professional summary
Steve Hopper is Founding Partner and Principal with Inviscid Consulting. He is a results-obsessed supply chain professional who successfully helps clients streamline complex warehousing and distribution operations. Over more than two decades, Steve has solved supply chain problems for numerous Fortune 1000 clients by cutting their operating costs and boosting the performance of their people, inventory, facilities, equipment, material handling systems, and information technology.
Steve has in-depth expertise in a wide variety of supply chain operations and systems, including:
• Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
• Labor Management Systems (LMS)
• Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
• Inventory Optimization & Slotting
• Order Picking Systems
• Integrated Material Handling Systems
• Sortation Systems
• Warehouse Control Systems (WCS)
• Bar Coding & RFID
In his distinguished career, Steve has held high-profile positions at several leading companies in the supply chain industry, including Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA), RedPrairie, Retek (now part of Oracle), and the logistics consulting unit of Deloitte. He earned a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and is a licensed professional engineer (PE).
Capabilities
• Conception, Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Reengineering of Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Distribution Operations and Business Processes
• Strategic Distribution Network Planning
• Distribution Center Planning, Design & Process Improvement
• Economic Evaluation and Justification of Alternative Solutions
• Design, Estimation, Specification, Selection, and Implementation of Material Handling Systems and Supply Chain Information Systems
• Improvement of Labor Productivity, Resource Utilization and Customer Service Levels
• Reduction of Inventory
Industry Expertise
• Multi-Channel Retail
• Direct-to-Consumer
• Consumer Goods
• Apparel / Footwear
• Food / Beverage
• High-Tech / Electronics
• Pharmaceutical / Health & Life Sciences
• Industrial / Automotive
• Media / Publishing
• Wholesale / General Distribution
• Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
Education & Certification
• Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Board-Certified, Licensed Professional Engineer (PE)