Michael P. Wolfe

Mr. Wolfe is an executive level manager, project manager, and consultant over a 28 year career in supply chain management, manufacturing operations, marketing, materials planning and strategic planning. As an experienced manager and facilitator, Mr. Wolfe specializes in the effective alignment of business planning, resources and business processes, often working as a liaison between business management and information systems developers to ensure the effective deployment of technology to support business needs. He has been consistently successful at the implementation of change within business settings.

Mr. Wolfe has successfully completed major projects including:  full MRP/ERP implementations in several manufacturing environments; start up and/or relocation of full-scale manufacturing operations; development and deployment of large-scale distribution and warehousing operations.  He has participated in extensive business process analysis and process reengineering efforts with major corporations in the US. and Europe. In these project capacities, and as a senior operations manager, Mr. Wolfe has produced results on a dramatic scale including radical compression of standard project time lines by 50%, multi-million dollar inventory reductions, and reductions in customer order-to-ship cycle times of 80%.

His successful approach is noteworthy for its balanced emphasis on both structured management techniques, and the human issues of dealing with change. Areas of specific expertise include rigorous project definition and task/time management, business process analysis and process re-definition utilizing Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing techniques, and team development targeted toward consensus and achievement. Mr. Wolfe has conducted extensive training classes and workshops in a variety of operations, manufacturing and business-related topics, as well as group facilitation.

Education and Professional Involvement

Mr. Wolfe holds a BA from Hobart College and has done post-graduate work at the State University of New York at Albany. His career began in production and inventory control and progressed to senior management positions in manufacturing operations, marketing, and distribution. A consultant for the past 10 years, Mr. Wolfe has facilitated the re-definition and implementation of business change in a variety of businesses throughout the US and Europe.
His accomplishments in project management and change implementation have been recognized by speaking appearances at national software conferences, and frequent participation in APICS and general business panel discussions.

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