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About Bob Stahl

Bob Stahl is an S&OP expert, author and educator. He has worked with a number of leading companies, including Dow Chemical, Sara Lee, Textron, Newell Rubbermaid and others.

Bob Stahl's more than thirty years of manufacturing experience give him a unique ability to influence operational excellence. While holding management positions in industry, Bob's efforts contributed to improvements in ROI from 8% to 48%. Since leaving industry in 1981, Bob has helped many companies in varied environments make similar improvements in their performance, crafting an implementation method that is low cost, low risk, and high impact. This approach is explained in one of the six books Bob has co-authored with Tom Wallace.

Bob holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Villanova University, was certified (CPIM) by APICS in 1980, and is recognized by Who's Who in America. He is a frequent keynote speaker at corporate meetings, professional society conferences, and regional and national seminars. Bob was awarded the distinction of Best Conference Speaker at an International Conference attended by over five thousand people. He also is an inaugural member of APICS - Seminar 1 Speaker Hall of Fame.

Bob heads the consulting practice for T. F. Wallace & Company. He is also the S&OP Editor and a columnist for the Journal of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), entitled Foresight. Click here to read some of Bobs columns.

He can be reached directly at: RStahlSr@aol.com or 508/226-0477 or view Bob's website at www.RAStahlCompany.com

Bob's Columns

Resolving a Family Feud: Market-Facing versus Lean Manufacturing Families by Robert A. Stahl and William Kerber - Spring 2010 - - adobe pdf
Two very important business processes are Lean Manufacturing and Executive S&OP. Both processes require grouping products into families but for very differentuses, so there is a sharp difference between how each process defines a family. In this column, Bob Stahl and Bill Kerber show how to resolve the family feud by converting market forecasts into production requirements.

How V&M Star Converts Family Forecasts Into Resource Requirements
With Executive S&OP Robert A. Stahl and Amy Mansfield - Winter 2010 - adobe PDF
Generating item-level forecasts can be complex, time consuming, and frustrating for forecasters, and can produce forecasts so inaccurate that they are not used in the planning process. In this case study of V&M Star, management uses Executive S&OP to refocus its forecasting process to family-level forecasts, which are then converted into resource requirements based on assumptions about product mix. This new approach has allowed V&M Star to gain bottom-line results of improved customer service with reduced inventories.

Exeutive S&OP: Simpler, Better, and More Needed than Ever- summer 2009 - Adobe PDF
Bob lays the foundation for understanding what the executive component of S&OP is – and where it fits in the organizational hierarchy.

How Jarden Branded Consumables Made Forecasting Simpler & Better Through Executive S&OP by Bob Stahl and Brad McCollum - Fall 2009 - Adobe PDF
A case study of the demand side of the equation – forecasting – that shows how Executive S&OP facilitated significant improvements in the generation and use of sales volume forecasts.

These columns are from the Foresight Journal, published quarterly by the non-profit International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), which prints concise, objective, and readable articles for forecasting managers and analysts. Its mission is to help improve the practice of business forecasting. Click here to see a Foresight Sampler, and information about subscriptions and corporate site licenses.