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Middleton, Wi, Us

Manage a team of Buyers, Production Planner, Warehousing personnel and Receiving department. Responsible for plant purchasing, production planning and inventory control. Mange a supply chain with vendors throughout the United States and China.Accomplishments• Set new purchasing strategy to improve production control and inventory flow.• Re-introduce SAP; established training and gained buy in. • Improved warehousing, reducing inventory transporting, adding bins to improve cycle counting.• 100% Full Fill Rate.• Beat the last three years inventory goals.• Improve communication thought out the plant.• Manage over 4000 SKUs.• Improved relationships throughout the supply chain.

Manage a team of 4 Production Planners and Shipping/Receiving direct reports. Responsible for all Production Planning and Inventory Control for the site. Manage customer’s EDI, ensuring on-time delivery.Accomplishments• Increased inventory turns from 14 to 16.• Improved scheduling by re-establishing trust with our planning systems.• Reduced past due production hours.• Maintained a 99.5% on-time deliver rate to our customer base.

Manage 1.3M unit warehouse, including Raw, WIP, and Finished goods materials. Lead team of 18 material handlers and shipping coordinators ensuring domestic and global customer's EDI schedule demands and flow for all in-bound and out-bound work. Responsible for inventory control, accuracy, and availability. Track, analyze, and communicate key performance metrics to key stake holders. Liaison between production, scheduling, engineering, and quality.Additional duties include: Maintain outside trucking companies, scheduling all in-bound and out-bound traffic.Responsible for cycle counting and plant wide bi-annually physical inventory.Maintain a fleet of 40 fork trucks, keeping them up and running.Manage a team of contract employees who are responsible for recycled materials.AccomplishmentsImproved on-time delivery performance to customer base.Instituted daily schedule meetings to enhance communication between production, scheduling, engineering, and customers.Reduced material pick time, by assigning storage locations (KanBan). Improved inventory accuracy, through cycle counting.Reduced arrears to aftermarket customers. Improved data management, passing two external audits (100). Westfield Youth Sports

Managed assigned vendors based both in the United States and UK. Maintained inventory, including sub-contract budgets of $25M annually. Managed 2 Planners and a Buyer. Responsible for delivering >1000 different part numbers and kits in support of production plans. Ensured both raw materials (casting, forgings, sheet metal, and bar stock) and finished goods materials were delivered on time. Liaison between operations and supply chain.Additional duties include: Monitored cycle counts & inventory turns to keep inventory cost low; increased cash on-hand.Managed supplier relationships, Tracked performance on cost, quality & delivery. Managed inventory levels in-house and at 3rd party logistics warehouse.Project managed transition plans for Make/Buy, as parts were being out-sourced.Indirectly supervised design, manufacturing, supply quality, supplier development engineers and buyers in launching new suppliers and engineering changes.Daily reporting on materials issues that effected production to V.P. of Manufacturing, Operations, Transportation, Manufacturing, and Quality Managers.Managed production planning in SAP. Eliminated MRP exceptions, adjusted material schedules to meet inventory levels.AccomplishmentsReduced inventory cost $3M by effective scheduling, planning production & shipments of materials.Increased delivery performance by 30%, which lead to reduction in overtime hours worked.Reduced scrap $600K annually. Moved in-house manufacturing (make) to out-sourcing (buy).Negotiated delayed shipments of material. This saved $2M in excess inventory.Created universal action-logs used by operations, engineering, and supply chain. This allowed engineering changes to happen without an interruption in material flow.Met 100% of sales goals annually.

Managed, trained, & developed 3 supervisors and 100 union production employees on 3 shifts to meet $10M in production monthly. Responsible for overall department budget, daily production planning activities, manpower scheduling to meet assembly needs, timely delivery, scrap, inventory control, OSHA compliance, and total quality of 86 different part numbers. Maintained regular and preventive maintenance on 60 machines.AccomplishmentsDecreased shipment costs 60% by effective production scheduling; transitioned from air to ground shipping.Increased production 20%, which lead to a reduction in daily overtime.Launched the 1st Kaizen department in the plant, increasing material flow.Oversaw an $8M capital equipment project launching a production line.No production builds lost in 6 years.Formed a process improvement team to address scrap, which decreased scrap by 15%.Managed cost through continuous improvement, Lean Manufacturing principles, and inventory cycle turns.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

B.A, Speech And Communication