Chris brings to Astute a broad and diverse set of skills and experience in private and global corporate business spanning over 35 years. From a Business owner to Global Corporate business as a senior manager. Chris’s passion is to create efficiency, accuracy, and best practices within a business where all employees will want to come to work each day and feel as if they are achieving their best. They can feel proud to be a part of something. Innovation, or the desire to come up with solutions to improve business is a real passion that started from a very early age. We exist to satisfy our customers and therefore be the customer’s choice. Always looking at a business from the perspective of where we can improve. With a strong belief in good values and integrity. You need to look at everything you do as if you are part of fabric, and it is part of you. So, in a sense when you walk into a business, employed or not, you are part of the business, one way or another. Chris’s focus has been on development, change, improvement, creation, and optimisation. Always caring for a business as if his own, always caring for the individuals in the business to create success. Honesty and integrity being key.2 entities Chris owes a deal of gratitude for growth and training are: • 27 Years GEA Australia (Subsidiary of GEA GMBH): Director of supply Chain, Operations Manager, Project Manager. • 6 years AV Jennings Homes: Building Supervisor.KEY ASSETS:• Specialised in, corporate entity consolidation, new building office and warehousing, from inception to completion with change management for +150 personnel.• Extensive SAP, Quote tool BOM configuration specialist. • 35 Years Procurement experience grass roots to Operations management.• National Supply Chain Management 27 years. • ERP data analysis and report writing.• Experienced in Microsoft Dynamics (Navision), AccountRight (MYOB), Axapta, and SAP.AHIEVEMENTS: • Running multimillion dollar warehousing exceeding 30,000 line items with negligible stock loss over successive years. • Successful Consolidation 7 business sites to a single purpose-built location, with complete project management. • Complete retail and quote project pricing management, Vendor and customer management, Materials Management with MRP, stock control. • Freight Company Consolidation, Air Sea, Express. • All indirect spend such as Fleet vehicle, Asset management, facility, • communications, IT. All requirements for the functioning of businesses.