Christopher Grancher Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee

• Subject Matter Expert for custom report creation for clients o Bill of Material (BOM) reporting o Discontinuation reporting o Production o KPIs• Responsible for: o Customer outreach and sales opportunities o Project Estimations for new work / out of scope work o Client side SAP data validation and alignment with reporting output o Competitive research / feature identification / capability assessment• Currently learning advanced SQL / DevOps admin and config / VS Code / SSMS / Snowflake / Databricks / PowerBI-Fabric

Proud father of two amazing girls.

United States

• Implemented ABC codes with sales, ops, and supply chain leadership sign-off. Result: aligned purchasing priorities and risk reduction.• Identified and fixed a system glitch affecting deadlines.• Discovered/Resolved two critical SAP issues by escalating to IT.• Analyzed planning process with management, uncovering and fixed configuration gap.• Created process documentation for maintaining in shared location for open access.• Created training materials for SAP inventory assignments to prevent recurring issues.• Proposed MRP configuration changes to enhance on-time delivery.• Reduced production order close process by 75% by using / sharing mass processing.• Initiated rough cut capacity planning, highlighting production output gaps.• Maintained MRP accuracy by maintaining transactions.

Racine, Wi

• Production planner for Government products and parts with BOMs of 600+ components.• Responsible for processing messages and work orders, coordinating outside operations and expedites, and bird dogging issues with parts, assembly, engineering, testing, and shipping.• Acting Account Manager for BAE. Provided daily updates and conflict resolution (6 months).• Pressed for and received $165K from customer (BAE) – unbudgeted – to cover expedites at supplier, customer owned tooling repairs, and supplier scrap. Achieved by building rapport, daily campaigning, and structured cost data.• Managed 4 independent cycle counts (2 daily / 2 monthly) and directed floor employees for counting processes. Verified variances and delivered variance reports to accounting.• Assisted with $4MM+ BAE withhold by TACOM. Coordinated internal resources in quality and purchasing and resources at supplier to satisfy BAE corrective action plans.• Resolved manufacturing problems / scheduling issues with multiple suppliers with supplier visits / phone calls / emails resulting in routing / process / tooling changes.• Reduced stalled manufacturing holds in first 50 days. Requested consolidated report of all holds - shared with manufacturing director. 7+ month old holds were resolved in a week.• Improved scheduling. Coordinated IT / Plant Management to add priority codes to work orders and dispatch lists to adjust dispatch list as needed.• Facilitated bi-weekly shortage meetings for propulsion, marine, and land based transmissions.• Trained new employees to use JDE / BI and built custom BI reports as requested.• Improved onboarding. Documented 50+ standard work procedures and coordinated IT transfer of custom screen layouts to new employees.

Germantown, Wi

• Managed 6 employees and globally sourced, inventory of $150M, 50k+ materials, 700k+ units. • Coordinated and led 4 S&OP processes: demand / supply / pre-meetings / executive meetings.• Discovered massive planning gap - internal manufacturing was not using forecasted requirements causing excess inventory. Worked with management to align planning process.• Corrected fill rate reporting. Met with IT – SD and BW SMEs – restructured calculations.• Reduced shipping costs. Met with my team, logistics, and IT and clarified the SAP configured shipping options available to my team and respective costs.• Improved business continuity. Redistributed products to balance workloads and prepare backups.• Improved inventory tracking / reporting. Personally built MS Access database to merge multiple item level inventory facets allowing improved visibility for sales and management.• Implemented ABC inventory ranking. Acquired profit data from accounting and sales input. • Improved EPA diesel specification reporting. Worked with Compliance, outside consulting support, and IT to clarify EPA requirements. Facilitated sell through of older equipment.

Waxdale, Wi

• Caught customer master set up issue, highlighted to management. Result: full audit / clean up.• Created one stop shop reports covering all aspects of fill rates with BW driven charts.• Participated in Customer Master Data Pilot creating and updating Customer Master records.

