James Hannaford
Head of MFG Planning, Systems, and Inventory at Amazon Robotics
- Role
- Head of Planning, Systems, and Inventory at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
- Location
- Derry, NH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Hannaford
I am a versatile, result-oriented Leader who’s delivered creative and engaging solutions across complex operating environments. Over the years, I have demonstrated a history of being a change agent who’s analytical and strategic thinking style has delivered measurable results.If you are seeking a result-oriented change agent, please contact me.
Experience
Head of Planning, Systems, and Inventory
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Jan 2025 — Present · North Reading, MA, US
Led an organization of 22 employees and 40 contractors across two manufacturing sites and four warehouses, directing production planning, inventory management, configuration management, warehouse operations, and enterprise system applications to deliver 100K+ robots annually• Manufacturing Functional Team Lead overseeing eight system engineers for a $50MM+ digital transformation program modernizing four critical enterprise systems (SAP S/4 HANA ERP, Kinaxis SCP, Tulip MES, Siemens Teamcenter PLM), enabling a $183MM 3-year NPV• Created comprehensive strategic roadmap addressing 600+ user stories across the four enterprise applications while managing parallel implementations of SCP (12 months), MES (12 months), ERP (24 months) and PLM (18 months)• Directed cross-functional teams through 100+ key design decisions and led the functional design specifications reviews, achieving 94-100% capability fit across systems while maintaining an 80% out of the box configuration• Advised on best practices for system integrations and technical architecture to connect manufacturing execution, supply chain planning, product lifecycle management and ERP systems to enable automated workflows and improve master data governance • Accountable for $1B production build plan COGS, directing capacity planning, master production scheduling, and finite scheduling while scaling manipulation product family capacity by 320% in year one and 10x over three years• Established change management protocols to effectively process engineering change orders enabling the reduction of new product introduction time-to-market by 50% while maintain 95% product configuration audit compliance• Managed $22MM annual warehouse operations budget and $18MM direct labor budget covering 290 employees while maintaining 98% on-time delivery and 85% labor utilization
Education
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Bachelor of Science, Environmental, Health and Safety
2011 — 2014
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