Supply Chain Consultant

Rob Harper, M.Sc. – Senior Supply Chain Consultant

Personal Profile

A professional, qualified logistician encompassing the total Supply chain arena, with vast experience spanning over 20 years throughout differing cultures across Europe and Asia, Australasia and America with a proven track record delivering both Strategic and Tactical IS/IT solutions to major global Blue Chip companies in the Retail and Manufacturing sectors. 

Key player in IS/IT project and implementation management, supply chain design, strategic planning, project life cycle, change management, cost reduction, efficiency improvement and operational line management, harnessing these dynamics to gain competitive advantage and maximisation of client investment.  One of his main skills is the ability to broker the link across technology, process and business platforms.

Key Skills

• Project and programme management using structured methods with the emphasis on cost control and timely delivery
• IT and Business Strategist, harnessing dynamics to gain competitive advantage
• Financially astute with wide experience of budget construction and management
• Development of professional relationships, including strategy sourcing and third-party suppliers
• Customer and Services focused, with the aptitude to manage and achieve customer demands
• Structured Methodology including Business Modeling and Business Process Re-engineering, with excellent Business Analytical skills
• Efficient resource manager through leadership and motivation, developing people empowerment
• Effective communicator and influencer, with the ability to make decisions when faced with difficult choices
• Proven track record in successfully managing change
• Development and delivery of Training and methodical Implementations
• Production of structured and accurate documentation

System Experience

• Vehicle Maintenance Systems (Profleet)
• Various In-House Systems
• Various Report Writers
• Desktop Applications (MS Office Professional, Lotus Smartsuite)
• ERP systems (BPCS, MFG/Pro, Quartz, Renaissance, SAP)
• Warehouse Management Systems (RIMS, PkMS, EXE (EXceed), Calladus, Wentworth Gold, Opus, In-DEX)
• Vehicle Routing & Scheduling Systems (DiPS, Paragon)
• Yard Management (MDS)

Success Stories

• Reduction in Supply Chain costs from £26 to £22 million pounds, over 4 year period
• Presidents Award Winner - Ryder Integrated Logistics for the Implementation Project on behalf of Philip Morris, Poland
• Successfully Project Managed the Implementation of a Warehouse Management System on behalf of Wedgwood. Wedgwood’s Global Processing Centre (GPC), comprised of 135,000sq ft (mezzanine floor) conveyor driven facility with a design throughput of 36 million pieces per annum, handling 9,000 live SKU’s with 93,000 warehouse locations
• Overall responsibility for the IT related design interfaces between Heinz’s National Distribution Centre (NDC) and their 4 legacy ERP systems, totalling 52 interfaces. (Heinz’s NDC is an automated high bay warehouse operated by 3rd Party Logistics Provider utilising the Calladus WMS, the facility 70,000 pallet storage positions [man less], Automated layer picking)
• Successful Designed & Implementation of many Supply Chain Solution, all of which were ably supported by the appropriate Supply Chain Execution systems