Dan Abernethy, Capm Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pickering, Ontario, Canada

• Led a cross-functional team of over 20 people with the objective to ensure the Program, Quality, Cost and Delivery targets were successfully met.
• Accepted a contractual agreement with the customer leading to additional sales revenue of approximately $1 million dollars over the last 2 years, to cover expedite costs incurred due to late material from the customer.
• Responsible for planning, buying material for the entire Spirit Program.

Pickering Ontario

• Played key role in achieving 100% on time delivery in Sept 2017, which was a first time milestone for the Spirit Program.
• Developed Recovery Plans, Line of Balance’s, tracking plan progress, communicating to site leadership to ensure the Program was supported by all functional departments.

Oakville

• Prepared MPS Schedule, coordinated MPS schedule changes, to ensure achievable schedule is implemented in SAP.
• Successfully ran Kitting Lean Event which resulted in reduction receipt to Assembly lead time by 20%, eliminating 1025 feet of travel.

• Reduced Site wide Inventory by 25%, as a member of a cross functional team, resulting in a tool and process to ensure optimal Inventory levels were kept moving forward.
• Demonstrated leadership while directing a Green Belt Project, which resulted in a 50% reduction of customer return inventory.

• Streamlined manufacturing creating flow lines for core business, resulting in 25% improvement in delivery in 2006-2008.
• Re-designed pull systems which significantly improved lead times by 20% increasing in delivery performance.