ESCA | Dec 16, 2008, 14:41
Chris McDivitt is a Senior Manager in Capgemini’s Consumer Products & Retail Practice with 12 years of consulting experience. Chris has extensive experience in leading large full lifecycle supply chain planning implementations, change management and supply business transformations. His functional experience is in Collaborative Demand & Supply Planning, Merchandise Planning and S&OP. His clients include Georgia Pacific, Limited Brands, OfficeMax, American Greetings, Black & Decker, Warner Home Video, John Deere, BOSE, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Bausch & Lomb.
Representative Experiences:
• For a large paper manufacturer, led 50 business and technical team members in the business process redesign and implementation of JDA’s demand, collaborate, fulfillment, production planning, production scheduling applications
For a large manufacturer of industrial and consumer power equipment tools, led future state global requirements and software selection for Demand, Replenishment, Production and Deployment Planning\Execution supply chain processes
• For a large manufacturer and retailer of greeting cards, led a business transformation design initiative for Integrated Planning and Execution processes. Defined current state processes as well as drove consensus on future state level 3 design of Forecasting, Demand and Replenishment Planning.
• For a large global specialty retailer, led a 2.5 year supply chain implementation of an Allocation, Forecasting and Replenishment Planning process, technology and organizational overhaul to deliver an integrated JDA-SAP solution. Implemented internal collaborative demand and merchandise planning processes, an S&OP design and centralized organizational redesign.
• For global agricultural equipment manufacturer, led a Supply Chain Assessment to define the supplier management strategy and business case to allow for optimal asset utilization and maximum throughput while meeting demand schedules and providing real-time visibility of material requirements to suppliers. Identified key process improvements using forecasting, production scheduling, and web-based supplier collaboration and procurement applications.
Representative Experiences:
• For a large paper manufacturer, led 50 business and technical team members in the business process redesign and implementation of JDA’s demand, collaborate, fulfillment, production planning, production scheduling applications
For a large manufacturer of industrial and consumer power equipment tools, led future state global requirements and software selection for Demand, Replenishment, Production and Deployment Planning\Execution supply chain processes
• For a large manufacturer and retailer of greeting cards, led a business transformation design initiative for Integrated Planning and Execution processes. Defined current state processes as well as drove consensus on future state level 3 design of Forecasting, Demand and Replenishment Planning.
• For a large global specialty retailer, led a 2.5 year supply chain implementation of an Allocation, Forecasting and Replenishment Planning process, technology and organizational overhaul to deliver an integrated JDA-SAP solution. Implemented internal collaborative demand and merchandise planning processes, an S&OP design and centralized organizational redesign.
• For global agricultural equipment manufacturer, led a Supply Chain Assessment to define the supplier management strategy and business case to allow for optimal asset utilization and maximum throughput while meeting demand schedules and providing real-time visibility of material requirements to suppliers. Identified key process improvements using forecasting, production scheduling, and web-based supplier collaboration and procurement applications.