Professionals

Al is a Partner and Practice Leader, Logistics and Outsourcing with Supply Chain Alliance Partners. Al's progressive operational logistics career spans over 20 years. His passion and subject matter expertise is focused on Supply Chain Strategy and Logistics Execution, including Transportation. Al has developed a key core competency in the firm for successful Logistics Outsourcing and is a leader in North America at providing advice and support to client companies with outsourcing needs.

Al's corporate career included senior operational management roles within the 3PL industry with Livingston and spent a number of years in the technology industry with Borland Software responsible for Global Logistics. Al went back to the 3PL industry with Vitran Corporation. a publicly traded company on NASDAQ and the TSE, and was responsible for developing a new North American 3PL division called Vitran Logistics. Al grew this division from a $1 million dollar business to a highly profitable $70 million dollar operation with several facilities across North America. Al's success was recognized by the Corporation when appointed President of Vitran Logistics and Can-Am Logistics, Vitran's cross border truckload and freight brokerage division.  Al began his management consulting career with Supply Chain Alliance in 2003 and became a Partner in 2007.

Al's consulting experience has earned him the position of being a trusted and knowledgeable expert in his field with such companies as Research In Motion, Husqvarna, Maple Leaf Foods, Whirlpool Corporation, George Weston Bakeries U.S. , Mazda Canada, Parmalat Canada, Workrite Uniform and Browne Halco U.S. Al is certified by the Logistics Institute as a Professional Logistician (P.Log.) and provides regular commentary to relevant Canadian and American trade publications.

Darryl Nelson is a Principal with Supply Chain Alliance Partners.  With over 10 years of combined experience in Retail Operations, Transportation, Third Party Logistics, and Management Consulting, Darryl is a key member of the SCAP team.

Prior to joining the firm, through progressive roles with TNT Logistics, Canadian National Railway, and Vitran Logistics, Darryl developed a broad spectrum of "hands on" experience ranging from intermodal, truckload, and LTL transportation, to the management of multiple facility, retail distribution networks.  In his final role prior to joining SCAP, as General Manager with Vitran Logistics, Darryl managed the profit/loss and overall operational responsibility for Mark's Work Wearhouse, a major Canadian apparel retailer.  He was the lead 3PL stakeholder in reshaping their supply chain to align with and help drive their push towards $1 billion in annual retail sales.  He also successfully managed a cross functional team charged with the task of planning and executing the start up of a distribution centre in Western Canada and the consolidation of Eastern operations into a new, green field site built to spec.

With SCAP, Darryl's diverse experience, adaptability, unique skill set, and common sense approach to supply chain consulting has proven invaluable to clients from a wide range of industry verticals.

• Working with a branch of Provincial government, Darryl helped design the distribution network and deployment strategy that will ensure the efficient and timely delivery of vital personal protective equipment to healthcare practitioners across the Province during a pandemic event

• The Canadian division of Husqvarna, a global leader of outdoor power equipment, on multiple occasions, looked to Darryl and the SCAP project team to provide subject matter expertise and guidance on a number of continuous improvement initiatives ranging from network modeling, inventory stratification and optimization, and transportation spend management

• Working with Whirlpool Canada, the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, Darryl helped identify bottlenecks and process improvement opportunities in its service parts supply chain and developed a set of service performance standards and measurement tools to enhance visibility and drive continuous improvement

• Most recently, Darryl has been engaged with the City of Edmonton in the development of a service parts distribution strategy that will support and ensure the highest levels of service to one of the nation's largest Transit and Municipal fleet maintenance operations

Darryl is a graduate of McMaster University, and completed his post-graduate studies in Supply Chain and Logistics Management at Humber College.  He has been a member of the Supply Chain and Logistics Association of Canada since 2001.

   

Approximately 28 years of IT and Business Operations experience, skilled in business process analysis with related design of business requirements and support of system implementations.

