Ziad Khashram Email & Phone Number

I am an Operations and Supply Chain professional who is a certified lean practitioner with a mechanical engineering degree, an ISO lead internal auditor (systems & procedures), a SixSigma Greenbelt, an Excel Guru, and vehement about Lean & process improvements. I am currently working with clients help bridge their current desires to their future realities by understand their current state realities, explore their future state desires, and design a roadmap to make their journey a sustained success. Opportunities that ask the questions like, "How can we grow 10x?", "How to create a sustainable future?", and "How do we build robust operations?" Leadership Personality: Gallup Clifton Strengths: Achiever, Arranger, Includer, Learner, StrategicFoursight: Integrator Below are quick highlights: Total Years of Experience: +20yearsConsulting Years of Experience: +10yearsConsulting/Managing Industries include: Hospitality, government entities, Manufacturing Operations, Pharmaceutical, Agriculture, Construction projects, Engineering design, Paper Converting business, Retail warehousing, Apparel manufacturing, Consulting services, Start-ups operations, New app development, Healthcare data mining & codingRange of Leading Teams: 6 employees - 300 employeesProject Experience: Closing +50projects, ranging from 1 team to 6 team members.Range of Responsible Budget: $5 M - $40 MLocations: USA, Jordan, Egypt, GCC, Canada, New ZealandExperience Highlights: Strategy deployment - answering the question “How do we achieve this?” • Lean philosophies - Value Stream mapping, Birth of Continous improvement departments, Process Mapping, Process Capabilities and capacities, 5S+S development and deployment, Reduction of 8 Operational Wastes, Just-in-time planning, X-map development, Key performance indicators. (+20 years)• IT Software integration - Streamlining day-to-day operation, including error-proof controls (+20 years) • Green Belt Certified (+14 years)• ERP (+14 years)• Budgeting control - Direct budget of approx. $40 M (+10 years) • Project Management (+10 years)• Strategy Planning & Deploying -- Hoshin Kanri (+ 8 years)• Warehouses and Stock leveling - Direct inventory of $30 M reduced to $18 M with plans to reduce to $10 M. (+8 years) • Fulfilling Sales demand and maximizing production capacity (+8 years)Looking forward to chat about building the bridge with you. "[Lean]...is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity" - Taiichi Ohno

Listed skills include Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Manufacturing, and 47 others.

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  Cleveland State University

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