William Showalter Email & Phone Number

Waukegan, Illinois, United States

Manage 4 Planners and 1 Inventory Control ClerkLead daily Production Meetings, with Planners, Purchasing Manager, Sales Manager, Plant Manager, Punch Press Supervisor. Review and approve purchase requisitions. Create Weekly Punch Press Schedule. Leader of Microsoft Teams PC Team. Member of Microsoft Teams for several ALH projects. Daily communication with Planning, Sales, Purchasing, Engineering and Manufacturing Associates.

Buffalo Grove, Il.

Create purchase orders for machines and spare parts.Communicate with Management and Customer Service on purchase order status.Expedite hot purchase orders with suppliers.

Des Plaines, Il.

• Create shop orders with completion dates and copy blue prints for engineer to orders, make to orders and make to stock orders. Shop orders are given to the Master Scheduler to schedule them for the primary work centers. • Expediting hot shop orders, communication with Management, Engineering and Supervisors from Lasers, Turrets, Punch Presses, Forming, Welding, Grinding, Painting, Assembly and Shipping.• Improved communicates and relationship with Siemens, responding weekly on their… Show more • Create shop orders with completion dates and copy blue prints for engineer to orders, make to orders and make to stock orders. Shop orders are given to the Master Scheduler to schedule them for the primary work centers. • Expediting hot shop orders, communication with Management, Engineering and Supervisors from Lasers, Turrets, Punch Presses, Forming, Welding, Grinding, Painting, Assembly and Shipping.• Improved communicates and relationship with Siemens, responding weekly on their MRP material request date changes and expediting hot orders.• Improved communication and relationship with Electrolux, downloading and entering material data on Long Term Forecast, analyzing their material Production Schedule, resulting in requests to start shop orders. Following up on the operations progress and expediting them to ensure delivery requirements are obtained.• Communicate using pegging reports, with the Sales Team on urgent customer order status. • Review and make necessary inventory adjustments with Epicor software.• Create shop orders with completion dates and copy blue prints for engineer to orders, make to orders and make to stock orders. Shop orders are given to the Master Scheduler to schedule them for the primary work centers. • Expediting hot shop orders, communication with Management, Engineering and Supervisors from Lasers, Turrets, Punch Presses, Forming, Welding, Painting, Assembly and Shipping. Show less

Waukegan, Il.

Production Planning and Inventory Control Manager

Reedsburg Wisconsin

• Manage 2 Production Planners, 1 Buyer/Planner and 1 Associate Buyer, using KPI to lead and motivate Associates to accomplish company goals.• Used Demand Solutions forecasting tool to communicate forecasts of top accounts and for the total company in units and dollars, resulting in improved forecast accuracy in dollars.• Created spreadsheets to analyze consumption of raw materials and safety stock resulting in Buyer/Planner and Associate Buyer reducing excess inventory, thus… Show more • Manage 2 Production Planners, 1 Buyer/Planner and 1 Associate Buyer, using KPI to lead and motivate Associates to accomplish company goals.• Used Demand Solutions forecasting tool to communicate forecasts of top accounts and for the total company in units and dollars, resulting in improved forecast accuracy in dollars.• Created spreadsheets to analyze consumption of raw materials and safety stock resulting in Buyer/Planner and Associate Buyer reducing excess inventory, thus improving our working capital position.• Created Weeks Forward Coverage spreadsheets to identify weeks of sku coverage, to trigger Production Planners on hot skus to produce, which improved our customer fill rate percentage. Show less

Brownwood, Texas 76801

• Supervise 3 Planner/Buyers and 1 Master Scheduler using monthly Process Oriented Management tools to lead, develop, motivate, measure, Associates to accomplish company objectives.• Led the implementation of a new SAP Production Scheduling system at Brownwood, which resulted in eliminating excess inventory, improving on time delivery performance and improved corporate communication.• Led Planner/Buyers to reduce kanbans thus shrinking component parts inventory by more than… Show more • Supervise 3 Planner/Buyers and 1 Master Scheduler using monthly Process Oriented Management tools to lead, develop, motivate, measure, Associates to accomplish company objectives.• Led the implementation of a new SAP Production Scheduling system at Brownwood, which resulted in eliminating excess inventory, improving on time delivery performance and improved corporate communication.• Led Planner/Buyers to reduce kanbans thus shrinking component parts inventory by more than $100,000.• Participated in Kaizen Lean Event, which reduced the Forklift truck fleet saving $64,000 annually.• Negotiated with three Forklift vendors for a full service maintenance agreement, which resulted in a $55,000 annual savings.• Member of daily Staff meeting with the Plant Manager and Management team informing them of production changes and purchasing challenges.• Ensure the plants ISO 9001 – 2001 Certification is renewed. Contribute to continuous improvement by creating and changing departments work instructions in detail to improve procedures. Show less

Lincolnshire, Il.

