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Supply chain, operations and purchasing in transportation, automotive and energy sectors. Lean projects (values stream mapping, kaizen blitzs, etc). MRP-2 and ERP choice and optimization; Sales and operations planning (S&OP), lean manufacturing, total quality, change management. Assessments in production and logistics. CFPIM and CSCP certified (www.apics.org); APICS instructor
Worldwide more than 20 years experience in supply chain and operations, ERP, with big players in automotive, energy, railway. Sourcing and procurement, change management, continuos improvement programs, total quality management and lean.
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Registered professional engineer (PE) in Italy since 1988. Master's engineering (MEng) degree - 5 years APICS CFPIM and CSCP certified (www.apics.org) APICS Master CPIM Instructor APICS Master CSCP Instructor(www.apics.org/Education/apics_recognized_instructors.htm) ELA EMLog certified (www.elalog.org) ICMCI CMC certified (www.icmci.org)
Registered professional engineer (PE) in Italy since 1988. Master's engineering (MEng) degree - 5 years APICS CFPIM and CSCP certified (www.apics.org) APICS Master CPIM Instructor APICS Master CSCP Instructor(www.apics.org/Education/apics_recognized_instructors.htm) ELA EMLog certified (www.elalog.org) ICMCI CMC certified (www.icmci.org)
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Good question! Logistics needs coordination, consolidation of needs and practices, but lack of trust, standards and share of information push practices in other directions. Industry needs to better
MRPI is about planning requirements of materials only: based on Bill of materials, gross requiremnts, lead times and inventory levels, you neeed to explode throgh the BOM the requirements, net it againsts
Dear Paula, you need a market reasearch (Kompass , Who's WHo, Duns, etc) in order to define the possible partners. Then you need to be sure you are in front of qualified people, thrpugh credentailas
Dear Vladimir, thank you for your question. Collaborative forecasting and replenishmnet systems (CPFR - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPFR) can be applied to the agricultural supply chains too
Good evening Mohamed, Lean is related to the Toyota Production System and to the Mr. Womack definition : generate add value as defined by the customer and banish all types of waste. Agile is a concept
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