John Brendle Email & Phone Number

Garden City, NY, US

• Co-founded a start-up Management Consulting practice focused on improving supply chain performance allowing businesses to better achieve their strategic goals. Grew from a start-up to eventually operating in the US.
• Customer Service Excellence
• Integrated supply chain planning (demand & supply)
• Integrated business planning (S&OP)
• Network design & optimization
• Logistics Strategy

• Led a Supply Chain integration and improvement program needed because of a major acquisition.
• Developed a long-term strategic plan for Supply Chain designed to radically improve customer service and generate $200 million in savings
• Designed a new Supply Chain Organization model to improve decision making & responsiveness.
• Conducted comprehensive Supply Chain Assessments in all countries to identify performance gaps and created roadmaps for long term improvement
• Led a regional team which implemented improvement projects across the region

• Responsible for tactical planning of all supply chain activities, customer service, credit, transportation and distribution center operations.
• Implemented new integrated “order to cash” customer service process and organization bringing together activities formally managed in different parts of the organization. This resulted in a more effective and efficient.
• Designed and implemented integrated planning process and supporting system covering demand planning, inventory planning, production planning, materials planning and inventory deployment
• Reorganized planning department to be better aligned with product categories resulting in an improved focus on new product introduction and growth.
• Developed a balanced scorecard of Supply Chain KPI’s for all aspects of Plan, Source Make and Deliver.
• Led a Transportation study that resulted in a 15% reduction in freight cost.

• Managed the tactical planning of all supply chain activities, customer service, credit, and distributionoperations.
• Sponsored and led process redesign initiatives that resulted in the implementation of a totally integrated planning process, supported by new advanced planning software, linking all components of the supply chain.
• Created a high-performance logistics organization built around empowered teams and a commitment to superior customer service. Resulted in significant improvement in customer service performance and recognition by major.
• Integrated all customer service-related activities (Order Management, Inventory Management (CRP), billing, collections, credit, customer payments) into a unified team-based customer service organization. Led the.