How to impact client success:

Develop comprehensive stress testing for risk and resiliency
Leverage Cost & Value Engineering to drive multiple value benefits.
Develop a comprehensive sustainable procurement/ESG strategy linked to business strategy
Educate companies, that VAVE, Cost Value Engineering, Consumption & Specification Management, Inventory Management, Category Management, Raw Materials, DFx , and are all support sustainability such that you can impact both traditional operational and financial metrics as well as ESG.
Improve compliance with stakeholder expectations
Focus on process and how enabling technology drives process optimization
Demystify the complexity around Sustainability and building on a foundation many companies already have foundation and just don’t realize it.
Assess and improve overall SCM/Procurement/Risk with demonstrated results in Savings, OTD, Lead-Time, Quality.

Proven Success

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Successfully conducted a comparative product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Plus project baselining GHG/Carbon, demonstrating advantages, and identifying both drivers and improvements with an impact on both GHG and Cost.
Successfully advise SCM/Procurement application developers on trends, capabilities, and opportunities in market.
Developed comprehensive Ecovadis and ESG strategy, improvement areas, metrics, and materiality assessment.

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· Experienced with building cross-functional relationships, building alignment, managing matrixes, and with reporting to C-Level executives and Board of Directors.

· Successfully lead merger integration of global SCM organization delivering on synergy savings plans.

· Successfully implemented Source to Pay solutions and Supply Risk Management solutions

· Delivered ~$60M indirect spend savings initiative

· Received President’s Award for Sub-Contracting Strategy Team achieving results averaging 15% savings and creating a flexible capacity model.

· Established control frameworks including Global Purchasing Policy, Consulting Policy, and Supplier Code of Conduct, Supplier Diversity, Conflict Minerals, among other

policies, procedures, and compliance standards.

· Managed a >$750 million spend reduction program, recognized by Board with an

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Instructor & Course Development for Institute of Supply Management

· Conference speaker: SCM Resiliency, SCM Best Practices, Consumption Management & Supplier Risk Management

Institute of Supply Management Sustainability Pledge Signatory

Member Sustainable Procurement Pledge Group

Ecovadis Assessment - Supplier Divsersity

In the consulting industry, each situation is unique and requires a specific set of solutions. For this project, we implemented a policy, a supplier code of conduct, established metrics, and worked on continuous improvement plans to address areas identified in the prior assessment. We achieved improved results.

Source to Contract

With this project, I developed a short term plan with long term benefits based on a prioritization of needs to enable key processes with digital tools. I then provided expert advice, an business case, and planning to drive implementation with measured results.

Waste elimination with results

I lead numerous projects to understand needs, challenge specifications, find waste, and drive improved purchasing behaviors that generated significant cost improvements and savings.

Biography

Experienced Senior Leader

Certified Professional in Supply Management CPSM

Certified Professional in Supplier Diversity CPSD

MBA Darden Graduate School of Business [UVA]

Sustainable Business Strategy [Harvard Business School Online]

Ecovadis Practitioner

Areas of Experience

Sustainability/ESG - Strategic Procurement

Global Category Management- Transportation & Logistics - Operational Purchasing - Demand Management - Specification Management - Inventory Management

Sales & Operating Planning - Mergers & Acquisition Integration Compliance - Supplier Diversity & Inclusion

SCM Technology - Supplier Risk Management - Supplier Relationship Management - Total Quality Management - Lean - Supplier Quality & Development - Leadership Organization Development - Strategic Planning - Change Management

Policy - Process - Governance

Industries Served

Aerospace & Defense - Commercial - Pharmaceutical

Oil & Gas Equipment Manufacturing & Field Services - Semi-Conductor - Advanced Markets - Industrial Supplies Distribution & Services - Engineered to Order - Aftermarket

Career Summary

Mr. Hart is a passionate SCM leader with more than two decades of supply chain management experience across multiple industries with global scale. He has led teams, developed strategy, and executed successfully within a broad range of disciplines including strategic procurement, operational purchasing, inventory management, supplier relationship management, sustainability, lean, supplier diversity, strategy development, VAVE, enabling technology, eCommerce, and related supply chain services.

Caldwell Hart recently served as the first SVP Supply Chain & CPO for Turtle and Hughes Inc., a $750M industrial distributor and services company. With a focus on process, policy, inventory management, and metrics improvements. An area of focus was on Sustainability and ESG, metrics, assessments (EcoVadis) and how to leverage to differentiate the company in the market and provide a solutions focus to customers.

Prior to joining Turtle, he served MKS Instruments, a technology solutions company, serving the advanced markets and semiconductor industries. As MKS’ first CPO he led teams responsible for S&OP, demand & material planning, inventory management, supply chain acquisition integration, global commodity management, operational purchasing, SCM functional excellence and SCM enabling technologies, as well as Transportation & Logistics.

His experience also included Dresser-Rand, a Siemens business focused on engineered to order equipment for the Oil & Gas industry. His tenure included leading the organization as interim CPO as well as merger integration leadership for SCM after the firm was acquired by Siemens. Over his twelve years with Dresser-Rand he held a series of positions of growing responsibility across a range of SCM disciplines at both the corporate and divisional levels.

In the course of his SCM career his teams included responsibility for global direct material/indirect strategic category management., SCM ERP platforms, SCM enabling technology (e.g. spend analytics, Source to Contract), merger acquisition integration, transportation & logistics, real estate, process innovation, demand management, eRFx, supplier risk management, compliance, supplier diversity, spend management, supplier lean, procure to pay, CAPEX, corporate quality assurance, process innovation, organizational development, and metrics that created competitive advantage by focusing on total cost, quality, On-time Delivery, lead-times and profitability.

Areas of focus/interest: Sustainability, SCM optimization, Procurement, SCM technology, spend management, performance metrics (TCO, Quality/COQ, On-Time Delivery, and Lead-Times), supplier risk/relationship management, supplier development, supplier diversity, organizational effectiveness, demand management, compliance matters, and “lean” business operations.

He has held numerous roles in Supply Chain Management and operations management since 1998 across a range of industries including Diversified Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Aerospace & Defense, Oil & Gas, and Financial Services with the following firms: Turtle & Hughes, MKS Instruments, Dresser-Rand Siemens, Bristol Myers-Squibb, United Technologies Corporation, and The Vanguard Group. He has served on various industry group advisories, ISM’s Supplier Diversity committee, and as a conference speaker. Mr. Hart is a Certified Professional of Supply Management [CPSM] and Certified Professional of Supplier Diversity [CPSD]. He served on ISM’s CPSD exam re-accreditation review team. He served as the VP & Secretary for The Hotchkiss School Alumni Association Board of Governors, chairing its membership committee. He earned his MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at UVA and his BA from Washington & Lee University.

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Where can I help you?

People - Process -Enabling Technology

Let me support your efforts in driving strategy with exeuction and results

Stress Testing Supply Chains & Design for Resilience

Develop and execute multiple factor test scenarios to identify vulnerabilities. Develop risk mitigation plans and redesigned supply chains for resiliency.

SCM / Procurement Strategy and Execution

Developed organizational assessments, standardized processes, policies, and developed solutions for digitization including implementation of Spend Analytics, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay.

Enabling Technology

Set strategy, develop RFx, and sourced Spend Analytics, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay.

Organizational Development

Talent and Organizational effectiveness are the keys to high performing learning orgnanizations. I have implemented training programs, organization redesign, and skills assessments.

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