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Greater St. Louis

12001 Lackland Rd, St Louis Mo

Greater St. Louis Area

Establish and maintain cross functional relationships within organization to improve the communication, requirements, and procurement of material for production facility. Integral team member to the development, standardization, testing, and implementation of Cloud Suite Industrial Enterprise Resource Planning system.• Developed and implemented standardization of material shortage requests from production floor to purchasing department.• Managed and maintained inventory levels for 2,200 active materials based on S&OP forecast• Global process leader in purchasing, order entry, operations, testing, and logistics for Enterprise Resource Planning system• Created, built, and managed production structure within ERP• Translated high level business requirements to functional requirements for design and creation by IT team• Lead the implementation of solutions for simple to complex issues through testing, development and collaboration between departments and organizations• Designed, implemented, maintained, and presented training documentation to organization from shop floor to senior leadership

Cottleville, Missouri

East Peoria, Illinois

Collaborate with process partners to ensure alignment of cross-functional teams with new processes and rules being established for the PFEP process and Node Center. Develop and manage multiple MS Access and Excel tools for reporting, data mining and tracking information for multiple groups in supply chain and logistics.• Defined and coordinated supply chain parts presentation process of New Product Introduction and engineering changes across 14 workstations and 5 assembly lines. • Responsible for demand management of 5,500 part numbers across 21,000 point of use locations achieving a 99.9% accuracy vs units built. • Develop and manage proper internal/external material flow utilizing Caterpillar Production System (CPS) guiding principles, and evaluate/improve on-site material logistics functions.• Reduced supply chain costs by $2.5 million through process flow optimization, repack reduction, inventory analysis and price negotiations. • Partnered with an advanced planning team regarding the implementation of consolidated supply chain to the Node (3PL) state and distribution center.• Implemented a dynamic facility marketplace, utilizing the legacy material tracking system to improve material flow, inventory levels, and replenishment speed. • Established and implemented economic order quantities and a sustainable returnable container program in collaboration with supply base team. • Conducted domestic and international sourcing studies for the business unit to include both phase in and phase out planning. • Co-developed a total cost of ownership tool to help quantify risk, maximize material delivery and increase efficiency resulting in $4.2 million in savings for facility KK.

East Peoria, Illinois

Analyzed and documented current processes in logistics, procurement, supply chain and operations. Studied and learned new processes as introduced through the implementation of SAP, and developed future state flow maps. Gathered VOC from associates for needs within the new system. • Assisted in the development of multi generation product plan in SAP to streamline transition from legacy ERP system to SAP.• Created process flow maps for over 30 functions in the machine shop.• Developed and maintained an excel based WIP tracking system for the production environment. • Participated in Strategic Layout Planning for facility, value stream, and departmental level analysis.• Created and proctored teach-back sessions for management and production employees.• Created comprehensive user guide/standard work for Manufacturing Enterprise Packaging System (MEPS) for shop floor utilization.

East Peoria, Illinois

Developed and managed up to 25 individuals in a 3rd shift production facility. Managed approximately 20 machining centers and 200+ machine hours daily to maintain direct and indirect ratio requirements. Developed and managed 18 shipping, receiving, and inventory and warehousing procedures to ensure the highest quality output from the team. Managed activities among key groups to ensure order fill and on-time delivery. Monitored work orders in process to ensure timely completion and shipment. • Met daily safety, quality, velocity and cost metrics.• Audited and reconciled departmental daily systematic and operational grief. • Provided regular coaching, feedback, and leadership: drive engagement through team participation, delegation, and developmental opportunities.• Executed daily production schedule to maintain a 95% on time shipping performance. • Created and managed an Excel-based constraint scheduling tool to optimizing machine set ups and improve through put. • Scheduled and managed overtime for bargained employees.• Conducted root cause analysis and implemented permanent corrective action for all safety and quality events.

East Peoria, Illinois

Conducted scheduling, inventory management, and shipping functions. Scheduled production for original equipment, large and small green end departments. Led the processing of 500-700 production orders weekly between 8 to 12 work cells for up to 250 customers. • Created, documented, and implemented a process to improve and track the daily ordering of rough material from the local warehouse. • Established a daily escalation process for the notification of short material requirements. • Earned 6 Sigma Green Belts for DMAIC and CPS methodologies.• Developed and implemented a process to manage inventory discrepancies found at first operation to improve Inventory Record Accuracy to 100%.• Participated in CPS Rapid Improvement Workshop eliminating the excess motion related to lifting devices.

New Bremen, Ohio

Northwestern Ohio

Sub representative for Northwestern Ohio, providing surgical assistance to operating staff. Sold orthopedic implants, soft goods, and trauma equipment to hospitals and surgical centers. Provided training on use of equipment and logistical movement of equipment.

Naperville, Illinois