Thomas Diehl

Thomas Diehl is a board member at Diehl Group. Thomas was previously the supply chain operations manager at The Dow Chemical Company from January 2011 to December 2013. In this role, they implemented North America supply chain plans and developed strategies for the $1.4B Dow Consumer & Industrial Solutions business. Thomas also identified and led improvement opportunities within existing value chain configurations that fit growth objectives and assured business supply chain requirements were met at the lowest possible cost to serve, while maintaining agreed to service levels to customers.

Diehl was responsible for the regional supply/demand balance and resolved tactical imbalances with internal supplying businesses and manufacturing plants to minimize supply disruptions. Thomas also led a cross-functional value chain improvement project with a key brand owner that cutover 7.5MM lbs of volume at 10 Ecolab ship-to locations and yielded $0.4M in annual savings. In addition, they independently analyzed and trended Floor Care contamination & sedimentation complaints and enrolled Quality and Product Stewards at the West Hill and Charlotte plants in the RCI and correction action to improve output quality and preserve $5.6M in sales coming out of the two Dow plants that supported Dow Floor Care customers.

Finally, they recovered $0.2M in cost savings by assisting account managers with revisions to delivered customer price schedules and collaborated with Henkel/Dial to quantify savings opportunities and ROI associated with converting emulsion polymer shipments from bulk truckloads to railcars at their

Thomas Diehl earned a BS in Business Management from Radford University and attended Brandywine High School.