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

Recommended

16 people have recommended David

Connections

247 connections

Industry

Logistics and Supply Chain

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website

David Schneider’s Summary

In a career spanning 24 years of logistics management, David Schneider demonstrates the 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. David helps develop Strategies and Tactics to support growth. David assists his clients in finding 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 the 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 a complex integrated transportation network.

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 member of the Payless Cashways corporate distribution team. David started his career in Supply Chain as an assistant DC manager of a Payless Cashways distribution center. Promoted to higher levels of responsibility at Payless David worked on multiple corporate strategic planning projects for the senior officers.

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 (1 year 7 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)

Additional Information

David Schneider’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website

David Schneider’s Interests:

I am an avid motorcyclist and engage in long distance touring and endourance events. Member of BMW MOA and RA organizations. I garden, write, and enjoy watching my two young daughters grow.

David Schneider’s Honors:

Articles About David Schneider:
www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20061001/verticalfocus.cfm
www.inboundlogistics.com/articles/toolkit/toolkit0606.shtml
www.mmh.com/article/CA252719.html
www.dcvelocity.com/articles/february2003/peprally.cfm
www.purchasing.com/article/CA6368265.html
www.imakenews.com/edgellris/e_000115617000042393.cfm?x=b11,0,w
news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2003/03/when_to_lease_b.html?t=archive
www.scdigest.com/assets/News/03-10-28.htm
www.packworld.com/view-11806
www.scdigest.com/assets/News/04-03-30.htm
www.mhmonline.com/viewStory.asp?nID=4587
www.marinedigest.com/conferences/PPC_Recap_Article_2005.pdf
www.scvisions.com/Benchmarking_the_Perfect_Order_v3.pdf
www.simpsonanchors.com/pdf/newsletter/F-SAS-AUQ305.pdf
www.scvisions.com/DCM%20December%202005_2.pdf

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