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Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Drive in finished goods material to support customer orders, forecasted demand & inventory stocking requirements.· Collaborates with cross functional partners to ensure inventory is managed according to constraints and targets that are aligned with the business strategy.· Maintains critical inventory parameters for Target & Safety Stock of raw materials, while considering supply lead time, warehouse and transportation constraints.· Actively interacts with demand management, manufacturing, quality, warehousing & transportation to solve material issues & consumption patterns.· Measures, analyzes, and reports key process metrics, while monitoring adherence to key performance indicators (KPI) that are assigned to the assigned product categories.· Identifies possible material shortages against inventory plans and develops action items. Marshal resources to address action items and follow up on all material shortage-related issues.· Responsible for long-term capacity status, weekly category KPI updates, product shortage reporting & ad-hoc daily information flow amongst supply planning partners (Demand Planning, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Business Management).

Manages the material control functions in the plant including master scheduling, plant floor control, inventory planning and control, purchasing, MRO crib, packing operations and shipping with focus and direction on Continuous Improvements (CI) and SQDCI activities and initiatives in their plant/facility.• Manages the planning and establishment of production schedules, monitoring of material inventories, tracking the progress of production and reviewing factors which affect production schedules and mitigate negative impacts to same.• Manage suppliers, materials and inventory in a manner consistent with the requirements of a Lean Six-Sigma, JIT, and OTD manufacturing environment.• Manages the purchasing and inventory control functions. Provides support to production scheduling on all material flow issues to meet production schedules and customer requirements, and Continuous Improvement strategies.• Works with Corporate Materials Manager (CMM) to ensure plant/customer needs are met, coordinating shipping efforts with those of internal/external suppliers.• Maintains optimum inventory levels to insure on-time deliveries to meet customer requirements while maximizing turns, minimizing carrying costs and premium transportation charges by utilizing JIT and OTD strategies.• Works with Procurement, Corporate support teams, vendors and suppliers to negotiate and purchase products based on anticipated manufacturing needs in order to achieve the lowest total cost and highest total quality, while ensuring accurate cost and receipt of products in a production environment.• Works with Sourcing and Supply Chain Departments, Continuous Improvement Managers/Teams, and R&D involving new materials, suppliers, and processes to achieve the best possible quality, reliability, prices, continuity and delivery.• Works with Corporate to ensure that the manufacturing facility they are located at comply with corporate policies associated with vendor agreements.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Manages, records, analyzes, and recommends improvements in direct and indirect labor hours• Maintain and expand client business relationships• Solicit and write proposals with sales and accounting for proper prices of RFPs/RFQs and RFIS• Partner with company management to develop Sales Forecast/Projections and budgets for the branch• Work constantly to achieve financial objectives by preparing an annual capital and maintenance budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions• Managed a group of 10 employees working on various job sites and in various positions

• Led the Operations portion of the S&OP process, directly resulting in a 47% improvement in on time delivery to 96% and while improving inventory turns 17%. • Developed a "plan, do, check, act" supplier management system that utilized scorecards, running action item lists (R.A.I.L) and business review to improve supplier on time delivery to 98%. • Implemented a process that coordinated purchasing and supplier activity with the production schedule, leading to an 80% reduction in part shortages. • Created capacity planning model to improve visibility for production capacity, eliminating sales allocations during a period of high growth and realized over $5M in additional sales over the final two months of 2012. • Implemented visual Kanban system for raw material inventory, improving inventory accuracy by 22%.• Led team that negotiated price reductions by leveraging volume that realized $5.3M savings on raw materials purchases, a 6% reduction over prior year pricing.• Maintains continuous material availability while minimizing inventory• Independently manages supplier relationships including all subcontracted repairs which involve pricing negotiations, delivery terms, and price breaks.• Solicits quotations for materials and services• Negotiates return conditions of OSMI• Manages purchase order execution and product delivery, including accurate on-time schedule agreements and mitigation of billing adjustments• Recommends new developments in materials and supplies

• Communicates effectively with suppliers and internal customers to solve challenging problems and recommend solutions• Led team that negotiated price reductions by leveraging volume that realized $5.3M savings on raw material purchases, a 6% reduction over prior year pricing• Maintains continuous material availability while minimizing inventory• Independently manages supplier relationships including all subcontracted repairs which involve pricing negotiations, delivery terms, and price breaks.• Manages, records, analyzes, and recommends improvements in direct and indirect labor hours• Participates in forecasting demand and analyzing inventory trends• Schedules production work flow in manufacturing environment

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Managed purchase order execution and product delivery, including placement of on-time schedule agreements, mitigation of billing adjustments / terminations and execution of cost reduction goals• Planned, scheduled and executed all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets• Drove impressive improvements across the business as a result of IT implementations Equipped EFH with solutions that accelerated the bidding process on architectural projects by 45%, shortened the sales cycle by 50%, increased cash collections by 35% and saved $1.2M annually• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones• Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Tracked, maintained, and verified government funded project budgets, as well as general lab and office supply budgets• Scheduled and coordinated meetings, interviews, appointments, events, travel, and other similar activities for vice president• Solicits quotations for materials and services, analyzes bids for specification compliance, pricing, delivery commitments, and ensures vendor reliability• Processed and documented all invoices received from government funded projects, as well as created financial and managerial accounting reports• Prepared and administered budgets, approved and reviewed expenditures, and prepared financial reports• Monitored trends and reported daily on budget projections using numerous software programs with emphasis on Microsoft Excel, Word, and Access• Maintained project schedule and identified key dates resulting in the successful completion of projects ahead of schedule and under budge

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Associates Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Master Of Business Administration - Mba