Principal Advisors



	Managing Partners: Lim Poh Khai, Chan Seow Khoon Principal Advisors: Paul Ames, Roland Goh, Lau Kam Seng, Ruth Smith

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Text Box: Chan Seow Khoon (skchan@smeintl.com.sg)
Masters of Business (Logistics Mgt); Member of Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP/USA); Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT/UK); Singapore Institute of Materials Management; Marketing Institute of Singapore; Singapore Human Resources Institute and the Singapore Institute of Management; Business Excellence Consultant Course (Spring Singapore); Accredited Associate of Institute for Independant Business

Text Box: S K Chan has 40 years of working experience. He began his industrial experience as a manufacturing supervisor in a high-tech American MNC in 1972. He progressively moved into production planning, marketing services, logistics and regional roles. He also worked for other MNCs in the telecom equipment, electronics and specialty chemicals sectors in various regional management roles interacting with people from various countries and cultures.
He was working in China from 2002 to 2006 in a management role in a US$100M SME electronics factory. During his tenure, he contributed to the productivity and people development activities that resulted in 5 times of output while the headcount was increased by 2 times.
His forte is in the pragmatic application of the principles of logistics and supply chain management to optimize the supply chain of a business enterprise to achieve positive impact on working capital and competitive edge. He started to specialize and focus on logistics since 1992 when logistics became the last frontier for business process improvement.

Text Box: Ruth Smith (ruthsmith@smeintl.com.sg)

MSc in Atmospheric Physics from Imperial College, London ; BSc in Physics from Nottingham University,UK; Accredited Associate of the Institute for Independant Business

Text Box: Paul Ames (paulames@smeintl.com.sg)

MBA, California State University, San Jose, California; BA, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Text Box: Paul has over thirty years of accomplishments in a variety of senior management roles, including eighteen years international experience in the Asia Pacific Rim in machining, semiconductors, commercial and military electronics, and ten years with an international consulting firm accelerating return on capital, cash flow and cost reduction. Companies ranged in size from “startup” to over a billion USD in sales.
His accomplishments include: working with a Plastics Molding and sub contract assembly company in Dongguan improving the mold “change over” process from 4 hours to 35 minutes, and eliminate 30% of labour in lean assembly processes; Reduced overhead costs of a Shenzhen factory by USD$250K and accelerated response to initial customer orders from 16 days to 5 days; More than doubled the productivity of the primary CNC machine driven manufacturing process in eight months, improved quality of outgoing product by 20%, and restructured Sales process increasing Sales in Asia by 200% in 2005.
In Singapore, he has successfully implemented various programmes including completing an ERP system up grade on time, decreased Finished Goods Inventory by 50% while increasing “fill rate” from 60% to 95, designed a “Pull” Finished Goods Inventory Planning process that was implemented across 12 product lines negating the need for sales forecasts, and reduced manufacturing Cycle Time from 45 days to 10 days..