Gerald VonFeldt

Managing Director and Practice Leader, Logistics

Gerald (Jerry) brings 42 years of transformation experience in global supply chain, logistics (warehouse and transportation) operations and procurement to Maine Pointe. As an industry practitioner and consulting leader with broad experience across industries, he understands both the process and impact of supply chain initiatives.

He has focused on areas such as global logistics transformation, warehouse operations and flow, transportation TL, LTL, network review and analysis, 3PL commercial interactions and LEAN operations, process review and re-engineering, warehouse optimization, and data analytics, with a broad knowledge of P&L ownership/management and sustainability. Jerry has helped many clients improve logistics and operations margins and profitability, reduce risk, provide optionality/agility and increase supply chain maturity.

Jerry's career highlights include:

• Redesigned and implemented warehouse operational changes which provided the client a 99.7% reduction in mis-picks
• Supported clients during the last 7 years drive Logistics operations benefits of $125M through warehouse (flow, slotting, and productivity improvements), transportation (strategy, sourcing, carrier negotiations, commercial agreements, and routing guide compliance)
• Designed and implemented operational flow for the complete order chain of custody to client delivery to lessen, customer credits, and improve customer profitability
  Reduced 3PL total logistics cost by 16% for a US-based food retailer through productivity and rate improvements
• Leveraged client incumbent provider to become more competitive to the marketplace creating a 19% cost improvement with 3PL provider
• Defined current supply chain and developed initiatives to reduce nonvalue-added cost with in the supply chain of a 100 year client history
• Defined and removed 3PL wasted warehouse space and cost by consolidating locations, leveraging inventory, and improved layout, flow and product slotting
• Reviewed, defined and enhanced Freight Audit and Pay internal processes to improve the accuracy of invoicing

Jerry earned a Bachelor Business Administration degree (with a focus on economics) from Benedictine College.