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Seymour In

Project management of all packaging including conceptual design, sourcing, purchasing, plastic returnables, expendable containers, metal racking, etc. Maintaining the returnable systems so as to reduce expendable costs during the life of the program. Disposition of packaging once programs have come to end of life.

Seymour Indiana

Materials Management - Packaging - Procurement - Supply Chain Management. Create complete packaging solutions. Develop inventory organization plans. Provide customized procurement, production control and inventory management services for purchased parts, work-in-process, components, and finished goods.

Oversee all aspects of packaging, from design to internal approval, to customer approval, to purchasing and inventory control of such packaging items. This includes communications with suppliers, internal users, and external users of both returnable and one-way containers. Having responsibility for the budget, managed three other specialists emphasizing each container's cost effectiveness.

Supervised three Packaging Specialists covering all aspects of packaging: customer, internal, and supplier. Utilizing plastic returnable, paper expendable, and metal racks to assure the integrity of all parts transported.Annually reduced the cost of packaging, budget vs actual, by as much as 15 -20%.100% of the time, all parts shipped in standard production packaging at S.O.P. to the customer.

Purchased and managed all paper, controlling over 1000 rolls in the process at any given time.Maintained a sufficient mix of grades and sizes to avoid using second choice options, while facilitating on time delivery, often within 48 hours of receipt of order.Reduced on hand inventory from 20 days to 5 days by establishing a warehouse system using company trucks for backhauls.

Managed the day-to-day operations of a custom injection molding company, which also produced a proprietary line of bath and vanity accessories.Increased sales by 20% during each year of operation.Initiated MRP control system, raising inventory accuracy to 99%, actual vs perpetual.

Managed the purchasing and inventory of all steel, as well as planned the sequence of jobs for each hammer for a manufacturer of forged parts servicing the automotive industry.Tracked daily production and inventory consumption, producing daily reports of work efficiency.

Designed packaging/shipping containers for each part produced by injection molding for the automotive, home entertainment industries, as well as general business items.Created and implemented an inventory control system for packaging items that reduced the number of times production shutdown do to insufficient packaging by 25%.

M.S. Education, Secondary Education

B.S. Education, Social Studies, Physical Ed., Driver'S Ed.

Activities and Societies: Lambda Chi Alpha, Football, Baseball

Education record

M.S; B.S, Education; Education