Supply Chain Continuous Improvement

Michael D. Van Hill

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Senior Operations executive

Lean Manufacturing Executive Leadership Continuous Improvement Six Sigma Black Belt Customer Experience Change Management Cost Control Inventory Optimization Quality Assurance Communications

Profit driven executive with P&L management and multi-site manufacturing and supply chain expertise. Background includes leadership roles within 3 businesses; Johnson Controls/Adient, Dell, and Danaher Motion. Site leadership responsibility spanned across all three regions: North America, Asia-Pacific, and EMEA. Delivered results for bottom line improvements, solving systemic issues, increasing operational efficiencies. Reputation for operational excellence through implementing Lean, Six Sigma, supply chain and S & OP initiatives to improve safety, quality, delivery reducing cost, and improving service levels. Certified Master Black Belt, Master Lean Black Belt. Excellent at developing leaders at all levels.

Career Achievements

Delivered $7M+ savings across North American Supply Chain’s supply chain through the deployment of TPS methodologies (JCI/Adient)

Directed Global Supply Chain, Contract manufacturer – ODM, responsibility involving fulfillment of over 220 million units per year across three regions; North America, Asia, and Europe. (Dell)

Managerial responsibilities bridging organizational strategies and practical applications across global organization of 100-200 Dell Team, 200-350 Sub-tier Team; across 15 countries in North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe executing a realized $100M in complexity reduction opportunities. (Dell)

Responsible for executing forecasted quarterly manufacturing capital of $4M budget including full P&L Responsibilities, Operational Management, Product Development, Quality, and M & A. (Danaher)

Professional Experience

JOHNSON CONTROLS INC. / Adient, Plymouth, MI 2016 – Current

Director North American Supply Chain Operations

Lead business aspects of supply based operations for 50 plants across North America impacting costing models, safety, productivity, delivery for the fabrication components supplying the JIT plants across America. Accountable for delivered cost savings, operational costs, quality productivity, and capital spending across critical commodities - $200M spend. Responsible for developing capabilities that enable the transformation of Johnson Controls into a world class tier 1 supplier within the automotive industry. Simultaneously led continuous improvement activities across 6 strategic supplier plants for this Tier 1 Automotive company. Deployed Lean Manufacturing methodologies and Hoshin based strategic deployment.

Key Achievements

Delivered and lad corporate efficiency and operational improvements initiative of $5M within supply chain’s operational spend. Products include molded and laminated foam, plastic injection and extrusions, seat heats, electronic motors, and metal stampings.

Implemented improvements within North American international logistics supply chain delivering cost reduction of $4M within first year, while also increasing on-time delivery within the supply chain

Drove cost out, capacity expansion, and lead time reduction initiatives that resulted in supply chain/purchasing spend of $9.5M.

Led an inventory initiative across multiple facilities to a rapid reduction of 50% of total inventory over three months through a relentless focus on execution, accuracy, training, and mentoring, reducing inventory levels across those sites greater than $1.0M.

DELL, Austin, TX2007 – 2015

Director of User Experience, Initial Product Experience (Global Supply Chain Operations)

Led all manufacturing operations across 8 Taiwanese based third party manufacturers (ODM), across 16 plants; 1 North America – Mexico, 1 EMEA – Poland, 14 APJ – majority across mainland China (14). Accountable for quality, delivery, cost, cost savings, and service levels. Responsibilities crossed into logistics handling hubs across the globe, 90 facilities across the globe, including 3PLs and international pass through hubs. Accountable for improving service levels and initial product experience (IPE) across PC business. Work closely with various functions, including Product Marketing & Sales, Package Design/Engineering, Documentation, Industrial Design, System Eng., Performance Eng., Software Marketing/Eng., Validation Testing, Usability, Quality and Global Ops Eng., and Strategic Partners (ODM factory).

