About
Stephen (Steve) T. Hopper, PE, is Founder and Principal of Inviscid Consulting. Over more than three decades, Steve has helped hundreds of clients plan and streamline their warehousing, fulfillment, distribution, and logistics operations by driving down operating costs, boosting capacity, improving service levels, mitigating risk, implementing effective supply chain solutions, emphasizing safety, and enhancing the performance of their supply chain resources: people, processes, inventory, facilities, equipment, material handling systems, transportation assets, and supply chain information technology (IT). He has served clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.
Steve earned a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and is a board-certified, licensed, registered Professional Engineer (PE). He is past president of both the Atlanta chapter of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) and the Atlanta chapter of the Warehousing Education & Research Council (WERC). Steve has served as an expert witness for litigation support on more than 30 cases involving supply chain operations in the US, Canada, and Australia. He has advised private-equity and venture-capital firms on their investments in supply chain-related businesses. He has also been interviewed by the supply chain industry media, authored articles for industry publications, and spoken at industry events.
Mr. Hopper serves as an expert witness on dozens of cases involving supply chain operations and issues related to warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution. His services are available to attorneys representing plaintiffs and defendants and include thorough expert reports, rebuttal reports, affidavits, declarations, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.
Areas of Expertise:
Supply Chain
Warehousing
Distribution
Logistics
Material Handling
Productivity
Automation
Industrial Engineering
Warehouse Management System
Ecommerce Fulfillment
Capacity
WMS
TMS
Warehouse Accident
Layout
Material Flow
Labor Issues
Warehouse Safety
Software Selection
Inventory Control