Lewis Kilby

Current

Managing Partner at eChain Technology

Past

eChain Project - i2 TM & EDI Implementation at Kimberly-Clark
eChain Project - i2 Pursuit Consulting at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
eChain Project - Dynamics AX Implementation at ChemFree Corporation

eChain Project - Active RFID Solution Delivery at SYMX Technologies
eChain Project - ERP BNA and Solution Recommendation at ChemFree Corporation
eChain Project - Management Consulting Active RFID at RF Code
eChain Project - Operational Assessment at Global Motorsport Group
eChain Project - i2 TM Implementation at Schneider Logistics
eChain Project - Engagement & Turnaround Management at Tectura
eChain Project - i2 TM 3PL Enterprise Architect at UPS - SCS
Project - Solution Architect at FedEx
Project - Solution Architect at Philips Semiconductor
Project - Demand Planning SME at Clorox
Director Supply Chain Solutions at World Commerce Online
Supply Chain Implementation Consultant at AnswerThink Consulting Group
Sr. Demand Forecast Analyst at The Coca-Cola Company

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Education

Georgia State University

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Information Technology and Services

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Lewis Kilby’s Summary

I am the managing partner for eChain Technology. eChain delivers high-impact business process and technology solutions for operational excellence and execution. We are a niche consulting company with highly experienced professionals capable of assessing your current operations, recommending high-impact process and technology solutions, and then implementing and delivering those solutions.

We focus on execution and results, and are so confident of our capabilities that we have an optional pricing model that discounts our normal rates to share a portion of the savings resulting from our efforts. Ask about our 20/20 pricing model.

We focus on:
>> Operations Execution, Supply-Chain Cost Reduction
- Forecast Improvement, Safety Stock Optimization, SKU Rationalization, Business and Application Integrations, S&OP and BI Business Metrics solutions

>> i2 Implementations, Enhancements, Integrations (SAP R/3)
- Transportation Planner, Demand Planner, Supply-Chain Planner

>> Dynamics AX ERP
- Development, customizations, master data migration and integration (EDI, FedEx, UPS)

>> Microsoft SharePoint
- Custom Application Development, Intranet Development, BI and Reporting Services Solutions

>> Consulting
- Solution Design, Engagement Management, Solution Development, Turnaround and Risk Mitigation strategies

If you are interested in the kind of actives that can dramatically improve your margins, stabilize and grow your business, and ensure that you survive and thrive in a cataclysmic economy while your competition fails, please contact us. We can put together a plan that will generate results in as little as 3 months.

I am an open networker – please connect at lkilby@echaintechnology.com and send me a quick note on how we might be able to help each other be successful.

Lewis Kilby’s Specialties:

- Forecast Improvement, Safety Stock Optimization, SKU Rationalization, Business and Application Integrations, S&OP and BI Business Metrics solutions

- i2 TM, i2 DM/DP, i2 SCP, i2 SCEx

- Dynamics AX Development, customizations, master data migration and integration (EDI, FedEx, UPS)

- SharePoint Application Development, Intranet Development, BI and Reporting Services Solutions

- Design, Engagement Management, Development, Turnaround and Risk Mitigation strategies

Lewis Kilby’s Experience

Managing Partner

eChain Technology

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2001 — Present (7 years 11 months)

eChain Technology provides corporate cost eradication and operations optimization through design, delivery and execution of best practice solutions for Enterprise and Mid-Market Manufacturing Companies. Focus on i2, SAP, Dynamics AX, and custom solutions that maximize efficiency and ROI. We provide extremely experienced teams to help guide you to successful realization of optimal performance using the best available technology and processes.
eChain Project - i2 TM & EDI Implementation

Kimberly-Clark

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KMB; Consumer Goods industry)

September 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 2 months)

eChain Technology Project assisting in i2 TM 6.2.3 blueprinting and implementation for Global Transportation and Optimization using i2 ABPP to develop customized integrations to SAP R/3 and all external EDI clients. eChain owns the Track and Trace, EDI, and Performance Metrics solution development for KCC Transportation with expected completion in May 2009.
eChain Project - i2 Pursuit Consulting

