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Phillip
Slater Provides a Unique Combination of Skills and Experience
Phillip Slater
is a leading authority on materials management and specifically
engineering spares management. He regularly speaks at Engineering and
Asset Management conferences,
writes articles for magazines worldwide, has
authored several books and
provides services to a diverse range of clients
globally.
In addition Phillip was nominated
as a 'Materials Management Power Coach' at both the International
Maintenance Conference 2008 and the Reliability Centered Maintenance
Conference 2009.
With
nearly 25 years of operational improvement experience Phillip Slater
provides a broad combination of skills and experience.
At just
24 years of age Phillip started his first organizational turnaround,
taking a maintenance department from a craftwork approach to scientific
management based maintenance. At 27 Phillip moved to another state and
repeated the program at another factory in the same group.
The
success of that program led Phillip, at 29, to the role of State
Operations Manager. After successfully ‘turning around’ that state’s
operations, Phillip was, at 31, offered the role of National Operations
Manager, the youngest person to be offered that role. For family reasons
Phillip turned down that opportunity and subsequently joined a consulting
group.
Starting
as a consultant, Phillip was, after just 6 months, put in charge of a
profit centre with a team of consultants offering Operations Improvement
Services. This later expanded to overseeing groups in Australia and Asia
and ultimately a role on the Executive, overseeing a large group providing
operational, engineering and equipment development services. Phillip’s
next challenge was as an Operations Management Principal for A.T. Kearney,
a global consulting firm employing 6,000 consultants worldwide.
A desire
to ‘do his own thing’ led Phillip to leave it all behind in 2001 to start
his own company, Initiate Action. Over the years Phillip has helped many
companies improve profits, increase reliability and reduce working
capital in many different industries and at least a dozen different
countries.
Now
Phillip utilizes the expertise and experience built up over nearly 25
years to assist select clients in operations improvement and inventory
optimization. Phillip is also a prolific writer of management books and
articles for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Asia and North
America. Through Initiate Action Phillip also licenses his intellectual
property and processes to other companies for software development and
service delivery.
Read some case
studies on Phillip's work.
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