SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER CANDIDATES

Candidate SCM21:

• Candidate SCM21 has her  MBA and BS from Valdosta State University. She is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified and working on her APICS Certification which will be completed in January of 2018.
• She started her career in the military as a Materials Manager. She has quickly worked her way up into management. She has managed up to 20 employees. He management style is very hands-on and open to associates. She creates an environment where they can bond with management. She expresses her gratitude for a job well done.
• She has extensive experience with LEAN. She was certified in Lean through the Air Force and they focused a lot on Lean principles.
• She is experienced in DPO(distribution process optimization), KPI monitor, standards creation, root cause analysis, process improvement, improved service level agreements and overtime creation. They also used the Kanban system. It was kind of implemented within WMS and SAP. Occasional discrepancies occurred when the systems didn’t communicate accurately so constant monitoring was needed. Once identified, adjusting one or both systems often a cycle count has been conducted is how the problem was rectified.
• She has used SAP, Manhattan, WMS, and VoicePick.

Candidate SCM19:

• Candidate SCM19 has a Bachelor’s in Business, and is a certified CPIM.
• She has been working for the last 4 years as a Supply Chain Analyst.
• In her current position, she tracks stock levels and usage to provide intelligence to their planning team. She handles the crown moulding category for a large account.
• Although most of their inventory is supplied in standard lengths, she has had some experience in tracking dimensional inventory.
• She uses sales data and on-hand inventory to determine how much product to bring in.
• She provides feedback to the plants that supply THD by developing projections driven from customer demand.
• In her previous role, her analysis helped define inventory targets and service levels around sales forecasts.
• She was hired for her current role to build their data visibility. She has been working with SAP for 6 years and considers herself very proficient in data extraction, manipulation, interpretation and reporting. She is also well versed in Excel tools and business objects reporting.
• She really enjoys the systems/technology side of supply chain, and would like to be involved in ERP implementation as she develops her career.
• Candidate SCM19 currently resides in Georgia.

Candidate SCM17:

• Candidate SCM17 has been with a healthcare solutions organization in a project management capacity for about 2-1/2 years. Much of his charge is bringing operational excellence to the Supply Chain.
• His projects have involved him in every aspect of their operation including logistics, strategic planning, scheduling, finance, project management, and demand planning and forecasting.
• Most of his projects involve developing programs and resources in the plants and with their suppliers. He drives a lot of NPI and sustaining projects.
• He is very data driven and tends to lay out multiple options when presenting to senior leadership. He likes to outline pros and cons and the risks to ROI for any proposed solution.
• In his current position he does not have direct reports but all the teams involved in his projects indirectly report into him.
• One of his projects involved overseeing the changeover process driven by one of their major suppliers changing one of their sources. This impacted everything from design/drawings, BOM, documentation of country of origin, ECO to several different product, packaging and label changes. He was involved in coordinating the design verification process, product testing, and working with engineering on regulatory compliance and quality. He took this project all the way through production qualification including going back to the plants to run trial lots of material to verify the process documentation, planning, and change documentation.
• He is most proud of was a risk mitigation project in their supply chain. The organization was experiencing 35-40% YOY growth in a certain product, but they were getting hit hard with backorders that could affect their ability to service that growth. He was asked to take on the task of reducing $1M in backorders down to $100k in order to secure the supply chain. He pulled all the data from suppliers using 5 metrics (capacity, lead time, location, supplier agreement, quality) to create a high/low risk heat map. He then eliminated the extremely high risk suppliers. He visited the rest of their suppliers to share the risk metrics, and then he set up vendor managed stocking agreements and trained the supplier to improve lagging metrics. In 9 months, he was able to bring down backorders to $40k or below.
• He comes from a production background where he was involved in inventory and production planning, procurement and logistics.
• He describes himself as a very analytical and logical thinker. He doesn’t want repetitive duties – he likes tackling new challenges and making them best in class.
• Candidate SCM17 lives in Georgia.

