Moving Parts, LLC is an independent consulting firm that specializes in managing commodity risk. We work primarily with companies in various segments of the food industry to proactively manage and minimize their price/cost risk and optimize margin reliability.

Guide procurement of bulk and packaged vegetable and animal fats for use in various food applications at over 40 plant locations equaling approximately 1.2 B pounds of annual category consumption volume. Accountable for key aspects of domestic and global grain, oilseeds, and edible oils markets analysis, supplier selection and relationships, total delivered cost, support for new product development, cost savings, sales support, and SAP P2P implementation.

Responsible for ~$75M direct sales to national and regional customers generating over $8M margin along with soft wheat & technical flour business-planning responsibilities. Managed sales volume, product mix, and margin plans for seven wheat mills. Directly responsible for ~$15M gross sales of specialty food ingredients to assigned national accounts generating ~$10+M annualized gross margin.

Designed, blueprinted, and validated new pricing/quoting, contracting, and contract management business processes (BPR) and SAP systems structure for various commodity-based and specialty materials based on SKU BOM definitions incorporating:• Volume projections by customer location/SKU history and promotion group hierarchies• Margin management by customer, SKU, and/or promotion group hierarchies• Variable yield / multiple product stream manufacturing processes• Electronic futures hedging and position reconciliation improving customer response and commodity risk management capabilities• Automatically convert quotes to contracts expected to reduce administrative staff by 50%• Baseline MRP requirements• Blueprints used to guide functional and technical specification development• Ahead of schedule and under budget against project and development milestones

Sales broker for cash edible oils transactions between various US refiners and bulk edible oils customers.

Managed functional teams including 5 sales professionals and 15 customer relations specialists. Responsible for ~$75M direct sales to national and regional customers generating over $8M margin along with soft wheat & technical flour business-planning responsibilities. Managed sales volume, product mix, and margin plans for seven wheat mills. Directly responsible for ~$15M gross sales of specialty food ingredients to assigned national accounts generating ~$10+M annualized gross margin.

Primary corporate contact for all Total Quality Management (TQM) related activities. Developed and led cross-functional teams chartered to analyze and improve existing workflow designs; i.e. manufacturing, administrative, and IS. Member of Executive Steering Committee. Chaired Quality Improvement Team. Lead trainer; educated ~130 employees at St. Joseph, MO plant. Managed $300K implementation budget.~Analyzed potential benefits and presented recommendations to executive management resulting in being appointed as first Total Quality Manager.~Realized first year savings of over $1M by implementing employee process improvement ideas.

Bulk edible oil sales to customers in eastern half of US.

Midwest regional sales responsibility for hydrocolloid products to food companies.

Held various sales and sales management roles in refined vegetable oils, food-grade soy proteins, and corn sweeteners.