Category: Consultant

Rhonda Rodeffer is a 20+ year manufacturing and distribution industry veteran with extensive experience in manufacturing, fleet and transportation management, and business process improvement. She built and led a team that was responsible for a company-wide fleet consolidation of 14 business units while at HD Supply resulting in process improvement and consistency, vendor harmonization and overall cost out. She also led a fleet management system implementation resulting in multi-million cost and productivity savings. Rhonda held multiple roles at General Electric Industrial Systems manufacturing plants including scheduling, production management and Six Sigma. She was a leader in the introduction of GEIS Lean Six Sigma for the components plant in Puerto Rico and Mexico. Through the lean methodology implementation and hundreds of lean events, $10MM savings was realized in the first year. Rhonda holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a BS in Mathematics from Western Illinois University. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Rhonda is also proud to have served her country in the US Army.

*Q2 2021 Employee Recognition Award Recipient Paul Denmark has more than 30 years’ experience as a senior supply chain management leader with broad-based global experience in driving benchmark performance throughout several diverse manufacturing environments on a global basis. Paul’s focus has been in driving new or enhanced ERP implementations, advanced supply chain planning and scheduling, demand management, procurement, distribution, engineering change control, and management of complex manufacturing operations across multiple plants, both as an industry practitioner and consultant. Paul has held positions as Industrial Engineering, Procurement and Planning Director at Eastman Kodak, Director of Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives at Avery Dennison, Director of Global Supply Chain at GrafTech (formerly Union Carbide), and VP of Supply Chain at the Elgin Fastener Group. He has extensive experience in make-to-stock, make-to-order and hybrid MTS/MTO manufacturing flows, as well as supply chain management, across multiple plants throughout the US, South America, Europe, Korea and China. Paul has led several major ERP implementations with an emphasis on driving excellence in supply chain planning and execution, not just by focusing on the software enhancements being implemented, but by upgrading the “thought-ware” of the organization to a higher level in order to take full advantage of the new capabilities being put in place. Paul holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University, an MS/MBA in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Management from Rochester Institute of Technology, and has been certified in APICS CPIM.

Mary Mertz is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of industry and consulting experience. Twenty-plus of these years have been focused on managing ERP implementations with proven ability to deliver multi-million dollar ($4M – $50M+) full lifecycle, global, ERP projects – on time, within budget while meeting customer requirements. Her experience includes eight years of working for Honeywell, nine years with the big six consulting firms, and fourteen years at SAP in multiple roles including Program /Project Management, Director of Business consulting and Global Account Director. Mary is an expert at all aspects of establishing and managing ERP projects – from developing business cases, vendor selection, setting up PMO’s to manage projects from inception through Go Live and process stabilization. Projects have included global business process transformation and standardization ensuring processes and performance metrics meet business strategies. She is highly skilled at communication at all levels of an organization including executive and steering committee leadership, and oversite of the Organizational Change Management strategy and activities. Mary is passionate about developing highly productive teams by providing clear direction, involving them in the planning process and proactively removing roadblocks from the project. Her past clients include: American Railcar, IBM, Caterpillar, Sony Electronics, Toyota Materials Handling Units, Fujitsu/AMD, MEMC, Pillsbury, Keebler, and Post.