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAP; Management Consulting industry)

January 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 6 months)

eChain provides niche sales, pursuit, design and project staffing support for consulting partner sales efforts for several "big" consluting and private equity investment firms for i2 supply-chain and SAP turn-around projects. Supported i2 TMS implementation (Visibility and Freight Audit-Pay) pursuits for Major Auto Manufacturer, i2 TMS global inbound logistics for Major Retailer, TMS capability review and tactical support for Major Retailer, and CPFR pursuit for Major Automotive.
eChain Project - Dynamics AX Implementation

ChemFree Corporation

(Biotechnology industry)

June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)

eChain Technology supported engagement management role in ChemFree Dynamics Ax 4.0 implementation, by providing project leadership and task and resource alignment for an accelerated project lifecycle. eChain also led legacy master data analysis, transformation and migration, customer and item master cleansing and loading. eChain additionally provides ongoing AX consulting and AX customization and development for pre-go live, and post-go live needs.
eChain Project - Active RFID Solution Delivery

SYMX Technologies

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

December 2006 — July 2007 (8 months)

eChain worked on behalf of customer with Microsoft as the sole Active RFID Technology Adoption Partner (TAP) for BizTalk RFID R2 to lead the needs assessment (BNA) and solution design for an Active RFID asset-management and tracking solution for Healthcare. We selected a key implementation partner and drove development of SharePoint-based Healthcare Asset Management solution using revolutionary active RFID/IR and BizTalk.
eChain Project - ERP BNA and Solution Recommendation

ChemFree Corporation

(Biotechnology industry)

May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)

eChain engagement to document ChemFree business needs and requirements for a replacement ERP solution. Performed a gap fit analysis of ChemFree requirements to both several ERP alternatives with final presentation for a recommendation for Microsoft Dynamics Ax (Axapta) based on several key factors.
eChain Project - Management Consulting Active RFID

RF Code

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)

Directed product management and aligned engineering and manufacturing capabilities for leading Active RFID manufacturer. Supported manufacturing approaches to reduced product cost and increased capacity for the 303 MHz and 433 MHz active RFID product lines. Supported partnering initiatives, sales, training and certification activities to grow global adoption.
eChain Project - Operational Assessment

Global Motorsport Group

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Automotive industry)

May 2006 — June 2006 (2 months)

Performed Strategic Operational Assessment (SOA) engagement for Perot Systems and Blackstone customer. The SOA successfully uncovered the root cause and provided specific recommendations for the correction of key operational challenges. Involved review of JD Edwards capabilities and configuration, forecast model selection and accuracy and inventory policy. Execution on key recommendations would result in significant operational improvement in 6 months.
eChain Project - i2 TM Implementation

Schneider Logistics

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

April 2006 — May 2006 (2 months)

Provided Subject Matter Expert (SME) support for global logistics capabilities and solution fit of i2 TM/TO 6.2 proof of concept. Included deep dive on i2 TM version 6.2 capabilities and fit to Schneider business needs and i2 implementation challenges on IBM Web Sphere, and DB2 environment using BI Adapters, MQ Series, CIS compatibility and J2EE
eChain Project - Engagement & Turnaround Management

Tectura

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2005 — January 2006 (6 months)

Provided engagement management and turn-around support for multiple at-risk Microsoft Axapta ERP implementations for Tectura, Microsoft’s leading MBS partner. Provided organization guidance, development restructuring and hands-on account management to ensure proper support for three prominently challenged project engagements implementing a vertical Axapta ERP solution. Successfully delivered acceptance on these three at-risk ERP implementations in less than 4 months. This engagement involved achieving level of familiarity and use in Microsoft Axapta, X++, Navision and SharePoint, and guiding shared project resources.
eChain Project - i2 TM 3PL Enterprise Architect

UPS - SCS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UPS; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