Candidate SCM15:

• Candidate SCM15 has over 24 years of industry experience.  Most of his career has been working in Logistics and Supply Chain management roles within the manufacturing industries.
• He has a BSc in Business Administration and a MBA in Supply Chain management.
• In his current role, he is the Sr. Operations Manager for a logistics and supply chain firm contracted to a large technology firm. He manages a team of up to 55 people. His management style is “hands on” he is very much a coach and willing to train and mentor his team.
• His approach when beginning with new department is to understand the daily operations first, then review what each person is contributing so he can get an understanding of current state. He would then want to understand future state based on strategy, goals or just general process improvement. He is very hands-on and willing to cross-train and improvement his team.
• In his career, he has extensive experience with SOP’s, demand planning, inventory management, purchasing, and logistics.
• With regards to 3PL, he has been involved in evaluating package shipments and whether its beneficial to utilize a 3PL vs internal providers. He has also worked on consolidating shipments and even “piggybacked” with supplier shipments to utilize that option.
• He has used Six Sigma toolset such as DMAIC, 5S within warehouse/distribution centers to improve processes and change layout of the departments.
• Candidate SCM15 is located in Georgia.

Candidate SCM13:

• Candidate SCM13 has his BS from the University of Wisconsin and his MBA.   He has worked as the Director of Material Management at an electrical manufacturer.
• His responsibilities have included procurement, demand planning, and stocking levels across multiple operations including the final assembly plant in Mexico. Much of their components and sub-assemblies are procured through contract manufacturers.
• He has a number of direct reports including analysts and buyers.
• He has also overseen logistics and transportation before he grew into a more senior role in Materials Planning, and has also mnaged warehouseing and logistics in previous roles.
• He has been able to change the methodologies by which they do demand planning and forecasting. He’s has brought a lot of framework to their SIOP.
• He has a desire to get into a more challenging, innovative environment where he can have more end-to-end responsibility, and effect positive change through SCM and lean best practices.
• Candidate SCM13 resides in Georgia.

Candidate SCM11:

• Candidate SCM11 has a BS in Aerospace Engineering and 6 years experience in Project Management and New Product Launches.
• He has managed up to 10 projects at a time, from quoting to launching.. He has exceptional communication skills and handles customers with great skill and experience.
• He has a record of completing new project launches on time and within budget while keeping customers happy from first prototype through production rollout.
• He has 5 years experience with Quality standards ISO9100 & TS16949
• He has worked in Automotive Tier 1 & Tier 2 Suppliers most of his career.
• He has experience with Microsoft Project, he has taught himself but his current company doesn’t use it enough, he would like the opportunity to become better.
• Candidate SCM11 is located in Georgia

Candidate SCM9:

• Candidate SCM9 has a Industrial Engineering degree, and obtained an MBA
• He has been involved in supply chain operations for 19 years of his career primarily in support of the automotive industry.
• He has experience with primarily outsourcing components (forgings and castings) through a vendor resource in China.
• He also has been a Global Category Manager in supply chain operations. He managed both automotive and temperature assured packaging categories and commodities along with 18 buyers that reported to him across both NA and Mexico. Part of his responsibility was supplier scorecards and evaluations.
• He is very used to travel in his career. He has traveled many times to China, Taiwan most of the Asian markets. He even managed a plant in the Czech Republic.
• For him the size of company doesn’t bother him – he’s a hands on type – he doesn’t sit round waiting for someone to provide him data.
• He would like the opportunity to bring ideas that will drive revenue in an operation that has less red tape.
• He wants to be in a manufacturing operation – purchasing, procurement and sourcing are his forte.
• He likes working with an engineered product – something that offers a more competitive value add than just cost and volume.
• His strong suite are sourcing suppliers internationally, developing metrics and has always been involved in simultaneous engineering with regard to new product development.
• Candidate SCM9 is located in Georgia.

