Jim Kehler

Jim Kehler has been working in various supply chain and logistics roles for over 25 years, including LTL, truckload and intermodal transportation to planning manufacturing lines and distribution centers for machine shops, power generation companies, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, CPG, food and beverage, and many more industries. He has worked as a production planner and as an executive (and all roles in between) for the business and IT and this has allowed him to walk the proverbial mile in the client’s shoes.

Jim has decades of experience implementing and helping to implement ERP and IBP solutions and has worked with companies at every stage of their supply chains from planning with index cards to utilizing the latest machine learning algorithms. He has end to end implementation (and user) experience with S&OP, Demand Planning, Inventory Optimization (safety stock planning), Supply Planning (including heuristics, optimizers, and DDMRP), Production Planning and Execution, Quality Management, Warehouse Management and Plant Maintenance.