Van Quach Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Van has dedicated his career to learning and mastering various supply chain functions for the past 25 years. He has successfully developed and deployed organization strategies in both manufacturing and service industries. Since 2003, Van has held Director, General Manager, and Continuous Improvement Leadership positions where he championed Continuous.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Develop and implementing a multi-year strategy to move organization toward a CI mindset
• Provide Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training
• Facilitate Ideation sessions to capture and drive savings opportunities
• Launched Value Creation initiative and attract top performers to engage the CI journey
• Product Innovation (Stage Gate) – Centralize all projects to improve visibility and decision process
• Develop structures and processes to facilitate monthly Project Prioritization (Value vs. Complexity)

Toronto, Canada Area

• P&L responsibility
• Developed and implemented a strategic plan which contained costs and improved profitability
• Managed safety program/culture and improved safety metric
• Led SKU rationalization with the support of the Sales team and reduced operational cost
• Developed customer profitability modeling and implemented national selling price guidance
• Reduced operational variation by the elimination of non-profitable offering

Brampton

• Accountable for Canadian retailer relationship with annual collection of 45M pallets
• Managed and improved Retailers’ and Distributors’ performance through KPI's
• Improved Distributor Cycle time by 9.8% since inception from 76.3 days to 68.8 days
• Reduced pallet loss write off by 43% at Distributors/Retailers through continuous reinforcement of the pool program, service collection, senior level relationships, and accountability
• Drove Distributor advocacy through Value Creation programs such as transport revenue, TPM program, reduce touch points, decrease product damage
• Completed tote assets flow analysis for Canadian Tire and provided recommendations on available cost saving options to Canadian Tire leadership team.

Brampton, ON

• Effectively managed CI program and positively impacted the CI culture
• Led annual national strategic planning sessions resulting in an accountable culture with annual cost savings objectives
• Targeted and delivered CI projects with annaul savings target
• Responsible for Canadian Logistics
• Optimized Canadian network based on Manufacture, Retailer, Operations and Logistical constraints
• Managed call center and transportation activities including the creation and standardization of SOP’s and KPI’s

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed capacity planning for ten plants in NA with $12M finished goods (FG) and $6M of raw materials (RM)
• Standardization of the Canadian SOP for both RM and FG resulting in 99.5% fill rates
• Improved inventory turns and reduced spoilage through SKU reclassification and rationalization
• Reduced finished goods inventory by 20% or $3M and increased fill rates from 97.0% to 99.5%
• Aligned high performance team and restructured inventory methodology

Toronto, Canada

• Managing a team of 20 Owner Operators and 10 Customer Service Representatives
• Managed the servicing of 1500 food service and small retail customers in the GTA
• Restructured and logistically streamlined all 20 transport routes to reduce travel time and improve productivity
• Managed operations and financials of a 3PL warehouse with operating budget of $3M and inventory of $80M
• Reduced shrinkage through daily inventory reconciliation, defined and standardized SOP to capture spoilage and reconfiguration of the warehouse space for better adherence to the FIFO principle
• Re-established the order pick process through the realignment of product locations vs. pick flows which improved order pick accuracy, productivity and reduced operators’ safety risk