Supply Chain and Operations Executive · Jacksonville, Florida
David Pidgeon
David Pidgeon is a supply chain and operations executive in Jacksonville, Florida, with more than 15 years leading manufacturing, planning, and end-to-end operations in medical device, life sciences, and industrial companies.
Summary
David has led operations for medical device manufacturers, built global planning organizations through SAP rollouts and acquisitions, and turned around a 135-person remanufacturing plant. He writes about practical supply chain topics: inventory management, S&OP, MRP and ERP implementation, and scaling operations at growing manufacturers.
David Pidgeon is based in Jacksonville, Florida. He has held operations, planning, and manufacturing leadership roles at Ecolab, Cantel Medical / STERIS, and a growing medical device manufacturer, and co-founded an agricultural production startup. He holds an Executive MBA from the University of Minnesota and engineering and chemistry degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Recent articles by David Pidgeon
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Order Sizing - Improving On Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
David Pidgeon on order sizing: why EOQ falls short with volume price breaks, and a simple Inventory Price Efficiency (IPE) measure that aligns inventory and finance teams.
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Optimizing Safety Stock Part 2 - Lead Time Variance In The Real World
David Pidgeon on optimizing safety stock, part 2: why actual lead time data is hard to pin down, and a practical approximation for the lead time term of the King Equation.
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Optimizing Safety Stock - Beyond the King Equation
David Pidgeon on optimizing safety stock: one small change to the King Equation that reduces working capital without lowering service level for manufacturers running MRP from a forecast.