David Strachan Email & Phone Number

Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah Area

Neenah, Wisconsin, United States

Led the startup of a new business as a third party provider to operate a large warehouse with 105 employees handling 24,000 truckloads per year. Provided provide 24/7 support to 16 production lines producing Depend Underwear and Poise Pads. Reached new levels for safety, training, productivity, and service to the customer.

Neenah, Wi

Trained a temporary workforce to properly support warehouse operations after union employees vacated positions. Developed and executed a strategic plan for the layout of a 135,000 sq. ft. warehouse expansion. Began onboarding of MAU Workforce Solutions as permanent third party provider.

Neenah, Wi

Developed e-commerce supply chain to ship $130M in revenue annually from K-C facilities to consumers’ homes on behalf of customers such as Amazon, Target, and Costco. Worked directly with retailers and led team members in IT, Customer service, and Distribution to reduce costs by two-thirds, expand the shipping network, and increase profits.

Neenah, Wi

Acted as liaison between Distribution team and Adult and Feminine Care businesses working directly with Planning, Packaging, Marketing and the business unit President. Improved introduction of new product versions and increased revenue by $4M. Facilitated workshops with suppliers to redesign store displays reducing costs by $4M.

Neenah, Wi

Used lean principles to more closely link production and distribution of Huggies Baby Wipes to actual customer sales. Used value stream mapping and simulations to improve product flow. Eliminated redundant shipments of finished goods and cut deployed inventory in half while simultaneously increasing customer service levels.

Neenah, Wi

Created a centralized team to deploy consumer brands such as Huggies, Cottonelle, and Kleenex, across a distribution network with 17 manufacturing sites and distribution centers. Used lean problem solving to increase cube efficiency and rail utilization of finished goods deployment reducing annual freight spend $30M.

Neenah, Wi

Created new team to manage distribution capacity, activity based management and inventory control.Optimized processes to forecast distribution storage and throughput capacity requirements. Proactively managed and manipulated storage and throughput capacity for distribution network. Resulted in more efficient warehouse spending and reduced distribution center throughput constraints.Coordinated efforts of 17 distribution operations during critical periods such as product introductions and peak shipping periods ensuring customers’ service expectations were met.Implemented activity based management in 13 distribution operations reducing distribution costs more than $20M and showcasing Kimberly-Clark as a leader in ABM.

Neenah, Wi

Created pilot processes to identify thresholds for loading, unloading, and storage capacity. Collaborated with planning teams to forecast production and sales volumes by brand. Identified periods requiring peak storage and throughput volumes and took proactive action to prevent distribution network constraints.

Neenah, Wi

Developed Activity Based Management cost modeling tool to analyze distribution center spending. Trained distribution center teams to compare costs with other facilities in the distribution network. Enabled teams to analyze spending and generate financial data to justify local cost improvement programs.

Neenah, Wi

Identified opportunities within the distribution network to improve customer service. Reduced distribution costs to club customers by $5 million annually.

Neenah, Wi

Managed the mid-range raw material supply chain for U.S., Canadian and European diaper plants. Coordinated the efforts of internal and external suppliers to ensure a smooth flow of raw materials to all diaper plants.

Ogden Diaper Plant, Ogden, Utah

Developed a cross-functional team to set plant priorities for quality, waste and delay issues. Provided analysis and planning expertise to plant management to ensure achievement of plant objectives.

Ogden Diaper Plant, Ogden, Utah

Managed two diaper production lines with 54 employees ranging from Engineers to Machine Operators. Made continuous improvements in machine waste and delay resulting in new benchmarks for production levels.

Ogden Diaper Plant, Ogden, Utah

Provided supervision for over 100 Materials Handling employees. Modified and enforced personnel guidelines, vacation schedules and overtime requirements.

Ogden Diaper Plant, Ogden, Utah

Prepared pilot site for startup of OASIS mainframe system to manage customer orders and distribution center capacity. Modified existing job processes, wrote training manuals, and conducted training classes.

Ogden Diaper Plant, Ogden, Utah

Managed $5 million in raw material inventories to meet changing production requirements while keeping inventories at targeted levels.

Ogden Diaper Plant, Ogden, Utah

Evaluated vendor performance and qualified potential suppliers as primary and secondary sources for MRO items. Reduced core vendor base from 30 suppliers to twelve.

Springfield, Ohio And Salt Lake City, Utah

Columbus, Ohio Area

Developed the corporation’s first statistical process control program.Defined quality standards and reporting methods for credit card statement processing.

Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration - Production Operations Management