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Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Procure materials from 50+ approved suppliers, as well as verify and monitor ETA’s to meet established production start dates.
• Lead weekly/bi-weekly Open Order Review meetings with key suppliers to address material concerns, push expedite requests, provide forecasts, etc.
• Improved the procurement process for inventoried products, including GMP raw materials and components, upon JDE implementation by defining status codes and utilizing hidden features.
• Conceptualized a… Show more
• Conceptualized a reordering/replenishment structure for a nonstock Kanban program among 7 labs and 3 stock rooms.
• Re-imagined the Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) purchase order structure to reduce receiving/invoicing errors. Show less

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States

• Managed the slotting process by making logistic placement decisions that best suit the products and the 427K square foot warehouse space.
• Took the lead on a remodeling project where I delegated tasks between myself and a team of workers to meet completion deadline.
• Maintained and updated many daily and weekly Warehouse Management System (WMS) reports.
• Assisted with floor operations when needed, which sometimes involved overtime and weekends.

Rosendale, Wisconsin

• Followed OSHA standards to establish proper lock out/tag out procedures on all machines throughout the plant, which included over 30 machines and over 100 lock out/tag out locations.
• Implemented an autonomous maintenance program on a case packer to reduce its 20% downtime to about 15%.
• Reduced a case packer's change over time from over an hour to 20-30 minutes with Visual Machine Management.
• Organized historical data of batch records to track material usage trends.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin

• Worked closely with the program advisor to prepare an annual $200,000 budget for eight different event committees.
• Utilized Quicken to prepare weekly operating reports and financial statements for the organization.
• Collaborated with other executive team members and provided advice for planning events on a budget.
• Improved the event planning process for executive members by creating interactive budget tools.