Australia

Time off to spend quality time with my family in Australia then returned to the US to find work.

Sydney, Australia

• Improved forecast accuracy. Refined Australian forecasts with marketing input.• Eliminated data integrity issues. Cleaned up all SAP allocation data records.• Improved new hire on-boarding time. Created / updated 10 documents for planning processes.

Australia And Thailand

Time off to spend quality time with my family in Australia and tour Australia and Thailand.

Niles, Il

Key Responsibilities• Liaison between Asia production facility and project management, demand planning, engineering, purchasing, quality, finance, and sales.• Mediated and coordinated Pre–Sales and Operations Planning meetings including agendas, information, and action items from March 2011 to February 2013.• Performed engineering change management, rough cut capacity planning, US distribution center inventory optimization, backorder resolution, material master management.• Analyzed and addressed products with supply risk to find root causes internally and externally improving service levels with inventory and / or process improvements.Key Achievements• Co–Led large management of line project which impacted $1M+ of inventory, ~100 engineering change orders, 1000’s of products, multiple distribution / manufacturing sites. Prioritized, wrote, and tracked engineering change orders from inception to completion. • Co–Led small development projects: product request through launch including SAP activities, BOM creation, packaging, documentation, purchasing, production, and logistics.• Led SAP reconfiguration for Coverage Profiles and Planning Calendars which reduced MRP nervousness.• Reduced obsolete material risk: analyzed, resolved, and delegated backlog of 200+ ECOs. Researched each in SAP and PLM and documented each in a new tracker to simplify reporting. Resulted in tens of thousands in savings by using up material and disposal of obsolete material.• Assisted PMs on new product design teams. Facilitated material setups, BOM setups / reviews, documentation reviews, expediting packaging creation, forecasts, costing, head count, production tryout planning, launch preparation, and production constraint management.• Personally selected to address bill of material / Unit of Measure SAP problem causing excess requirements. Gathered SMEs from impacted departments to discuss. Resolved issue in 1 hour meeting.

Niles, Il

Key Responsibilities• Managed global forecasts for ~$100M (~800 SKUs) of electronics products globally.• First contact for operations – managed special orders and backorders maintaining communication with manufacturing planners and distribution center shipping staff.• New product launch / discontinuation management and coordination.Key Achievements• Wrote 150+ page demand planning manual, with screen shots, covering APO / SAP / BI.• Gathered historical data of top profit items for all business units and distribution centers. Shared data with management and team. Improved DIFOT and reduced backorders.• Developed analysis tool for forecasting – overlaid years of sales history on a single 12 month scale showing year over year sales patterns. Markedly improved forecast accuracy.• Reduced financial risk: collected detailed product data: SKU count / Revenue / Profit / Plant / Family. Resulted in evenly spread workload and reduced financial risk.• Reduced planning risk: coordinated SAP process for IT for holiday changes. Eliminated issues.

San Jose, Ca

Key Responsibilities• Supplier data analysis and risk management web interface project support• Assisted with a web-based tool for analyzing / demonstrating potential risks caused by catastrophic events for supply chain impact assessment / resolution / mitigation.Key Achievements• Analyzed supplier data including product, location, and estimates for disaster recovery time.• Compiled data revealing:-- High concentrations of suppliers without secondary suppliers in alternate geographic regions exposing high risk to revenue due to singular events.-- Suppliers who admitted they had no plans to restart production after a disaster.-- Exceptionally long disaster recovery times – resulted in further communication exposing critical path for recovery was supply of specialized test equipment.

Niles, Il

Key Responsibilities• Documented component information for upload into product lifecycle management database.Key Achievements• Volunteered to lead mechanical classification. Organized parts into classes, populated taxonomy, validated content with various functional areas, and maintained project schedule.

