Jeff Landowski is a global IT leader with 18+ years of experience in emerging supply chain technologies across design, development, project management, strategy, and deployment. Track-record of leading supply chain transformation projects for Fortune 500 customers.

Approaching Supply Chain Innovation through both a technical and operational lens - while focusing on the challenges that matter most.

  • Plan.

    Planning is vital. It’s a method to decide how best to use resources (people, time, money, solutions) so that they make the most significant contribution to achieving goals.

    I’ve contributed a majority of my career towards designing very practical and innovative long-term supply chain roadmaps. Collaborating with key stakeholders (vendors, dev, enterprise arch, finance, business) to ensure the plan is sustainable and aligns with expectations.

    I have 18+ years of experience in Supply Chain Tech planning across:

    • Short-term Tactical (immediate)

    • Med/Long-term Tactical (1-12 mo)

    • Short-term Strategic (1-3 yr)

    • Med/Long-term Strategic (3-10 yr)

  • Deploy.

    Successfully executing a supply chain deployment strategy is easier said than done. Long deployments can be seen as costly and crippling to supply chains, delaying success.

    Fast deployments (shotgunning) are unnecessarily risky and often miss requirements and lead to failure.

    I prefer a thoughtful, agile approach. Ample time for requirement definition, workflow the business process (existing and to-be), solution design, document risks and mitigations. While still implementing a minimum viable pilot and quick wins to more quickly take advantage of improvements. Then follow-up quick wins with phases to continually deliver towards a north star.

  • Collaborate.

    Success cannot occur in a silo. Whether planning, designing, deploying - the most successful projects are those where I’ve had tight and continuous collaboration with all stakeholders.

    I have 18+ years of experience leading collaborations across:

    • External customer: Fortune 500 exec teams

    • Internal partners: Finance, HR, InfoSec, Data, Enterprise Arch, DevOps, Procurement

    • Business partners: Supply Chain leaders, Market VPOs + Directors

    • Vendors: App owners, consultants, 3rd party

    • Leadership: SVP Supply Chain, SVP Enterprise Arch, CIO, CSCO, CFO

  • Warehouse Management

    Leader of 100+ unique WMS deployments across:

    • Manhattan

    • Cargowise

    • BlueYonder

    • Oracle

    • SAP

    • Infor

    Once deployed: Focused on BAU/KTLO, system availability, cyber testing and vulnerabilities, continuous improvement.

  • Warehouse Automation

    Leader of initiatives including:

    • Autonomous forklifts

    • Warehouse Vision - AI

    • AMR & AGV (selection)

    • Unit load ASRS (autostore)

    • Drone (inventory / cycle)

    • Temperature sensing

    • Forklift telematics

    • Conveyor & shuttle system

    • Assisted Reality (selection)

    • Virtual Reality (training)

    • Robotic Palletizing (arm)

    • Robo-wrapping

    • Dock Scheduling

    • Labor & incentive mgmt

    • RFID tracking + portals

  • Transportation Management

    Leader of 100+ unique TMS deployments across:

    • Manhattan

    • Roadnet

    • Cargowise

    • Infor

    • Oracle

    • Descartes

    • Ortec

    Once deployed: Focused on BAU/KTLO, system availability, cyber testing and vulnerabilities, continuous improvement.

  • Transport Automation

    Leader of initiatives including:

    • Electrified pallet jack

    • Route optimization (weather, traffic, continuous routing, robust ETA engine)

    • Cold chain compliance

    • Tractor & Trailer telematics, cameras, sensors, AI

    • Virtual Reality (training)

    • Labor & incentive mgmt

    • RFID tracking + portals

    • Driver feedback / survey

    • Device Asset Managment

    • Uber-like experience of shipment track-and-trace

    • Yard Management

Supplier Management

Work closely with inbound team, familiar with:

  • Supplier onboarding

  • Supplier pre-advise integration

  • Supplier compliance and performance metrics

Data & Reporting

Work closely with Data CoE, familiar with:

  • BI/Analytics (Tableau, Redash, PowerBI, Qlik)

  • Data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, SQL)

  • Kafka data streaming (Docker)

Cyber / InfoSec

Work closely with Cyber team, familiar with:

  • Governance model (FSMA, GDPR, SOX, SOC 2)

  • Active monitor (vmware, crowdstrike, zscaler)

  • System monitoring (Datadog, ServiceNow)

Finance

Manage the following:

  • Solution assessments and renewals (RFx)

  • Contract negotiations

  • Cost center owner ($10m+ annual)

Solution Design / Enterprise Architecture

Work closely with the EA team, familiar with:

  • Define solution ROI (investment, risk, benefit)

  • Architectual governance model

  • Helped create v2 of ARB (arch review board)

Vendor Management

Manage the following:

  • Own supply chain vendor contracts

  • Run QBR and annual vendor reviews

  • Continue to hold vendors accoutable