John Beaty|| Kevin Frayne || Jeremy Gilleard
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John Beaty has many years experience in logistics operations in both the military and commercial areas. Following his military career in which he held senior appointments in purchasing, inventory management, warehousing and logistics planning in the British Army, he worked for eight years for Coles Myer in distribution management, logistics planning and purchasing. In 1989 he formed his own logistics consulting company and has assisted a wide variety of organisations to improve their logistics operations. His consulting clients include companies in manufacturing, retailing, distribution and the public service. John also works as a logistics lecturer at RMIT University teaching both undergraduate & post graduate students, and has led logistics seminars and workshops throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong. His training clients include AIM, BLEC, Singapore Institute of Management and Centre for Management Development. He has conducted internal training courses for a number of multi national companies. |
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Prior to becoming a founding partner of BFG Consulting Group, Kevin worked for Shell Australia in plastics, chemicals and packaging, in market development and market research of the fibre, film, twine and carpet backing markets for a new polymer polypropylene and on technical and economic evaluations of chemical products and processes, cost reduction, financial analysis and reporting to improve the profitability of the petrochemical business. In business development roles he established and managed a commercial group to work with key manufacturing companies developing business strategies, marketing plans, financial analysis and export market planning to improve their profitability and export performance and with SME's to form business networks for export. His regional development activities include working with Development Committees and Councils to market their regions, develop their infrastructure and industries eg developing an aquaculture industry for regional Victoria. He also worked with research institutions as Chairman of an Advanced Manufacturing Working Group developing and implementing a business/marketing plan to increase the market for contract research and grow technology businesses by establishing a technology business incubator at the Latrobe R&D Park. His consulting activities with BFG Consulting Group have been involved in supply chain projects within Manufacturing Industry and the commercialisation of new technologies. The latter includes market research and the development of marketing plans for technologies in Human Movement, Post Harvesting of Grain and CSIRO Boron Specialty Chemicals. These studies resulted in their commercialisation and the establishment of two new business ventures. The supply chain projects include inventory management, purchasing and distribution, audits to analyse and map information and material flows, analysis of value adding/non value adding activities to reduce cost and improve customer service through e.business, co-ordinating an automatic weighbridge operation integration with SAP and the implemenation of transactional e.business activities between customer, manufacturer and transport company. Kevin has also lectured for several years at RMIT in strategic planning and risk management and was project manager/manager in developing the air quality policy and implementation program for Victoria. This program was the first of its kind in Australia and resulted in substantial improvements to the air quality of Melbourne.
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Jeremy is a founding Partner of BFG Consulting Group. He has been involved in Supply Chain projects within the manufacturing Industry and International Market Research for CSIRO Molecular Science. The latter involved preparing a communication package in English & Japanese and a questionnaire to determine Pharmaceutical R&D interest in a new chemical; the significant International response has since lead to commercialisation of the chemical. Supply Chain projects have included inventory management, demand forecasting and introducing the Sales & Operations Planning process, investigating best of breed warehouse management systems for ERP integration and audits of supply chains mapping paper, information & material flows and producing value adding/ non value adding analyses. Cost/benefit analyses have ensured the group's continued involvement to implement their recommendations. He previously gained wide ranging commercial experience through 30 years in sales and marketing roles transfering technology across country centres, with the multinational Air Products and Chemicals-in the UK and South Africa- and Air Liquide & DuPont in Australia. He gained experience in market analysis and product/process development, economic and feasibility studies to justify changing operations and financial analysis of major enterprises through the role of Financial Controller with Air Liquide. He
improved business' effectiveness through the introduction of new
processes in industrial markets covering food, glass and plastics,
metals, chemicals, and the mining indistry. Improvements were achieved based on cost/benefit
analysis models developed for specific industries. He was instrumental
in assisting the Federal EPA to introduce an effective replacement
program for CFCs in air conditioning & refrigeration systems. |