Steve Kubiak Email & Phone Number

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

Racine, Wisconsin

Reporting to the Director of Sales and Operations Planning, responsible for the demand planning of all Cree Lighting branded products.- Developed and maintained an accurate statistical forecast over a rolling 12-month time horizon for manufactured and imported goods by analyzing historical trends, and input from business partners. Accuracy improved 6% year-over-year.- Performed ongoing analysis and monitoring of actual performance to forecasted plan, identifying significant variances, and taking corrective actions when necessary.- Achieved a consensus demand plan by leading a collaborative planning process with sales, marketing, supply chain planning, and other sources by identifying key event drivers that impact the demand plan. These demand plans helped to reduce working inventory 40% over three years.- Organized and lead consensus forecast review meetings to identify required changes in the demand plan to achieve consensus driven by discussion of key initiatives, significant business events, changes in promotional plans, and forecasting accuracy.- Published the consensus demand plan and communicated to stakeholders a clear and concise explanation of forecast changes between cycles, key business event drivers, risks, opportunities and gaps.- In conjunction with supply chain, helped to reduce lead times from 15-20 days on most 80/20 items down to five days through increased accuracy of forecasts and demand plans along with proper safety stock quantities. - Goals and objectives were met without having access to proper forecasting and demand planning software.

Racine, Wi

Reporting to the e-conolight business unit General Manager, responsible for purchasing and inventory management of our OEM/ODM e-commerce products.- Responsible for purchase order management and the maintenance of relationships with ten overseas suppliers.- Maintained a consistent flow of materials to maintain or exceed our goal of 98% on-time shipment of orders, same or next day.- Reduced on-hand and excess inventory 45% leading to increased inventory turns and an increase in cash flow.- LED technology advances meant new or updated products were being introduced every 6-12 months. The focused inventory improvements lead to more efficient and manageable product end-of-life cycles, which meant less stranded inventory.

Racine, Wi

Reporting to the Director of Materials, lead a team of twelve material planners who were responsible for the production scheduling of all manufacturing lines.- Created and provided daily review schedules to ensure a sufficient flow of work orders to the line to maintain daily production and shipment goals.- Project Lead over Customer Service and Operations teams to manage and troubleshoot any issues arising that would affect on-time delivery of customer orders.- Lead the transition from our home-grown order management system to Oracle ERP, along with training our current team on the new system.

Racine, Wi

Reporting to the Director of Production, responsible for improving the lines of communication between supply chain, production, and production support with the end goal of improving the efficiency of work order completion.- Created reports to consolidate information from multiple data streams. Included in those reports was a master report which identified gaps in part availability, weekly production capacity restraints, and volume of work orders released to the floor, increasing efficiency and visibility of the production control process.- Worked closely with production supervisors, team leaders and supply chain to identify and resolve communication bottlenecks, making information more transparent and available, so production decisions could be made in a timely and efficient manner. - Participated in numerous Kaizen events where we tackled projects such as improving the efficiency of manufacturing lines, improving the layout of the manufacturing floor, and throughput of items from receipt into the building, to shipment as finished goods.

Racine, Wi

As the Lead Data/Project Analyst within our Continuous Improvement department, worked closely with all departments throughout the company to develop reports and dashboards to track, monitor and identify data of interest to each specific department.- Established management KPI's and corresponding reports for Sales and Operations teams.- Created databases for Engineering to track and maintain document changes. Created a datable for our Customer Service teams to track and maintain customer returns and complaints.- Created on-demand and ad-hoc reports as reqeusted for the Senior Leadership Team.

Racine, Wisconsin, United States

As a Generalist, I was directly involved in many of the daily human resource functions.- Responsible for the completion, submission and auditing of bi-weekly payroll runs.- Managed employee workers compensation claims from start to finish.- Primary contact for Family Medical Leave provisions from both the employee and management perspective.- Responsible for the on-boarding of new hires along with their initial training.- Maintained and updated proper state and federal reports for OSHA illness and injury compliance.- Handled employment-related inquiries from employees and supervisors.

Menomonee Falls, Wi