🔹 If enhancing bottom-line performance is a high priority for your business, then let’s discuss how I can help add value to your business.

🔹 I am a Global Supply Chain Director and Consultant with experience managing end-to-end processes from Sourcing to Reverse Logistics. I have 15+ years' experience identifying margin optimization opportunities and implementing creative solutions to achieve business efficiencies in several different industries including Supply Chain Consulting, Oil & Gas, Chemical Manufacturing, Wholesale and Retail Distribution and Industrial Manufacturing.

🔹 I collaborate frequently with C-Suite, division/department leaders and field personnel, and deliver quick positive results to projects and teams. I am seeking an Operations leadership role with small or mid-sized companies.

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Project achievements:

🔹 Strategic Sourcing: Led a strategic sourcing project that identified several single-source scenarios for direct materials, so an RFP initiative was administered which resulted in >$17M bottom-line savings over two years.

🔹 Procurement Assessment: Evaluated $1B of annual spend for a global oil and gas engineering firm and proposed an assessment of addressable spend to pursue yearly global cost savings of $22-33M.

🔹 Inventory Optimization: Led an $80M+ inventory management project across 21 global locations which reduced on-hand inventory 21% ($6M) over a six-month period.

🔹 Forecasting and Inventory Planning: Led an inventory planning project that analyzed field consumption and created a three-month rolling forecast which contributed to a 17% ($23M) reduction of manufacturing and field inventory levels over three years.

🔹 Logistics Optimizations:

● Reduced the pool of global transportation vendors 23% to better leverage vendor negotiations, saving >$1M/year.

● Decreased the total number of mobile field storage assets by 19%, and saved $600K over six months.

● Implemented weekly milk-run deliveries and re-negotiated drayage rates to achieve >$1M/year savings.

🔹 Category Strategy Assessment: Conducted a $270M Software category analysis for a global Top 10 Airline to understand pain points and technology requirements resulting in the recommendation of supplier negotiation tactics.

Industry experience includes:

● Supply Chain Consulting

● Upstream Oil and Gas

● Chemical Manufacturing

● Wholesale and Retail Distribution

● Industrial Manufacturing

Eric.Klumb@gmail.com

832-955-8012 (text/call)