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-Facilitates Business Operations assessments with Customers which includes conducting interviews with all area of the business, identifying areas for improvement, developing detailed project plans with goals and objectives and summarizing all findings in an assessment report.-Conducts Business Process Mapping sessions to help customers see opportunities for improvement within their current processes, then guides customers to create a future state process that is more efficient.-Developed a Planning and Scheduling Workshop to teach Customers how to schedule, capacity plan, manage and alleviate bottleneck areas and line balance within the Visual Manufacturing ERP software (VM).-Assisted dozens of customers in designing and implementing scheduling programs that were considered to be too complex for any ERP system to handle.

-Served as member of the Operations Management Team, providing information regarding potential bottleneck cells and developing plans to alleviate potential bottleneck areas.-Monitored all jobs at risk for shipping late, developed and executed plans to get these jobs back on track.- Developed new planning methodology in VM which aligned better to company needs, decreasing the amount of WIP on the manufacturing floor and increasing on time shipments by 10%.-Created a system to maintain a safety stock for a large customer, including visual tracking tools, Kanban systems, and a document on how to use and modify the system as customer’s need changes.- Received President’s Award for transforming VM into a highly productive management tool.

-Managed seven Summer Interns in completing Documentation Transformation Project that required converting over 100 standard written instructions into easy-to-follow visual work instructions.-Worked on a two person team which re-implemented the manufacturing application of VM enabling the company to move from manual planning and scheduling to system-generated planning and scheduling. This reduced the necessary daily planning time by 75%, and increased on time delivery by 10%.

-Worked with Process Engineering team to calculate throughput times and suggested design improvements for their new robotic facility that would save both time and money.- Evaluated the package and shipping department procedures and made layout suggestions which would reduce the process time per box by 20%.