Bill Kerber specializes in Lean Manufacturing and Executive Sales and
Operations Planning . In his more than thirty years of industry and
consulting experience, he has worked with the following companies,
among others:
• AT&T • Hamilton Sundstrand • Raychem • Avery Dennison • Murray •
Sunnen • Black & Decker • Philips Electronics • Viking Pump •
Engineered Mat’l Solutions • Price-Pfister • and others
He has been a key member of many projects which have delivered
significant operating results, such as improving inventory turns from
four per year to 45 per year in an entire product line, improving
customer service by 10 percentage points while simultaneously
reducing inventory, and reducing lead time through several value
streams by over 50 percent.
Bill is currently a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute, the
worlds leading educational organization focusing on Lean
Manufacturing. Bill is a Dale Carnegie graduate and has spoken to
numerous professional and technical groups, including APICS
International Conferences, the QAD User Conference, the Bull Users
Society, the Computer Associates Applications Conference, and many
chapter meetings.
Bill received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Lafayette
College in Easton, Pa., and received his APICS Fellow level certification
in 1991. He is currently working on finishing his first book.
Operations Planning . In his more than thirty years of industry and
consulting experience, he has worked with the following companies,
among others:
• AT&T • Hamilton Sundstrand • Raychem • Avery Dennison • Murray •
Sunnen • Black & Decker • Philips Electronics • Viking Pump •
Engineered Mat’l Solutions • Price-Pfister • and others
He has been a key member of many projects which have delivered
significant operating results, such as improving inventory turns from
four per year to 45 per year in an entire product line, improving
customer service by 10 percentage points while simultaneously
reducing inventory, and reducing lead time through several value
streams by over 50 percent.
Bill is currently a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute, the
worlds leading educational organization focusing on Lean
Manufacturing. Bill is a Dale Carnegie graduate and has spoken to
numerous professional and technical groups, including APICS
International Conferences, the QAD User Conference, the Bull Users
Society, the Computer Associates Applications Conference, and many
chapter meetings.
Bill received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Lafayette
College in Easton, Pa., and received his APICS Fellow level certification
in 1991. He is currently working on finishing his first book.
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High Mix Lean
| The APICS survey class on Lean is complete and available through a chapter near you! Bill was part of a team which has completely rewritten the class, bringing it up to date and basing it on a fictitious case study. Find out more here... |
| News |
| Bill presented at the APICS International Conference in Kansas City. Click here to see the presentation. You will need to sign up or in to get this, then get speech number "L4." |
| Bill and Bob Stahl led a workshop on Executive S &OP and Lean at The AME conference in Toronto. Click here to get the presentation. |
| Bill presented "Lean in the Supply Chain" to the ISM group in St. Louis. Click here to get the presentation. |
| Bill presented Executive S & OP and Lean at the Best of the Best S & OP conference in Dallas sponsored by APICS and IBF. Click here to get the presentation. |
| Bill presented "Lean for Materials Managers" at the APICS conference in Toronto. Click here to get the presentaion. |
| Bill and his friend Brian Dreckshage have signed a contract with Productivity Press to publish a book. Tentatively titled: Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials: A Framework for Materials Managers, it should be available late this year. |