Tom Scheid Email & Phone Number

Manager, Supply Chain | Demand / Supply OptimizationLeading teams that consistently balance supply with demand enabling delivery & financial success.Innovative Supply Chain professional with 30+ years technical and management experience building teams and processes that improve revenue, profit, and cash flow.• Supply Chain Planning software applications deployment across geographies.• Significant Inventory reduction using data, analytics, and focused lean teams.• High performance and morale team development. Leveraging teams knowledge / talent for results.• Continuously applying technical knowledge and data to lead high performance worldwide teams to success.

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  Manager, Power Systems Sales And Operational Planning, Ibm Systems Supply Chain

  Ibm

  Jun 1984 - Present - Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

  IBM, Rochester, MN & Austin, TX June 1984 – PresentManager, Power Systems Sales and Operations Planning, IBM Systems Supply Chain (Jan 2015 – Present)• Restructured Sales & Operations Planning focusing on business results. Ensured supply continuity while reducing inventory loss costs. Adapted process and software applications for quickly changing supply landscape. Inventory reduced 56% and 79% from peak. On time delivery consistently above 95%.• Adjusted team focus to relevant skills, knowledge development, and overall business results. Improved inventory management, contributing significant cash back to business. Financial results achieved while mitigating impact of 50% staff reduction. Concurrently improved team morale. • Collaborated with Engineering and Brand management to simplify product offering, enabling better delivery and cash contribution. Models offered reduced by 45% and features offered by 33%.Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Systems Hardware Supply Chain (Jan 2001 – Jan 2015)• Supply chain technical focal point between Server Hardware and semiconductor business. Redesigned forecast process for products in development, enabling longer time horizon and more frequent forecast. This supported changes to product design and brand offerings, preventing multi-$million inventory losses. Multiple MRP demand simulations created supporting multi-$billion divestiture of semiconductor business.• Server Supply Chain technical focal point for demand and supply forecasting application selection and deployment. Worldwide Server planning system of record deployed providing state of the art supply chain data and analytics for multi-$billion business.