Seeking opportunities in supply chain, inventory management, purchasing, engineering change control, system support, demand planning, 6Sigma.

6Sigma lead for an $8,000,000 annual savings in system and obsolescence improvement. Core team for SAP conversion from Corporate systems with item master, bill of material, purchasing, and inventory management. Designed business requirements converting to SAP including blueprinting for item master, bill of material, inventory management, material requirements planning, master scheduling, resource planning, purchasing, and shop floor scheduling.Facilitated, developed, and implemented SAP data cleansing project consisting of data mapping, project planning, deliverables, and resources required. Identified and defined current supply chain and logistic processes and recommended improvements. Designed extensive process mapping for current 'as is' and future state. Facilitated Green Belt point of use project reducing missing parts due to Supply Chain parts availability on the assembly line. Analyzed root causes, identified critical issues, proposed sub projects to implement interim and permanent corrective actions. Improvement of 75% in five months at Clayton and 84% in seven months at Sanford. Created Microsoft access queries to aid material planning, scheduling, purchasing, and engineering change control in inventory reduction / management. Developed analytical tools to reduce the manual workload for Inventory Adjustments metrics, count adjustments, projecting excess inventory at 30, 60, 90, 120, & 360 day intervals. Developed process to document and track expedited freight charges billed by suppliers and whether Caterpillar or supplier is responsible. Until this being implemented there was no way to identify specific charges from the supplier which resulted in $500,000 expense. This reduced charges an average of 50% annually.

Subject Matter Expert opening new facility and implementing a new purchased ERP package. Developed process maps and documentation for the Skid Steer Loaders and Small Track Type Tractors Distribution Centers. Developed business requirements definition for implementation of purchased ERP system. Developed process to manage engineering change levels. This method was adopted by Corporate in other global purchased ERP solutions.Developed a modified bill of material interface from Corporate system to populate Glovia ERP eliminating duplicate input. Single point of contact on the Glovia Customer Advisory Board for future enhancements.

Developed supplier development tools including items, supplier, models, line locations, demand, and lead times.Managed Inventory Optimization using SmartOps - developed inventory levels for components parts as well as prime product using lead times, supplier locations, supplier delivery performance, inventory value, and customer availability targets.

Supported Engineering Change Control for new product introduction and obsolete material. Facilitated Green Belt projects reducing obsolete inventory prior to year-end closing. Supervised Engineering Change Control improved metrics, increased output with fewer resources, coached the change coordinators on master demand, material requirement planning, manufacturing control system and purchasing with their responsibility coordination. Developed obsolescence and new product introduction processes reducing headcount by eliminating need to manually analyze projected excess and delivery for new material. Established inventory targets, team goals, discrepant - obsolete material targets, overtime, and fostered team environment. Core team member for the ERP software selection with plant start up. Trained and managed Engineering Change Coordinators.

Engineering Standards Expert