implementations
- Netsuite
- Infor (twice)
- SAP (twice)
- EPICOR (twice)
- Salesforce.com
In all cases moved to cloud (SaaS) platforms.
Big fan of analytics:
- Tableau (especially now its owned by Salesforce.com
- Excel Crosstabs and SQL
Strategic Sourcing
Developed strategic sourcing strategies
- Outsourced manufacturing strategy at a capital equipment manufacturer that grew capacity from 4 a month to 7 a day.
- Shanghai factory
- Hong Kong Operational Center
- Expansion of Indian manufacturing facility
- Mitigation of a disastrous offshore steel sourcing contract
