David Schneider

Current

• President at David K Schneider & Company, LLC

Past

• Director of Logistics at The Pep Boys
• Director of Industrial Engineering at The Pep Boys
• Project Manager at Keogh Consulting

• Project Control Administrator - Engineering at Payless Cashways

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Education

• Missouri State University
• Arkansas State University

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Industry

Logistics and Supply Chain

David Schneider’s Summary

In a career spanning 24 years of logistics management, David Schneider demonstrates to ability to scale focus across the Supply Chain to affect changes for improvement.

David’s consulting practice focuses on growing firms that need guidance to develop a supply chain that can sustain and enable exponential growth. Working with small companies and Private Equity Groups David helps develop Strategies and Tactics to support growth. David assists his clients to find the right Supply Chain Solution Providers so that company management can focus on growing the company.

David’s “agent of change” role over 12 years at Pep Boys Auto improved the effectiveness of the Supply Chain. From his unique management overview he built inter-related synergy in his company. He led nimble cross-functional teams focused on strategic network design and function, teams that made tactical decisions to interrelate internal and external systems, and teams that executed implementation projects such as of the construction of 4 distribution centers and the development of systems to automate planning and execution processes.

In the 5 years prior to his time at Pep Boys David served as a Project manager and a Project Engineer at James R Keogh & Associates (now Keogh Consulting) where he worked on over 30 distribution and logistics clients from a wide array of clients and industries.

Before joining Keogh, David was a team member of the Payless Cashways corporate distribution team. David started his career in Supply Chain as an assistant DC manager of the Payless Cashways distribution center. He was promoted to higher levels of responsibility through his time at Payless and worked on multiple strategic planning projects.

David graduated from Missouri State University (former Southwest Missouri State University). He has presented on Supply Chain, Logistics and Distribution Center Management topics at WERC, CLM, MA-Momentum, DC EXPO, Retail Summit, RILA and other conferences.

David Schneider’s Specialties:

Broad and deep expertise in Strategic Planning, Tactical Development and Execution Management supporting large supply chains in the retail and consumer products industries.
• Strategic Network Analysis and Optimization
• Supply Chain, Transportation and Distribution Systems
• Organizational Development
• Transportation Strategy, Carrier Selection,
• Logistics and Distribution Operations
• Facilities Design, Equipment Design, Facility Construction, Distribution Start-Up Operations

David Schneider’s Experience

• President

  David K Schneider & Company, LLC

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2008 — Present (8 months)

  Strategic & Tactical Supply Chain Consulting. Scope of work includes:
  Supply Chain Assessments,
  Logistics Network Design and Optimization,
  Distribution Facility Design and Implementation,
  Supply Chain Systems Design,
  Logistics Process Development

• Director of Logistics

  The Pep Boys

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PBY; Retail industry)

  October 2000 — January 2008 (7 years 4 months)

  Transportation
  Industrial Engineering
  Logistics Analysis
  Distribution Systems
  Vendor Compliance

• Director of Industrial Engineering

  The Pep Boys

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PBY; Retail industry)

  May 1996 — October 2000 (4 years 6 months)

• Project Manager

  Keogh Consulting

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  October 1991 — May 1996 (4 years 8 months)

• Project Control Administrator - Engineering

  Payless Cashways

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)

  October 1987 — October 1991 (4 years 1 month)