John Parks Email & Phone Number

Manage demand planning, inventory management, and scheduling

San Francisco Bay Area

Manage demand factory planning, inventory management, scheduling, warehouse, and departmental reporting functions.

Fremont, Ca

Summary: Managed demand planning, inventory management, scheduling, customer care, order entry, shipping, and departmental reporting functions. Focused on improving available-to-promise lead times, developing supplier forecast spreadsheet logic to eliminate line down situations, creating SQL low stock report logic to quickly identify spikes in demand, creating EOL inventory projections based on product line discontinuation dates, fixing cycle count module to trigger an accurate number of daily counts, profiling branded buyout available inventory to match price list availability and co-managing 3PL warehouse.

Fremont, Ca

Summary: Purchased STI branded safety products, Omron switches and controllers, and Omron light curtain components. Focused on fixing Min-Max planning update program to be monthly updates based on a weighted average, working with IT to set up EDI ordering of components from overseas factories, performing month-end reporting, generating quarterly supplier reviews, and providing inventory forecasts.

Rocklin, Ca

Summary: Purchased and planned materials for 3rd party aftermarket hardware support and service provider

Oroville, Ca

Summary: Managed purchasing, planning, and shipping & receiving functions to support metal fabrication, optical fabrication, and optical & fiber assembly business units. Focused on improving direct material savings to achieve AOP savings goals, replacing push system with pull system utilizing days of supply reports, improving inventory turns, creating all purchasing and planning procedures to become ISO 9001:2000 certified, implementing ERP capacity module to eliminate manual scheduling and dispatching, and creating Cognos custom scrap, efficiency, direct material savings, and obsolescence reports for month-end reporting.

Oroville, Ca

Summary: Purchased and planned optical assembly, fiber optic assembly, laser, and power meter components. Focused on implementing Syteline ERP for the optical & fiber assembly business unit, changing batch job processing to repetitive backflush processing for optical & fiber assembly lines, and creating guidelines for expensing free issue items to reduce the number of kitting and cycle count transactions.

Oroville, Ca

Summary: Purchased and planned all helium neon laser, power meter, interferometer, spectrum analyzer, optical assembly, and optical mount components

Mountain View, Ca

Summary: Purchasing Assistant: Assisted senior buyer in entering purchase orders to support optical fabrication, optical coating, and laser accessoriesMaterial Controller: Performed all stockroom functions including shipping, receiving, kitting, packaging, and cycle counting to support optical fabrication, optical coating, and laser accessoriesPlanner/Scheduler 1: Planned and scheduled all laser accessories and entered optics sales orders for the laser group using their planned demand report