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LEANutopia Locations & Highlights OVER THE YEARs

Moen World Headquarters

Moen World Headquarters

Moen World Headquarters

2014 | North Olmsted, OH | 60+ Executives

  • Moen: Processes flowing like water from new faucets
  • Rockwell Automation: Master Data Management and process automation
  • Kichler Lighting: Business process improvement
  • Philanthropic: Team building for Ronald McDonald House

CIO Summit

Moen World Headquarters

Moen World Headquarters

2015 | Cleveland, Ohio | 100+

  • Kichler Lighting: White collar automation process optimization empowering ERPs
  • Moen: Process optimization to dashboard efficiencies
  • CIO formatted lean data venue showcasing


The Henry Hotel

Moen World Headquarters

Applied Industrial Technologies

2016 | Dearborn, MI | 55+

  • Cooper Tire: Master Data Management (MDM) fueling SAP governance and global product and lifecycle innovation
  • LU: SAP Winshuttle M&A, mass data/data integrity, go-lives
  • Carhartt: SAP master data and material master, Process BI

Applied Industrial Technologies

Applied Industrial Technologies

Applied Industrial Technologies

2017 | Cleveland, OH | 45+ 

  • HDT: T-code automation, mass updates, making SAP go-lives super fast
  • LU: SAP testing & S/4HANA automation, T-code Winshuttle best practices
  • AIT: Automating the new customer create process using Winshuttle Forms and Workflow
  • Private tour, raffle, networking, food and drinks

Glenmoor Country Club

Applied Industrial Technologies

Glenmoor Country Club

2018 | North Canton, OH | 35+

  • Kichler Lighting: Managing to Cloud CAD (file-less, integrated PLM), rapid innovation new product.
  • Rockwell Automation: Lean data management throughout the product lifecycle
  • Swagelok: A playbook for innovation pilots: a unique approach to implementing innovative ideas within the structure of a typical organizational matrix 

Rockwell Automation

Applied Industrial Technologies

Glenmoor Country Club

2020 | Cleveland, OH | 20+

  • HDT: CIO Todd Nelson shared automating finance & no touch invoice automation.
  • Rockwell Automation: shared global engineering make to order and engineer to order automations for SAP and PLM integration.



Rockwell Automation

Other Peer Review Events

Rockwell Automation

2022 | Mayfield Heights, OH | Virtual & Onsite

  • Rockwell Automation: 
  • To address cycle times, productivity and consistency challenges, we shared how we added BPA workflow to reduce non-value tasks, simplify the user work and reporting.  
  • Results: users can track the status of work in-process, an audit trail is automatically generated, rework 

2022 | Mayfield Heights, OH | Virtual & Onsite

  • Rockwell Automation: 
  • To address cycle times, productivity and consistency challenges, we shared how we added BPA workflow to reduce non-value tasks, simplify the user work and reporting.  
  • Results: users can track the status of work in-process, an audit trail is automatically generated, rework is minimized, detailed process metrics are available 
  • Metrics:  We have reduced cycle times, improved process throughput, reduced user training time, reduced rework, and improved target service levels
  • RPA Scripts Results: After we implemented automated processes using we reduced average SAP material master plant extension time from 21 days to less than six hours (we run the process four times per day).
  • Metrics:  Material Master plant and sales org. extensions are processed four times per day and there is no processing backlog.  Operations and Planning data quality = 5.9 sigma. Sales and Marketing data quality = 5.6 sigma  
  • Louisiana Pacific:  Please request the slides or info.



The Andersons

Other Peer Review Events

Rockwell Automation

2023 | Maumee, OH | Virtual & Onsite

  • The Andersons: Perspectives on their journey to optimize SAP, MDM, and data & analytics enablement. This included automating business partner create and change for S/4HANA and building their enterprise data & performance analytics and cloud strategy.
  • SAP moderated peer group session: Open discussions aro

2023 | Maumee, OH | Virtual & Onsite

  • The Andersons: Perspectives on their journey to optimize SAP, MDM, and data & analytics enablement. This included automating business partner create and change for S/4HANA and building their enterprise data & performance analytics and cloud strategy.
  • SAP moderated peer group session: Open discussions around value propositions based on continuous improvement, Lean Six Sigma’s DMAIC principles and automation ROI and justification challenges.
  • Raffle, networking, food and drinks



Other Peer Review Events

Other Peer Review Events

Other Peer Review Events

LEANutopia has hosted a variety of peer review events over the years including:

  • ASUG regional SAP events
  • Sapphire booths 
  • SAP & Supper series 
  • Winshuttle user groups: WUG and HUG venues
  • COVID impacted 2021 and 2022 events.


Please contact Mark Orzen to discuss LEANutopia and/or partnership ideas such as Private Equity holding educational events.

LEANutopia has hosted a variety of peer review events over the years including:

  • ASUG regional SAP events
  • Sapphire booths 
  • SAP & Supper series 
  • Winshuttle user groups: WUG and HUG venues
  • COVID impacted 2021 and 2022 events.


Please contact Mark Orzen to discuss LEANutopia and/or partnership ideas such as Private Equity holding educational events.  Mark can be texted at 440-552-5090 or emailed at markorzen@outlook.com



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