Robert L. Hostetler

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Elyria, OH 44035

440-***-****

Career Summary

Supply chain and operations professional with significant management experience.

Comprehensive expertise in supply chain, procurement, international sourcing,

manufacturing operations, strategic planning, profit planning, lean manufacturing and

business systems.

Experience

Parker Hannifin Aerospace, Elyria Ohio 2005-2011

Supply Chain, Operations and Product Support Director

• Directed supply chain, procurement, production, manufacturing engineering,

inspections, facilities and product support.

• Achieved 42% sales increase in three years

• Increased productivity 22%

• Consistently exceeded annual sales target

• Improved on time delivery performance from 86% to 96%

• Achieved 99% supplier on time delivery performance

• Prime contributor to Lean Manufacturing Steering Committee. Implemented

High Performance Production Cells utilizing lean manufacturing and empowered

cell teams.

• Chaired Parker Aerospace Global Sourcing initiative. Developed global sourcing

strategy through SWOT analysis of global supply base.

• Qualified low cost Asian suppliers for castings, complex machining and AC

motors.

• Implemented VMI program eliminating inventory, reducing material handling and

providing single monthly invoice with automated reconciliation for 1200 part

numbers.

• Developed Sales and Operations Planning process with automated, metrics based

planning tools. Chaired cross functional implementation team.

• Reduced turnaround time for repair and overhaul of customer product from 80 to

16 days.

Eaton Airflex, Cleveland Ohio 1997-2005

Materials and Strategic Sourcing Manager

• Directed supply chain functions including: Planning, Scheduling, Procurement

and Forecasting.

• Created and implemented commodity strategy to attain 30% low cost country

sourcing objective. Initiated low cost country programs in China, and India for

castings, machining, and molded rubber commodities.

• Designed and implemented sales forecasting and operations planning process.

Automated creation of production plan predicated on sales. Aggregated key

customer requirements and validated manufacturing capability.

• Reduced supplier delinquency from 40% to 3%. Established supplier scorecard

system with payment terms tied to supplier performance metrics. Received Eaton

Best Practice award.

• Implemented cellular manufacturing utilizing production cells and kanbans.

Improved on-time delivery from 74% to 98.8% to customer required ship date.

Reduced book to ship lead time by 8 weeks. Presented results at Eaton

Continuous Improvement Symposium.

• Implemented consigned inventory program for high spend commodities reducing

inventory by $1.2MM, eliminating supplier lead time and creating visual

inventory management.

• Established localized supply base to support Shanghai assembly operation.

• Served as senior examiner for Eaton Business Excellence Award (modeled after

Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award process). Lead successful project to

attain award certification for Airflex Division.

• Member of Airflex Division staff with responsibility for strategic planning,

organizational deployment and P&L.

Barnes Group – Bowman Distribution, Cleveland Ohio 1995-1997

Supply Chain Manager

• Directed purchasing and planning for integrated supply division. Supported VMI

programs for Pratt-Whitney, Northrup Grumman and United Technologies.

• Negotiated strategic agreements with national suppliers to provide direct supply to

Bowman VMI operations at client facilities.

• Managed spare part and tool kit programs for military prime contractor involving

2500 sku’s. Program included reciprocal trade with NATO nations in Europe.

ABB – Bailey Process Automation, Wickliffe Ohio 1986-1994

Director of Materials

• Accountable for purchasing, materials management, manufacturing systems, order

entry, customer support, receiving, warehousing and traffic.

• Achieved annual cost reductions of 4-7%

• Lead ISO9001 manufacturing implementation team. Bailey was one of the first

fifty US companies to attain ISO certification. Passed on first audit.

• Served on international product development team. Simultaneous production and

market launch in US, Europe and Japan.

• Negotiated recovery of $1.8MM of earned traded discounts.

Johnson & Johnson – Technicare, Solon Ohio 1979-1986

Materials Manager

• Directed production planning, scheduling and design change control

• Reduced inventory by $36MM (55%) through inventory management policy

develop/execution and implementation of new business system.

• Served on product management teams for Nuclear Medicine, Computed

Tomography (CT) and MRI product lines.

Education

B.A., Economics

Denison University, Granville, OH

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