Ron Bowles

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Materials/Supply Chain/Operations Support Professional
Ron Bowles's Location
Boulder, Colorado, United States, United States
About Ron Bowles

People, process and product oriented leader / manager with proven materials / operations support and outsourcing results in diverse company cultures, functional environments and business structures.Proactive supporter / practitioner of lean/six sigma DMAIC and Kaizan ACP's to drive innovative processes, practices, continuous improvement and performance measurement. Creative in addressing supply chain root cause, fostering team initiated change, optimizing resources, solving complex problems, deploying lasting solutions with minimal trade-offs and infusing lasting metrics. Demonstrated track record for driving inventory turns improvement and reducing days of supply in a global business environment. Supplier managed inventory implementation experience with two companies. User team leader on 3 MRP implementations. Creative in addressing supply chain root cause, driving change, solving problems and deploying practical, lasting, solutions. Routinely use quality tools to improve processes including Lean / Six Sigma, Kaizan events and TQM. Over 6000 Project Management hours on both large and small projects. Extensive use of process change documentation, training, procedures and metrics to maintain results. * Successfully built and staffed materials and PC organizations in fast growing, high-tech environments* Inventory management & liaison experience with companies having inventory locations in Europe, Asia & offshore* Keen ability to identify strategic initiatives & drive infrastructure improvements vs. "forced results" and sub-optimization * Demonstrated ability to develop and empower people to become top performers and be metrics driven* GB trained in Lean Six Sigma; drove and/or mentored several Kaizan events & GB projects* Experience in team outsourcing / re-sourcing of materials organizations both domestically and offshore* Over 200 power point presentations at plant level in last 3 years (Quality, Walk of Fire, Lean & Kaizan events)Specialties: * Project Management (all PMI classes)* Materials / Planning / Purchasing Management* SOMI Implementations * ACP Kaizen Event Leader* Inventory / Production Control* Outsourcing / Resourcing* International Interface/Turns/DOS* Supply Chain Pull Systems * MRP/ERP Impl. Leadership * On Site Service Support* ISO 9000 & Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance * Certified Stores * Trainde in Lean/Six Sigma * Shipping/Receiving/SMI & Std. Whse Mgmt* Consultant Management

Ron Bowles's Current Company Details

Materials/Supply Chain/Operations Support Professional
Ron Bowles Work Experience Details
  • Ingersoll-Rand Securities Technologies
    Inventory & Production Support Manager
    Ingersoll-Rand Securities Technologies Apr 2004 - 2008
    Managed several materials and operations support functions including production scheduling & control, supplier incoming material compliance, supplier owned & managed inventories, receiving, and SOMI supplier compliance/stores. Consolidated, streamlined and resized functions, reallocating 42% of personnel to needed positions and improving productivity. · Developed the Supplier Owned & Managed Inventories, improving turns & parts availability· Lowered WIP inventories from 15.0 to 1.7 days of supply (FA) & re-certified stores · Emphasized safety & training and developed Sarbanes-Oxley & ISO support procedures· Consolidated multiple parts storage operations, freeing up several hundred pallet spaces · Led several Kaizan events improving pick response time from 7.2 hours to < 1 hour
  • Agilent Technologies
    Planning & Procurement Manager
    Agilent Technologies 2000 - 2003
    Managed Mature Products Planning, Procurement, Configuration Control, Lifetime Buys and Field Spares. Drove reductions in WW Inventories for CSG Business including UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany and USA (Sonoma and Colorado Springs) against defined Global Metrics. Interfaced extensively with CSG Finance to determine Cost of Sales and other drivers to Inventory Days of Supply (DOS) and turns improvement metrics. · Reduced high safety stocks and cut Colorado inventories from 22M to 12M in one year while improving purchasing performance · Orchestrated Materials mature products outsourcing plan for Singapore and managed parts supply chain· Downsized organization to fit the new Singapore production model · Held weekly conference calls with 7 WW manufacturing ship locations, using WebEx and NetMeeting. · Reviewed performance results with VP CSG Order Fulfillment and CSG Finance Monthly
  • Exabyte Corporation
    Service Division Materials Manager - Ww Quality & Customer Services
    Exabyte Corporation 1996 - 2000
    Promoted to increased responsibility in Worldwide Quality and Customer Services Division to oversee worldwide supply chain management of materials, operations support functions, service inventories, on time delivery of repaired products, and spares.* Reduced worldwide inventories by 73% over 15 months, from $8.2M to $2.2M* Eliminated parts shortages by installing Kanbans, resulting in a 99.7% delivery performance* Reduced material average cost per unit by $23, saving $1.2M annually for Boulder division* Implemented cycle counts resulting in 100% accuracy the last two annual physical inventories* Reduced worldwide warehouse space by 50%, resulting in carrying cost savings of 720K* Established reclamation reviews, resulting in over $4.2M in parts recoveries per year
  • Exabyte Corporation
    Manager, Order Entry & Production Control
    Exabyte Corporation 1995 - 1996
    Hired into Library and 8MM Tape Products PC & Orders Administration for new build production, tasked with overseeing daily commitment of customer orders, daily scheduling, and daily on time manufacturing of units, as well as staff management, training, and development.* Improved on time customer delivery from 42% to over 99% during first 6 months in position* Improved available-to-promise inventory accuracy from 70% to 99.9% accuracy in 3 months* Published Production Control / Inventory TQM process manual to support ISO compliance
  • Storagetek
    Mrpii Implementation User Project Leader & Change Control Board Administrator
    Storagetek 1988 - 1995
    MRPII FEASIBILITY STUDY & IMPLEMENTATION - User leader of company’s largest internal project for the Corporate Logistics Systems Division. Drove feasibility study and obtained executive approval for company-wide MRPII system. Reviewed user implementation activities, developed supplier software escalation process, coordinated user testing and training programs, escalation and evaluation process. Collaborated sucessfully with IT teams to jointly drive implementation processes. Drove monthly project reviews with executive management and domestic and offshore teams.CHANGE CONTROL BOARD - Administered software change-control review team chartered with managing software enhancement proposals and programming resources. Also led worldwide logistics architectural team in the development of a worldwide architectural roadmap which included researching and assessing business needs, options, and resources, and then creating and presenting architectural proposals to senior level management.
  • Storagetek
    Inventory Manager & Remanufacturing Service Manager
    Storagetek 1985 - 1988
    Responsible for the accuracy of all inventory records and inventory reduction initiatives. Helped return revenue to the bottom line by reducing the reserves that had historically been carried to hedge inventory losses. Service repair included tape and disk drives, mechanical assemblies and printed circuit cards. · Attained 99.9% confidence level on $109.8 million dollar inventory base· Returned $8.9 million in inventory reserves to the P & L over a two year period· 99.98% on time delivery to customers over 5 year period for tape/disk drive remanufacturing

Ron Bowles Skills

Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Logistics Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Procurement Materials Management Purchasing Manufacturing Mrp Continuous Improvement Product Management

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