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Operations & Supply Chain Director with over 20 years of successfully developing people and implementing world class supply chain practices resulting in increased revenue, enhanced profitability, greater team collaboration and communication, higher customer service levels, and increased employee engagement

Lead the global supply chain team including: Demand Planning, Sourcing & Purchasing, Warranty Services, Operational Analysis and Reporting (U.S.A.), Customer Service (U.S.A., Austria, S. Korea, Japan), Subcontracted Manufacturing (China), Warehousing and Distribution (Hong Kong), and Quality (U.S.A.).

?	Created company mission/vision and updated Boa’s 5-year strategy annually as part of the senior leadership team.
?	Developed Operational goals designed to support Boa’s annual strategy.
?	Guided Operations team to successfully fulfill all department objectives.
?	Built a Demand Planning team through which capacity constraints are resolved while buying requirements and cost reductions are consistently met.
?	Moved organization from reactionary annual planning cycle to a more proactive quarterly S&OP process.
?	Regularly align future product supply capacity with revenue consensus forecast, seasonality factors, and inventory level objectives.
o	Strategically developed contingency plans with key suppliers to accommodate additional sales opportunities and shortfalls.
?	Optimize supply plan based on forecast accuracy of each segment and position in product life cycle. 
?	Successfully implemented a new ERP and WMS system in less than six months.
?	Continue to support double-digit business growth year over year.
?	Collaborated with Sales, Brand Partners, and Customers to develop mutually beneficial supply agreements designed to exceed customer expectations.
?	Identified, qualified, and selected suppliers to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and improve processes.
?	Reduced order lead-times by 25%.
?	Select, coach, and professionally develop a growing global supply chain team.
?	Three tactically based positions promoted into supervisory roles.
?	Increased on-time delivery to historically high levels.
?	Implemented inventory management best practices.
?	Exceed inventory management goals in both inventory velocity and expired and obsolete inventory levels.
?	Collaborated with IT to develop Power BI metrics and implement best in class key performance indicators for supply chain operations.
?	Use various Root Cause Analysis tools to exceed goals in all key metrics.


Director of Operations

Drove all tactical and strategic improvements through the planning, scheduling, buying, and shipping functions of the cardiovascular division; led our facility to the highest annual revenue on record while maintaining margins through location-wide improvement initiatives, capital improvement projects, employment of Lean Manufacturing techniques, and the development of effective cross-functional relationships with internal/external customers.

?	Utilized VMI & applied Kanban tools to improve inventory management.
?	Optimized consignment stock levels and increased fill rates while surpassing inventory turn, revenue, & profit goals with reduced staff.
?	Led the supply chain team through a plant closure.
?	Successfully transitioned all FG and RAW inventory to sister facilities or end of life.
?	Honored with Most Improved Plant of the Year award for 2014 performance.
?	Successfully led our facility to meet key annual goals while operating under an austerity budget.
?	Set clear expectations and SMART goals, increasing interaction and collaboration with direct reports and peers.
?	Improved facility engagement by 14% year-over year (highest department engagement and largest percentage increase).
?	Applied 5S principles and led a Kaizen event focused on the packing and shipping functional areas.
?	Reduced head-count and OT.
?	Improved cross-functional skill sets of personnel
?	Reorganized supply chain and improved development of key department personnel.


Senior Supply Chain Manager

Directed all Planning, Scheduling, Inventory Control, and Purchasing Operations. Led the JD Edwards Enterprise One software implementation for the supply chain functional area.

Materials Manager

Directed the supply chain team responsible for demand planning, supply planning, procurement, and inventory control for five DC’s located throughout Europe, North America, and Asia.

?	Improved overall operational bench depth and strength by transferring knowledge and developing the skills of team members including direct reports, peers, and managers:
?	Directed the implementation of a formal Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
o	Optimized raw material and finished good buy requirements and improved operational strategic planning.
o	Improved allocation methodology to optimize customer satisfaction and future demand.
?	Acted as Functional Business Process Lead for the Materials Management and Production Planning modules of New Era Cap’s SAP AFS implementation.
?	Initiated and led New Era’s national account CPFR pilot.
?	Developed and executed performance improvement initiatives, increasing fill rates and on-time delivery, contributing to a 20% sales growth rate (2005 – 2007).
?	Increased sales rep. forecast accuracy.
o	Built a sales forecast consensus team.
o	Implemented an incentive policy through a cross-functional executive team. 
?	Engaged manufacturing plants and redesigned inventory management policies to drive accuracies up 15%.
?	Successfully led a global cross-functional team designed to optimize revenue during the continual change associated with annual “hot market”.
?	Leveraged price and product changes to influence demand.


Global Planning, Scheduling, and Inventory Control Manager

Relocated all warehouse and distribution operations (three facilities into one new facility with over 2,000 inventoried items).  Sourced, negotiated, procured, and remodeled a new warehouse including: new storage systems, material handling equipment, office construction, and communication systems. 

?	Reorganizing operations: increased process flow efficiencies and employee utilization, reduced transportation costs, and negotiated lease savings.
?	Improved ten-year NPV cash flow by $700K. 
?	Go-live execution lead charged with meeting Wal-Mart’s January 2005 RFID compliance mandate.

Designed and initiated efforts to streamline plant operations (eight production lines & 25 high-speed packaging lines), decrease production costs, improve forecasts, and increase output across multiple plants through the coordination of Planning, Production, Packaging, Customer Service, Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, and Quality.
? Key manager involved in improving company performance from losses averaging in excess of $1 million per week to annual profitability in less than five years.
? Exceeded planned production by 16%; streamlined SKU rationalization while personally designing and implementing production/packaging schedules for 200 million pounds (450 FG SKU’s) of consumer packaged food products annually. ? Created, implemented, and managed a successful transitional plan for production scheduling during the rollout of a $40 million ERP system, the 2nd largest PeopleSoft implementation in the world.

Operations & Production Planner

Production Supervisor

Robert P. Schneider is a Director of Operations at Boa Technology Incorporated in Denver, CO.

Robert P. Schneider

Robert P. Schneider

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Canisius College

Orchard Park High School

State University of New York at Buffalo

University Of Denver Daniels College Of Business