USA drilling needs , waste management , transportation , technical testing and analysis services , QMax has always had a logistics arm , but through Brown it has its very first Vice President of Supply Chain .

Following the acquisition of QMax by Palladium Equity Partners , LLC in 2014 , the new CEO recognised an issue across the company , one that saw a siloed way of working between supply chain and logistics .

This is where Brown came into play .

“ There was a logistics department , a very siloed one , and there was a representative in every one of our locations . The problem was they never communicated with one another ,” says Brown .

“ So , the decision was made to create a global supply chain organisation and this is when my role was created . One of the changes we implemented was to centralise our supply chain operation . So , when our operations in Mexico , Colombia ,

the Middle East , etc . need to order products from the US , they contact our central supply chain team and we buy the product and ship it to them .”

QMax has also implemented a Supply Chain Manager role within each country it operates . These managers communicate their local needs directly with Brown who , working with the global team , leverage their global volumes across the organisation . One example is a discount that was negotiated with a US supplier . Now that QMax buys directly with this supplier in the US and ships to other countries , the whole organization reaps the benefits of the discount .

This is an example of how Brown , through her role , has an almost real-time view and understanding and of what is happening across the organisation , working with the CEO , operations , and technology to leverage cost savings and enable efficiencies .

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