Agenda

Bill Dubois
business consultant

Bill Dubois has enjoyed over 11 years with Kinaxis in a number of roles, including his current position as a business consultant providing pre-sales support to the Kinaxis Sales Team. This includes developing and delivering "stand-out" product demonstrations, delivering ROI analysis and also coordinating and conducting pilot projects for prospective customers. In his other roles with Kinaxis, Bill was the manager of pre-sales consulting and joined the company as an integration consultant.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Bill gained 12 years of manufacturing, supply chain and lean experience while with Boeing of Canada. During Bill's time with Boeing as the lean project manager, Bill lead a team comprised of divisional managers that successfully transitioned the shop floor from a job shop environment to a just-in-time (JIT) environment. This included designing and implementing process flow improvements, Kanban replenishment methods, 5S initiatives and modifications to costing, quality control, production planning, supplier collaboration and performance management to support the lean environment. Results included breakthrough improvements in delivery, quality and over 90 percent reductions in inventory and cycle times. Bill also held positions in material planning and production management.

Bill is APICS CPIM certified, and as a qualified APICS instructor, Bill has developed and delivered APICS courses in material planning, master scheduling, capacity management and just-in-time. Bill has also developed and delivered Lean education and training packages for all levels of personnel.

Bill studied Electronics Technology at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Douglas Colbeth
president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board

Douglas Colbeth became president and chief executive officer of Kinaxis™ in March 2003. As one of the true visionaries of the Internet explosion in the mid 1990's, he envisioned the opportunity to be a leader in delivering an on-demand supply chain management service. He then came across what he describes as a "gang of supply chain geniuses" in Canada, who had already developed very powerful modeling and collaboration technology.

Doug understood what the Internet's influence on consumer behavior would be and how it would dramatically increase demand volatility. The problem of effectively responding to consumer demand would be further exacerbated by the dramatic market shift of outsourced manufacturing operations. Under Doug's leadership, Kinaxis developed a world-class offering which enables companies to build better supply chain plans and quickly respond to constant changes in demand, supply and product — driving breakthroughs in customer service and operations performance. Today, the Kinaxis on-demand RapidResponse™ service empowers front-line decision makers at brand name companies and contract manufacturers with multi-enterprise visibility and collaborative analysis tools to effectively respond to change across an entire distributed supply chain.

Paul Carbonneau
partner

Paul Carbonneau is a partner in McKinsey & Company's Operations Practice, based out of Washington D.C. Paul has worked internationally in the areas of supply chain, product development, purchasing, and organizational transformation. Paul has recently returned from living in Shanghai, China, where he worked with consumer electronics and semiconductor clients throughout Asia. Since returning to America, he supports clients in the high tech, retail, and industrial product industries.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Paul worked at Dell, with responsibilities in procurement and supply chain. Additionally, he worked in Japan at a large Toyota group supplier; since that time, he has enjoyed applying lean manufacturing principles in non-automotive environments. Paul holds a Masters of Science in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Matt Red
vice president, supply & demand planning, Barnes & Noble.com

Matt Red serves as Vice President, Supply & Demand Planning, Barnes & Noble.com. Based in Palo Alto, CA, he is responsible for managing all aspects of the sales forecasting and operations/supply planning supporting the company's NOOK® eBook Reader and digital product line.

Matt has more than 15 years of experience in sales and operations planning in high tech consumer electronics. Prior to joining Barnes & Noble, he held various leadership roles in demand supply planning with Nokia, where he was most recently Nokia's Global Demand Supply Planning Process Owner. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University and resides with his wife and family in San Jose, CA.

Mike Keltz
IT integrator, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Supply Chain

Mike Keltz is the IT integrator for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Supply Chain. In his role, Mike is responsible for the successful integration of technology, people and processes. To that end, he focuses on transforming strategy into reality. Mike has more than twenty years of information technology experience combining engineering disciplines, business acumen, and leadership in successful systems integration projects for customers in commercial industries, manufacturing, health care and the federal government.

Mike holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and various certifications from Sun and Microsoft.

Kirk Munroe
vice president, marketing

Kirk Munroe joined Kinaxis in August 2011 as vice president of marketing. He is responsible for the company's product and go-to-market strategies. One of his primary objectives is to drive the adoption of RapidResponse into new market segments.

As a seasoned software executive, Kirk brings 17 years of product strategy experience to Kinaxis. In his most recent role, Kirk led sales engagement strategy and sales enablement for Business Analytics (BA) at IBM. Kirk joined IBM via the acquisition of Cognos. While at Cognos, he held several product management positions crossing a number of solution groups. Significant product management and marketing experience was also gained during his tenures at Radialpoint and Kortrack solutions.

