Michel Simard Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Lead a team of 4 Buyers and 9 Material Specialists located in 7 sites across North America to achieve their annual savings and process improvement goals. Oversaw performance of the team using coaching, prompt positive.
• Generated over $250K and provided significant material donations to local/international charities by leading the disposal of laboratory and office material project during the decommissioning of the Montreal site.
• Achieved a $3M positive impact on cash flow by leading a project to systematically extend payment terms.
• Taught staff on principles of LeanSigma, time management and Oracle purchasing/inventory module to increase quality.

Managed a team of 16 Material Specialist located in 12 sites across North America and Europe providing inventory control over a $3.5M consumables inventory. Led the deployment of the inventory module of Oracle 11i which involved physically restructuring storerooms, implementing standards and changing business processes as well as personnel decisions.

• Led the Supply Chain continuous improvement program using a LeanSigma approach to eliminate waste and improve processes.
• Eliminated excess inventory and standardized processes by leading several Kaizen (continuous improvement) events at sites in North America and Europe.
• Defined supply chain processes and improvement opportunities by performing value stream mapping exercises with cross functional teams at various sites in NA and Europe.
• Improved communication process with vendors by creating a Supplier Relationship Management program and implementing a SAS application.

• Led or coordinated complex procurement projects that involved multiple stakeholders and impacted sites across North America and Europe.
• Reduced costs and improved service agreements of a new ECG system across multiple sites by coordinating the procurement activities.
• Generated potential financial benefits of >$1.5M by authoring business cases to maintain a specialized service in-house, restructure stockrooms and improve the internal requisition process.
• Achieved $100K in savings by auditing invoices of IT/Telecom vendor.

Led a large (23 employees) technical internal support service group responsible for the maintenance (calibration, automation, and training) of the analytical instruments; data management and integrity; inventory management of consumables.

Executive Mba, General Management

B.Sc., Biology