Alpha Global Services

John J. Kabbes
Associate Principal
jkabbes@agsbi.com

Mr. Kabbes is a principal of AGS Associates, LLC. He has over twenty-five years of corporate and international consulting management experience in the areas of government, manufacturing, distribution and energy. Mr. Kabbes has been a senior executive in large Big "8" consulting practices. He holds a BA in Economics from Rice University, an MS in Industrial Management/Mathematical Sciences from Georgia Institute of Technology and is a member of the American Production and Inventory Control, Business Advisory Council.

Mr. Kabbes is an experienced senior manager and implementer of change that achieves specific business objectives and results that support broad strategic vision. His strongest skills are in designing and implementing process based management, operational strategy and integrating manufacturing/distribution strategy and processes to support the overall business strategy in over 100 major projects affecting profit improvement, and cost reduction. He is a recognized expert in operations management, customer service, inventory management and Total Quality Management/JIT.

Prior to joining AGS, Mr. Kabbes was president of John Kabbes & Associates, Ltd. He established and led this successful consulting firm to provide professional services resulting in improved customer service, reduced order cycle times, lower cost and cultural change.

Areas of Specialization

Business Strategy
Activity Based Costing
Sales Forecasting/Business Planning
Financial/Decision Modeling
Inventory Control & Management
System Design
Manufacturing Systems
Organization Restructuring
DOD Factory Modernization
Cost Reduction
Data Processing/MIS
Supply Chain & Management

Recent Customer Value Delivery

Client results include:

10-20% increase in direct labor productivity
30-50% reduction in inventory investment
50% reduction in delivery lead-time
98%+ demand forecast accuracy
97% on time delivery to promised date and/or fixed lead-time

Major Global Electronic Products Group

Managed operations, finance, human resources, engineering (application & new product development), quality and sales/marketing for this Global Electronic Products Group. Improved operational and financial performance resulting in increased sales of 23%, reduced product costs by 20%, reduced SG&A costs by 10% and reduced total inventory investment by 35%. Implemented state of the art vendor and customer supply chain partnerships and systems linking vendors, multiple factories and major customers. Delivery lead-time was reduced by 50%.

Major Plumbing Manufacturer

Managed high volume $600 million in annual revenues and responsible for operations, production control, purchasing, data processing and distribution for multi-plant, high volume faucet manufacturing assembly. He established industry standard lead-time performance with 97% of all orders delivered complete in three days or less. There was also a reduction of 40% lower purchased part inventory and minimal/managed finished goods inventory. Mr. Kabbes initiated and implemented distributor profit improvement program and reduced production control headcount and data processing expenditures with no significant turnover.

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