Ray Anderson – Associate Advisory Board
Ray founded American Business Concepts in 1993 and has been involved in organizational and personal development since 1982. Initially, Ray’s firm provided training as part of Employment Training Panel Grants to Manufacturing firms. A complete customer list appears at the bottom. Ray has enabled his clients to get more than $2,000,000 in ETP funding to retrain nearly 3000 employees. His focus is on manufacturing and he has developed ETP contracts in aerospace, electronics, plastics, paint, window, construction, foundry and health care industries.
In 1999, ABC began integrating the principles and perspective of the Malcolm Baldrige into American Business Concepts. As the company evolved, the focus on staff and organizational development expanded to include cost reduction, process improvement, IT integration and revenue enhancement. He is the originator of the “Grey Collar” workforce concept. Simply, it means involving blue collar workers in what was formerly white collar thinking and responsibilities. Using this concept, Ray and his staff has been able to dramatically reduce client cost by getting frontline workers actively involved in business decisions and profit.
Client Results (for details see client letters on Americanbusinessconcepts.net)
• PVC plant from 6th to best performance in 6 plant network and a 25% increase in employee productivity.
• Aerosol mfg facility: $650,000 scrap reduction; $3.9 million productivity increase.
• Union Cabinet, Doors and Hardware facility: $500,000 reduction in door prep and installation costs
• Union glass fiber reinforced concrete mfg firm: $250,000 annual reduction in quality costs
• Window mfg for new home construction: 300% increase in productivity with only 25% increase in labor.
• Door and frame mfg company from 33% to 97% on time.
Education and Affiliations
• BA in Journalism from Michigan State University
• Coursework for MA in Interpersonal Communication from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• He has been a member of American Society for Training and Development since 1994.
• He is a founding member of the Inland Council for Excellence; a State version of the national Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award.
• Former Chair of Application Committee for the California Excellence Awards
• Chief Judge California Team Excellence Awards 2005
Personal
Ray lives in Redlands, CA with his wife Kathleen and their four children; Justin 19, Matthew 17, Kyle 14 and Kariana 13.
Customers
ABC Window Company, LLC. (TEC) James Hardie Building Products Roy E. Whitehead (TEC, and Union)
Aerosol Services Company, Inc. KMC Wheel Santa Barbara Aerospace
AIG Los Angeles Newspaper Group Sinclair Paint Company
Beck Oil Company Norton Community Credit Union Smiland Paint Company
Bentley Mills Carpets OnTrac Garage Door Company Western Container
Clifstar, Inc. Proline Racing, Inc (TEC) Z Micro Systems (TEC)
Clark Pacific (Union) PWPipe
Door Components, Inc. (TEC)