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White Plains, New York, United States

White Plains, New York, United States

- Support Manager in the Annual, Quarterly, and Monthly S&OP Consensus process by maintaining and helping to optimize supply plans.- Collaborate with Sales and Customer Service in detailed daily / weekly exception management to ensure target customer service levels at lowest landed cost.- Work with factories and Copackers to ensure that finite scheduling follows the master schedule to ensure appropriate inventory levels.- Proactively identify supply constraints and propose solutions through demand management, capacity expansion, level loading, or network balancing.- Play a supporting role in the annual volume planning process and quarterly updates through monthly 24-month rolling volume / production forecast.- Prepare and publish weekly & monthly reports which track the status of departmental key performance indicators (service rates, inventory levels, factory attainment, etc.).- Minimize the financial impact of finished goods or raw material write-offs through detailed analysis of demand and supply plans. As needed, perform root cause analysis of obsolescence and implementation of corrective/preventative action.- Ensure successful customer promotion execution through effective planning and collaboration across customer, customer service and sales partners.

White Plains, New York, United States

•Overall responsibility for material plans for a specified category.•Ensure overall MRP system (both within SAP and in external processes) maintained and overall system planning is optimized. •Conduct regular consistent reviews of all parameters and update based on new criteria.•Lead & conduct material planning meetings with suppliers, ensuring all material plans are adequate from DOS and obsolescence targets in the long and short term.•Develop packaging run out plans with information from project managers, supply planning team, marketing and suppliers to minimize obsolescence and meet project timelines.•Participate in weekly supply planning team meetings with counterparts in finished good planning, deployment, forecasting and procurement to deliver key KPIs - service, DOS, L&D, forecast accuracy, material SS, obsolescence minimization and sourcing optimization.•Track and report key KPIs - obsolescence, supplier inventory levels, DIO, service.•Full Responsibility for accurate Materials plans and strategies resulting in superior customer service and minimized operating costs. Assisting in development of safety stock strategies and inventory optimization modeling.•Key member of category team representing Material Planner function. Team includes members in FG planning & deployment planning.•Broad exposure to entire supply chain with direct contacts in both field and headquarters.

White Plains, New York, United States

Responsible for material call offs for specified materials to support finished goods production plans, minimize obsolescence and provide overall cost containment.Responsibility to ensure adequate materials are on site to support production schedules.• Assist in maintaining MRP system. Conduct regular consistent reviews in conjunction with material planner of all parameters and update based on new criteria.• Participate in material planning meetings with suppliers, ensuring all material plans are adequate from DOS and obsolescence targets in the long and short term.• Execute packaging run out plans to support material planners with focus on minimizing obsolescence with zero impact to production schedules, warehousing strategies and analysis.• Participate in weekly supply planning team meetings with counterparts in materials, finished good planning, deployment, forecasting and procurement to deliver key KPIs - service, DOS, L&D, forecast accuracy, material SS, obsolescence minimization and sourcing optimizationAssist with tracking and reporting of key KPIs – obsolescence, supplier inventory levels, DIO, service.

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Develop feasible, master production schedules for finished goods and subassembly items based on capacity requirements.• Provide daily-bucketed schedules by SKU to the production floor andmeasures! tracks performance (production goal against yield).• Determine if production will be constrained in future periods: load levelproduction plan, identify corrective actions.• Review and plan material requirements in support of customer commitmentsand delivery schedules.• Plan, prepare, manage and communicate both short-term and longer-termexecutable, time-phased production plans tor manufacture of products thatmaximizes inventory turns and minimizes excess inventory while meetingcustomer requirements• Conduct daily scheduling meeting.Manage on hand cycle counting at local facility and assist with monthlyreporting for all locations. Assist Director Operations in identifying rootcauses for continuing unit variances in CT facility. Develop and implementcorrective actions.• Support both Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order product / business processes• Exhibit positive leadership traits with ability to communicate and influenceat all levels of the organization Identifies and leads efforts to drivecontinuous improvement in areas related to job function.

Port Washington, New York, United States

• Schedule Job/lots and revise on an ongoing basis as conditions warrant• Maintain Planning Spreadsheet• Adjust cycles times based on actuals• Plan materials requirements/purchase subcontracted machining items/expedite purchase orders to outside vendors• Provide lead time for quotes and review delivery dates on all orders received for feasibility• Attend and contribute to CPI Meeting Teams• Enter routings into Engineering Workbench• Maintain data in Profitkey System• Have status available for customer service• Run production meeting• Coordinate engineering changes through the production process

Congers, New York, United States

• Organizes and schedules production work orders based on MRP requirements. • Resolves scheduling and feasibility by analyzing information and coordinating solutions. • Prepares reports by compiling and summarizing information. • Coordinates workflow between Warehouse and Production floor as required. • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Szombathely, Hungary

Provided leadership & specialist knowledge to ensure timely materials availability to production shop floor using effective management of resources coupled with development & effective execution of MRP /manufacturing plans. Tasks include:• Responsible for PPC activities including forecasting, production planning according to min-max calculation and the lean program. • Capacity planning (including sending the tools to IGS based on requirements). Continuous monitoring, updating & smoothening of plans.• Tool dedication and optimalization of the tool changes.• Organizing tools’ modification, safety stock production based on the forecast.• Optimalization of the assembly production (including semi-finished goods’ production makes consistent with the assembly production)• Ensure shop floor have at least a 98% availability of material in-feed against the MPS demand.• Ensures the MPS & subsequent loading of the shop floors are maintained on a daily basis.• Leads supplier development programs as appropriate• Reviewing & amending the MRP / MPS data in line with business demands.• Communications with functional areas and departments, interacts with manufacturing, inventory, MRP, program and engineering personnel, material control department. Participation in production and project meetings.

Szombathely, Hungary

In this position I communicated with customers, placing and changing purchase orders in the system, checking and correcting the confirmation orders, stock checking, checking the claims, organizing deliveries, organizing direct transportations.

Buk, Hungary

Nestle Legislation assistant (Apr-May 2000)Tasks: Worked with the legislation manager, assisted with correspondence, filling, and the completion of various certifications and licenses issues.Nestle Import planner (May 2000 – Feb 2001)Tasks: Organized the deliveries between Hungary and the Western European countries (i.e.: France, Holland, Germany, UK, Austria) Informed the dispatch planners on quantities that needed to be transported to their markets. Dealt directly with the transport organization. stock-taking, stock checking, inventory accumulation and communication with all markets.Dispatch planner (Feb 2001-Feb 2005)Tasks: Organized the transportation between Hungary and some other countries – Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, India, Taiwan, Israel. Dealt with the transport organization and filling out export documents and being communication within the markets.Assistant of Dispatch and Inventory control Manager (Aug-Oct 2002)Tasks: Worked with the Dispatch and Inventory Manager of the Hungarian market in Budapest. Dealt with preparing forecast, stock checking, inventory accumulation, organizing promotions communication with the Commercial Logistics Department and Sales Department.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Cultural Management

High School Diploma, Foreign Trade