Rie Tanakajima Email & Phone Number

East Longmeadow, Ma

Chicopee, Ma

Avery Dennison's Office & Consumer Products (OCP) was acquired by CCL Industries.Avery Products Corp. is a publicly reportable operating segment of CCL effective from the third quarter of 2013.

Chicopee, Ma

Demonstrated ability to learn new businesses, planned for three different areas including 3 years for $28 million Sales, 158 SKUs Organization & Presentation Group with average service level of 99.7%, 3 years for $ 150 million, 654 SKUs Binders Group with average service level of 98.8%, and 5 years for Printed Media Group with $91 million, 248 SKUs with average service level of 99.2% • Exceeded service level target of 98.5% during my tenure as the production planner• Responsible for production schedule to meet quarterly inventory and cost targets• Analyze daily material requirements, set Kanban level, send out weekly vendor forecasts• Lead the efforts to coordinate product transitions• Provide capacity analysis and production plan to operations for staffing requirements• Support plant and corporate-wide logistics initiatives and be a plant contact person• Converted PUSH manufacturing to PULL for two businesses• Integral part of a team for successful transition of businesses to and from Chicopee• Responsible for cross training, program documentation, and system implementations• Assist with Sarbanes-Oxley Audit, testing, and cycle counting• Coordinate semiannual Physical Inventory• Prepared quarterly smoothed production plan to help generate annual operational budget• Experienced in Kaizen to apply lean philosophy in a manufacturing environment• Performed systematic analysis and determine root-cause for given problems• Provide weekly results of key metrics versus targets (service, inventory and lead time)• Collaborated with operations and finance to create and execute plan for volume fluctuation• Responsible for training new production planners

Chicopee, Ma

• Accountable for annual IT budget, project implementation plans and IT staffing• Created and maintained Site Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan• Help Desk for the LAN/WAN/desktop hardware/software, e-mail and voice systems• Maintained Site User security, corporate/local policy and procedure and auditing• Managed employee Time & Attendance and Security Systems and staffing• Handled sourcing, negotiations, supplier contracts and purchase of all data/voice equipment • Developed SOP and implemented site IT training program • Worked with temporary staffing agency and HR for security badges and invoices

Chicopee, Ma

• Managed data extraction, analysis, error correction and report distribution to all office staff• Installed and maintained all hardware/software and system security• Wrote programs to increase productivity by streamlining existing processes• Created training documentation for new hires