SUMMARY

• Eighteen years in Supply Chain Management and Operations in various positions wif increasing responsibility to include: Supply Chain Manager, Production Planner, Material Planner, Buyer, Master Scheduler.
• Experience managing direct reports in high volume manufacturing/assembly and low volume high mix. Industries include: Plastics, Automotive Aftermarket, Flavor Creation, Automotive, Aerospace, and Electronics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, KY

Supply Chain Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Planning, Purchasing, Forecasting, and Warehouse functions leading a team of 14 FTE on $100M SAP based site 12 injection machines, 5 bottle lines, and 2 warehouses over 500,000 sq ft .
• 94% on time - in Full order fulfillment.
• Coordinated re-qualifications at site level for shifting products to different sites as well as alternative resin production and qualifications.
• Directly Scheduled and created labor forecast/crew model while working wif corporate, 4 interplant sites, and Maintenance for extensive ongoing projects.
• Worked wif Corporate and Finance to develop SIOP
• Wif a spend budget of $30M, planned, purchased and optimized inventory levels to lowest levels possible
• Established Kanban for pack supplies $50,000/mo
• Established cycle count plan to monitor FIFO for excel based Warehouse Management.

Confidential, Koni Erlanger, KY

Supply Chain Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 4 FTE in Supply Chain and Shipping Departments in a SAP based environment
• Reduce monthly backlog year or year by 11%
• Reduced monthly inventory over 20% y/y for increase in operating cash flow of 5.5% while establishing TEMPeffective safety stock program.
• Lead box redesign initiative from design through prototype development and into production for new product launch.
• Coordinated all activity SKU activity from part setup, through ordering, tracking, receiving and shipping.
• Lead SIOP (Sales, Inventory, Operating Plan) for site
• Coordinated/evaluated freight RFQ for 120 sea containers for import from 4 separate countries
• Responsible for Bills of Material (BOM) and routings for site.
• Negotiate directly wif vendors for payment terms, delivery standards, and pricing.
• Reduced utilities consumption as part of green initiative to reduce electricity involving soliciting bids, and coordinating contractors for teh removal and replacement of 80% of teh lighting.
• Increased utilization of site warehouse to allow for US footprint of sister division. Involving setting up new virtual warehouse and training to replicate teh overseas operation.

Confidential, KY

Production Planner - Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning production for 9 different functional areas, including USDA inspected operational departments - over $80M annually
• Lead subcontract manufacturing toll blended products process, $15M spend annually
• Establish and maintain Item Master file attributes for safety stock levels, master-planned items utilizing AS400/Mapics. Work wif Demand Management to plan for beginning/end of life product cycles
• Resolve inventory discrepancies through tracking of material from receiving, to storage, to consumption.
• Collaborate and actively coordinate wif Demand Planning any flavor migrations to new product lines
• Manage Production Capacity for standard lead time order as well as Master Planned items
• Coordinate wif QC and industry leading chemist for first to market technology
• Exceed customer delivery fulfillment standard of 95%

Confidential, KY

Sr. Master Scheduler / Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing QAD.Mfg Pro Planned, ordered, tracked deliveries, verified purchases and tracked inventory for accuracy in Union environment
• Analyze freight inbound/outbound demand patterns. Saved 200,000 through mixed load optimization, destination consolidation and avoiding unnecessary expedite costs.
• Utilizing Six sigma principles, increased On-time delivery for assigned commodities by 20% through re-assignment of freight transportation after measuring and isolating cause variation.
• Through Lean manufacturing processes, increased thru put by 8% by redistributing workloads for optimized production
• Saved company an average of $75,000/year through re-sourcing purchased material. Equivalent to $3.5M Sales (Site sales $95M)
• Achieved target inventory goals and consistently exceeded goals by 10-15%
• Increased Inventory turns for site from 23 to 31 and for commodity specific from 22 to 35
• Redeveloped point of use vs. warehousing of material wif a potential to increase productivity plant-wide by 4% and reduce expedited shipments by 9%

Confidential, TN

Sr. Material Planner

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated material flow for all speakers, printers, monitors and computer chassis from 3rd party logistics warehouse (over 35 semis per day) in a non-union environment.
• Through Lean manufacturing Refined material distribution process to reduce amount of vendor deliveries while reducing on-hand inventory by 15%
• Proficient wif WTCS, a MRP/ERP Legacy system
• ISO experience includes working wif QA department to generate job descriptions and processes.
• Coordinated part supply and PO issues wif buyers in TX
• Developed training for other planners
• Worked on team to streamline ordering process from a manual process to automated system