Larry Jackson Email & Phone Number

Sugar Land, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

A builder and repair service provider to people impacted by natural disasters.• Obtain material and labor cost estimates, negotiate with suppliers, review contracts, and plan material purchases.• Ensure all work meets building code regulations and structural engineer inspection requirements.• Coordinate warranty repair claims with insurance and funding from local charities.• Perform demolition, repair sheet rock, roofing and fencing, install air conditioning, insulation, flooring, cabinetry, toilets and assist with electrical and foundation repair, routinely involves lifting over 150 pounds.

Sugar Land, Tx

Liaison between supply chain and finance, which included reporting and analysis of cost, productivity project savings, and process improvements for juice, ingredients and packaging materials.• Identified improvement opportunities, developed process documentation and trained the Houston bottler plant operations in shipping and receiving, quality control, storage, inventory control, returnable bins and pallets, and manufacturing order maintenance, which resulted in cost improvements and 100% more accurate cost projections.• Developed material inventory procedures for a complex 3rd party warehouse, oversaw cycle counts, monitored excess and obsolete inventory reserves and analyzed demand and consumption planning, which saved potential $20MM in product write-offs.• Worked closely with supply chain partners to help identify, evaluate and track 200+ material and factory productivity savings projects, resulting in over $100M multi-year savings and included tool development, documentation and training.• Prepared KPI reports, which included metrics on direct material and indirect spend, product cost, variances, inventory balances, excess and obsolete inventory, freight, and productivity savings for 25 different commodities, 30K material numbers and $10B annual spend. • Consolidated and reported on over $6B material spend and cost variances for warehouse, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and transportation, including in-depth and root cause analysis of purchase price variance, productivity savings and inventory balances.• Worked in partnership with the supply chain function to prepare the annual budget, standard material cost, freight, supply and demand forecasts, potential excess inventory, monthly cost estimates, and three-year cost projections, along with risk and opportunity and narrative schedules, supporting 45+ Canadian juices, packaging and ingredients for $550M annual spend.

Sugar Land, Tx

Liaison between plant operations and finance, where responsibilities included providing analysis, reporting and process review of the operations, material procurement, finance, and information technology functions. • Reviewed material returns, defective product, inventory control, excess and obsolete material reserves, sales orders pricing, bill of material and labor structure changes, material standard cost changes, and manufacturing routers for accuracy and overall margin impact, which resulted in the identification of a $22M excess and obsolete inventory issue and over $5M in manufacturing variances. • Provided weekly KPI reports, along with analytical support and narrative to the warehouse, manufacturing, program management and finance, identifying factory process improvements as needed.• Reviewed pricing proposals, including validating material quotations on complex bill of materials consisting of up to 250 sub-assemblies, manufacturing estimates of time and labor, capital requirements and overall profitability. • Consolidated plant monthly operations and financial results, general ledger close and audit activities, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and customer and product profitability analysis.• Prepared the annual operating plan and monthly forecast, including variance analysis and narratives.• Evaluated proposed projects, including analyzing the requirements for system interfaces, documenting specifications, establishing the budget, and developing deliverable schedules.• • Successfully integrated custom modules within AS400 and the MRP system with information technology to provide data extractions of costed bill of materials and manufacturing routers, improving variance forecast accuracy by 30%.• Coordinated the plant closure and transition of work to other facilities.

Sugar Land, Tx

Provided KPI reporting, analysis, audit and process improvement support to the warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, program management and finance functions.• Prepared the operational KPI and financial package, involving root cause analysis and corresponding narrative on inventory accuracy, material shortages, returns, damaged product, excess and obsolete inventory, quality, material spend, purchase price variance, product margin, headcount and revenue. • Reviewed all sales orders, bill of material change requests, price quotations, material standard cost, manufacturing routers, product profitability, and inventory excess and obsolete reserve exposure.• Created customer reports, containing inventory balances, material lead time, sku profitability and revenue forecasts.• Responsible for supply chain business process documentation, identified improvements, developed metrics to measure effectiveness, and provided creative and value-add solutions.

Responsible for incoming and outgoing shipments, material flow, inventory control, storage, freight carrier negotiations, distribution, returned and damaged product, safety and repairs, annual budget and process improvements. • Implemented lean manufacturing principles and procedures, designed JIT flow environment for the warehouse, developed metrics to track efficiencies throughout warehouse, initiated bar-coding process to track inventory accuracy, managed returnable pallets, established annual budget and published weekly KPI reports.• Reduced management of all warehouse functions from 5 managers to 1, created material flow, stocking and material handling procedures, strategically realigned freight carrier staging to optimize distribution capacity, and established distribution methods for strategic customers.

Sugar Land, Tx

A $6M contract manufacturer and distributor of medical products • Develop an efficiency measurement system for work orders pulls, design tracking flow area for maximum efficiency and increase storage capacity, and improve documentation system and develop a shipment tracking process for domestic and international shipments• Responsible for the prioritization and scheduling of work orders, inventory maintenance and cycle count programs, coordination for distribution of order to various facilities and distribution centers, and maintain close interface with customers and sales representatives to maintain high level of services, while managing the efforts of thirty associates