Wayne Thomas Email & Phone Number

| Experienced Executive | Transformation | Critical Thinker | Trusted Advisor | Supply Chain | Manufacturing | Operations |Aligning people, processes, and technologies to improve performance and deliver strategy for high-growth companies. Led and transformed supply chains for more than 25 years across multiple industry verticals. Proficient at converting vision into strategy and deploying executable actions to drive performance. Experienced in executing transformation strategies from C-Suite to Shopfloor across multiple geographies for complex, matrixed organizations, utilizing Lean, CI, and change management techniques to optimize efficiencies and achieve results. Excels at developing and deploying operational plans and models to support strategy and deliver best-in-class financial results. Renowned for executing innovative supply chain and operations capability that fully supports and is aligned with broader business strategy to serve customers efficiently.I am passionate about and renowned for executing innovative strategies that align with broader business strategies to serve customers more efficiently.Key Skills: Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Management Risk Analysis/Mitigation Compliance & Governance Operations & Manufacturing Agile & Waterfall Project Delivery Cost Reduction & Margin Growth  Large & Dispersed Team Leadership  Executive Engagement Inventory Optimization People Development & Succession Planning  Succession Planning  Supply Chain OptimizationCareer Highlights:Executed transformation projects across multiple industry verticals. Reduced inventory by +30%, increased stock turns by +65%, reduced idle inventory (dead stock) by +35%, and improved overall supply chain performance by +75%. Repositioned business for sale; built sale documentation to present to potential buyers; selected/formed agreement with new PE owner; converted factory from graphic coated paper to substrate for specialty packaging and technical paper products; secured uninterrupted continuity of supply for critical raw materials, OEM equipment, and services; and transitioned corporate-owned asset, succeeded in establishing stand-alone SME as independent B2B commercial business.Utilized Lean and CI tools to rebuild competitive advantages, focusing on positioning business at the center of the market while driving OEE improvement to 82%, leveraging improvements in planning processes to succeed in reducing planning cycle times from 1 month to 7 days, thereby improving customer service and reducing finished good stocks by 70%.

Listed skills include Continuous Improvement, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Change Management, and 46 others.