Eric Accola Email & Phone Number

Winona, Minnesota, United States

Winona, MN

La Crosse, WI

• Manage production planning and scheduling of shop floor equipment in addition to finished goods inventory management.
• Guided job planning and scheduling staff for optimization of over 12,500 production jobs annually, a 60% increase from 2011 with no additional staffing by utilizing continuous improvement techniques.
• Manage over $4 million of finished goods inventory to level seasonal capacity constraints, meet customer demands and control labor costs.
• Led monthly Sales and Operations planning meetings to determine labor and machine capacity needs from sales forecast.
• Facilitated adaptation of ERP and formal scheduling system at two acquisition facilities, resulting in uniform reporting system.

• Schedule shop floor equipment and personnel
• Developed scheduling philosophy that obtained optimum throughput for production equipment
• Solved capacity problems by utilizing alternate production routes
• Expanded from press scheduling to whole plant scheduling

Provided various jobs including Gravure Utility, Web 2nd Operator, Shipping Clerk, Pick & Pack and Kit assembler allowing me to become familiar with company systems and processes.

Licensed insurance representative selling auto, home, business and life insurance

• Provided all photographic needs including advertising, public relations, portraiture and in house processing lab.
• Reduced photography budget by 30% in first three years.

• Advanced photography services by adding commercial photography to the department’s portfolio.
• Improve speaker support product form hand colored lithography to full color computer generated slides.