As the Consulting Services Director for Armstrong & Associates, Inc., Kurt serves both 3PLs and shippers. His consulting services focus on business planning, supply chain optimization, warehousing and transportation performance improvement, cost management, and IT systems. He has sixteen years of experience in industry and professional consulting.

Kurt acquired his consulting skills from the Big 5, working as a Senior Consultant in Ernst & Young, LLP’s Supply Chain Practice (now Cap Gemini) and later as a Consulting Principal in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Supply Chain Practice (now IBM), providing both business process improvement and supply chain systems integration services to several Fortune 500 companies in the automotive, retail and industrial verticals. His improvement initiatives encompassed organizational design, process control, inventory and freight cost reduction, total landed cost analysis, technology integration, network optimization and facilities design.

Kurt has a broad range of industry experience in global supply chain management from supplier collaboration through customer delivery with demonstrated capabilities in demand planning, inventory management, supplier collaboration, and transportation and warehouse operations. Prior to joining Armstrong & Associates, Inc., he led programs for Manufacturing Strategy and Lean Enterprise at GE Healthcare within the Global Supply Chain organization. This included coordinating work teams in India, Japan, France, China and Mexico to implement best practices, technology and performance measurement systems.

Kurt holds a Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt by General Electric. Kurt serves as the President of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals – Milwaukee Roundtable. He is an instructor for UW Supply Chain Management Executive Education and is a member of the Milwaukee World Trade Association. He speaks at educational seminars and trade events, such as CSCMP and Eye For Transport.

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