Frédéric CHEVALIER

En résumé

Entreprises

• FAURECIA Emissions Control Technologies - Production Control and Logistics Director North America

  Bavans 2013 - maintenant FAURECIA EMISIONS CONTROLS TECHNOLOGIES, North America, USA, Indiana
  $1.6B Tier1 automotive supplier dedicated to exhaust systems
  
  In charge of the regional organization of Production Control and Logistics for the 14 Faurecia FECT sites located in USA and Mexico
  Manage a team of 12 experts in logistics and functionally 14 plant PC&L managers to support the operations in term of customer satisfaction and cost reductions through supply chain processes improvement.
  Lead the supply chain strategy to improve the operations performance. Develop the PC&L network skills and knowledge. Highly involve in the deployment of SAP in the division.
  
  Specific Highlights:
  Reduce inventory from 3.8% of the sales to 3.6% between 2013 and 2014, representing $14.5 million. Reduce total freight cost from by $9.6 million between 2013 and 2014.

• Valeo - North America Supply Chain & production system Director

  Paris 2010 - 2013 From Dec 2010, Supply Chain and Production System director for Valeo North America, in charge of the new regional organization of the Supply Chain and the Valeo Production System for the 15 Valeo sites located in USA and Mexico (2.2 billions USD of sales in 2011).
  
  Manage directly a team of 4 experts in Supply Chain and Lean Manufacturing and functionally the plant Supply Chain managers and the plant Continuous Improvement managers of the region.
  Driving the continuous improvement of the operations by initiating many lean manufacturing
  workshops, supply chain synergies and other kaizen activities: Plants layout through Value Stream Mapping, Pull Flow system, Lean processes implementation and problem solving coaching.
  Take strongly part in the definition and deployment of the Supply Chain and Lean manufacturing strategy of the regional operations and at corporate level. Support the operations to improve their operational performances in term of customer satisfaction, efficiency and cost reductions.
  
  Reduce inventory from 7.1% of the sales to 5.8% between 2011 and 2012, Improve machines efficiency from 68.1% to 70.3%
  Generate 3.7 millions USD of savings in the Supply Chain during 2011 and 4.1 millions USD in 2012.

• Valeo - Supply Chain Director Valeo Climate Control

  Paris 2005 - 2010 VALEO CLIMATE CONTROL, France Sept 2005-Nov 2010
  €1.5B Tier1 automotive supplier of air conditioning systems and heating and cooling products
  Logistics and Supply Chain director
  Responsible for developing the lean supply chain strategy of the product group and its implementation in 14 factories worldwide.
  Managing functionally the 14 plant logistics and supply chain managers and a workforce of 680 people.
  Initiated, managed and participated in many lean manufacturing workshops and supply chain initiatives: Complete plant flows layout, assemble to order, internal and suppliers pull flow/Kanban, VMI projects.
  Adapting actively the implementation of SAP R/3 (PP, MM, SD) to our lean supply chain strategy and training the key users.
  Initiated and participated in several Valeo group standards: Supplier pull flow, Assemble to order with truck image, Lean S&OP/MPS/MRP, suppliers logistics guidelines
  Specific Highlights:
  Reduce continuously Throughput Time from 16,6 days to 13,9 days in 2006, and from 21,3 days in 2007 to 17,8 days in 2008, 16,9 days in 2009 and 16,6 in 2010.
  Improve Dpm (Delivery per millions) from 12583 dpm in 2006 to 1146 dpm in 2010.

• Valeo - Plant Supply Chain and Logistics Manager

  Paris 2004 - 2005 VALEO MOTORS & ACTUATORS, Mexico July 2004-Sept 2005
  $120M Tier1 and Tier2 supplier of motors and actuators for automotive and industrial markets
  
  In charge of the supply chain of the division in Cd Juarez, (120 millions USD of sales in 2005) managing a team of 110 Operators and engineers.
  Manage the complete re-organization of the logistics team.
  Implement the master planning of resources and lead the implementation of SAP R/3 Comp@ss through the logistics department.
  Define the strategy of the supply chain of the plant in term of materials supply, production scheduling, transportation and warehousing in order to apply Valeo Production System standards.
  Specific Highlights:
  Reduce throughput time from 28 days to 18 days.
  Improve customer service rate from 72% to 95%.
  Set up the transportation organization with milk runs leading to higher frequency of parts supply and a cost reduction of 600 k USD.
  Restructuring of the supply chain team.
  

• Valeo - Plant Supply Chain and Logistics manager

  Paris 2001 - 2004 VALEO ENGINE COOLING, PolandJune 2001-July 2004
  €117M Tier1 automotive supplier of heating and cooling products
  
  Leading the supply chain of the plant in Skawina, Poland (117 millions Euro of sales in 2003), in charge of 80 operators, team leaders and engineers.
  Implementing the supply chain management in the new Skawina plant (18000 sqm).
  Defining the layouts of the warehouses (5000 sqm) and the logistics flows.
  Building a logistics team of 50 operators and engineers.
  Setting up the Master Production Scheduling and Sales and Operations planning processes.
  Adjusting packaging for finished goods, I have streamlined the out-bound transportation organization and implemented milk runs and cross-dock organization for in-bound transportation flows.
  Specific Highlights:
  Recruitment, training and coaching of the logistics team with 7 individuals certified Basics with Apics. Reduction of inventory level from 26 days of supply in Dec. 2002 down to 8.5 days by June 2004. Generate 1.5 millions Euros of saving with transportation and packaging improvements.

• Valeo - Logistics Supervisor

  Paris 1997 - 2001 VALEO ENGINE COOLING, France Nov 1997-May 2001 €85M Tier1 automotive supplier of heating and cooling products
  Logistics supervisor (Jan 2000-May 2001)
  In the plant at Laval, France, in charge of a team of 32 operators and team leaders responsible for the shipping activities, finished goods warehouse, packaging preparation and lines supply trains.
  From 2001: In charge of a team of 44 operators and team leaders responsible for all the physical flows in the plant: Shipping and receiving activities, components warehouse and finished goods and components supply trains.
  Logistics Methods (Nov 1997-Dec 1999)
  At Laval plant, in charge of the continuous improvement in the logistics department : Implementation of bar-code reader system for shipping and receiving activities.
  Setting up the Master Production Scheduling and Sales and Operations planning processes. ERP Trainer and responsible for the optimization of the ERP logistics settings.
  Specific Highlights:
  Progressed into a supervisory role based on outstanding work.

Formations

• MGCM - Institution De Formation Professionnelle Diplômante - CPIM APICS

  Nanterre 2000 - 2001 Production and Inventory Management

• IAE

  Lyon 1992 - 1995 Management des achats et des flux

Réseau

• Bernard MILIAN

• Fabrice CATTANT

• Frédéric BLANCHET

• Gaetan MANIC

• Rémi DELEAUNE

• Vincent TAILLEUR