• 8+ years in logistic system development  and implementation with a software company
• 19+ years in the 3PL industry having P&L, administrative, financial, legal, and IT responsibilities including system implementation and training experience

Prior to joining Supply Chain Alliance Partners full-time  as a senior consultant in 2007, was Senior Business Analyst and later VP Product Management for an integrated supply chain software development company

• Key part of the analysis and delivery project team in major projects with clients such as Whirlpool Canada, Gay Lea Dairies Cooperative, Workrite Uniform, City of Edmonton, Nike,  Greenbriar Equity

• Transportation analyses, WMS  and ERP systems analysis and process documentation, RFP’s for WMS and ERP systems including evaluation scoring, RFP’s for 3PL services  to Equipment and  Apparel vendors, review  USA private equity  proposed investment in supply chain company  (process, systems, controls), ERP implementation Project Manager

• Experience, skill and process understanding of the Fleet Services business was utilized in multiple projects with City of Edmonton: 1st Work order processes, 2nd project for Asset procurement  where our firm delivered a number of recommendations and roadmap considerations covering Purchasing and Operations aspects , 3rd project  for Fleet Maintenance  Planning & Reliability plus Quick Service regarding process development, parts definition strategy, and shop floor implementation, and 4th project for Materials Management processes in regards to new CMMS

• For  Gay Lea Dairies, was the RFP Management Subject Matter Expert overseeing the RFP process for a new WMS selection, which included developing business requirements , working with Gay Lea for new barcode standards implementation in support of the project, developing the RFP evaluation methodology, pre-qualifying potential candidates, and developing the RFP and managing the responses
• For Nike,  Deeley-Harley Davidson ,and Husqvarna - process, systems, and data analysis  and documentation, team participation in preparation of RFP for 3PL  service quotes

Chris is a Senior Business Analyst with Supply Chain Alliance Partners and has over 10 years of progressive experience in the Canadian Retail Industry with Sears Canada, with key roles in Finance - including Financial Analyst and Controller Positions - as well as Logistics Analyst and Project Management responsibilities. His financial and analytical background has allowed him to develop key project management skills in a wide variety of businesses including Marketing, Retail and Logistics.

His past accomplishments at Sears Canada included designing, developing and successfully implementing a planning, expense allocation, and reporting methodology to improve the management of an $85 million transportation network. As well, he also designed, developed and implemented a planning, expense allocation, and reporting methodologies for a major Regional DC for a $110 million warehouse operation.

As an employee with Supply Chain Alliance Partners, Chris has worked on many engagements as a Senior Analyst.

• For Whirlpool Canada, Chris oversaw all analytic support in the identification and quantification of alternative of distribution models to service Sears Canada parts business.  The project required him to analyze all data as it pertained to Whirlpool considering three alternative models for the distribution of Sears parts in Canada

• For Nike Canada, Chris oversaw all data support, in reducing Nike's outbound transportation spend and qualifying the service benefits of a regional distribution strategy

Chris is a graduate of the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts. He has also completed his Accounting/Finance Certificate at Ryerson University. Chris has completed the Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation (CITT) program and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA - US) with the Institute of Management Accountants.

Mike Bardswich is a Senior Business Analyst with Supply Chain Alliance Partners.  Through his roles as a Supply Chain Analyst, Business Support Supervisor, and Project Manager, he has had the opportunity to develop excellent analytical and project management skills.

Mike has over 12 years of supply chain analytics, network modeling and operational improvement experience and has completed a number of successful supply chain and network modeling projects.  Prior to Supply Chain Alliance Partners, Mike was a Project Manager for Vitran Logistics and was responsible for overseeing many projects including the design and implementation of a RF-based sorting and shipping system for the numerous warehousing clients.  He had also increased his transportation knowledge as an analyst on many key accounts with Schenker of Canada.

With Supply Chain Alliance Partners, Mike has performed numerous network modeling projects,including complex network studies, considering multi-echelon inventory points across numerous service requirements.

• Mike completed a complex network study for Husqvarna, considering multi-echelon inventory points (including inventory stratification) across numerous service requirements (finished goods, replacement parts and expedited parts)

• He operated the modeling tool CAST for a network study for Whirlpool Canada

• For Lawson products, Mike performed an ABC analysis for 50,00+ SKUs, designed a new racking profile and layout, slotted the top 80% of SKUs for a zone pick and pass and created a transition plan to move from the existing layout to the new racking and slotting design

Mike is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt and is an accomplished user of Access, Excel and has been certified at the Intermediate Level for Barloworlds' CAST network modeling software.  He is also certified for ISO 9001: 2000 Process Mapping and Procedure Writing.

 Mike is a graduate of Laurentian University with a Bachelor of Commerce.  In addition, he has a Computer Programming diploma with Humber College.