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South Carolina, United States

United States

Business consulting for ERP implementation.

Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Area

Assist businesses in implementing operational business strategies.• Mediate settlements for small business owners.• Analyze cash flow / financials and provide business debt restructuring services.• Improve operations by providing warehousing solutions to include receiving and shipping accuracy, inventory storage strategies, material flow, and implementation of standard work.• Develop critical KPI’s to measure supply chain health. • Develop leadership teams and enhance team building across departments.• Assess business restructuring needs if required.• Operations, materials, and logistics management.

Simpsonville, South Carolina

• Led the project and reduced delinquent backlog from $1.2M to $100k in 3 months while improving inventory accuracy from 65% to 90% by implementing INFOR, and developed standard work for operations, planning, and inventory control.• Developed a profit improvement plan by presenting cost savings through A3's, labor hours to budget analysis, and process audits to improve performance.• Achieved creation of new revenue opportunities for small startup by leveraging a successful team of experts to grow the company, consequently, reached breakeven within nine months and achieved profits over $186,000 year 1. • Implemented marketing initiatives, incorporating relationship building that produced more than $334,000 year 2, a 180% increase year-over-year.

Spartanburg, Sc

Led both Inbound and Outbound operations teams to productivity efficiency, improved safety performance, and training. • Implemented Lean techniques such as 5S, Area Readiness, FEMA, and A3 thinking.• Developed a cross training matrix and training plans to ensure all departments had deep skill set to attain performance metrics.

Front Royal, Va

• Planned, directed, and coordinated operations of all major departments, including production, HR, a Paint Lab, warehousing within the Client site utilizing their company policies and procedures Reduced excess inventory in the yard by developing an inventory control plan improving inventory accuracy to 95%.

Danville, Va

• Lead and supported production planning, purchasing, shipping, and receiving to ensure on-time delivery to the DC.• Reduced excess / obsolete inventory and production downtime by developing a planning book of knowledge to use as a SAP training tool which formulated guidelines to plan material through specific work centers.• Implemented a comprehensive vendor supplied pigment system by collaborating with procurement, vendors, and IT to develop an AS400 ordering system, a barcode inventory system.

Olive Branch, Ms

• 75% decrease in counting time during physical inventory by developing an improved warehouse layout, training counters, preparing control processes prior to inventory, and implementing efficient counting programs.• Eliminated late customer orders by reducing 3 days from the manufacturing lead-time through the development of a material made-to-stock program by stocking the on-hand core material.

Olive Branch, Ms

Responsible for the management of two warehouse locations including production scheduling, purchasing, and shipping/receiving.

Crawfordsville, In

Prepared monthly forecasts and annual business planning, performing a variety of manufacturing cost analyses and fixed asset tracking. Full responsibility for the preparation of capital project financial justifications and for performing the manufacturing month-end closing functions for two manufacturing plants. Oracle