Julie Werst Email & Phone Number

Boise, Idaho, United States

• Reduce zero bin occurrences by verifying usage, lead time and factory risk so reorder points are set more accurately for 12,000+ parts during the CoVID crisis.
• Ensure stakeholders requirements are met and sustain effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Identified IT gap where vendors were not receiving electronic purchase orders (PO). Short term SAP correction was put in place. Micron now developing, at high priority, a closed loop PO verification system.
• Proactively streamlining the communication process with vendors. Vendors are expected to actively verify lead times. Vendors will gain visibility to scheduled quantity versus the open quantity on POs.

Nampa, Idaho

• Established and monitored production schedules to ensure customer commitments are met for three multi-national clients.
• Collaborated with factory manager, customer program manager, financial analyst, material procurement manager to meet the demand forecast.(Departed to care for family member.)

Windsor, Colorado

• Managed factory production of a 6000+ square foot facility including supply chain, international order management, logistics, and warehousing.
• Implemented 5S process improvement strategies, and developed the company's first Material Requirement Planning (MRP) system.
• Developed ABC priority planning strategy which purged slow moving SKUs and increased production time for top moving SKUs
• Planned demand for rapidly growing customer base.
• Procured raw material internationally and monitored customs clearance.
• Earned annual targeted efficiency improvement bonus within five months of starting with the company

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Director of Operations for a start-up spirits beverage company
• Coordinated, managed & monitored the production, warehousing, shipping / receiving, and inventory.
• Developed production plan and determined production work schedules.
• Managed the movement of materials into and out of the production facility.
• Optimized inventory levels and executed materials requirement & resource plan.
• Oversaw staffing, hiring and training of employees.

• President: National Charity League, Inc., Fort Collins, 2011
• Led 220+ mother /daughter members in philanthropic organization committed to community service, leadership development and cultural experience with an annual budget of $21,000.Founder/Manager: Established & managed.

Diagnostics Division

• Managed $7 MM of inventory consisting of 400 codes.
• Planned and coordinated Production Activity Control for AD/TOX and TDM Business Units.
• Collaborated with R&D, Marketing, and Manufacturing to ensure 99.5% product availability.
• Abbott Laboratories' Chairman's Award recipient, 1994.

Pharmaceutical Products Division

• Supervised 20+ production operators and 4+ line supervisors.
• Reduced re-inspections by 19%.
• Improved labor and equipment efficiency and decreased downtime.

Abbott Park, Illinois

• Production Foreman, Pharmaceutical Products Division
• Interfaced with Quality, Safety, Engineering, and Planning to improve production operations.Production Activity Control Scheduler, Diagnostics Division
• Scheduled kit-pack production with 10 day operating horizon using “theory of constraints” resulting in 99.6% on-time delivery and improved customer satisfaction. Inventory Controller, Pharmaceutical Products Division
• Managed $800,000 of commodity inventory for Ross Murine consumer products to meet division loss prevention and turn-over goals.Industrial Engineer, Hospital Products Division
• Designed a new layout of Liposyn Finishing Line saving $98,000 per year in production costs.