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Batesville, Indiana, Us

• Adapted to organizational restructuring and transitioned to a new role.• Created a semantic model for Sales and Operations in Power BI.• Led Industry 4.0 road mapping for plant and IT/OT network separation.• Evaluated Industry 4.0 solutions for business applications.• Redefined warehouse data structure needs for dimension tables.• Developed a Supply Chain Business Intelligence Roadmap.

Batesville, Indiana, Us

• Led product innovation to allow for robotic welding automation.• Reduced Burial SKUs from 2,400+ to 600+ to enhance Sales and Supply Chain effectiveness.• Co-led divestiture from Publicly Traded Firm to a Private Equity Firm.• Created a Shop Floor Execution System for a sister company to aid in their divestiture.• Led user and customer testing for a new web platform launch.• Increased production during the COVID-19 pandemic by 20% in one plant.• Automated marketing processes that took work from 3 month effort to 15 minutes.• Developed a path to Industry 4.0 for manufacturing plants.

Batesville, Indiana, Us

Responsible for leading all aspects of the Batesville Warehousing, Transportation, Distribution, Scheduling, and Call Center Teams which is over 1,000 people• Provide Lean and Management Training for the Annual Supply Chain Meeting• Backfilled for the Vice President of Supply Chain for 2 months• Lead a project to simplify Products and Processes for 4 months identifying over $1.5 million of annual savings• Lead the team through a Strategic Planning process identifying $3.5 million in annual savings projects• Implemented Daily Management Process saving more than $250K monthly• Oversaw a team identifying ways to reduce Product Defects helping to drive 30% Year over Year improvement and many more future projects• Reduced Rules and Procedures manual by 90% from 149 pages to 15 pages• Reorganized the Management team and structure to allow for more support of the Managers closest to customers

Batesville, Indiana, Us

Lead the Scheduling, Call Center, Purchasing, and Value Engineering teams along with working with the VP, Supply Chain to set and drive the Lean Business initiatives for Batesville.• Provided Lean and Management Training at annual Supply Chain Conferences• Implemented Supply Chain Finance with suppliers extending terms from 60 to 150 days improving cash flow by $26 million• Implemented cost savings projects saving over $4 million annually• Managed contracting process with vendors• Supported in various capacities Plant consolidation activities• Helped to develop and implement shop floor execution system in Mexico facility•Lead a cross functional effort to identify opportunities for Product and Process Simplification

Batesville, Indiana, Us

Responsible for leading the Supply Chain Scheduling team and Funeral Directors Assistance Center.• Provided Lean and Management Training at Supply Chain Meetings• Created and Implemented new scheduling processes• Developed new Promotion order entry process reducing 95% of the rework and reducing time spent by 80%• Reduced number of customer shortages by 61% in one year• Reduced expedited Shipments by over $400,000• Provided annual production plan for all of the plants and transportation• ITW 80/20 Product Simplification Lead helping to implement changes that added $2.5 million IBT annually

Batesville, Indiana, Us

Responsible for leading the Materials team for Batesville IN Operations, scheduling the plant daily, and leading the shipping/receiving team• Reduced inventory by over $400,000• Reduced days on hand by 17%• Implemented pull system on 100% of the direct materials from the Assembly Plants in 1.5 years (1524 SKUs and 158 Vendors)• Implemented pull systems on 100% of Stamping direct materials and production scheduling

Batesville, Indiana, Us

• Co-led Kaizen events and lean training sessions.• Improved quality by 36% while reducing HPUs by 11% as Interiors Group Leader.• Helped define and design a paperless Shop Floor Execution System.

Jasper, Indiana, Us

Responsible for all Production related activities including Materials Management, Production Control, Computer Systems, Personnel issues, Environmental Compliance, and Customer Service for a Hospitality Furniture Company• Managed 10 direct reports and 107 hourly team members• Reduced labor content from 45% to 23% in 5 months while increasing production by 62%• Worked with various vendors to reduce costs by over 12% from the previous year• Managed a factory closing

Responsible for materials management, production scheduling, and IT systems.•Reduced WIP by $100K (80% reduction) and lead time reduction of 30 days to 8 days.•Managed vendor relationships•Conducted Supplier Development consulting on Lean and TOC principles to help operation.•Managed transition from solely MRP to a combination of Kanban and MRP production systems

West Chester, Ohio, Us

Grew an account from $10K per week to $100K+ per week.