Stuart Cunningham

In Advancing Digital Transformation within Manufacturing Industries, Stuart Cunningham has performed visible, leading mission-critical roles in over seventy-five successful multi-site global manufacturing enterprise system implementations and upgrade projects. Stuart’s industry exposure has been within discrete, process flow, hybrid, lean manufacturing, and connected IOT manufacturing 4.0 environments, with broad experience in value-add, tolling process, and drop-shipment business practices.

Large cross-functional project team experiences have ranged from full ERP implementations and version upgrades to expanding core functionality through the addition of Plant Maintenance Systems (PMS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and other critical bolt-on processes in the enablement of connected IOT and Manufacturing 4.0 transformations.

Individual project team experiences have included assessing the accuracy of forecasted MRP demand planning, warehouse inventories, multiple currency financials, and performing process best practice training sessions. Stuart’s project role versatility ranges from:

◦ Requirements gathering and development of situational awareness finding presentations to enhance steering committee, management, & key stakeholders’ efficient decision-making responsiveness.
◦ Oversight of departmental direct & indirect procurement spends maintained within budget parameters.
◦ Project manager providing leadership for task teams of up to thirty cross-functional business, technology, skilled and non-skilled resources.
◦ Expertise integrates three expert-level skillsets aligning technology supply chain management with global manufacturing enterprise MES Supply Chain S&OP operations.
◦ Industry exposure is within discrete, process flow, hybrid, lean manufacturing, and smart connected IOT manufacturing 4.0 environments, with broad experience in value-add, tolling process, and drop-shipment business practices.
◦ Demand Planning Forecast, Bill of Materials (BoM)/ Recipe, Material Requirements Planning (MRPii)
◦ Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management Subject Matter Expert (SME) analyzing, advising, designing, developing, and executing technical and functional best-practice solutions.

Stuart's technological understanding within Infor, SAP, and various Cloud-Based Manufacturing ERP Systems gives him the ability to cohesively conceptualize disparate integration requirements, molding nonconforming qualitative and quantitative data modeling and metric KPIs into usable analytical solutions.