Bill DuBois has enjoyed over 12 years with Kinaxis in a number of roles including his current position as a business consultant providing pre-sales support to the Kinaxis Sales Team. This includes developing and delivering “stand-out” product demonstrations, delivering ROI analysis and also coordinating and conducting pilot projects for prospective customers. In his other roles with Kinaxis, Bill was the manager of pre sales consulting and joined the company as an integration consultant.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Bill gained 12 years of manufacturing, supply chain and lean experience while with Boeing of Canada. Bill is APICS CPIM certified. And as a qualified APICS instructor, Bill has developed and delivered APICS courses in material planning, master scheduling, capacity management and just-in-time. Bill has also developed and delivered Lean education and training packages for all levels of personnel. Bill studied Electronics Technology at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

But that’s not all…

bdubois@kinaxis.com

Bill, as the resident Kinaxis comedian, is also the host of our home-grown Late Late Supply Chain Show. The Late Late Supply Chain Show videos can be found on the Just for Laughs section of the Supply Chain Expert Community. With top-ten list in hand, Bill keys up the funny with his late show antics appealing to a broad base of supply chain professionals — those who can laugh at the chaos of their daily lives (they need the laughter to mask the pain.) Bill has won the plaudits of critics — all one of them – and has proven himself in the ratings — first in late late supply chain shows! And Bill won’t stop until “this order has been filled.” Check him out for yourself!

Blog posts by Bill

• XXX Rated S&OP from Las Vegas February 5th, 2013
• When I Grow Up I Want To Be a Chief Supply Chain Officer December 11th, 2012
• Is There a Supply Chain “Cliff” Looming? November 22nd, 2012
• Top 10 Reasons Why My Spouse Is Better Than My Supply Chain April 27th, 2012
• Top 10 Reasons Why Supply Chains Are Better Than Sex April 13th, 2012
• Will 2012 be better or worse than 2011? January 4th, 2012
• Response Management History – 101 July 19th, 2011
• Top 5: What Else Could Go Wrong? July 8th, 2011
• Supply chain analytics – Sometimes you just have to VUCAT June 24th, 2011
• OMG! Social media and the supply chain…LMAO! March 9th, 2011