Gary Flaharty

About Gary Flaharty

As an executive with diverse management experience, both as a supply chain executive, and as an investor relations officer at a major diversified oilfield service company, I have consistently demonstrated the ability to create value when I have empowered diverse teams to collaborate to solve business challenges and deliver results. Driving results requires teams that have the right mix of skilled professionals, clear objectives, and the right tools, data and industry-leading processes to succeed. I lead teams by helping them identify and simplify the problem at hand, making the very complex comprehensible and manageable. I co-founded SCLinx Incorporated to coach executives responsible for oil and gas services supply chains to listen and respond to that too often soft voice of the customer and to build supply chain organizations that deliver competitive advantage for their firms. Creating competitive advantage begins with a holistic view of the supply chain—one that includes taking ownership of all the supply chain processes that link my suppliers’ suppliers to my customers’ customers. Next, strategic goal setting for supply chain must integrate the supply chain imperatives—HS & E and quality; internal goals—capital efficiency and profitability; and external goals into one coherent strategic plan. External goals anchor the supply chain in the customers\'​ customers based on what customers value to build competitive advantage. Last, the focus on the customers’ customers permeates the planning and execution functions driving fundamental changes in way the S & OP is organized. I co-authored \"Customer-Anchored Supply Chains: An Executive’s Guide to Building Competitive Advantage in the Oil Patch\", to share these concepts with supply chain executives throughout the oil field service industry.(Published June 29, 2015)

Experience

1. Managing Partner - Energy

   Sclinx Incorporated

   Aug 2014 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Founder of SCLinx Incorporated. SCLinx is a management consulting firm specializing in executive supply chain coaching for oilfield services companies. We believe oilfield supply chains can deliver competitive advantage to products and services companies only when their goals are anchored in the customer’s requirements.Our approach is to coach supply chain leaders and their teams to create agile oilfield service supply chains that deliver products and services as promised to the customer.We believe competitive advantage is achieved by pursuing excellence in planning, repeatable execution, and by anchoring the supply chain in the customer’s needs.Planning and execution improvement must focus on the links in the value chain. If the links are tightened, we can reduce inventory, lower costs and shrink lead times. If the links in the value chain are loose, we must compensate with wasteful inventory investment, higher costs, and extended lead times. Our coaching helps companies implement Customer-Anchored Supply Chains.

Education

• University of Houston

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

  1976 — 1978

• University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

  1974 — 1976

• University of Houston

  Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics

  1978 — 1979

• University of Houston

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations Management

  1978 — 1980