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 Dr.
Juergen Boenisch, Ph.D., Dipl.-Ing, CMC
Management Consultant & Senior Executive
Dr. Boenisch is founder and principal of Executive
Management Consulting EMC; a firm established to assist manufacturing
companies and service organizations in achieving Business
Excellence based on the Toyota Production System TPS and traditional
improvement approaches. His broad expertise includes areas
such as Business Alignment Assessment, Strategic Planning,
Business Operations Improvement & Turnaround, Supply Chain
Integration, Strategic Sourcing, Culture Change and People
Engagement.
He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from King’s
College, London UK, two engineering degrees from the University
of Bremen and from the Polytechnic of Bremen, Germany and
the designation as Certified Management Consultant CMC.
Dr. Juergen has over 14 years of international
executive and consulting experience. His roles included Management
Consultant, Director Technical Coordination, VP Operations
and President & CEO for the US division of a global equipment
manufacturer. He worked with ThyssenKrupp, Bridgestone Firestone,
Caterpillar, Kautex/SIG, AirBoss, Werner&Pfleiderer W&P
Corporation, Rotek, Boehringer, ALCOA Reynolds, CFN Precision,
StampTek, Alliance Atlantis, Direct Energy (Centrica UK),
and many small and medium sized companies.
While Juergen has a strong appreciation and
understanding of enterprise systems, he believes that the
majority of the successful changes involve people and processes
rather than new technologies. To achieve improvements with
sustainable results independent of the given industry he combines:
- Technical tools for Systematic Business Improvement and
- Structured People Engagement initiating Culture Change.
“We strive
towards implementing business excellence guided by our role
model the Toyota Production System (TPS). TPS effectively
combines Process Leadership with People Engagement for sustainable
results and continuous improvement. ”
Juergen is passionate about the Toyota Production System
TPS, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management,
and Business Culture. He is a Black Belt and active member
of several organizations such as APICS, AME, and CAMC and
he is the Vice Chair of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
SME Toronto Chapter.
He is a “hands-on person” and trained hundreds
of people and corporations in business improvement and is
a frequent speaker at public events. Juergen did speak at
the 2006 annual SME conference in Los Angeles: Sustainable
Business Excellence through Process Improvement plus People
Engagement.
In collaboration with BRASI, Dr. Juergen has developed training
workshops on Lean Manufacturing. The training has been formatted
to meet the needs of the different levels of organization,
to promote top management’s financial review and commitment
and the applications level to introduce the project team to
the tools and performance measure needed for the implementation
of Lean principles.
Lean Manufacturing courses are offered as public seminars
as well as in-house training for the corporate clients.
 Ric
Phillips - www.CommunicationCoach.ca
Ric Phillips is a professional Communications Coach, who works
with clients to improve their verbal, vocal and visual communications
skills. Since 2002, Ric Phillips has conducted workshops and
one-on-one sessions with his clients, ranging from corporations
to students to new Canadians.
Studies show that strong communications skills contribute
the most to career success, especially for entrepreneurs.
"A business owner must be able to effectively communicate
his or her ideas and vision to many people," Phillips
says.
While he's an expert communications coach, Phillips was smart
enough to surround himself with other experts to help him
build his business. "I've got some very smart small business
coaches around me who helped me to manage other areas of self-employment,
such as taxation, marketing and legal issues," he says.
In collaboration with Ric, BRASI offers customized communications
training programs for business professionals. These courses
are offered as public courses as well as in-house training
for corporate clients.
The training is based on workshop style and includes in-class
practice sessions. Therefore, participants gain a first-hand
experience and in-sight on verbal skills and body language,
enabling them to continue to improve the skills on an on-gong
basis. As for all other programs offered at BRASI, after-training
support is provided if needed by the client.
 Aftab
Khan, B. Tech. (Hons.), MBA, CSCM, CPIM, CIRM, CSCP.
Secretary, ASUG Ontario Chapter (America's SAP Users' Group).
Former VP (Membership), APICS Toronto Chapter.
Aftab has global experience in supply
chain and operations management, in different areas of business
including manufacturing, quality control, warehousing and
distribution, purchasing, global logistics, sales & operations
planning and corporate planning.
He has worked for leading multinational corporations engaged in the manufactruing and marketing of automobile transmission assemblies, machine tools, food and personal products and pharmaceuticals.
Aftab has led business process improvement projects resulting
in large savings and efficiency gains, some of which are noted below:
- Implementation of Quality Circles and SQC tools, consumer feedback and Quality Assurance, resulting in improved outgoing quality level.
- Savings of 30% and above in purchasing spend, using competitive
vendor costing, negotiations and Total Delivered Cost model.
- Optimization of production volumes and product lines among
manufacturing sites, based on a cost model using cost of
in-bound and out-bound materials, manufacturing costs, manufacturing
capacity, out-sourcing, taxes and personnel factors.
- Revamping of distribution network based on manufacturing
site optimization, transportation modes and key account locations.
- Achieved higher levels of customer service while reducing inventory cost through the use of Economic Order Quantity and Safety Stock features in the ERP system.
- Several other similar initiatives and projects, utilizing
Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action techniques, PARETO
analysis, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) yield, Lean Manufacturing principles,
Six Sigma tools, TQM and related
principles.
Aftab is an APICS Qualified Instructor and has taught supply chain management courses at the APICS Toronto Chapter and Seneca College.
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