Professional Experience
Kevvin Miller is a Director and member of the Supply Chain Consulting practice. As a leader of Supply Chain Consulting, Kevvin is responsible for supply chain consulting services for Industrial & Logistics clients in the Americas region. His primary focus will be supporting development of Business Case Process and delivery of Facility Concept Designs, Operational Assessments, and other Supply Chain Solutions as the team interfaces with workstreams and clients across CBRE.
Kevvin has over 30 years of supply chain experience. He started out as an Operations Manager to gain solid practical experience in how overall supply chain influences impacted upstream and downstream business functions. A shift to supply chain consulting for nearly 20 Years helped bring together all functional areas including strategy and business case development, supply chain network design, transportation analysis, distribution operations and facility design, supply chain execution systems, full end to end implementations with a focus on business visibility metrics, and best practice operations across multiple industries.
Most recently, Kevvin was Project Director at a Facility Supplies company leading a companywide WMS and Operational Best Practice Implementation Program prior to Leading the DC Design Build Functions for a Facility Maintenance B2B organization.
Currently, Kevvin supports a team of very experienced supply chain professionals, project managers, modelers, data scientists, engineers, and business analysts using network and operationally sound tool kit applications for solutions to help clients solve business problems where supply chain intersects with real estate.
Kevvin has over 30 years of supply chain experience. He started out as an Operations Manager to gain solid practical experience in how overall supply chain influences impacted upstream and downstream business functions. A shift to supply chain consulting for nearly 20 Years helped bring together all functional areas including strategy and business case development, supply chain network design, transportation analysis, distribution operations and facility design, supply chain execution systems, full end to end implementations with a focus on business visibility metrics, and best practice operations across multiple industries.
Most recently, Kevvin was Project Director at a Facility Supplies company leading a companywide WMS and Operational Best Practice Implementation Program prior to Leading the DC Design Build Functions for a Facility Maintenance B2B organization.
Currently, Kevvin supports a team of very experienced supply chain professionals, project managers, modelers, data scientists, engineers, and business analysts using network and operationally sound tool kit applications for solutions to help clients solve business problems where supply chain intersects with real estate.
Significant Project History
- For many clients, drove supply chain network strategy engagements, developing multi and omni-channel network designs for retail, direct-to-consumer, and wholesale distributors, providing critical direction on key requirements such as: when additional capacity thresholds would hit, where facilities should be located and purpose, role and function as well as high-level size of the facilities
- Development of Capacity and Financial Budgeting Tool Sets in Support of Network Strategy Initiatives
- Development of Facility Concept Design Parameter Tool Sets for execution of building and operations designs leading to full implementation.
- Lead WMS implementation process and teams across forty plus facilities
- Retailer / Wholesaler for professional trades industry, designed and implemented end to end 4 Wall operations including building parameters, material handling technology and automation, forklift fleet, WMS and WCS functions and full SOP development and training
- Specialty Clothing Retailer, full integrated design for building, automation and systems, managed labor and tax incentives with local, county and state level resources
- International based country infrastructure and network strategy for national system of healthcare and emergency services including distribution, logistics and inventory control requirements to improve overall quality of life
- International based retailer, Distribution Campus facility design across all retail and eCommerce businesses, incorporating housing, and infrastructure
- Hunt Camp Fish Retailer, complete operational retrofit of layout, SOPs, slotting, labor management, engineered standards and incentive based program
- Sport Manufacturing and Wholesaler, retro fit integration from manufacturing of finished goods process to putaway storage, picking and outbound automation process to optimize facility labor and product flow
- High Value retail eCommerce, Facility and Operations Design including system and security integration to ensure user level SOPs match critical balance associate level privacy and loss prevention objectives
- Extreme Sports wholesale manufacturing, assembly and distribution facility and operations design including raw material just in time staging, assembly / kitting processes, wholesale and retail system SOPs, and final outbound shipment processes were optimized for both key business segments
- Wholesale Facility Maintenance Industrial Supplier, Distribution Center design and implementation from full slotting initiatives, to SOP development and system interfaces
- North American International Retailer DC, Network Strategy Business case development, retrofit design and implementation with new high speed automation, focusing on wave planning for various service level shipments
- Global Specialty Wholesale Retail, Network Strategy Business Case development, retrofit inbound freight consolidation facility, upgrade wholesale and retail inventory control and fulfillment operations
- Global Paint Manufacturer, Operations Assessment, end to end raw materials staging, manufacturing just in time feeds, finished goods QA and inventory control, storage, and lot tracking to optimize labor and material handling equipment
- National Auto Parts distributor, Operations Best Practice Review for optimization from Order Wave Planning, in line changes, expedited order processing, automation, staging and outbound process by service level
- National Sporting Goods Retail eCommerce, Network Strategy, Business Case development, DC Building Requirements Design Parameters, Local and State Incentives negotiation, full DC Design and Implementation
- Specialty Furniture Retailer, Operations Leadership, Reverse Logistics functional design and SOP development, and labor contract negotiations based on industry best practices
- Retail Off-price Discount Retailer, Massive seasonal fluctuations of inbound, reserve storage, SKU rationalization, full end to end design and implementation of complex Put to Store, Unit Sortation, Case Sortation, and Garment on Hanger (GOH) Sortation
- National Wholesale, Retail, eComm specialty retailer, facility design and implementation with complex business and design parameters around inventory control, quality control, value added services, SKU rationalization, and value channel costing structures
- National Facilities Supply B2B, Operational Assessments for end to process improvement to develop SOPs to ultimately upgrade WMS across the entire network
Industry Experience
- Automotive
- Computer & Technology
- eCommerce
- Education
- Food and Beverage
- Manufacturing & Distribution
- Pharmaceuticals
- Retail Consumer goods
- Specialty Retail
- Sporting Goods
- Third party logistics
- Transportation & Logistics
Pro Affiliations / Accreditations
- CBRE Global Supply Chain Collective
- CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals)
- Industrial Engineering Program
Education
- Master of Science, Technology Management, Southern College of Technology
- Bachelor of Science, Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology