27 Years. Since January 1996.
About Norman Katz
Biography, Credentials, Experience
Norman is an experienced Business and Technology leader with an extensive history of architecting and delivering best-in-class enterprise solutions for global companies that transform and strengthen the full spectrum of financial and supply chain operations. Norman is a relationship champion, strengthening the customer and supplier/vendor partnerships with the companies he helps through better operational and technical alignments. He collaborates with C-level leaders to introduce and adopt new ways of working, generating millions of dollars in top-line revenue performance.
Norman is widely recognized in both technical and business circles for a proven ability to bridge complex business requirements with seamless, accessible solutions. Norman is a frequent presenter at global conferences on best practices and emerging trends.
Norman is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Controls Specialist, and a Microsoft Office Specialist. He is a graduate of the University of Florida where he has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and studied Computer Information Sciences.
Norman has held leadership roles in 20+ ERP, 15+ EDI projects, and numerous barcode labeling projects through his career. Norman is an expert in data analysis and data migrations and conversions. He is an expert in the technologies and operations pertaining to supply chain vendor compliance, with experience beginning in 1993.
Prior to starting Katzscan in January 1996, Norman had progressive career positions (Programmer, Programmer Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Information Technology Manager) with some of the country's most well-known consumer product brands: Fotomat (film and photo processing), Tropicana Products (beverages), Hanes (apparel), and Gitano (fashion apparel), as well as lesser-known companies such as Huyck-Formex (industrial textiles and vacuum foils for the paper industry), FLA Orthopedics (medical products manufacturer and distributor), and Gepetto (women's apparel manufacturer).
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About KATZSCAN INC.
Experience You Can Count On
Since its beginnings in January 1996, companies have engaged Katzscan to direct the business analysis, architecture, development, integration, quality assurance, risk identification, and evolution of: enterprise software roadmaps, business process improvements, software applications, data governance, supply chain relationships, and organizational readiness initiatives as an embedded strategic partner and consultant.
From project inception to completion, Katzscan can be relied upon to: define business processes; determine software requirements; assess the current state; envision the future state; analyze data; transform strategies into tactical realities; effectively communicate with all levels of organizational personnel.
A relationship champion, Norman Katz pulls together internal resources and external stakeholders (e.g. customers, software vendors, contract manufacturers, third-party distributors and 3PL logistics providers) to forge and strengthen supply chain relationships. Supply chain chargeback - financial penalty - detection and reduction is a specialty, and this is achieved through relationship building and technical and operational analysis.
Katzscan will perform data analysis, operations investigations, and systems overviews as part of “rapid-response” discoveries to determine root-causes of problems, then define and present short-term fixes and long-term solutions. Norman Katz fully understands that when customer relationships are at risk, when supplier or vendor partnerships are struggling, when sales revenue is decreasing, or when operational costs are increasing, Katzscan's clients need Norman's years of experience and combined operations and technology expertise to act as expeditiously as possible in solving their most pressing problems.
Expertise In:
- Supply Chain Vendor Compliance
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Chargeback Reduction
- Barcode Labeling & Scanning
- Data Analysis / Data Mapping
- Data Migration / Conversion
- User Documentation
- Technical Writing
- Data & Process Flows
- Performance Metrics
- Operations Improvement
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