Kirk holds a Bachelor of Science from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

John Westerveld
demo architect

John Westerveld is a demo architect for Kinaxis. Previously, John was a product manager responsible for supply management , supply chain risk management, application interface and framework, integration management and server. He joined Kinaxis over 10 years ago bringing with him 16 years of manufacturing experience, including 10 years in the information technology field. John is a qualified APICS instructor and is certified APICS CPIM.

Bob May
senior product manager

Bob May is a senior product manager at Kinaxis and is responsible for the demand management functionality, installations and upgrades in the RapidResponse product. In his 19 years with Kinaxis, Bob has fulfilled roles in integration, design, services, support, and most recently product management. Prior to Kinaxis Bob was an independent information technology consultant.

Craig West
manager of predefined resources and demo development

Craig West, manager of predefined resources and demo development, is responsible for the standard resources in RapidResponse such as workbooks, dashboards, etc. Following a career as a SAP Consultant with a leading consulting company, Craig joined Kinaxis 11 years ago as an integration consultant. As part of the product implementation team, Craig supported key customer deployment activities.

Craig has worked in a high tech manufacturing environment as well as consulted for various other industry verticals including aerospace and defense and heavy equipment. He is both a Certified Integration Consultant as well as a Certified SAP Consultant.

Paul Rachniowski
research and development director

Paul Rachniowski is research and development director at Kinaxis and leads two application development teams. He is responsible for RapidResponse's rich user interface that provides Excel-like presentation and authoring tools. This enables the analytical capabilities of the Kinaxis data server and analytics. Paul's team also works on alerting, dashboards, charts, administrative and system-to-system integration tools, web services API, and business process automation.

Paul holds an MSc in electrical engineering and has over 20 years of software industry experience. He joined Kinaxis in 2000 as a software architect and assumed a management role within R&D in 2003.

Kris Reid
director of deployment services

Kris Reid, director of deployment services, has been with Kinaxis for 13 years in consulting and professional services management roles. In his current role, Kris works primarily with the Kinaxis sales teams to understand customer business requirements, translate those into an overall deployment approach, and develop services estimates to deliver the solution. He then works to ensure best practices are utilized in ensuring that each new customer has a successful initial deployment.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Kris has held positions with Digital Equipment Corporation and AlliedSignal (Honeywell) Aerospace in the areas of Production and Master Scheduling, Inventory Management, and Quality Engineering.

Kris holds a Bachelors of Commerce in Operations Management.

Bob May
senior product manager

Bob May is a senior product manager at Kinaxis and is responsible for the demand management functionality, installations and upgrades in the RapidResponse product. In his 19 years with Kinaxis, Bob has fulfilled roles in integration, design, services, support, and most recently product management. Prior to Kinaxis Bob was an independent information technology consultant.

Kris Reid
director of deployment services

Kris Reid, director of deployment services, has been with Kinaxis for 13 years in consulting and professional services management roles. In his current role, Kris works primarily with the Kinaxis sales teams to understand customer business requirements, translate those into an overall deployment approach, and develop services estimates to deliver the solution. He then works to ensure best practices are utilized in ensuring that each new customer has a successful initial deployment.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Kris has held positions with Digital Equipment Corporation and AlliedSignal (Honeywell) Aerospace in the areas of Production and Master Scheduling, Inventory Management, and Quality Engineering.

Kris holds a Bachelors of Commerce in Operations Management.

Ingrid Bongartz
director, analytics development

Ingrid Bongartz manages the analytics and resources development team at Kinaxis. Her team adds the business capabilities to the RapidResponse platform — this includes responsibility for the complex algorithms, workbooks, dashboards, and other resources that allow users to manage their supply chains and S&OP processes.

Ingrid has spent most of her career designing and implementing supply chain analytics. Prior to joining Kinaxis, she worked in analytics development at ProMIRA Software, which was acquired by Manugistics Group, Inc. She also worked as a consultant for Aeon Decision Technologies and as a postdoctoral fellow at IBM Research, investigating the application of nonlinear optimization to large-scale manufacturing problems. She has a Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering from University of Waterloo.

John Westerveld
demo architect

John Westerveld is a demo architect for Kinaxis. Previously, John was a product manager responsible for supply management , supply chain risk management, application interface and framework, integration management and server. He joined Kinaxis over 10 years ago bringing with him 16 years of manufacturing experience, including 10 years in the information technology field. John is a qualified APICS instructor and is certified APICS CPIM.

