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Caledonia, Michigan, United States

Portage, Mi

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• Lead team of supply chain professionals in ordering, production planning and order fulfillment functions to deliver product on-time to our customers.• Develop weekly and monthly plans to meet customer forecasts and collaborate with manufacturing team to ensure feasibility of plan.• Negotiate with vendors to ensure availability of all required purchased components and materials, track vendor on-time delivery performance and drive improvement through corrective action plans.• Manage team of 7 direct reports to comply with all Summit process, 5S, safety and audit standards.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• Led a team focused on driving continuous improvement in the materials function through standardization of tools and auditing to those standards.• Twice-annual audits of each of 9 manufacturing facilities in the US, Mexico and China to ensure compliance to all kanban, ordering, forecasting, shipping process & safety requirements.• Designed and implemented the first systematic post-business award supplier capacity verification system in response to changing customer requirements.• Investigated and identified the root cause of supplier quality and capacity problems with a focus on Practical Problem Solving (PPS) methodology.• Standardized the process for long lead-time ordering across all 9 plants.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• Provided support to plant materials departments in purchasing or daily production planning and ordering functions.• Trained new production planning and ordering team members at new plants on systems and tools.•Provided support to the systems auditor in completing corrective actions for open issues identified by audits.• Represented plant-level material department interests in meetings between the corporate purchasing team and vendors.

Battle Creek, Mi

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business - Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Relations