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Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

Led in the design and implementation of an ERP based manufacturing planning solution and reporting tools. Part of team that supported the launch of new bakery operations. Year over year improvement in inventory fill rate (2022 – 90.4%, 2023 – 97.0%) and planned schedule adherence (2022 – 84.1%, 2023 – 92.7%). Translate forecast, supply, and inventory plans into a comprehensive production schedule. Provide accurate and timely scheduling and monitoring of plan execution. Use data-driven decision making to act promptly to assist operations when issues arise. Identify and escalate operational capacity constraints to Supply Chain leadership. Develop and maintain partnership with bakery leadership, operations, and plant engineering to sustain and improve production models. Maintain production data database to ensure data integrity that ensures accurate scheduling and reporting.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Coordinate and supervise day-to-day operational activities to fulfill customer commitments by providing leadership in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, and team member development. Create and deploy short and medium range strategies to increase total operational safety, quality, productivity, and team member development. Promote Kaizen by implementing and sustaining change while encouraging team members to share their ideas. Established consensus with leadership, peers, and other stakeholders before implementing change. Encouraged sharing best practice of successful process changes. Set and communicate expectations, which empower team members to take ownership of their tasks and processes. Grow an inclusive environment where actions consistently match behavior, which builds confidence and shares in team success. Identify and reduce environmental, health, and safety concerns while promoting safe work performance. Communicate organizational policies and team goals with confidence and transparency.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Inspect, measure, document, and determine disposition of product per Quality Management System processes. Developed methods of data collection and analysis. Managed controlled documents per ISO 9001 standards. Collaborated with other departments on corrective and preventative actions. Audit various processes throughout distribution center. Mentor quality auditors in all aspects of their jobs. Led continuous improvement initiatives within the distribution center. Manage tool calibration database. Primary contact for temporary deviation requests, return to vendor, and external rework processes.

Olathe, Kansas

Responsible for managing fill rate and inventory turns of internally produced material. Responsible for fourteen-thousand-part numbers in assigned item class while maintaining a 98% daily fill rate. Analyzed daily production levels to forecast customer demand. Managed distribution center consumables and developed new vendor relationships. Estimated available resources to maintain productive capacity.