Bob May
senior product manager

Bob May is a senior product manager at Kinaxis and is responsible for the demand management functionality, installations and upgrades in the RapidResponse product. In his 19 years with Kinaxis, Bob has fulfilled roles in integration, design, services, support, and most recently product management. Prior to Kinaxis Bob was an independent information technology consultant.

Craig West
manager of predefined resources and demo development

Craig West, manager of predefined resources and demo development, is responsible for the standard resources in RapidResponse such as workbooks, dashboards, etc. Following a career as a SAP Consultant with a leading consulting company, Craig joined Kinaxis 11 years ago as an integration consultant. As part of the product implementation team, Craig supported key customer deployment activities.

Craig has worked in a high tech manufacturing environment as well as consulted for various other industry verticals including aerospace and defense and heavy equipment. He is both a Certified Integration Consultant as well as a Certified SAP Consultant.

Thomas LeBlanc
master scheduler

Tom LeBlanc is a RapidResponse super user with more than a decade of experience creating innovative solutions that leverage the tool's capabilities.  A certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with a history of process improvements in the areas of master scheduling, demand management, supply chain, sales and operations planning, inventory analysis, statistical forecasting, and end-of-life discontinued parts planning. Currently in Master Scheduling at Varian Semiconductor where he is using RapidResponse to monitor contractual liabilities with suppliers and is also in the early stages of creating a glass pipeline view with key suppliers. Prior to that Tom was with Teradyne where he was one of the first super users trained as RapidResponse was introduced to the company.

Tom has a BS in Quantitative Business Analysis from Louisiana State University and also has his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from Breakthrough Management Group.

John Westerveld
demo architect

John Westerveld is a demo architect for Kinaxis. Previously, John was a product manager responsible for supply management , supply chain risk management, application interface and framework, integration management and server. He joined Kinaxis over 10 years ago bringing with him 16 years of manufacturing experience, including 10 years in the information technology field. John is a qualified APICS instructor and is certified APICS CPIM.

Janice Kakazu
senior consultant

Janice Kakazu, senior consultant, has been with Kinaxis for two years, supporting high tech electronics and biotechnology customers by developing solutions which address their key business problems in Supply Chain, Finance, Order Promising, and other areas.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Janice spent many years at Teradyne in planning management, project management, and business analyst roles. Janice was a key contributor in the initial implementation of RapidResponse at Teradyne 13 years ago and in developing business processes utilizing RapidResponse for "what-if" analysis, inventory management, production planning, supplier forecasting, and order promising. Janice has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and is APICS CPIM certified.

Duncan Klett
vice president, analytics research

Duncan Klett co-founded Kinaxis in 1984, which at the time was called Cadence Computer Corporation. Throughout his time at Kinaxis, Duncan has focused on product innovation. Acting as the interface between manufacturers, the Kinaxis design team, and executives, Duncan has led the successful fulfillment of customer requirements.

In his current role as vice president, analytics research, Duncan draws on more than 30 years of experience with analytics and software solutions to design the next generation of Kinaxis product features to help brand owners, manufacturers and their entire supply chain network — from customers through to suppliers — gain a competitive advantage.

Prior to starting Kinaxis, Duncan held various positions with Bell Northern Research where he worked in the development of real-time software, and Mitel Corporation where he was Manager of IC Computer Aided Design.

Duncan is an OMN (Ottawa Manufacturers Network) advisory board member and regularly gives lectures at universities and industry events. Duncan holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Masters of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a certified Professional Engineer.

Kevin O'Marah

Having started work as a 17 year old shipper/receiver for a small retail chain, Kevin O'Marah is a life-long student of supply chain. Most recently Kevin served as GVP for Supply Chain at Gartner following the 2009 acquisition of AMR Research where he was Chief Strategy Officer. Kevin's ten year career at AMR included creation of the Supply Chain Top 25 and producing the Supply Chain Executive Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona from 2005-2011. Under the banner "Supply Chain Saves the World," Kevin published a well-received book and led a six year dialog with supply chain leaders and such luminaries as Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Michael Eisner, and T. Boone Pickens.

During his tenure at AMR Kevin published over 400 articles and reports detailing disciplines like Demand Driven Supply Networks and Product Lifecycle Management. His bylined research has also appeared in publications including the Financial Times, Business Week, Forbes, HBR's Supply Chain Strategy, and Supply Chain Management Review. A frequent guest for broadcast media, Kevin has appeared in studio on CNBC's Squawk Box and Executive View as well as numerous guest spots for NPR, Bloomberg, Australian Broadcasting Company and more.

