Bill Bryan Email & Phone Number

Sr. Advisor and Board Member

Canton, Oh, Us

As an officer, reported directly to the President, CEO, and Board Chairman, excelled at managing all manufacturing operations, including six plants and warehouses, IT operations and capital investments, Strategic Sourcing, Metal Recycling subsidiary, and over 2,000 employees. Championed a $700M cost budget, $650M raw material sourcing, and $50M annual capital expenditures.• Significantly improved Environmental, Health, and Safety metrics. Achieved historical record low OSHA recordable incident and lost time incident rates. • Improved delivery performance from 60% to 90+% through cultural, metrics, and software changes.• Led an accelerated manufacturing cost reduction program which reduced structural costs by over 20%, worth over $120M annually.• Instituted a company-wide continuous improvement program providing cost savings of over $100M annually.• Directed a multi tactic inventory reduction and cash generation program which generated over $150M. • Significantly reduced raw materials inventory from planned 25 days to 10 days.• Reported plans and results quarterly to the Board of Directors.• Led and directed a significant portion of the economics and improvements for the business, including hourly labor, all purchased costs, working capital, optimal sales mix, and business costs.

North Canton, Oh, Us

Reported to the Steel Group President, directed $1.5B procurement and strategic sourcing for a producer of highly engineered alloy steel with $2.2B in annual sales. Managed all supply chain design, engineering, and planning activities for 400 steel grades, 9,000 customer specs, and 40,000 annual orders across six plants and 30 major process paths and managed more than 200 employees. Spearheaded the creation of TSB Metal Recycling, a wholly owned subsidiary of Timken with $100M in sales. • Implemented iron unit supply strategy including acquisitions and supply agreements to assure availability of input raw materials at below market pricing.• Successfully managed $300M in inventory; achieved lowest working capital to sales ratio.• Directed a customer service improvement initiative that improved on time performance by >30%.• Served as a Board Member for AGC Inc., a Timken joint venture with Sanyo Steel and Showa Seiko.• Directed all sourcing, demand planning and fulfillment, and supply chain engineering activities. • Managed all supply chain economics, including $1.5B of procurement and $300M working capital.• Implemented supply chain management strategy with advanced tools and processes.• Directed Information Technology Operations; implemented strategy including four SAP installations on time and within budget. Oversaw capital projects in excess of $15M.

North Canton, Oh, Us

Reported to Steel Executive Vice President and Controller, directed all demand planning and fulfillment and supply chain, engineering, and IT operations activities. • Developed a five-year supply chain and IT strategy for Steel Group.• Led all finance activities for Steel Group, including forecasting and internal / external reporting.• Reorganized into strategic, comprehensive supply chain and supply chain economics function.• Supported all financial decisions, developed overall business plans and budgets.

North Canton, Oh, Us

Reported jointly to Senior VP Supply Chain and Global Automotive Group President, led global Automotive Bearing order fulfillment activities in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, and Asia for $800M European bearing sales in the automotive, industrial, and distribution markets as well as $2B automotive sales globally. Spearheaded supply chain management activities, including procurement, forecasting, customer service, planning, packaging, and logistics for all customer and operations in Europe. Managed more than 200 employees.• Directed the implementation of an SAP enterprise system for the entire European business.• Created the concept, design, and implementation of a customer service center in Sosnowiec, Poland.• Led supply chain integration between Timken, Nadella, and Torrington businesses.• Directed global implementation of synchronous manufacturing practices, systems, and metrics.• Key member of the decision and the acquisition team for the Torrington business addition

North Canton, Oh, Us

Led all U.S. bearing fulfillment activities, including customer service, planning and scheduling, IT systems, transportation, and packaging.• Achieved a business cost reduction of 30% by streamlining organizational structure and restructuring work.• Implemented synchronous flow manufacturing practices and systems at 14 plants.Redesigned supply chain metrics, processes, and systems achieving; inventory savings of $60M.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Executive Development

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Supply Chain And Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Business, Finance And Information Technology