Candidate SCM7:

• Candidate SCM7 has his BS in Productions and Operations Management, his MS in Management and 24+ years of Management experience. APICS Certified CPIM.
• He has had  20 years Requirements Planning Management experience from DRP (distribution requirements planning) and  MRP (material requirements planning)environments. He has created forecasting models from sales data and actual build rates, plus he has worked with customers to understand their requirements for his companies products. At other times in the sustainment business, he has worked with engineering to predict failure rates and then create master schedules for products. he has been involved with MRP/APICS since 1989 when he served on the Board of Directors in Colorado.
• He started his management career as a Logistics Manager, he managed anywhere from 15 up to 90 direct reports.
• He has an expert understanding of LEAN and has driven several changes. He is constantly looking for ways to reduce waste, utilize space more efficiently, reduce footprint, and reduce time to market. He understands the seven forms of “waste” or MUDA and has used the techniques to solve manufacturing/inventory issues of his corporation.
• He drove 30% space reduction initiatives and reduction in shipping delivery time into warehouse teams with Six Sigma/6S.  He has applied Lean principles addressing “wait”, “excess motion”, “defects” and “equipment breakdown”.
• He lead a team for the production implementation of SAP and Maximo in several sites. He is MRP certified. He has used scorecards that show Inventory Dollars in excess, inventory accuracy (95%), defects on the manufacturing line, mispicks in the stockroom, etc.
• For on-time delivery, he had a monthly delivery metric that depicted the total deliveries requested and actuals shipped against parts requested by customers. This was also shared with his upper management and he was required to add comments on anomalies for out of tolerance months. There was also a measure of waste out of the manufacturing area.
• He has worked with procurement to make addendums to their purchased inventory held at the supplier, which saves our facility space and gives us flexibility and no expedite charges. He and Procurement have coordinated moving $11M in manufacturing tooling from their site to a new supplier. This included part approvals through quality and supplier qualification activities. He has also evaluated suppliers for rate of production, quality, and logistics for our site.
• He has experience sourcing materials globally and has  suppliers all around the world.
• Candidate SCM7 is would like to relocate to Georgia.

Candidate SCM5:

• Candidate SCM5 has 3-5 years experience in tactical procurement, 2 years in warehousing, 4-5 years in logistics and 9 years in inventory control.
• He has worked primarily in the automotive (tier 1) and hotel management industries
• He has a strong background in management and customer service and has great communication skills
• He currently manages 8 direct reports and 750 indirect reports and explains that he always gives his employees a chance to learn ad train but once they have covered something he expects to see improvement.  He loves seeing his employees excel at their jobs.
• He experience with two versions of SAP and considers himself adept in SAP
• He has a very strong Lean background and uses Lean and CI principles on a daily basis.
• Candidate SCM5 is located in Alabama but open to relocation to Georgia.

Candidate SCM3:

• Candidate SCM3 has a strong background in Supply Chain and Operations within a distribution/ logistics setting.
• She currently manages 7 direct reports and the day to day operations of a large distribution facility
• She has experience on both the analytical and tactical side of logistics
• She evaluates carriers and addresses issues with vendors on a regular basis.
• Theresa has strong work longevity and has worked her way up in her career
• Candidate SCM3 is located in Georgia.

Candidate SCM1:

• Candidate SCM1 has a MBA and BS. She is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified and working on her APICS Certification which will be completed in January of 2018.
• She started her career in the military as a Materials Manager. She has quickly worked her way up into management. She has managed up to 20 employees. He management style is very hands on and open to associates. She creates an environment where they can bond with management. She express her gratitude for a job well done.
• Some of her key optimization and cost savings include performing Biannually full audits and daily cycle counts which helped to establish a baseline of their inventory and eventually increase accuracy by 20% in 5 months. Daily delivery of goods that had to be processed, picked and packed each day. Increased on time adherence by 15% creating a staggering time for inbound vs outbound associates. Learned method from another facility while in the development program months. Full cycle count was conducted within 3 months of me starting the position. By eliminating expired and obsolete products, was able to eventually reduce future inventory adjustments by 7% and recouping ~$500k
• She has extensive experience with LEAN. She has focused a lot on Lean principles. DPO(distribution process optimization) is the guiding principle around 5s, KPI monitor, standards creation, root cause analysis, process improvement, improved service level agreements and overtime creation. She also has experience usingKanban systems
• She has used SAP, Manhattan, WMS, and VoicePick stems.
• Candidate SCM1 is located in Georgia.