Currently, Kevin serves in an Advisory Board capacity for the University of Wisconsin's Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management, Aidmatrix — a non-profit aid agency, and Remsoft — a Canadian Natural Resource modeling specialist. He is also the Head of Faculty for SCM World, a London based online learning community of global supply chain senior executives.

Prior to joining AMR, Kevin was a Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for supply chain and product lifecycle management applications strategies. He has also served as a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting in London and Washington DC as well as the MAC Group in San Francisco and Calgary. Major engagements included supply chain reengineering work in chemicals, oil and gas, semiconductors and telecoms. In 1991 and 1992 Kevin worked on privatization projects in the brewing and machine tools industry in Poland.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Boston College, an MSc in Management Studies from Oxford University, and a Masters in Business Administration from Stanford University.

Lalit Panda
chief information officer

Lalit Panda heads global IT for D&M Holdings Inc., a consumer electronics company with marquee brands such as Denon, Boston Acoustics, Marantz, and McIntosh. He is based out of Mahwah, NJ and drives many initiatives across the globe. Prior to this he was Sr. V.P. of Supply Chain and Information Systems at the Consumer Division of Harman International Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end audio electronics and loud speakers. Prior to joining Harman in 1999, Lalit managed logistics and procurement for Sony Corp. at their Middle East and North Africa HQ in Dubai, U.A.E., spanning 23 countries. He has led many initiatives including global IT consolidations, distribution network optimization, global supply chain application development, logistics and IT outsourcing initiatives, web based vendor management and order fulfillment and run facilities in China, India, EMEA and the United States.

Lalit has Master's degrees in business and logistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad; an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India; and a Six Sigma Black Belt from Georgia Tech.

Joe McBeth
vice president, global supply chain

After receiving his MBA in Materials Logistics Management from Michigan State University, Joe joined Jabil and has spent the last 20 years helping it grow from a small contract manufacturer to a top 5 Global Diversified Manufacturing Services Provider. Joe started his early career in manufacturing and quickly moved into materials and customer relationship management roles. His most significant contribution was the creation and development of Jabil's Corporate Supply Chain organization, which included people, processes, and toolsets to support the transition from decentralized materials management to centralized supply chain management.

Erwin Hermans
vice president, supply chain solutions

Erwin Hermans is the Vice President, Supply Chain Solutions at Celestica. In this role, Erwin is responsible for managing and growing Celestica's Supply Chain Services business. At the core of the service offering is the Supply Chain Collaboration Center, which provides a multi-enterprise platform that enables collaborative inventory management, supply demand balancing and collaborative demand planning for customers. Celestica has leveraged its operational expertise and business transformation as a platform to build a managed services infrastructure to help its customers achieve similar operational excellence.

Erwin brings more than 17 years experience in the area of supply chain strategy, operations and services, with previous roles at Lucent Technologies, Satyam Computer Services and Accenture. He holds a master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, an MBA from Ohio University and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Limburg in Belgium.

Trevor Miles
director, thought leadership

Trevor serves as an expert source for Kinaxis customers, prospects, industry analysts and journalists. Known throughout the supply chain field, Trevor has published numerous articles, presented at various industry events, is frequently featured as a top influencer on LinkedIn, and is the primary contributor to the Kinaxis 21st Century Supply Chain blog.

Trevor has focused much of his Kinaxis career on seeking new market opportunities within the company's distinctive competence. As part of the product management and product marketing team, Trevor is instrumental in the company's competitive and market intelligence and is responsible for identifying market trends and translating them into high-level functional and product requirements. Additionally, he helps create and maintain the business case for RapidResponse.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Trevor worked for i2 Technologies where he held a number of sales & marketing roles and worked with global industry leaders such as Continental, Volkswagen, Nokia, and Thomson. Previous to i2, he worked for Coopers & Lybrand performing several studies in supply chain reengineering for companies such as Levi's, Burmah Oil, TNT Logistics, AGA Gas, and Schneider Electric, among others. Trevor has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Industrial Engineering.

Michael Dominy
research director

Mr. Dominy researches supply chain strategy, enabling technologies and services at Gartner with a focus on alternative delivery models for supply chain solutions such as SaaS and cloud. He also coordinates Gartner's supply chain outsourcing research. His work across industries and the major supply chain processes helps clients understand the interplay between technology, services and supply chain management. He delivers strategic and tactical advice to supply chain executives and Supply Chain service providers.

He holds a B.S. in Supply Chain Management from Syracuse University and a MBA from Northeastern University. His career spans more than 20 years and includes experience in supply chain operations (Kimberly-Clark), consulting (Benchmarking Partners and Yankee Group) and software (Oracle).

