Jim Amend
VP Operations at A Safe Haven Foundation | Progressive Operations and Supply Chain Leadership
- Role
- Orioncore Member at Orion3
- Location
- Naperville, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jim Amend
An innovative, passionate, and hands-on executive operations leader with demonstrated expertise and success in global operations and supply chain. Over 20 years of experience in operations/plant management, global supply chain management and sales/operations planning. A career characterized by the consistent delivery of results, development of world class operational strategy, and delivery of exceptional value at both the customer and shareholder level. A leader with broad operational background coupled with strong financial acumen and the ability to develop a high performing team. My desire and ability to identify and execute the business initiatives necessary to deliver outstanding performance and value has resulted in rapid turnarounds of underperforming operations. Global experience includes Asia, Europe, South America, and North America.Proven abilities in strategic supply chain, procurement, business/production planning and management in high growth, turnaround, and reorganization phases. Substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions leading both pre and post merger integration teams. Skilled in strategic operational, budget, and asset planning, as well as continuous improvement, employee engagement, global contract negotiations and risk management delivering top and bottom line improvements.Track record in improving productivity, cost controls, customer satisfaction, demand planning, and business development. Strategic leadership acumen and hands-on implementation approach with success implementing new technology, forecasts, lean initiatives, operational standards and KPIs to turnaround under-performing operations and generate increased profitability in condensed time periods.Skills and Capabilities-Global Operations Excellence-Lean Manufacturing-Mergers, Acquisitions and Integrations-Benchmarking, KPI, and Metrics Development-Performance Improvement via Business Process Re-engineering-Systems Integration-Employee Engagement
Experience
Orioncore Member
Nov 2021 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Education
DePaul University
MBA, Operations Management
1992 — 1995
Iowa State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Engineering
Iowa State University
BS, Industrial Engineering
1984 — 1988
DePaul University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Operations Management and Supervision
Iowa State University
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supply Management
- Operations Management
- Kaizen
- Lean Six Sigma
- 5s
- Manufacturing
- Warehousing
- Business Process Improvement
- Leadership
- Materials Management
- Customer Experience
- Strategy
- Contract Negotiation
- Procurement
- Mrp
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Inventory Control
- Product Development
- Purchasing
- Value Stream Mapping
- Global Sourcing
- Process Improvement
- Material Requirements Planning (Mrp)
- Supply Chain
- S&Op Implementation
- P&L Management
- Demand Planning
- Six Sigma
- Global Logistics
- Multi-Cultural Team Leadership
- Global Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Management
- Team Building
- Logistics
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Team Leadership
- Forecasting
- Continuous Improvement
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