Mike Ledyard has exceptional credentials in business process design and the management of planning, manufacturing, distribution, product development, and engineering in high volume consumer goods and food industries. Mike is a veteran of international sourcing, manufacture and importation of product and tooling, especially from China and Eastern Asia. He is a skilled communicator, and is able to concisely explain complex supply chain concepts in understandable form to audiences ranging from boardroom executives to shop floor personnel. He is also an author and frequent speaker on process assessment and measurement, and was selected as one of the Top 20 Logistics & Supply Chain Executives of 2001-2002.

Mike has worked with clients large and small to analyze current process, determine opportunities, and implement process improvements. These projects have included:

• Assessing planning and forecasting functions, and developing a sales and operations planning structure to improve on-time commitment and delivery
• Changing assembly scheduling to a demand driven model supported by Kanban cells to improve on-time performance to 99+% while reducing WIP
• Assessing off-shore procurement and import supply chain, and developing the improvements needed to reduce variability and improve service levels
• Developing performance standards for suppliers.
• Guiding collaborative process redesign and implementation of revised roles, responsibilities and control systems.
• Developing global end-to-end business processes with focus on opportunity distribution and management
• Mentoring the development of business requirements for improvements to partner facing processes and tools

Prior to Supply Chain Visions, Mike was a Principal with CSC’s Supply Chain Practice, where he spent three years working with leading companies to improve the management of their supply chains. He has held senior management positions with consumer products and paper companies. During his 25 years in industry, he established product development and quality functions, and implemented systematic production planning. He created and installed systems for scheduling new products, planning production needs and tracking product costs. Mike also established Asian sourcing offices for two different companies, and managed those activities for over ten years.

Mike served as the project manager for a joint CSC/University of Tennessee team that conducted a study on supply chain measurement for the Council of Logistics Management. He is a co-author of the book resulting from that study, entitled Keeping Score: Measuring the Business Value of Logistics in the Supply Chain. He has authored several articles, and spoken frequently on the effects of measurement on supply chain performance and optimization, and on the design and implementation of measures.

Mike has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from the University of Cincinnati, and has done post-graduate work in Business Management. He is a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, and served on the Deliver technical sub-committee of the Supply Chain Council.

Mike Ledyard
mike@scvisions.com
901.568.6372