Jeff Warren Email & Phone Number

Murarrie, Queensland, Au

Are you a mining company or contractor that is struggling with parts availability and being caught out with no parts for breakdowns?When this occurs, the loss of cash from production and risk to your balance sheet can be staggering which can put you in hot water when it comes to your contract obligations and production targets.We streamline the throughput of your supply chain and accelerate the delivery of essential parts for servicing and breakdowns of your critical production equipment.Clients come to me when✖ Maintenance teams have had enough, they want their parts, and have started to do it themselves✖ Inventory is fat and useless. It looks nasty on the balance sheet and isn't helping to reduce the time to fix critical production machinery✖ Supply teams are not sure about there next step and need a trusted advisorAbove all, the accountable manager of the supply chain doesn't know where to start and needs the situation turned around fast as the operations are generally mid-sized and are competing in a competitive market.After working with Vueterra, you will experience a✔ Notable relief from maintenance staff, they can fix equipment fast and back to making cash✔ Inventory is now softening the unknowns from suppliers and is there when required✔ A clear vision of the milestones ahead and a team who are engaged on stretching their capabilityMost of all, your company is far more agile to take on new projects without being slowed down by poor supply services.What clients are saying"The new data is excellent, we have no problems with it, and the team find it easy to get PO's out." - Matt Shepard, Purchasing Manager, Incitec Pivot Limited"Jeff was fundamental it the set up and management of our inventory system and partnered with us for the continued improvement of our maintenance department." - Jason Plath, Director, Asset Performance SolutionsREADY FOR THE NEXT STEP?Scroll up and message me here so that we can get you sorted.

Murarrie, Queensland, Au

AurizonThe Shopfloor 2 project was focused on delivering multiple enhancements to the Aurizon rollingstock work management process. I played a key role in delivering the excellence in planning stream training and continued past the completion date on a continuous improvement project to deliver value-adding enhancement activity that was uncovered during the rollout.The main deliverable of the training was the familiarisation and one on one coaching for maintenance and warehouse personnel in the SAP environment. Serialisation, split valuation and task lists were the primary areas of training and coaching.Additional continuous improvement activities were conducted, my responsibility was to rationalise and document the warranty, internal refurbishment and initiate the simplification of the internal warehouse procedures.

Murarrie, Queensland, Au

Glencore Coal Assets AustraliaGlencore had recently implemented SAP which had uncovered issues that were slowing down procurement and interfering with maintenance building machines strategies as the spares data was vague, unclassified and incomplete.The project required parts to be interpreted and matched to the dictionary for classification which was delivered successfully and complimented the activities being carried out in other departments.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

BHP Coal is the world’s largest exporter of coking coal to the seaborne resource market. Whilst I had the privilege of working at this world class operation I was able to deliver valuable supply chain transformation activities to 11 mine sites, port and various supporting facilities. By setting up a network of engagement points throughout local and international business units I could lead successful teams, embed and quickly adopt globally recognised solutions.- Assisted BHP 1SAP (Ecc6.0) implementation with process writing, UAT and operational application workshops- Led 17 demand planners coordinating a 120,000+ line weekly volume and increasing Material on Time metric to 91% from 85%- Coordinated merger of 3 BHP assets & 4 functional locations with an increase of $250m AUD P.A. in demand planning activities- Headed inventory optimisation of $150m AUD targeting neutral MRO reduction - stock turns increase to 2.6 from 1.8- Led centralisation and capital reduction initiatives of repair inventory totalling $40m AUD with Zero lost time hours- Championed the repair component process simplification, non-OEM purchasing strategy and increased repair catalogue utilisation to 87% from 45%- Centralised low cost PPE and consumable Inventory enabling overseas purchasing $2m AUD of initial savings- Scoping and implementation of Service Level Agreement encompassing Maintenance and Supply activity

Terex Mining before being purchased by Caterpillar was the top tier manufacturer of ultra-class mining machinery.- Managed the supply of parts and sales to my allocated mining customers- Provided parts for the repair of major components to the in-house workshop- Assisted warehouse operations on call out and case by case basis.

First Choice Training

First Choice Training

Education record