Steve Hopper

Steve Hopper

★ Helping Businesses Achieve Lean Warehousing, Distribution, Logistics & Supply Chain Operations ★ 4000+

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Greater Atlanta Area
Industry
Logistics and Supply Chain

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  • Georgia Institute of Technology
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Steve Hopper's Summary

► IF YOU MANAGE A SUPPLY CHAIN OR OPERATE WAREHOUSING AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES...Do you want to improve your logistics processes and implement lean distribution solutions that drive down costs, increase capacity, improve service levels, and reduce risk? If so, Steve Hopper can help.

Steve is passionate about helping clients boost profitability by saving time and money in their production, warehousing, distribution, logistics, and supply chain operations. His in-depth expertise includes:

♦ Lean Supply Chain Operations Planning, Management, Modeling, Analysis, Design, Reengineering, Process Improvement & Cost Reduction (Lean Six Sigma, 5S)
♦ Strategic & Tactical Industrial Engineering for Warehousing, Distribution & Logistics
♦ Improvement of Labor Productivity, Resource Utilization & Service Levels
♦ Reduction & Optimization of Inventory
♦ Assessment & Proactive Mitigation of Supply Chain Risk
♦ Assessment, Analysis, Design, Economic Justification, Specification, Selection, & Project Management of Supply Chain Information Systems & Material Handling Systems
♦ Business Development, Consultative Sales, Marketing & Sales Management for Supply Chain Solutions
♦ Team Leadership, Training & Mentoring for Results

To boost both your top and bottom lines, Steve can help you enhance the performance of your people, inventory, facilities, equipment, material handling systems, and supply chain information technology (IT) systems.

Steve earned his Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree from Georgia Tech and is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.).

See a SupplyChainBrain video interview with Steve: http://bit.ly/w4yED7

Steve is Vice President of the Atlanta WERCouncil of the Warehousing Education & Research Council (WERC).

A longtime drummer, Steve enjoys playing jazz, rock, R&B, funk, and blues as often as possible. He is a committed follower of Jesus Christ, and he lives with his wife and two children in the northwest suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.

Specialties

♦ Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
♦ Labor Management Systems (LMS)
♦ Engineered Labor Standards
♦ Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
♦ Slotting Systems
♦ Order Picking Systems
♦ Integrated Material Handling Systems
♦ Sortation Systems
♦ Warehouse Control Systems (WCS)
♦ Bar Coding & RFID
♦ Parcel Shipping Systems
♦ Supply Chain Visibility
♦ Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems

Contact Steve for:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

Steve Hopper's Additional Information

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Interests:

Driving down costs and boosting service levels in supply chain, distribution, warehousing, and logistics operations

Groups and Associations:

♦ Warehousing Education & Research Council (WERC) - Atlanta WERCouncil Vice President ♦ The Association for Operations Management (APICS) - Atlanta Chapter ♦ Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) - Atlanta Roundtable ♦ Materials Handling & Management Society (MHMS) - Past Atlanta Chapter Secretary/Treasurer ♦ Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) - Senior Member & Past Atlanta Chapter President ♦ Ignite - Independent Associate (with his wife, Lisa)

Steve Hopper's Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor, Industrial Engineering

1981 – 1986

Activities and Societies: Theta Chi Fraternity, FASET Leader, Student Assistant in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Institute of Industrial Engineers

Steve Hopper's Certifications

  • Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) - Industrial Engineering

    • State of Georgia
    • License PE019659
    • January 1992

Steve Hopper's Organizations

  • Warehousing Education & Research Council (WERC)

    Vice President, Atlanta WERCouncil; Facility Tours Chair, 2012 WERC Conference

  • Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

    Senior Member; Former President, Atlanta Chapter

  • Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)

    Member, Atlanta Roundtable

  • The Association for Operations Management (APICS)

    Member

Steve Hopper's Experience

Founding Principal

StoneCross Group

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry

2012 – Present (less than a year) Greater Atlanta Area

Managing your supply chain costs your business too much time and money. To succeed in an increasingly competitive marketplace, it's vital that you use these two commodities wisely. StoneCross Group can help. We are an independent management consulting firm that helps clients streamline their supply chains and mitigate risk, saving considerable time and money. Not to mention headaches.

Your customers want you to serve them faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively. How do you respond? Cookie-cutter solutions don’t matter to our supply chain management experts -- your goals do. We help your supply chain cross over from mediocrity to excellence. You get a better bottom line.

Your supply chain must be more than "efficient." It must also be effective. A chainsaw is efficient for cutting butter, but when it comes to cost, risk, and waste, it's not very effective. StoneCross Group is committed to helping your supply chain blend the right people, processes, methods, facilities, equipment, material handling systems, tools, and information technology to achieve the results you want -- effectively. By applying the art and science of lean supply chain management, StoneCross Group will discover, advise on, and implement effective supply chain strategies and solutions that:

♦ Drive down your costs
♦ Increase your service levels
♦ Improve your methods
♦ Simplify your processes
♦ Reduce your risk
♦ And most importantly, boost your profitability.

Contact StoneCross Group today, and let us show you how to save time and money -- and headaches -- in your supply chain.

StoneCross Group, LLC
"Strategy with Execution"
www.linkedin.com/company/stonecross-group
Email: shopper@stonecrossgroup.com
Phone: +1-404-832-LEAN (+1-404-832-5326)

Founding Partner & Principal

Inviscid Consulting, LLC

Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry

2004 – 2012 (8 years) Roswell, GA

(Inviscid Consulting was folded into StoneCross Group in 2012.)

Associate Partner

The Progress Group, LLC

Partnership; 11-50 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry

2011 – 2011 (less than a year)

Senior Manager & GoalPost™ Business Development Leader

Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA)

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; mmc; Management Consulting industry

2007 – 2009 (2 years)

See a recent interview with Steve here:

http://www.supplychainmarket.com/download.mvc/QA-Strategies-For-Improving-Labor-Productivit-0001

Account Executive, Retail Industry

RedPrairie Corporation

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry

2002 – 2004 (2 years)

Director, Logistics Business Development, North America

Retek, Inc. (now part of Oracle Corporation)

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; RETK; Computer Software industry

1997 – 2002 (5 years)

Systems Sales Manager

W&H Systems, Inc.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry

1992 – 1997 (5 years)

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting (The Garr Consulting Group)

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Management Consulting industry

1987 – 1992 (5 years)

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