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Thomas
L. Longmire
Mr. Thomas Longmire is a senior executive with over
20 years of diverse domestic and international experience. He
is proficient at strategy development and execution,
procurement and asset management, logistics, financial
and program management, planning, scheduling, manufacturing,
and marketing. Mr. Longmire has a solid
history of achieving substantial cost savings and
directing challenging projects that are completed
on time and within budget.
As principal of Strategic Quality Initiatives, Mr.
Longmire serves as a consultant to industry and educational
institutions for supply chain and operations management. His
accomplishments include training the administrative
staff of a large urban school system in process management,
team building, problem solving, and customer service. He
served as co-leader of the ChevronPhillips Chemical
strategic sourcing process, achieving significant
savings and supply chain process improvements. As
contract chief operations officer for a publishing
company, Mr. Longmire directed supply chain improvements,
technology upgrades, operations, and sales and marketing.
Prior to founding his own company, Mr. Longmire held
a senior executive position with a Top Five consulting
firm, Accenture, at their Houston office. As
senior experienced executive (supply chain service
line), he provided strategy, leadership, process improvement
and knowledge transfer for Fortune 100 clients such
as ExxonMobil, DuPont, Huntsman, and National Grid.
As director of materials and chief procurement officer
for IFCO Systems, Mr. Longmire led a decentralized
procurement team responsible for 102 facilities in
the U.S. and Canada. His accomplishments
at IFCO include developing and implementing a corporate
materials strategy, establishing national agreements
that achieved savings of over 30 percent, and implementing
process improvements that led to multimillion-dollar
cost reductions. Previously he was director
of corporate materials at FSI International, where
he directed a materials organization that supported
multiple U.S. and international locations. He
led an enterprise resource planning design and implementation
team that completed the project on time and within
budget. In addition, he achieved double-digit
reductions in inventory with a materials availability
rate of over 95 percent.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Longmire was employed by
Texas Instruments for over 17 years, where he held
increasingly responsible management positions in materials,
procurement, manufacturing, operations, and finance. His
talent for developing new strategies and implementing
efficient procurement and manufacturing processes
led to a series of frequent promotions.
In addition to his professional achievements, Mr.
Longmire is currently a senior examiner for the Texas
Award for Performance Excellence and served as an
examiner for the Defense Logistics Agency Commander's
Cup Award; an internal auditor for ISO 9000 processes
at Texas Instruments, Allied Signal, and FSI International;
a Junior Achievement counselor and an adjunct instructor
at Grayson College. He is a member of the
board of directors for the Association for Manufacturing
Excellence (Southwest Region).
Education
MBA (Acquisition and Contract Management), University
of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
BSBA, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas
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