#### Leo Roth Klein Leo Roth Klein is the President of Manufacturing Control Systems, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Klein has, for more than thirty years, been involved in the development and implementation of systems and process for the control of materials and the management of production resources. He is recognized as: Certified Fellow in Production & Inventory Management (CFPIM) by the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS), Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) by the Computer and Automated Systems Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (CASA/SME), Professional Certified in Materials Management (PCMM) by the International Materials Management Society (IMMS), Certified Electronic Commerce Professional (CECP) by the Association of Electronic Commerce Professionals International (AECPI). He has served on Sub-Committee H (Materials Management) and the Strategic Implementation Task Group of ASC X12, the standards body for Electronic Data Interchange, and the Policy Board of the CALS (Computer Aided Acquisition and Logistic Support) Industry Steering Group of the National Defense Industrial Association. Mr. Klein has been directly involved in the implementation, integration, and operational effectiveness of Material Requirements Planning, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Distribution Resource Planning, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Supply Chain Management systems across numerous industrial segments including: automotive, ship building, industrial capital equipment, electronics, aerospace, defense, consumer goods, medical, food and confection, industrial products and others. His assignments have covered batch-lot, batch-process, job shop, repetitive, and contract manufacturing. He has additional efforts in interactive graphic design including IGES and STEP data transfer. Among the other standards, enabling the integrated supply chain, he has experienced are: UN/EDIFACT, SGML/XML, and CGM. He has served on the Technical Forum of CASA/SME being part of the process of defining and redefining the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) framework. He has been contracted as a Subject Matter Expert to the United States Department of Defense for Logistics Plans and Programs, managed Delivery Orders for the Department of Defense, and served on committees developing various military standards for the neutral exchange of manufacturing and engineering data. He has been a frequent speaker at international, national and regional conferences as well as Instructor for in-plant classes and university-sponsored seminars. He has served as a Course Leader in the Manufacturing Division of the American Management Associations since 1980. He is the author of over twenty white papers and has been a monthly columnist for two manufacturing oriented magazines.

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