SUMMARY:

Cost - efficient Multi-Plant Senior Materials Manager with over 20 years of in-depth experience in supply chain operations and systems, procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, budget control, operations and logistics. Demonstrated talent in inventory management, procurement, project scheduling, process improvements and analysis. Leader in managing cross company teams’ efforts through effective and motivating mentoring strategies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

LCC operations managementSupply chain managementOrganizational leadership Enterprise Requirement PlanningSales & Inventory Operations Planning Customer focused Vertical integration and outsourcingContinuous improvement techniques S&OP Greenfield/Startup

SKILL:

APICS Certified, Green Belt Certified, SAP, Business Objects, Baan, Syteline, MFG/PRO, Analyzer MS Office, RapidResponse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving improvements for materials management, logistics and production scheduling for multiple plant locations.
• Deliverables range across long-term planning, on-time delivery, inventory optimization and accuracy, freight cost optimization, supplier delivery, and implementation of lean principles and tools.
• Provide leadership to Materials Group by establishing goals, development plans and driving process standardization.
• Improve processes and systems to drive implementation of lean concepts, reduce cycle time, and optimize inventories by implementing best practices in material planning, purchasing, master data, and inventory management.
• Identify and lead projects and other activities designed to standardize, simplify, automate and continuously improve supply chain process, planning and inventory.
• Support new product development materials and planning initiatives from prototype to full production.
• Meet cost savings goals by negotiations, sourcing key suppliers, and improving manufacturing capabilities with suppliers.

Confidential

Senior Materials Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the purchasing, planning and inventory group for multiple plants, reporting to the Operations Director.
• Responsibilities include creating and building vendor relationships, sourcing local vendors and negotiating pricing, resolving vendor disputes, providing continuous product cost improvement, evaluation and ensuring the overall performance of the Supply Chain.
• Rough Cut Capacity and Long Term Planning
• Develop annual inventory plan that ties to the production and sales plan
• Work with marketing, production on a monthly basis to establish the PSI (Production, Sales and Inventory) forecast for next month and remainder of the year.
• Manages controls and directs the activities and staff involved in the planning and procurement of materials in accordance to business and budgets requirements.
• Manages controls and directs staff to achieve Materials profit and loss objectives including minimization of excess and obsolete inventory, and implementation of cost reductions per best practices.
• Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction through negotiations with suppliers to match the end-customer expectations (on time delivery, cost, quality, etc), and managing and directing staff activities required to meet this expectation.

Confidential

Senior Materials Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to manage the material flow and inventory accuracy efficiently; ensure integrity of onsite materials and to lead the materials organization to provide cost efficient support to the multiple sites reporting to the VP of Operations.
• Responsible for planning and executing schedules that support customer requirements.
• Recommend changes in policy to support cost incentives.
• Responsible for Suppliers relationship management ensuring consistency of supply.
• Identify and implement inventory management procedures to manage the materials flow within the plant ensuring all activities.
• Identify and implement inventory replenishment strategies to drive lower inventory levels while maintaining adequate operational responsiveness.
• Implement materials procedures to support lean manufacturing/one-piece-flow.
• Responsible for processes and procedures that guarantees inventory accuracy on all three warehouses. Maintain consistent demand planning business processes with the supply chain planners
• Manage Inventory turns and implement VMI/SMI programs in order to minimize inventory.

Confidential

Materials Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring that all production orders are processed through material procurement, manufacturing, and shipping in a cost effective manner consistent with commitments to customers, it includes managing lead times, capacities, and resources for a manufacturing environment.
• Position directs purchasing, warehouse and production planning and control. Additionally provides support to sales/customer service as needed.
• Develop and implement an efficient materials management, procurement and purchasing process
• Work closely with the Manufacturing Operations Team to ensure available manufacturing capacity and material deliveries are in line with customer orders and load requirements
• Draws up master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Develops and maintains operating budget and capital spending plan.