• Managed 2 P&IC planners and 2 shipping clerks using monthly Process Oriented Management tools to lead and motivate employees to accomplish company goals. Managed 6 union hourly shipping and receiving employees. Participated in setting up a Lean Culture with principle and supporting elements of Lean Management.• Collaborated in Project Management Team reducing WIP flow day average from 9 days to 4.6 days within one year, using kanban and lean methods, improving customer… Show more • Managed 2 P&IC planners and 2 shipping clerks using monthly Process Oriented Management tools to lead and motivate employees to accomplish company goals. Managed 6 union hourly shipping and receiving employees. Participated in setting up a Lean Culture with principle and supporting elements of Lean Management.• Collaborated in Project Management Team reducing WIP flow day average from 9 days to 4.6 days within one year, using kanban and lean methods, improving customer delivery, improving efficiencies, diminishing handling damage.• Contributed in daily Lean meetings, Continuous Improvement action items, on safety, quality, cost, delivery, accomplishing company goals and improving customer delivery dates.• Assembled plant’s work centers data, analyzes and reports weekly and monthly, resulting in decisions to add or reduce production capacity in order to achieve sales demands. • Ensured the plants ISO 9001 – 2001 Certification by creating and changing departments work instructions in detail to improve procedures. • Prepared ten month-end-closing advanced Excel reports for accounting, management team, and S&OP meetings, resulting in evaluations to increase or decrease production capacity and an opportunity for sales to add more business. • Led weekly Customer Requirements Team meetings, with inside sales, planning and logistics, which have resulted in improvement of on-time delivery by greater than 5%.• Participated in monthly inventory cycle counts and reconciled with plant accountant, resulting in accurate inventory records. Show less

Downers Grove, Il.

• Analyzed sales forecasts of 760 items to ensure that the requirements of 850 customer’s delivery dates are met.• Coordinated an effective and efficient metal press production schedule plan at four plants that collectively operate forty press lines. • Led weekly meetings with eleven Customer Account Specialists to review changes in customer demand, and then recommend plant reconfigurations, diminishing expedited orders and plant downtime.• Assisted in the… Show more • Analyzed sales forecasts of 760 items to ensure that the requirements of 850 customer’s delivery dates are met.• Coordinated an effective and efficient metal press production schedule plan at four plants that collectively operate forty press lines. • Led weekly meetings with eleven Customer Account Specialists to review changes in customer demand, and then recommend plant reconfigurations, diminishing expedited orders and plant downtime.• Assisted in the development of a Forecasting and Capacity vs. Demand MRP II reports using SAP software, which resulted in the reduction of metal closure inventory from 1.3 to .8 billion units (i.e. 38%) within 3 years.• Compiled key customer and plant information for the Master Scheduler presentation to senior staff at monthly Sales and Operating Planning meetings, resulting in decisions to add/reduce production capacity and add/reduce customer orders. • Interfaced with competing organization to help the transition of joint venture by integrating the cultures, using best production planning and communication practices, to improving customer order delivery requirements Show less

Coordinated 9 lithography lines with scheduler, 11 scroll lines by prioritizing completion of customer order dates which improved customer delivery, and ensured that 48 press lines were supplied with material to operate, reducing downtime costs. Communicated production problems and actions to expedite orders with the Master Scheduler and sales group, who then advise customers with delivery dates. Participated in a Quality Improvement Team; which implemented four operating… Show more Coordinated 9 lithography lines with scheduler, 11 scroll lines by prioritizing completion of customer order dates which improved customer delivery, and ensured that 48 press lines were supplied with material to operate, reducing downtime costs. Communicated production problems and actions to expedite orders with the Master Scheduler and sales group, who then advise customers with delivery dates. Participated in a Quality Improvement Team; which implemented four operating process improvements resulting in spoilage reductions and thus saving $.5 million annually. Mentored Individuals who became valuable replacements for the press and lithography scheduler positions. Show less

Balanced Capping Machine Division general ledger.Evaluated the total company's monthly and annual sales budget by product category and commented on the differences from budget and last year. These numbers were used in the S&OP meetings for sales to go after additional business and production to add or subtract capacity.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration

Bachelors, Finance, Management

I attended night school while working in a full time position.