Stuart Walton

Globally experienced manufacturing, supply chain, and distribution leader. Vision-driven professional, solutions architect and relationship builder with repeated transformational successes in safety, delivery, quality, cost, NPD/NPI, customer satisfaction and business growth. • Skilled at developing strategy that unravels complexity and legacy issues to inspire employee effectiveness, boost profit and customer satisfaction. • Delivers game-changing, competitor beating processes from concept to delivery. Breakthrough time/cost/design results from Supplier Solutions Forum F2F process of multi-company/supplier project management. • Deploy engineering, analytical, lean and behavioral solutions to remove barriers for people, processes, suppliers, customers, and profit (ROI, ROA). • • Goal: Outlier results through inspired people mastering their competitive environment. • • • >$300,000,000 career savings from strategic sourcing and supplier development • >$ 30,000,000 in Manufacturing Ops savings; >$ 15,000,000 quality and scrap savings • >10% to 40% productivity gain improvement; ~20pt gains in employee engagement • +99% OTD/OTIF routinely; 14% to +60% reductions in lead-times • +20% to 50% working capital reductions; double-digit improvement in cash to cash cycle time • >$ 10,000,000 manufacturing and delivery driven sales wins • OSHA/HSE compliance and culture improvement | double-digit improvements in TRIR and DART • Global multi-cultural experience +40 countries, expat postings China, UK, Germany, Taiwan • Regulatory Compliance, Quality Systems Management responsibility, ISO, TS, ECE (Europe), EEE (China) OHSAS and others