Vanessa Jacobson Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, AR

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Created 15+ unique SOPs for the manufacturing department, leading to the implementation of Six Sigma and Kiazen projects
• Lead and design company-wide projects for both efficiency and new facility builds
• Developed a roadmap to increase production efficiency by identifying necessary equipment and conducting time studies on a full life cycle process
• Integrated Value Stream Mapping to current Lean manufacturing practices, resulting in decreased operational costs by 37% and increased daily unit output by 475%
• Developed Hour x Hour and SQDCT boards to ensure multiple facilities’ data is easily accessible, effectively eliminating errors and increasing efficiency
• Leveraged BioTrack, OneDrive and Office to capture inventory, conversions, compliance, efficiency and safety data in a centralized database for reporting and analytics

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Engineered new ordering, scheduling, and inventory management procedures by analyzing store trends, decreasing department operating costs 4%
• Improved workplace environment by ensuring that all regulatory measures are followed, creating an easy to work storefront for all employees
• Mentored team members in customer relations and product knowledge by holding daily shift meetings which continued to improve customer satisfaction
• Delegated assignments to team members according to their individual strengths, improving department efficiency by 15%