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Salinas, Ca, Us

Oxnard, California, Us

Manage the Procurement process and supply base efficiently and effectively to support operations, sales and growers.Duties and ResponsibilitiesSourcing and engaging with reliable suppliers for plastic clamshells, corrugated boxes, pallets, and all other needed packing and cooler supplies.Negotiating yearly pricing on packaging and establishing a mix of supplies from packaging vendors.Working with suppliers to plan packaging manufacturing schedules based on seasonal estimates and acreage projections.Providing continuous three-to-four-week pack volume forecasts to vendors in order to provide vision on market conditions, customer demand, weather, and acreage conditions.Maintaining a detailed pack history with daily, weekly and yearly volumes of supply usage for each pack size.Analyzing historical pack data, sales trends and comparing to current demand forecasts.Creating custom reports from ERP system data. Updating upper management, sales and accounting teams with pricing cost increases/decreases by pack size and style.Replenishing sufficient levels of packaging inventory at the crate shed to distribute to growers in the Santa Maria, Oxnard and Central Mexico regions.Coordinating packaging freight deliveries from suppliers to regional crate sheds.Supporting coolers with necessary supplies, volume forecasts, IT support and general training with the company ERP system (Famous).Reconciling strawberry packaging and pooled CHEP pallets on a weekly basis.Preparing purchase orders for supplies, invoice approval, bill of lading confirmations and general ledger accounting code.Establishing and overseeing PTI traceability program. (Current project)

Responsible for management and control of packaging supplies for commodities and regions as directed; inventory, placement, and replenishment at the direction of the Operations Manager and Inventory Manager. Controls inventory at individual item levels at crate shed through distribution from available inventory at supplier level. Approves supply invoices. Manages assigned Pooled items; supply, order, replenish, report, reconcile. Provides information system and clerical support to Inventory Manager and Operations Manager. Essential Job Duties/Responsibilities • Under direction of Inventory Manager, prepare detailed annual forecast of supply use for each assigned commodity by item/region/month. Update Monthly to Actual. Maintain actual use version and compare actual to forecast regularly.• Collect, analyze, and reconcile weekly inventories from each storage/distribution location for assigned commodities. Compare/contrast on-hand inventory, usage, and sales demand to fulfill replenishment needs daily.• Manage pooled supply chains, CHEP pallets and IFCO RPC’s. Order/Replenish, reconcile inventories weekly, report usage, and manage annual audit process. Maintain vendor location file. • Responsible for maintaining adequate inventories at all assigned locations through Replenishment of distributed materials. • Monitor Sales/Packing activity through ERP system (Famous), weekly Sales conference call, and direct communication with Sales and Field personnel. • Reorder as necessary, considering all appropriate lead and delivery periods, to maintain an adequate level of all materials. • Monitor deliveries to ensure supplies are received on time and in anticipated quantities. • Prepare invoices for A/P; match BOL, check pricing, and g/l/ accounting codes. • Documentation of supply activity. Maintain accessible record of supply activity through organized record keeping; current period transactions and historical price and usage records.

Calculating daily ingredient usage and variance analysisMonitor raw ingredient and packaging materials physical inventoryClosing daily work order and reconciling component consumption Manage quality control hold/release inventoryMaintain quality control hold/release databaseReview quality grade data to determine disposition on out of spec productAuditing Bill of Materials (BOM) for accuracy compared to spec bookUpdating and creating new BOM for 2013 tomato pack season

Clean kennels and pressure wash kennel floorsPrepare dog food and feed animalsCollecting and cleaning/washing dog bowls and blankets

Monitor and organize canned tomato inventory throughout multiple warehouse locationsOversee the inventory tagging (identification) process of canned tomato inventory fromthe production facility.Plan and coordinate physical put away of canned tomato inventory from the productionfacility.Supervise inventory tagging crew, stacking supervisors, forklift drivers, and haulingcrew (order pickers).Control inventory salvage/rework process and crew.Provide daily production, labor and inventory scrap reporting for plant and warehouseactivities.Maintain warehouse organization with cycle counting, monthly reconciliation, and storagelocation consolidation.Assist divisional controller with costing of production items.Set up and creation of production item bill of materials.Act as IT support for plant and warehouse locations; performing maintenance forcomputers, servers, printers, Videojet production line printers and voicemail system.Projects - Warehouse Bar coding DSI DCLink SystemApply new business processes for scan gun operation.Publish barcode training documents.Conduct bar code scanner training for employees.Act as bar code user data base master.Projects - Implementing PeopleSoft Manufacturing SystemSet up item data base and item numbering plan.Create bill of materials for all production items.Assist divisional controller with cost set up in the system.Oversee production closing process and inventory reconciliation in the system.

Monitor and organize canned tomato inventory throughout multiple warehouse locationsOversee the inventory tagging (identification) process of canned tomato inventory fromthe production facility.Plan and coordinate physical put away of canned tomato inventory from the productionfacility.Supervise inventory tagging crew, stacking supervisors, forklift drivers, and haulingcrew (order pickers).Control inventory salvage/rework process and crew.Provide daily production, labor and inventory scrap reporting for plant and warehouseactivities.Maintain warehouse organization with cycle counting, monthly reconciliation, and storagelocation consolidation.Assist divisional controller with costing of production items.Set up and creation of production item bill of materials.Act as IT support for plant and warehouse locations; performing maintenance forcomputers, servers, printers, Videojet production line printers and voicemail system.Projects - Warehouse Bar coding DSI DCLink SystemApply new business processes for scan gun operation.Publish barcode training documents.Conduct bar code scanner training for employees.Act as bar code user data base master.Projects - Implementing PeopleSoft Manufacturing SystemSet up item data base and item numbering plan.Create bill of materials for all production items.Assist divisional controller with cost set up in the system.Oversee production closing process and inventory reconciliation in the system.

Perform cycle counts, transfers, receipt of goods, and inventory adjustments for rawmaterials and finished goods.Enter daily finished good production.Monitor raw coffee inventory.Maintain on-hand raw coffee levels by scheduling deliveries from outside warehouses.Monitor the usage of raw coffee and provided a weekly usage forecast report for thebuyer.Maintain bill of materials and units of measurement.Set up new items within the manufacturing system.Acted as a back up for the production scheduler.Projects - System conversion from MAS200 to MAS500Assisted the plant controller in creating a bill of materials for all inventory items.Created and applied a new item numbering schema to all items in inventory for theconversion to MAS500.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration

General Engineering