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Claremore, Ok

Responsible for the oversight and management of freight; the movement of goods between facilities and the shipment of product to distribution centers and dealers.

Claremore, Ok

Managed operations / shipping / warehouse functions. Strived to reduce man hours and transportation cost.• Work with all areas of operations to prioritize production schedule to meet customer needs.• Reduced man hours per ton by 17%, from 6-man hours to just under 5-man hours per ton. • Implemented and enforced company policies with emphasis on safety and quality.• Improved on time deliveries by working with carriers. Improve delivery routings and negotiate to improve rates.• Decreased damages by reviewing and improving loading procedures.• Worked as a liaison between sales and production to meet customer request. Maintain good relationships with sales / production employees.

Catoosa, Oklahoma

Directed all Material functions including purchasing, warehouse, scheduling, inventory, transportation, work orders, and production BOM’s.• Maintain accuracy of $25M inventory.• Initiated material cost saving measures with results of over $1/2M in savings.• Used lean principles and team building to improve material flow to improve support of the production areas which decreased production hours by 15%.• Participated on management team attaining ISO certification.• Input all production BOM’s• Maintained production schedule, reviewed cost of each unit produced.

Catoosa, Oklahoma

Responsible for coordinating and expediting the flow of materials from Purchasing through the warehouse and to the shop floor. • Supervised all warehouse activities. Maintain accuracy of $15M inventory.• Directed the Purchasing Department.• Create and distribute production work orders according to build schedules or priorities. • Coordinate and review bill of materials with Purchasing & Engineering to determine material requirements. Maintain Production Bill of Material. • Assisted controller in reviewing cost of each unit.

Coffeyville, Kansas

Directed the shipping / receiving, warehousing, inventory control, scheduling, spare parts, and material handling activities. • Maintain accuracy of $8 million inventory located in as many as four locations within the United States.• Established procedures that reduced inventory discrepancies.• Oversaw production scheduling and forecasting duties assuring that product mix is available to meet customer needs. • Developed partial cycle count program resulting in 99.7% accuracy.• Manage spare parts department that had annual sales of $5M/year. • Average parts sales increases of 12.5% per year from 1996-2000.• Established programs resulting in record of 99% same-day parts shipments.• Managed Order entry / Dealer Support department.• Initiated parts department inventories working closely with Purchasing manager to insure availability of service parts. • Direct and maintain a $.8M parts inventory improving our order fill rate.