2012
New England Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition

Doug Markham
President, iPower Distribution Group of New England, Inc.

Doug Markham is the President of the iPower Distribution Group of New England Inc., where he collaborates with OEMs to design, implement, and operate Point of Use Supply Chain Solutions in order to achieve rapid, significant, and permanent inventory reduction as well as the cost of overhead to manage it. Doug and his team of supply chain experts work with Operation Management teams to bring thousands of components and supplies to the production floor in support of JIT Lean Manufacturing Strategies. Doug and the iPower team has developed a proprietary ecommerce technology that brings spend visibility and control to point-of-use inventory. This reliable replenishment system is fully integrated with a network of industrial suppliers covering the broadest base of industrial component and supplies in the Northeast. Today the iPNE supply chain offers 1.2 MM items, has $140MM in inventory and achieves $800MM in sales.

Prior to his current position, Doug was the Vice President of Solution Sales at eTime Capital, a bleeding edge internet based Financial Supply Chain Solution provider for Fortune 500 companies, where he advised CFOs on new approaches and enabling technologies to significantly reduce DSO. Prior to joining eTime Capital, Doug was VP /National Practice Lead of Application Integration at CIBER where he and his team delivered leading edge software integration solutions to top Wall Street Financial Institutions. Prior to 1998 Mr. Markham held management positions with a number of consulting and manufacturing organizations focusing on operations, materials management, and quality systems.

In addition to his work responsibilities, Doug served on the WNEPMA Board of Directors for many years. There he held many positions the most notable being Professional Development Chairman. While Pro-D Chairman he focused on teaching CPM modules for members preparing to take the CPM exams and Co-Chairing the annual Purchasing Conference held at Holy Cross College.

Mr. Markham holds an undergraduate degree in Finance and a master’s degree in Organizational Development.
 

iPower Distribution Group Overview

Founded in 1994 by a cross section of thought leaders in industrial distribution and manufacturing, the iPower Distribution Group of New England Inc., (IPNE) has been out front in the area of integrated supply chain solutions for MRO and direct materials. Today the organization specializes in Inventory Replenishment Systems supporting Lean and Cellular Manufacturing Strategies for OEM of all types and sizes.
In everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo. We believe in thinking differently to produce unparalleled results. The way we challenge the status quo is to manage the 50% of your item count representing 5-10% of your total spend with the same importance, intensity, and innovation as you do managing A items. To that end, we have assembled a supply chain with the widest breadth and depth of top brand industrial components, packaging, and supplies to enable the manufacture of advanced equipment such as semiconductor, flat panel display, solar photovoltaic, medical, wind turbine, as well as cutting-edge automation, vacuum and marine solutions. In New England alone we manage over 30,000 bins and deliver over 24MM components to our customer’s Points of Use.
 

Presentation:
How to Achieve Rapid, Significant, and Permanent Inventory Reduction through Proper Selection of Replenishment Systems