Chuck Thomas
director, professional services

Chuck Thomas joined Kinaxis in 2001 as a member of the Solutions Consulting team, working with customers during initial deployments and afterward to get additional value from their investment in RapidResponse. In his current role, Chuck is responsible for developing and coordinating professional services, and customer satisfaction in the installed customer base.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Chuck held various operations management and supply chain positions over 18 years in the Aerospace industry. He has broad experience in implementing best practices and achieving sustainable, real-world solutions along with a focus on continuous process improvement.

Chuck holds a BS in Business Management from Arizona State University.

Trevor Miles
director, thought leadership

Trevor serves as an expert source for Kinaxis customers, prospects, industry analysts and journalists. Known throughout the supply chain field, Trevor has published numerous articles, presented at various industry events, is frequently featured as a top influencer on LinkedIn, and is the primary contributor to the Kinaxis 21st Century Supply Chain blog.

Trevor has focused much of his Kinaxis career on seeking new market opportunities within the company's distinctive competence. As part of the product management and product marketing team, Trevor is instrumental in the company's competitive and market intelligence and is responsible for identifying market trends and translating them into high-level functional and product requirements. Additionally, he helps create and maintain the business case for RapidResponse.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Trevor worked for i2 Technologies where he held a number of sales & marketing roles and worked with global industry leaders such as Continental, Volkswagen, Nokia, and Thomson. Previous to i2, he worked for Coopers & Lybrand performing several studies in supply chain reengineering for companies such as Levi's, Burmah Oil, TNT Logistics, AGA Gas, and Schneider Electric, among others. Trevor has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Industrial Engineering.

Kerry Zuber
vice president, business consulting

Kerry Zuber is vice president of business consulting at Kinaxis and is responsible for guiding the company's pre-sales consulting services, which specializes in establishing the value of the RapidResponse service for prospective clients and identifying specific solutions that fit client needs. Kerry is also instrumental to the development and execution of initiatives under the Kinaxis Partner Program.

Kerry joined Kinaxis in 1999 as a senior solution consultant and was responsible for the definition and implementation of extended business solutions with several of the company's largest customers. Kerry has a long history in supply chain leadership positions, as well as APICS CPIM certification, a B.S. in Business Administration and extensive training and certification in the implementation of lean enterprise practices.

Paul Rachniowski
research and development director

Paul Rachniowski is research and development director at Kinaxis and leads two application development teams. He is responsible for RapidResponse's rich user interface that provides Excel-like presentation and authoring tools. This enables the analytical capabilities of the Kinaxis data server and analytics. Paul's team also works on alerting, dashboards, charts, administrative and system-to-system integration tools, web services API, and business process automation.

Paul holds an MSc in electrical engineering and has over 20 years of software industry experience. He joined Kinaxis in 2000 as a software architect and assumed a management role within R&D in 2003.

Andy Coldrick
partner

Andy Coldrick is a partner of Ling-Coldrick. Dick Ling created S&OP, and he and Andy have collaborated on its advancement for 25 years. They help businesses all over the world maximize S&OP's potential to generate more cash and increase profits. Andy was president of Oliver Wight EAME 1990-2000, and president of StrataBridge 2000-2008. He now lives in the United States, educating and consulting on using S&OP to execute strategy. Andy and Dick recently co-authored "An Assessment Guide for Maximizing S&OP Benefits in Executing Strategy."

Russell Goodman
editor in chief

Russell W. Goodman has worked in newspapers, newsletters and magazines, with a focus on logistics, business and trade, for nearly 30 years. He also has specialized in editing and writing for publications in world affairs, politics and legal matters. Prior to joining Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies, Goodman directed editorial coverage for two leading international commerce magazines. Goodman was managing editor of the Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, a bimonthly edited in Washington that reported on and interpreted the interplay between security and political issues. From Washington, Goodman, as editor-in-chief of Middle East Insight magazine, directed coverage of business and political affairs in that critical part of the world. He also developed and edited Eastern Europe Law Week, a newsletter that covered legal reform in post-Soviet Europe.

Predrag (PJ) Jakovljevic
principal analyst

Predrag (PJ) Jakovljevic, CPIM, CIRM, CSCP is an enterprise applications industry analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC ). PJ is an internationally recognized enterprise applications market guru with extensive knowledge of leading software vendors, products, and market trends. He has nearly 20 years of system selections, implementations, and industrial manufacturing experience, with familiarity with broad aspects of business management (development, supply chain operations, sales, marketing). Follow PJ on Twitter and LinkedIn.