DAY ONE - SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Revolution Stream R03-02

Building a Sustainable Lean Supply Chain - 'Always One in the Oven...'

Peter Scott, Manufacturing Change Lead, UNITED BISCUITS

Peter Scott joined United Biscuits in 1997. He is currently the ‘Manufacturing Change Lead’ based in Carlisle and is a keen advocate of LEAN.

Peter was first introduced to the benefits of implementing a LEAN Programme in 2004 when he attended the A.R.T.L. (Accelerated Route To Lean) with the Manufacturing Institute. Challenged with implementing a ‘sustainable LEAN process’ at Carlisle, Peter adopted ‘Value Stream Mapping’ as the best way to a align the organisation around ‘customer defined value streams’, and to maximise profitable return from the effective deployment of specific LEAN tools.

Previously, Peter was an ‘out of work poet’ but since losing his hair has turned his attentions instead to achieving Lean excellence within United Biscuits.

DAY THREE - SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Revolution Stream R03-05

Reshaping the Manufacturing Agenda: Exploiting Complexity

Dr. Nick Rich, Research Fellow, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

Dr. Nick Rich is an Honorary Distinguished Research Fellow of Cardiff University where he co-founded the Lean Enterprise Research Centre and the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre. He is three times a graduate of Cardiff and a Toyota Motor Corporation Fellow (Japan). Nick has spent over 15 years at Cardiff conducting supply chain and operations management research.

His work has included many of the key studies that have shaped and promoted the lean approach both within the automotive sector and many others (Andersen Benchmarking studies of the early 1990s, 3 Day Car programme, the Metals Industry Competitiveness Reports, the recent Automotive Industry Growth Team Report). He has written five business books on lean and Total Productive Maintenance and still conducts research with many of the world’s most productive businesses. The most recent study is that with KPMG and the exploitation of complexity for business advantage. Nick is also a non-executive director of a number of manufacturing businesses and he holds a prestigious client list of businesses to which he advises.

Julian Thomas, Partner, KPMG

Julian is a Partner in the UK firm’s Risk Advisory Services (RAS) practice, who leads our Supply Chain work in CIM. His focus is helping European and global businesses to transform and integrate effectively. He most often focuses on supply chain transformation including product development, operations, procurement, planning, lean manufacturing & logistics.