Ron Overton Email & Phone Number

Wickliffe, Ky

Responsible for inbound logistics for various raw materials at the Calvert City location via rail, truck, and marine transportation

Eddyville, Ky

Operations Manager at the Exel Supply Chain site in Eddyville, KY. The Eddyville site packages PVOH material for Sekisui Specialty Chemical and Wacker Chemical and provides logistics and warehousing for each. Responsible for oversight of all operations functions, production planning, inventory control, and customer relations. Also using Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve work flows, KPI development, and inventory control.Leading current initiatives in associate relations, improving overall efficiencies, lean inventory practices, and KPI development and roll out.

Purchasing Manager for an Independant Industrial Wholesaler in the Central Region of the US with branch locations in Tennesee, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana. Currently manage 4 full-time buyers and an assistant.

Global integrated procurement company with $250 million in sales.IMPLEMENTATION TEAM MEMBER (HARLEY-DAVIDSON-KANSAS CITY)Responsible for training site personnel in purchasing, inventory management, and navigation of web-based programs. Developed comprehensive plan to reorganize H-D parts crib and improve flow of parts in and out of parts cribWork in purchasing enabled Harley-Davidson to avoid $850,000 in approved, but unnecessary purchases.; Champion of cost savings projects at Tenneco-Monroe; saving $500,000 over 4-month period.Recently completed project to move entire customers' storeroom crib within the Tenneco-Kettering Ride Control plant. Worked on mechanical problem at Hartwell Monroe location in production line; cost savings for customer of $1.2 million.

Oversaw all facets of Setech's operations at Wickliffe paper mill and managing six full-time staff membersRealized year-to-date cost savings of $650,000 in optimized pricing, process and technical savings, and investment recovery.Realized year-to-date future inventory avoidance of $850,000 via thorough min/max analysis.Manage P&L statements for site; responsible for collection of management fees, vendor payments, and labor charges.Project leader for initiative to locate unused parts and return to crib which avoided over $1 million in future purchases.

Developed pricing strategies for profit maximization, published bi-yearly catalog and quarterly sales flyers, Prophet 21 software application specialist, developed reports for corporate senior management, coordinated all advertising and marketing activities, database administrator for website/ERP/and catalog publication software, oversaw all new products added to inventory, trained new employees on Prophet 21 software applications, and chaired numerous continuing improvement teams.

Bs, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Four year letterman golf team, Dean's list, Marketing Club, Business fraternity member, College agent.

Course Completion Certificate, Six Sigma Operational Excellence

Working on Green Belt certification in Lean Six Sigma.