Ed has over twenty five years of management consulting experience plus line management experience at the executive level in consumer products manufacturing and retail operations. He has extensive experience in all aspects of supply chain strategy and operations as well as inventory productivity. Key areas of expertise include vendor management, strategic sourcing and procurement, supply chain optimization, inventory management, manufacturing and distribution operations improvement, logistics strategy and supporting systems and technology design and implementation.

Ed is experienced in advising C-level executives and their staffs with the following types of projects: supply chain assessments, restructurings, facilities strategy and design, post merger network consolidation, supply chain systems design and software selection, eProcurement, implementation of ERP platforms and global financials, inventory reduction and cycle time improvements. Clients include CVS, Canadian Tire, Gap, JCPenney, Goodyear Aerospace, Lojas Americanos (Brazil), Oxford Industries, Nordstrom, P&G, Sears and VF Corporation, to name a few.

Ed spent over twenty years as a Partner with Deloitte Consulting and Associate Partner at Accenture, and principal with Kurt Salmon Associates. He holds an Executive Certificate – Technology & Management from Sloan School of Management at MIT and a BS from Georgia Tech.

Ed is a member of the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) and the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), authored and published Strategic Supply Chain Alignment, is a frequent presenter at industry events, and a Certified Instructor Level II Change Management, Managing Organizational Change (MOC).