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Ray Kelly has more than 20 years of operations and supply chain management experience on a global level. His employers included: Nortel Networks, Cardinal Health, Littelfuse, and Eaton Corporation. In addition, he has served more than 15 years as a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Coopers & Lybrand. He is:







A certified Lean Sensei & Enterprise Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Over 16-years utilizing LSS tools and methodologies. 10-years at a Master Black Belt level.





An innovative operational excellence practitioner, with international manufacturing and consultancy experience across a large diverse range of industries; e.g. Automotive, High-Tech/Electronics, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Consumer Products, Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas, Heavy Industries, etc. Clients included: Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Manitowoc Foodservice, Siemens, Unilever, Kao, Shell Oil, Panasonic, Toshiba, Suzuki, Meads-Johnson Nutritionals, Abbott Laboratories, Malaysian Ministry of Finance, Infineon Technologies, British Petroleum, Avnet, 3Com, and StatsChipPac.and others





A change leader with the ability to motivate, lead and interact with individuals from diverse cultural and business backgrounds; promoting and developing a continuous improvement culture. Worked in 23 countries accross North America, Europe & Asia.







Ray Kelly has a demonstrated track record of delivering outstanding quantitative & qualitative results across enterprises' internal and external supply chains resulting in US$200-million in cost savings (over past 15-years); whist improving performance through order-fulfillment lead-time reductions, the slashing of end-to-end supply inventories, improving customer service (OTIF), reducing bottom-line operational cost, reducing material/services acquisition costs, reducing defects, improving labor productivity, simplifying manufacturing planning activities, increasing manufacturing capacity, reducing the number of suppliers, reducing supply lead times, improving cash flow, and reducing machine/product changeover times.