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Plymouth, MI, US

Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, DE

Farmington Hills, MI, US

Key partner with Technical Director to plan, organize, and execute optimum operations to exceed our customers’ expectations and achieve our business targets. Lead implementation of strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus. Build and maintain effective trusting relationships with customers, suppliers and staff. Recruit, manage.

Farmington Hills, MI, US

Senior leadership role within Automotive Steering Division's Florence KY Plant. Responsible for leading and implementing lean logistics processes, promoting continuous improvement activities and managing a global supply chain (e.g. partnerships with suppliers, operational activities and interface with customers).

Lohr Am Main, DE

Senior leadership responsibility for planning, physical logistics and logistics projects department. Developed strategic plans, budgetary requirements and administered continuous improvement process activities for approx. 125 logistics professionals. In addition, maintained a balance between requirements and resources to support Company’s profit and loss..

Farmington Hills, MI, US

Responsible for conducting commercial internal audits of RB locations. Topics include financial accounting, purchasing, personnel/human resources, sales and logistics. Audits conducted using a process-based approach and required examining business records to ensure compliance with internal directives, policies and procedures. In addition, communicate audit.

Primary supervisor for imported finished goods group (PC 13). Responsible to ensure that departmental goals and objectives were achieved. Coached, counseled and provide technical support to team. Addressed conflicts that could not be resolved at the team level. Created work analysis and tracking of key planning parameters, (i.e. customer order changes.

Designed, developed and validated methods and tools that improved the operational flexibility of a lean purchased finish goods supply chain. Modified and improved existing logistics systems. Major accomplishments:-Coordinated development of plan for every part database (PFEP) and standard work.-Improved flexibility, and frequency of shipments from 47.

Six month international exchange opportunity with manufacturing facility in Spain. Responsibilities included developing master production schedule for 2 separate manufacturing lines. Participated in daily morning production meeting and communicated updates and urgencies. Major accomplishments:-Developed SAP “Cradle to Grave” planning cycle for fuel.

Responsibilities included planning/ procuring the availability of finished goods (imported and domestically produced). In addition, key objectives included keeping strong inter-relationships between the supply chain and the different functional areas of the organizations (e.g. coordination of new product releases with customer and production plant)Major.

Supported the purchasing organization by systematically applying planning methodology and tools to provided raw components schedules and long-range forecast data to suppliers.Interfaced regularly with suppliers to monitor cost savings projects as well as vendor delivery performance. Major accomplishments:-Optimized multiple MRP systems (PRMS 8.4/ Future.