James R. Walker is the founder and president of the r5group LLC. Mr. Walker, BSIM, MBA, has over 30years of experience in all phases of the Supply Chain process from a broad range of industrial, consumer, and pharmaceutical businesses.

His experience includes plant, regional, corporate, and global supply chain positions as a consultant, manager, negotiator, agent, and engineer.

He has been responsible for MRO Stores, Raw Materials, Transportation Equipment & Services, Printing, Paper & Plastic Packaging Materials, Ocean & Marine Logistics, Packaging & Warehousing, Commodity & Specialty Chemicals, Fleet Operations, Bulk Chemical Terminals, Textiles, Contract Services, and International Trade, plus design and implementation of Low Value transaction systems, Stockless Inventories as well as enterprise Systems modules for Purchasing and Logistics activities for a large multi-national company.

James R. Walker is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a coach & trainer for DMAIC and DFSS
methodologies.