Chris Pocek

I will be leading the supply chain work stream focused on developing a strategic plan for the distribution center (DC) assets. The month is spent bringing an expanded client team up to speed on the work stream goals and the overall transformation effort. There is an aura of ‘doubt’ in the air as a result […]

With the pace needed to maintain our schedule, the new team has quickly moved through the forming-storming-norming stages and is moving at full steam. After the first meeting with the project review board there was little ‘doubt’ left when the question of “how do we go faster?” was brought up for the third time. We […]

With the team’s go-forward recommendations approved, we have quickly shifted into execution mode. We now spend the majority of the time working individually with sync points through-out the week. Earlier in the project we spent the majority of the time in meetings where we could develop off of each other’s ideas, but now we have […]

In the last couple of months we have started to see the financial benefits of the changes we put in place. Over the last nine months we have sold several DCs, enacted a multitude of operational improvements, and outsourced non-core functions to third party providers. The amount of change we have accomplished is enormous and […]

After the ‘blitzkrieg’ 15 week assessment the team is enjoying the down time before the implementation phase begins. We spend the majority of the week mapping out work plans and identifying dependency points between work streams. The quiet before the storm…