Robert Speake Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Cologne Area, Germany

Cologne Area, Germany

Supply Chain integration of legacy Forbo sites into HB Fuller with standardisation and optimisation of SAP data and processes.

Cologne Area, Germany

Project Management of transition of several DACH companies to Microsoft Dynamics (NAV) 2009

Cologne Area, Germany

Process Improvement Projects across Europe to increase service level and significantly reduce working capital (inventory).

Warrington, United Kingdom

Mid-to-long term supply capacity planning for five production facilities producing three hundred SKUs on forty reactors.Management of monthly S&OP cycle, taking demand forecast and analysing to create supply scenarios, calculating and addressing capacity constraints. Communication to production sites, Sales & Marketing and to global management via monthly Executive S&OP meeting to agree constrained forecast. Forecast accuracy analysis (attainment and MAPE) and pro-active communication with sales to continuously improve.Material Master Prime ­- owner of process for new material requests within EU, ensuring timely and accurate creation ofnew materials within SAP to maximise MRP functionality and retirement of obsolete SKUs to minimise product portfolio.Six Sigma Green Belt Projects: Optimisation of logistics network for one material, reducing stocks by over 50% whilst maintaining delivery performance. Supply Chain contact for key customers ­- regular discussions on supply situation, communication of supply capabilities and analysis, and ongoing activities to improve forecast accuracy.Inventory ­analysis, target setting and monitoring of inventory levels in co-ordination with all production sites to minimise working capital whilst maximising delivery reliability. Stretch targets achieved throughout 2007 and 2008.Supply chain lead on global project to optimise manufacturing footprint. Detailed project planning for product introduction in new manufacturing sites and retirement of old materials from other sites.

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

European supply chain planning and day-to-day coordination of three core products (Vinyl Acetate, Acetic Acid and Acetic Anhydride), with sales of over 600,000 mt per year.Long and short-term production and re-supply planning in conjunction with Celanese global production facilities to ensure customer satisfaction whilst minimising cost and working capital.Coordination and communication between marketing, order management, production, laboratory, procurement and logistics (vessel, barge, railcar, road, drum) for all supply chain issues.Co-ordination with co-producers as part of global swap agreements.Trainer for Supply Chain modules and Super-User for Celanese SAP implementation in Europe.Project Lead for re-alignment of European Acetyls supply chain following acquisition of new company. Consolidation of supply chain planning data, re-working of planning process, re-modelling of supply chain using OptiantPowerChain and optimisation of European logistics network, tank roster and customer ship points.

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

Reporting ­ creation of project reports, spend and inventory analysis, key customer scorecards and investigating and taking corrective actions on any missed or late deliveries.Prime for SAP implementation ­ system retirement, training, design, interfaces, communication, data migration from legacy systems, process definition, and support of German SAP Users.EU prime for monitoring and controlling of physical inventory. Included the co-ordination of inventory reduction by re-vectoring of material to other projects, returns and scrapping - resulted in an 80% reduction in inventory value.Management of student undertaking placement within the department.

1St Class Hons, International Management And German

Activities and Societies: Modern Languages Football Team University Wind OrchestraMy degree included a semester at Carleton University.

Education record

A levels: Mathematics (A), French (A), German (A)