Dan Barth Email & Phone Number

Saint-Ouen, FR

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Director of Procurement for Matthews Memorialization Group including York Casket and Bronze divisions. Lead combined purchasing for two business units (Bronze, Casket). Tasks included establish sourcing strategies, supply agreements, find and qualify new suppliers, oversee negotiations of key commodities, track and forecast key cost drivers for assigned.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Global Commodity Manager for Chemicals and Bulk GasesManaged a commodity of $300M for chemicals, industrial gases, architectural coatings, water treatment, air handling, and waste management. Leveraged spend on a global basis, standardized specifications, and evaluated alternative ideas, products, and processes to reduce costs. Worked with IBM consultants.

Rochester, New York, US

Chemicals (Ink Jet, Sensitizing, and Paper), 2004Delivered productivity and quality improvements by finding new sources of supply of specialty chemicals, held Kaizens, applied lean concepts, and developed sourcing strategies for $32 M worth of chemicals in three different production areas. Heavy focus on accreditation trials due to supplier's.

Rochester, New York, US

Supervisor, MRO Purchasing, 2003Supervised 14 people. Lead a MRO team to develop a new minority supplier. Wrote and negotiated contract ($25M) with supplier to develop productivity measures, and productivity targets. This contract was expanded to $63M and 30 people when executive management decided to outsource MRO to the minority supplier at year end.

Rochester, New York, US

SAP Implementation, Purchasing Lead, 2002Mapped out current business processes, developed innovative solutions where SAP functionality would not allow a purchasing practice to continue, for example, subcontracting, consignment, or third party pricing. The project schedule was met for all ten (10) areas and achieved stability in two weeks (best in class.

Rochester, New York, US

Supervisor, MRO Purchasing, 2003Supervised 14 people. Lead a MRO team to develop a new minority supplier. Wrote and negotiated contract ($25M) with supplier to develop productivity measures, and productivity targets. This contract was expanded to $63M and 30 people when executive management decided to outsource MRO to the minority supplier at year end..

Communicated and implemented changes in our operating philosophy while maintaining supplier relationships necessary for business operation. Increased revenues from $50K to $1M in one yearIssued World Wide Silver Plan monthly to Treasurer to improve our ability to hedge. Developed global waste disposal plans for film, paper, and silver. Outsourced 1 million.

Managed $15M/year spend for Capital such as vessels, air handling equipment, mixers, and other chemical process equipment. Lead six cross functional "Quality One", Q1, teams to have a win-win relationship with key suppliers to get early involvement, lower cost, improved delivery, six sigma quality, cycle time reductions, value stream mapping, and.

Rochester, New York, US

Designed and implemented process control on variety of chemical processes such as organic chemical reactors, polyester reactors, distillation columns, compounders, and gelatin manufacturing using a variety of hardware and instrumentation. Ran projects from P&ID, through installation, start up, and sign off by the operators.

Used interpersonal and communications skills to proactively identify and solve problems in photochemical manufacturing for day to day operation and capital upgrades. Key projects were tank farm conversion on time and on budget to allow closure of acid plant and relocation of personnel, leading the renovation of QA lab while maintaining lab operation during.

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Bs, Chemical Engineering