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Burleson, Texas, United States

• Responsible for inventory control and ingredient kitting for a liquid products food manufacturer.
• Built an Excel tool that standardized and increased accuracy in calculations of impressions remaining on rolls of film/lidding across various sized product and multiple suppliers.
• Added visual cues as a process improvement for when material handling support was required to retrieve items stored in the cooler.
• Supported other managers within the department by reducing team head count and moving resources to other teams in need, while not impacting inventory metrics.
• Updated material reconciliation process to include posting gains to production orders, previously only excess scrap was processed.

Midlothian, Texas, United States

• Oversee 5 department managers (Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Warehouse, Import/Export).
• Developed customer communication tool showing status in production, QC and shipment readiness.
• Initiated service recovery plan by identifying top items to prioritize by production line.
• Created a BOM analysis tool that compares component requirements to available on hand inventories, reducing time planners spend finalizing their schedules.
• Implemented numerous KPIs including work order maintenance tracking, WIP/purchased item inventory levels and warehouse picking accuracy

Mansfield, Texas, United States

• Managed 4 direct reports in planning, shipping/receiving and inventory control.
• Lead yearly physical inventories improving secure net $ accuracy from 3% down to < 1% on inventory values up to $8.5M.
• Designed numerous SQL queries, increasing efficiency on data collection and analysis.
• Performed large scale analysis and clean up of MRP planning master data allowing planners to better utilize system data for planning decisions.
• Worked with the procurement team to create Purchasing Scorecards and component inventory health trackers to highlight material outage risks.
• Implemented a monthly secure inventory cycle count program and WIP warehouse specific count programs.

Grand Prairie, TX

Supervise 12 direct reports in manufacturing floor material handling and cycle counting.Lead quarterly raw material inventory counts.Reduced time to conduct quarterly raw material inventories by 4 hours while increasing accuracy and reducing total adjustment dollars.Developed cycle count schedule for shop floor parts focused on highest velocity and cost.

Cleburne, TX

Supervise 4 direct reports in scheduling, shipping, and warehouse/inventory management as well as 13 indirect reports in shipping/warehousing.Created daily metrics for shipping forklift drivers based on safety, quality, service, cost and delay.Reduced cycle count write offs by 30% YOY.Improved truck delay by 10 minutes while increasing truck volume by 20%.

Chicago, IL

Developed an Access application to create Target Inventories and SKU level forecast in an effort to reduceinventory and improve service.Maintained a monthly service level greater than 95% for 3 production plants.Improved production planner efficiency and service by creating a new planning tool.Major contributor to saving over $2,000,000 per year in freight.

Member of the SAP implementation core team for the Production Planning module.; Responsible for maintaining the schedule for multiple production lines resulting in an on time to request of 97.7%.Release purchase orders for a majority of the raw materials associated with supporting the production schedule.Find new lower cost suppliers for locally negotiated.

Generate reports from numerous tables using BPCS and SPSS ShowCase STRATEGY.Design queries for internal customers across business units.Track component surcharges and supplier delivery performance.Create component forecasts for various suppliers.Construct monthly component usage reports. Developed Access application to aid in consolidating shipments of raw.

Responsible for receiving/tracking/reporting and resolving owner/affiliate, business partner and employee issues through a blended automatic call distribution environment.Provide first level support for seven premier web sites, three major applications (Siebel, Genesys, Outlook), and 80 different Premier products/services and departments.Utilize exemplary.