February 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Enterprise Architect and implementation support for 3PL Logistics offering supporting multiple customer implementations and migrations. Adopted extensive use of group’s Rational Unified Process (RUP) and UML to capture and document requirements, capabilities, rules and architecture for multiple (often parallel) client implementations and existing customer solution migrations to TM/TO version 6.1.2. Engagement leveraged my skills with the Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Visio, Access, XML, SAP IDoc, and flat file integrations. All projects utilized a rigid and full software development life cycle (SDLC) approach with formalized risk mitigation and periodic reviews.
Also led project(s) to migrate seven existing production TMS customers from earlier TMS platforms (4.2.2 and 5.0) to current baseline solution. Adopted an extremely hands-on role assisting in solution design, integration, configuration, testing, QA and go-live support.
Project - Solution Architect

FedEx

(Public Company; FDX; Package/Freight Delivery industry)

April 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Solution design and development for FedEx strategic marketing advanced analytics application. Led design, development and delivery of a web-based Market Research advanced analytics application. This engagement involved managing a 3rd party development group building to my specifications and assuring final acceptance by the customer. The solution incorporated SPSS into a custom, secured intranet web-based ASP infrastructure for indexed and ranked market research, surveys and globally-culled strategic marketing content into a SQL Server Relational database incorporating a matrix security schema to secure content. The solution incorporated an EIS front-end dashboard for ad-hoc reporting.
Project - Solution Architect

Philips Semiconductor

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

November 2003 — January 2004 (3 months)

Engagement for troubled/challenged account turnaround including design and engagement management support for a distributed advanced allocation pegging algorithm upgrade (functional specification) for an existing web-based supply collaboration solution. The project engagement was in Philips offices in Eindhoven, NL, and also at the vendor site, Vizional Technologies in California. Was able to save the go-live of Phase 1, and salvage next phase upgrade following the departure of the entire project team at go-live.
Project - Demand Planning SME

Clorox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CLX; Consumer Goods industry)

March 2002 — November 2002 (9 months)

Project supporting Demand Planning (i2 DP 5.1) forecast system-rebuild and model tuning, Unix Scripting and support. Additionally developed S&OP process and documentation for Clorox, and developed an integrated Demand Forecasting reporting application and decision support system in VBA.
Director Supply Chain Solutions

World Commerce Online

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; WCOL; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 1 month)

WCO was a portal marketplace provider that developed collaborative solutions powered by hosted i2 Technology applications. As Director, documented the requirements for the collaborative solutions, hand-selected and hired the development teams, architected and managed solution development and product support while managing the 25 person P&L. Also tasked with managing core development and client deliverables, and demonstrating and selling these multi-million dollar solutions in US and in Europe to companies like FedEx, Ryder Logistics, Ahold, and Acosta. The final solution was a world-class Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) solution that additionally incorporated inbound and outbound logistics.
Supply Chain Implementation Consultant

AnswerThink Consulting Group

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ANSR; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

September 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Sr. Consultant and Project Manager specializing in Supply Chain and i2 application implementation consulting. Also provided forecasting, solution integration and supply chain expertise, lead generation and sales support
Sr. Demand Forecast Analyst

The Coca-Cola Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KO; Food Production industry)

April 1994 — September 1998 (4 years 6 months)

Initially engaged as independent consultant to develop and deploy an inventory management application for the Non-Carbonated Beverages Division. Upon successful completion of Warehouse project, joined Coca-Cola as full-time employee working for NCB Sales as business/systems analyst for demand forecasting. Designed, developed and operated an interim demand forecasting solution while leading evaluation of Tier 1 solution. Selected and implemented Logility SCP system for forecasting and became super-user/trainer for the remainder of employment with Coca-Cola. Designed and supported Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and additionally developed S&OP integrated reporting application.

Lewis Kilby’s Education

Georgia State University

BBA , International Finance , 1986 — 1991

Activities and Societies:

Sigma Nu

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Lewis Kilby’s Interests:

Challenged Projects, innovative solutions, leading-edge technology, fast ROI

Lewis Kilby’s Groups:

NRCC Business Advisory Council Chairman, APICS, Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF), Institute International Research (IIR), i2 Technologies, Dunn & Bradstreet(D&B), SCMP (Supply-Chain Management Professionals), DMA (Direct Marketing Association), SCM, PRO-Net and DOD's Central Contractor Registration (CCR)