Kimon Beckmann

• Q2/2021 Presidents Belt Award for Performance Excellence
• Q4/2020 Award for significant contributions to ensure further success
• Q1/2020 Award for excellence, continued contribution, and dedication

Head of Planning, Logistics, Purchasing, and Customer Service. Responsible for developing and leading best in class global supply chain strategies, and processes.

• Manage and retain a global team of 25+ professionals in multiple offices
• Recipient of 2x Presidents Award and 2x Excellence Award for exceeding company objectives
• Recipient of 2x Presidents Award and 2x Excellence Award for exceeding company objectives
• Maintained double digit growth in 2020 and 2021 during a heavily constraint domestic and global supply chain environment with reduced availability and increased lead-time for supplies and 60% of finished products shipping into export
• Managed to sustain contribution margins in the past year – offset high inflationary pressures on $150M spend
• 100% satisfaction rating 3 years in a row - continued high approval during pandemic with significant service disruptions with $300M revenue and 2,000+ key business partners
• Restructured the supply chain department and increased efficiency by ~15% while reducing SG&A spend by 25%

Partnering with policymakers, regulators, and community leaders to ensure natural resources are protected while keeping operations and business interests in mind to support sustainable innovation and growth.

Commitment to responsible, sustainable mining:
- Taxes and Corporate Responsibility
- Air Quality and Responsible Land Use
- Water Quality and Conservation
- Reclamation
- Safety & Health
- Quality Jobs
- Community Engagement

Operational and Management Consulting Services: Lean strategy, Manufacturing, Automation, Supply Chain, Procurement, Warehousing, and Logistics

Specialties:
- Supply Chain and Procurement Management Consulting
- New Production, Plant and shop floor design
- Business and Plant/Factory Relocation
- Plant and machinery efficiencies and OEE improvements
- Production waste and downtime improvements, Lean Consulting, 5S
- Product quality, quality management, and six sigma initiatives
- Production and inventory costs control
- Warehousing & inventory management, Material planning
- Production planning & line balancing

SME – Commodities, Equipment, Freight
- Low pressure injection molding
- Encapsulation, water proofing of electronic devices, cables, etc.
- Food and Pharma equipment/production lines
- Bags; Poly Film, Multi-wall paper bags, Super sacks/Bulk bags
- Primary-/secondary packaging; pallets
- CE-compliance, self-certification guidance, compliance auditing
- Railcar Leasing, Transloading, Rail freight, Intermodal
- Ocean Freight, Drayage
- Over the road trucking (OTR), Dry-van, Bulk, Drayage

Key Industries:
- Food Equipment Industry
- Pharma Equipment Industry
- Electronic Industry
- Low pressure Molding and encapsulation
- Mining and Hauling
- Logistics - Domestic and International (Import/Export)

• Q3/2019 - Continued excellence recognized with Presidents Award
• Q2/2019 - Award for Outstanding Performance and Exceptional Achievements

Head of Logistics, Procurement, and Customer Service - teams in multiple countries driving supply chain success; honored with Spot and Excellence awards for exceeding results and driving efforts to exceed company objectives and increase performance

Strategic sourcing of capital equipment, goods, services; overseeing domestic and global freight managing $140M in spend.

• Develop sourcing and procurement activities that support key business objectives
• Develop and execute a long-term strategy to facilitate improvements for Procurement Services
• Ensure execution of procurement strategies to ensure consistent and high quality value delivery
• Implement best practices to support commercial and operational objectives
• Ensure the execution of standards, controls, policies, procedures and performance metrics to effectively and efficiently manage the acquisition and reporting of third-party spend across the company
• Lead contract negotiations with key internal stakeholders, legal department and support groups
• Conduct business review meetings with key stakeholders to assess risk, review future strategies, and identify potential cost down and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain strong working relationships with strategic suppliers to assure cost, quality, and delivery targets are met and identify areas for improvement to continually drive performance and business results.

• Head od Production, Supply Chain, and Maintenance
• Engineering Consultant - Process, Material, Design

Head of Machine Production, Purchasing, Logistics, Quality Management, Customer Service

Head of the Process Automation and Engineering Department. Mentoring of Sales Managers (Europe, China, United States) in advanced processing technology

Head of Production, Electrical Engineering, Software Development