Brian Gulledge Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Janesville, Wisconsin

Sparta, WI

Beloit, WI

Coordinate the responsibilities of the Materials Group including Procurement, Planning, and Master Scheduling. Aided in the development of Planning techniques and methodologies utilizing JobBOSS and Microsoft software solutions.

Manage all Materials department functional areas including Production Planning, CapacityPlanning, Purchasing, Warehousing, Shipping and Receiving.Direct report to President of the company. Key member of the StrategicPlanning Team.Coordinate the reduction of inactive and obsolete inventory. Responsible for the purchase and contract negotiations or forgings.

Control all elements of the Materials functional area including Forecasting, MasterPlanning, Production Planning, Capacity Planning, Purchasing, Warehousing, Shipping andReceiving.JD Edwards key user and implementation coordinator.Projects included the reduction of production inventory by 20%. Cost evaluation andnegotiation with European suppliers..

Manage the daily functions of the materials department. The materials department consistsof forecasting, materials planning, capacity planning, procurement, production control,inventory control, warehousing, shipping and receiving.Key accomplishments include: the reduction of operating inventory by 50%; facilitatingthe reduction of staff by 80%.

Coordinated the daily activities of the materials group including scheduling, capacitycontrol, MRP functions, and shop floor activity. Maintained a staff of 20 employeesworking within the materials group.Established a forecasting and planning methodology.Worked closely with customers and suppliers that include Motorola. Ericsson, Nortel, andIntel.Reduction.

Managed all functions related to materials. Inclusions: Traffic, planning, forecasting,capacity control, inventory control, and warehousing.Multiplant environment encompassing all planning and inventory control facilities.Implementation of MAPICS ERP system including extensive training of entire staffincluding engineering, production, and materials. Key.

Supervised production control staff including planners, expediters, and shop floorcontrol personnel. Managed controllable inventory in two sites and staff. Introduced new cycle counting methodologies and record keeping and managed inventory at99.5% accuracy.ISO 9001 implementation leader.

Scheduled all production for major product lines.Maintained all manufacturing work center capacity scheduling. Created and maintained corporate master schedule.Developed and monitored forecast methodologies.

Planned production for select product lines and inventory.Acted as the ECO coordinator for the company and developed item master and item balancerecords. Maintained planning data base.Determined planning parameters for all manufactured items and monitored routinginformation.

Performed ABC inventory analysisCreated counting schedules and maintained MAPICS database. Annual physical inventory coordinator. Developed plan for manpower, data entry andreconciliation.Performed daily cycle counts, reconciler results and updated MAPICS database.

Planned all inventory replenishment.Co-produced a home grown MRP system to replace cardex ordering methods. Coordinated annual physical inventories and reconciled results.

Performed assembly line preparation.Worked in all areas of assembly and subassembly.