Kenneth (Kip) Schnipper - Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma (Gb) Agile Scrum (Psm) Project Plus Email & Phone Number

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas, Texas, United States

Texarkana, Texas Area

Family-owned business specializing in the meat processing industry. Scope included utilizing lean principles, directing operations, and project management. Primary responsibilities include: Business Analyst functionality, Supply chain management, Agile/Project Management initiatives, and further developing all Quality Assurance programs. Collaborated with USDA on all compliance related directives.

Little Rock, Arkansas

Responsible for leading this start-up company's operations covering multiple departments including Compounding, Quality, Inspection, Packaging and Shipping including around 70+ team members. Implemented plans to include developing Production benchmarks and Operational efficiencies in order to streamline manufacturing processes which resulted in a production volume increase of over 18%. Developed Supervisors and team member roles and responsibilities to help promote accountability, high employee morale, and good solid working relationships which sped up reactionary time on the production floor aiding in the increase in production. Additional duties include driving lean initiatives, production scheduling, staffing, and conflict resolution.

Springfield Area, Missouri

Operations / French's Mustard - Area Manager responsible for 90+ employees in the Packaging Department of a 24/7 operation. Managing quality and efficiency on 12+ high-speed bottling packaging lines which is the sole world producer for French's Mustard, Cattlemen's BBQ's and Frank's Red Hot Sauces. Responsible for the identification and development of process improvements and best practices focused on Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, Lean initiatives and Global Quality Standards for Food Manufacturing. Additional duties include providing technical solutions to prevent production line downtime in order to maximize production line run time.

Responsible for providing the opportunity to interface with Greatwide businesses to ensure high service levels. Provide freight cost analysis, reporting and forecasting while managing the global premium freight process. Interface with customer service to understand and develop transportation strategies. Establish new processes and improve existing transportation processes in support of customer service procedures. Develop, implement, and maintain policies, processes, and systems relating to monitoring costs and efficiencies. Analyze and recommend transportation and freight costs, appropriate routing and carriers to be used. Contact vendors, customers, carriers, etc. to coordinate any issues such as misdirected routes or damaged goods.

Grand Prairie, Tx

Responsible for a broad range of Supply Chain and Purchasing assignments including Inventory Control, Cost Reduction Planning and Implementation, Supplier Transfers and Business Tools Development. Coordinates and monitors work flow, assisting in scheduling and prioritizing activities in assigned area. Working from program/project status reports, work or delivery schedules and/or manifests, checks and verifies data, identifies items to be posted, identifies related areas that are affected and records information. Analyzes and reconciles data. Investigate inconsistencies. Assist in maintaining parts availability. Corrects stock level discrepancies between warehouse management systems and expedited priority rushes for the company.

Responsible for strategic and tactical planning of Manufacturing and Distribution for specific sets of products within the strategic business unit. Determine and coordinate with Manufacturing the requirements for and availability of raw product to support Production plans. Track supply by market, surplus/short, and old age inventories, communicate findings to Marketing/Sales, and facilitate the resolution of issue identified. Identify and resolve customer satisfaction, production and logistics issues by investigating the root cause of the issue and utilizing appropriate problem solving techniques. Identify and execute opportunities to improve supply chain efficiency.Implemented 24/7 production schedule; Increased production 33%