Dale Cade

Principal Consultant

IT Solutions Architect

About

Dale is a Principal Consultant at Columbus Consulting and a proven leader who skillfully blends his consulting experience with his extensive corporate background. He has led national and global programs across almost all corporate domains. His ability to adapt to any business challenge enables him to quickly build trust, identify a company’s needs, and select the most suitable solution.

Before joining Columbus, Dale was a technical and business leader at Walmart, The Container Store, and Fossil Group. At these companies, he supported global instances of HR, Labor Management, Finance, Accounting, RPA, Supply Chain, and Merchandising.

Dale is a certified Global CliftonStrengths Coach.

Signature Skill

“I help companies address barriers and provide solutions for success.”

Building credibility and trust through logic and empathy
Can move from big picture to a plan very quickly
Guided by data-driven analysis
Timeline & milestone tracking
Quick decision-making under pressure
Cross-functional team leadership

Expertise

Assortment Planning
Allocation
Order Management
Warehouse Planning
Master Data Management
Program Management
Enterprise Systems and Applications
HRIS
Labor Management
ERP & Financial Systems

Companies Served

Peter Millar
Harbor Freight
Leslie’s Pool

Industry, Category

Retail / Wholesale
International
Discount
Specialty
Luxury
Organization and custom space solutions

Solution Proficiencies

Manhattan OMS, WMS, DOM
SAP HCM, FICO, FIORI,
SuccessFactors
UKG
Salesforce
SQL
Python
PowerBI
AWS/GCP/Azure
Jira/Confluence
SumTotal

Consulting Service

IT Assessment & Roadmap
Program Management
Solution Selection
Solution Delivery / Implementations
Solution Architecture Design
Business Assessments and Strategy
Business Process Design
Data Governance
Technical Leadership