About Rich Schroeder
Delivering Breakthrough Results!
Richard Schroeder is a highly recognized expert in quickly transforming major corporations both in terms of financial results as well as operational turnarounds.
He has held several executive level positions prior to his consulting success. He is the sole expert and originator of Six Sigma for Business and originator of Operational Excellence.Some of his clients were: Kraft, Mondelez, Ingersoll Rand, Sony, Toshiba, Dept of Commerce, Hitachi, Honeywell, ABB, Motorola, GM, Glaxo Smith Kline, Rockwell Automation, Dow, Dupont, Bombardier, American Express, Mayo Clinic, Seagate, Johnson Controls, and Nokia.
He has extensive knowledge and learning cycles on footprint optimization, order to cash, cycle time reductions, acquisitions and divestitures, and delivering between 20 and 35 percent margin improvements, as well as increasing pure capacity by as much as 40 percent, while delivering over 7% net productivity and significant net income growth.
In his last 3 major turnarounds at Mondelez, Kraft and Ingersoll Rand he delivered well over $500 million in net saving annually for each of his clients.
UNLOCKING HIDDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN THIS NEW ENVIRONMENT!
VIRTUAL OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT OF YOUR COMPANY!
NOW ALSO OFFERING MENTORING AND COACHING ON AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP BASIS.
BENEFITS OF ASSESSMENT.
Capacity improvement
Capability Improvement
Margin Growth
Order to Cash Improvement
Supply Chain Optimization
Any type Improvement teams or approaches
Net Productivity Achievement of 7+%
Improvement plan to realize these results
Richard Schroeder has over 30 years of experience with thousands of learning cycles and has successfully helped improve dozens of Fortune 500 companies in quickly analyzing opportunities, delivering significant bottom line results, quickly deploying tactical strategies and actions to achieve results.
MENTORING AND COACHING AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Productivity
Operational Excellence
Strategies for winning
Capacity Improvement
Quality system
Quality issues
Six Sigma
Lean
Baldrige application
Process Capability
Individual advancement techniques
HOW THIS WORKS:
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SOME TESTIMONIALS
"Richard Schroeder and his team led a transformational supply chain effort that delivered over $600 million per year in net productivity savings. Reporting to the Kraft Executive team, Richard Schroeder conceived, designed, and flawlessly implemented a Lean Six Sigma program in all Kraft production facilities and functions. Richard Schroeder brought a culture of relentless measurement and continuous to the culture of Kraft Foods."
Tony Vernon ex CEO Kraft Foods
"Richard Schroeder helped us develop and execute a strategy that affected a step change in productivity. It had an immediate impact and drove fundamental change to ensure a sustainability of the program."
Timothy R. McLevish was the Chief Financial Officer at Carrier Corp., a Chief Financial Officer & Vice President at Carrier Global Corp., a Managing Partner at Strategic Advisory Partners LLC, an Independent Director at R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. and a Chairman at Project Management Office.
Rich Schroeder Consulting Services
Proven Results
Richard Schroeder is a world-renowned Executive, Executive Consultant, Individual Strategy consultant as well as implementor of significant turn arounds, and also a best-selling author.
He was one of the 2 founders and originators of the Six Sigma Academy and pioneered the use of Six Sigma to improve net income and productivity. He is the co-author of the FIRST book on Six Sigma: “Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Strategy” which many consulting firms have attempted to copy. In his experience he has demonstrated the unique ability to define and improve significant competitive advantages for his clients. He is also firmly entrenched in the belief that all organizational improvements must have a lasting effect, and the company or organizations must be self-sustaining through knowledge transfer to continue the ability of improvement once he is done.
Richard has hundreds of key critical learning cycles which he has acquired over the years with outstanding heralded results.
His key skill sets include:
SKILL SETS AND CAPABILITIES
Strategy
Acquisitions
Value analysis
Lean Six Sigma
Operational Excellence
Margin Improvement
Net Productivity Improvement
Capability Analysis
Footprint Analysis
Quality systems
Quality Audit
Regulatory Audits
Benchmarking
Logistics and Distribution
Supplier certification
Process optimization
Business Process capability
Coaching