Timothy Riehl is a senior operations management and supply chain professional with expertise in distribution, inventory planning, fleet operations, manufacturing, and industrial engineering. He has experience leading multi-site operations, developing budgets, improving financial performance, change management, and talent development. Riehl has held leadership roles at large companies and worked across multiple industries to improve service levels, reduce costs, increase productivity, and optimize operations.

1. Timothy J Riehl
SNAPSHOT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Tim is a senior level operations management and supply chain professional with expertise in distribution,
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT inventory planning, fleet operations, manufacturing, and industrial engineering. His background includes
multi-site leadership, budget development, P&L improvement, teambuilding, turnaround, service level
AND SUPPLY CHAIN
improvement, start-up, and international. Tim has both corporate office and field experience in multiple
industries across large and small companies including privately held companies.
Expertise
Executive Interface
Financial Improvement Tim has held positions at senior levels of large companies interfacing with executives. At Safety-Kleen,
Operations Excellence he was named as a member of the CEO’s chief executive council, and in this capacity, he challenged a
Turnaround and Change Mgmt CEO decision to close a facility thereby saving the company a $5.8M one-time loss and $1.4M annual
Multi-site Leadership loss. At McLane Company, Tim was selected by the CEO to manage an international distribution
Talent Development productivity consulting project for a Brazilian Fortune 50 client, and in this capacity, he presented the
Cross Functional Teaming project results to the President of the client company. Tim has also served as COO reporting to the CEO.
Process Improvement Budget Development and Performance to Budget
Execution to Commitment Tim has developed operating budgets where no budgets previously existed, trained managers to read
Performance to Metrics and manage to budgets, and performed favorably to budgets which included cost reduction initiatives.
Tim joined Safety-Kleen Systems after the company filed for Chapter-11 and remained after Emergence.
Functional Experience In the first post-Bankruptcy year, Tim’s P&L was $6.6M favorable (13%), and in the following year, he
Operations Management achieved a P&L reduction of $1.0M (3%) while supporting 8% revenue increase. In the subsequent two
Distribution Operations years, Tim’s performance was $3.1M (8%) favorable to budget and $1.0M (3%) favorable to budget.
Inventory Management Organizational Development and Teambuilding
Refurbishing Operations Tim joined Safety-Kleen after the company filed for Chapter-11. After assessment, initiatives were
Private Fleet & Transportation quickly implemented to coach managers into higher performance, and changes were made to either
Industrial Engineering reposition or replace managers leading to a significantly improved talent pool. At Guardian Industries,
Tim identified manager interface issues that, when corrected, allowed the shift to break a ten year
Career Summary history of the worst productivity of four shifts to become the highest performing shift within one year.
COO, Hospice Source Operating Facility Improvement and Cost Reduction
AGM, New Breed Logistics At Safety-Kleen, after analyzing the distribution network, Tim closed three facilities reducing operating
Principal, Optricity Corporation expense by $750,000 annually, and he relocated a distribution center reducing operating expense
Sr. Director, Safety-Kleen another $550,000 over six years. Tim insourced a refurbishment operation saving $141,000 annually
Manager, Honeywell and implemented additional component salvage initiatives saving $384,000 annually. At Dell Computer,
Sr. Manager, Dell Computer Tim scaled a volume increase of 62% with a corresponding 37% staffing increase (no new technologies)
Director, McLane Company while improving service level from 96.9% to 99.1% and reducing the cost per part shipped by 34%.
Manager, Guardian Industries Inventory Availability, Production, and Cost Reduction Efforts
Aviation Officer, US Army At Safety-Kleen, Tim identified and dispositioned $41M of excess and obsolete inventory reducing
overhead and storage expense. He also initiated programs to improve inventory accuracy from 60% to
Industry Background 99%+ while reducing physical inventory time from 10 days to 5 hours. At New Breed Logistics, Tim
created a tool to drive capacity planning, throughput and staffing calculation, and production planning
Technology
which facilitated initiatives improving service level, reducing cycle time 15%, increasing productivity
Industrial 20%, reducing WIP 50%, and reducing DOH material 50%. At Honeywell Friction Materials, Tim reduced
Food inventory on-hand by $2.4M (22%) in three months while simultaneously improving service level 10%.
Environmental
Software Development
Transportation and Private Fleet Efforts
At Safety-Kleen, Tim partially outsourced freight to common carriers saving $900,000 annually, and as
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the business evolved through Chapter-11 Emergence, he reorganized and transformed the private fleet
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to insource routes saving $3.1M annually. At Honeywell Friction Materials, he worked with outsourced
providers to renegotiate freight rates and leverage internal relationships saving $2.0M (15%) annually.
Education
Engineering and Capital Projects
Tarleton State University At New Breed Logistics, Tim designed a layout yielding a 73% increase in capacity with no increase in
MS, Management Science footprint. At McLane Company, Tim initiated the layout design of a 500,000 square foot distribution
Killeen, Texas center that was constructed with a material handling equipment budget reduction of $2.0M and
started-up with a 10% productivity increase (design served as prototype for future facilities).
United States Military Academy
BS, Engineering Start-up Operations
West Point, New York Tim was a Founder and Principal of Optricity, a supply chain optimization software development and
consulting company. Tim led clients to achieve results such as 16X operational ROI, 20% replenishment
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gain, 30% order selection gain, 51% retail labor gain, etc. leading to nationally published Case Studies
which he presented at WERC Councils. At McLane Company, Tim was a primary team member leading
1407 Kingsley Drive the company’s first overseas venture starting a 3PL moving $1.6B product value (Fortune 50 Client).
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At Safety-Kleen, Tim managed a staff of 370 employees with an operating budget of $78M across 14
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facilities (nine logistics, three processing, two manufacturing) and $32M inventory supporting 96 sales
offices serving 240,000 customers. At Dell Computer, Tim managed a staff of 190 employees shipping
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48,000 parts per day filling 9,500 same-day orders with $425M annual shipments (CoGS).