Alsip, Il / Dayton, Oh / Batesville, Ms / Winchester, Va / Mankato, Mn

Key Responsibilities• Internal consultant / project leader responsible for working directly with union personnel, suppliers, plant managers, central management, and engineering on plant projects. 100% travel.Key Achievements• Developed strong relationships with plant management and union personnel which facilitated improvements and projects. • Directed mechanical and electrical manufacturing line improvement project.-- Documented root causes of unplanned equipment shutdowns.-- Coordinated shut down repairs with other line repairs.-- Resolved mechanical issues and exposed and addressed electrical and software issues.-- Assembled maintenance and full system manuals from scratch detailing standard operating procedures with photos and original equipment manufacturer documents.-- Resulted in broad production efficiency improvements.-- Provided recommendations for ongoing preventative maintenance.• Coordinated equipment retrofit required for manufacture of new product.-- Provided design input to supplier. Resulted in simplified install, setup, and service.-- Directed and supervised ten installations ~24 hours in duration each, performed by union mechanics, millwright, and supplier mechanic. • Discovered gaps in drawing updates through discussions with union machinists. Collected copies of documents and distributed directly to purchasing and machinists for archiving.• Discovered gap in OEM recommendations for reducing downtime through discussions with supplier mechanic. Requested process and drawing documentation from OEM. Discussed potential with union mechanic and presented information to management. Process change greatly reduced downtime.

Deerfield, Il

Key Responsibilities• Redesigned chromatography product using CAD.Key Achievements• Completed prototype design and pilot production in 6 months.• Created CAD drawings and submitted drawings to multiple suppliers for multiple bids. Reviewed designs and costs with suppliers, assemblers, and marketing.• Final design was 12% below target cost.• Developed CAD models with focus on simplicity, cost reduction, robustness, ease of modification, minimizing fasteners and assembly steps.• Developed supplier cost comparisons to leverage cost advantages for lowest overall price.• Organized supplier visits for quality assessments and pilot builds.• Analyzed and selected alternate component suppliers better suited to supply specific needs through value added bundling.• Discovered and corrected anomalies in existing CAD models and drawings. Modified models and drawings based on supplier input to improve manufacturability.

Madison, Wi

Key Responsibilities• Designed CAD models with ProEngineer to support development and launch of Aespire 7900 SmartVent - Anesthesia Ventilator Machine. Key Achievements• Designed a vented circuit board enclosure, sheet metal shield, front cosmetic plastic cover.• Simulated assembly in CAD where appropriate. Used asymmetric fastener layout to eliminate incorrect assembly.• Controlled costs with supplier input and utilizing available stamping tools.• Standardized common machined feature with help from machinists. Solution standardized shape, dimensions, and necessary drawing dimensions preventing product inconsistencies.

Lake Bluff, Il

Key Responsibilities• Completed research project examining the correlation of loads on flow meters and meter accuracy.Key Achievements• Completed 2 week manufacturing tour assembly associates learning every manufacturing process.• Built, tested, and selected flow meters for testing.• Consulted machinists for best method for mounting test equipment using existing parts and coordinated the creation of fixtures.• Negotiated testing time in union run production lab to avoid production impact.• Performed meter testing personally in production lab with permission from union including physical setup, fixturing, testing, and tear down of meter assembly.• Analyzed, summarized, and presented findings to management.

Ottawa Lake, Mi

Key Responsbilities• Created 3D mockup models of manufacturing equipment from photographs for virtually modeling space requirements for designing new facility layouts.Key Achievements• Learned ProEngineer without formal training.• Created independent 3D mock up models of Mercedes suspension parts from scale assembly paper drawings for use in assembly simulations.

Willoughby, Oh

Key Responsibilities• Created component drawings to assist with custom customer ordering process.Key Achievements• Learned CATIA CAD package basics and assisted with creating and modifying 3D models and production drawings.• Learned 2D CAD system and created outline drawings from microfiche records for integration with custom truck ordering system.

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Hoofers Sailing Club and Meals on Wheels