Michael D. Van Hill

Professional Experience (Continued)

DELL, Austin, TX2007 – 2015

Director of User Experience, Initial Product Experience - Continued

Key Achievements

Received Sliver Award for generating $50M+ in savings via development and integration of cross-business strategic initiatives

Spearheaded effort to operationalize company across three regions and 16 sites

Partnered with Product Marketing to integrate clear targets for key experiences including: packaging, documentation, cosmetic delivery, software behavior, performance and usability from product development through manufacturing, fulfillment, and logistics

Launched initiative-focused ODM programs to reduce Manufacturing Value Add (MVA) complexity reduction costs resulting in $10M cut in operating costs over first year of initiative

DELL, Austin, TX2007 – 2015

Director of Global Continuous Improvement

Led the business transformation from Dell owned manufacturing operations, 8 facilities across North America and EMEA, to a complete third party manufacturing outsourced business model headquartered in Taiwan spanning across 8 suppliers. Responsible for delivering improved service levels and global operations metric improvements in productivity, cost, quality, and cost savings of $500M over five years throughout Dell’s Supply Chain. Managed all aspects of $471M global operation, domestic, and global business units.

Key Achievements

Developed, Integrated, and Validated Supply Chain End to End Quality Improvement Initiative improving First Pass yield from 90% to 98% within Dell’s Global Supply Chain

Owned initiative driving Initial Customer Experience resulting in complexity reduction across Dell’s Supply Chain resulting in $200M over 18 months of initiative integration

Developed and managed Dell Initial Product Experience initiative driving Customer Experience improvements; Resulted in 4% Throughput Yield through supply chain and 2 NPS points

Developed internal tenants resulting in improved quality ratings of New Product Introductions and reducing cycle time to release

Yielded $40M in cost reductions via complexity reduction initiatives

Managed Dell’s Packaging Supply Chain Complexity Reduction Efforts resulting on Incoming Quality improvement by 3% to 99.5% with a cost savings of $2M in the past 6 months

Reduce System spend by $231M during the first year of implementing Lean Transition across Strategic Partners

Reduced Domestic Missing, Wrong, and Damage claims by $20M by improving internal processes along with developing carrier processes

SPX FLUID POWER, Rockford, IL2006 – 2007

Director of Continuous Improvement

Led all aspects of $175M operation across four business units and two shifts. Mentored and directed multidisciplinary teams against aggressive performance metrics.

Key Achievements

Generated $4M+ in past dues reduction

Established office processes that reduced Engineering Approval Request Transactions from two months to less than 10 days, along with a First Pass Yield on EARs improvement from 50% to 82%

Developed and institutionalized company’s vendor/organization relation’s partnership program; delivering a savings of $1.5M for fasteners over three-year period

Founded systematic process to reduce inventory from $41M to $28M through the development of Fluid Power’s Kanban System and Point of Use; $13M direct savings

Increased utilization of manufacturing floor space by 13%; 125,000 sq. ft. to 110,500 sq. ft., through implementation of Lean Manufacturing Concepts

Increased productivity by 50% via integration of Cellular Concepts and Standard Work Principals

Michael D. Van Hill

Professional Experience (Continued)

DANAHER MOTION, Font du Lac, WI2004 – 2006

Director of Operations

Led strategy initiative and manufacturing operations transition of acquired business, overseeing $20M revenue site with operational P&L of $12M, $5M capital budget, and deploying TPS and Strategy Deployment. Accountable for P & L, safety, customer service, productivity, plant cost, delivery metrics. Responsible for 100 employees across two shifts.

Key Achievements

Reduced Past Due from $194K to under $30K and increased OTD to 96% within three months

Implemented Cellular Manufacturing concepts increasing daily productivity 22%

Reduced inventory from $3.1M to $2.25M over first three months utilizing Point of Use and Kanban Programs

DANAHER MOTION, Font du Lac, WI2004 – 2006

Quality Manager2000 - 2006

Directed two-shift division quality department across two remote locations (Mexico and Colorado). Worked as quality engineer, planning, and executing impactful projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Achievements

Eliminated 55% of post-production scrap and reduced average PPM’s from 32000/month to under 7000/month, within eight months

Served as ISO 9000 Management Representative, developing and implementing multi-departmental Quality System that spanned management groups and 300 employees improving efficiency and standard work

Reduced past due from $1.1M to less than $10K in three months

Increased PMDC Product Line productivity from 60% efficient to 97% over past year

Early Career

QUALITY/OPERATIONS MANAGER Addison, IL

ENGINEER/MANAGER Roseville, MN

R., D., AND E. PROJECT ENGINEER Hopkins, MN

DESIGN/PROJECT ENGINEER Eagan, MN

Education

MBA, Operational Management Systems, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

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