Erich Bergen, director in our supply chain and manufacturing consulting practice, has been with Baker Tilly since 2017.
Erich is a director with 20 years of management, strategy and technology consulting experience across a wide range of industries, including a specialization in the mobility and transportation sector. As a business and technology leader, he works side by side with executives to solve enterprise transformation related programs. Erich specializes in corporate strategy, supply chain and manufacturing, customer experience, customer and field service related functions, shared service design and program management.
Over the last 10 years, Erich has also focused his efforts on serving closely held companies. He is a Certified Galliard Family Business Advisor and a leader in the firm’s family business strategy group where he helps family-owned organizations create business value for the next generation. Erich worked as a consulting director for a Big Four firm and led several significant projects within the Mobility and Transportation industry prior to joining Baker Tilly.
- Works closely with c-suite executives to define corporate strategies that support both short-and long-term goals
- Develops and executes tactical and strategic plans to achieve enterprise growth through process optimization and investments in technology
- Instrumental in designing and delivering programs focused on end-to-end enterprise transformation
-current and future state design and definition
-operating model design and rollout - Leads large-scale business and technology transformational programs, including business case/ROI quantification, people and process organizational design, program and change management
- Creates and protects value for family-owned and closely held businesses through strategic growth and succession planning services
- Serves as thought leader in the areas of mobility and transportation, general manufacturing, and family run businesses
- Works cross-culturally on international engagements to help clients navigate sociocultural barriers
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- General Motors Top Performing Supplier CIO Award
- Certified Galliard Family Business Advisor
- Six Sigma Green Belt
Location
Michigan
Education
Master of Business Administration
Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)
Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems
Oakland University (Auburn Hills, Michigan)
Advanced Leadership Program Certification
Yale School of Management (New Haven, Connecticut)
Expertise
- Manufacturing & Distribution
- Family Business
- Family Business Strategic Assessment
- Customer Experience
- Resource Optimization
- Service Effectiveness
- Sales, Marketing & Service
- Service Technology
- Strategy & Management Consulting
- Center for the Return of Manufacturing
- Manufacturing & Distribution Coronavirus Resources
- Mobility & Transportation Company Coronavirus Resources
- Supply Chain & Manufacturing Consulting
- Supply Chain Strategy, Planning & Optimization
- International Growth Services
- Mobility & Transportation
