Alan Eggleston

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Chardon, Ohio ****4

C: 440-***-****

aceo9s@r.postjobfree.com

An accomplished Group Director of Materials with extensive management

experience in performance enhancement. Proven ability to reduce purchased

and manufactured costs, while dramatically reducing inventory. Exceptional

management and leadership skills, with the ability to motivate production

and professional employees. Maximizes productivity in leading by example,

and empowering employees. Twenty-eight years of logistics management to

enhance profits. Thirty-three years of manufacturing experience at three

operating companies within a single corporation.

Qualification Highlights

Cost Reduction Leader >$70MM Supplier Development Project Management

Multiple ERP Implementations Process Improvement JIT/Kanban

Organizational Improvement Supply Chain 15 Yrs

Operations 18 Yrs

Logistics 29 Yrs. QAD/MFG Pro ERP System

(similar to Oracle)

Summa Cum Laude BA - Bus. Mgmt.Team Leadership Materials Mgmt.

Professional Experience

Ovens Group, Manitowoc Foodservice

1333 E. 179th St., Cleveland OH 44110

Group Director of Materials Oct. 2010- Mar. 2013

Manufacture of radiant and steam heated ovens, conveyor pizza ovens, and

rotisseries for the food service industry. Responsible for the JIT

delivery of materials for an organization with revenues in excess of

$200MM. Utilizing value stream methodology at multiple facilities to

establish best practices of a combined organization. Implemented process

enhancements and KPI to monitor and maintain transformation on schedule.

Simultaneously reduced the physical inventory from a historical three week

processing down to three days. Drastic drop in inventory levels, with 40%

increase in turns during the past year.

* Drove inventory reductions in excess of six-million dollars over a six

month period at three manufacturing sites. Reduction represented a

27% decrease.

* Worked 88 hours out of a possible 96 hour time period to complete the

physical inventory process. Reduced count to post time by 86%.

* Developed a new organizational structure to specialize and better

support annualized revenues in excess of $200MM.

* Implemented a tool for identifying excess and obsolete components, and

establish universal ordering parameters.

Cleveland Range, LLC., Cleveland OH a Manitowoc Company

1333 E. 179th St., Cleveland OH 44110

Director of Supply Chain June 1996-Oct. 2010

Manufacture of radiant and steam heated ovens, and rotisseries for the food

service industry. Accountable for $26MM in annualized purchases, with

personal responsibility for a $14MM spend. Rescued organization that

routinely shut-down multiple production lines. Highlighted as an

exceptional department with years between lines shut-down. Implemented

changes in logistic carriers, and dramatically increased discount which

significantly decreased shipping costs. Created a competitive environment

dramatically reducing material costs. Implemented new ERP system,

designated as a super-user and individual to solve issues.

* Within three months of employment assigned additional role of Traffic

Manager, which eliminated an employee.

* Modified shipping practices, and generated annualized profits locally

by $1MM and $5MM on a corporate level.

* Implemented quoting policy which reduced material cost of goods sold

by 10% in the first three years of employment.

* Implemented in excess of $700K in annualized savings during the first

eleven months of employment.

* Drove changes in company and corporate purchases generating in excess

of $10MM in savings over a 14 year period.

* Implemented local ordering practices and policies to increase

inventory turns from a low of 3.5 to a high of 12.4.

* Implemented consignment inventory with six major suppliers, and VIM

inventory with three companies.

* Implemented forecasting and S&OP process to drive future material

supply.

Merco/Savory Inc. a Manitowoc Company

725 Vassar Ave., Lakewood, NJ 08701 Sept. 1994-

July 1996

Director of Manufacturing

Manufacture of food cooking and toasting equipment, with 180 union

employees. Supervised employees in the union plus line supervisors,

industrial engineers, cnc-programmer, and maintenance employees. Laid-out

the facility to combine a West coast and East coast operations.

Interviewed, hired and trained new employees in New Jersey. Provided a

plan for every part, and reduced inventory by thirteen percent in four

months. Initiated from my concept to fruition $70K in annualized cost

reductions. Implemented programs to reduce scrap by $150K annually.

Researched and appropriated capital equipment. Transferred to Group

headquarters in Cleveland for larger wage opportunity, and request of the

President.

Merco Products, Inc. a Manitowoc Company

1298 Bethel Dr., Eugene, OR 97402 July 1978 - Aug. 1994

Manufacturing Manager

Promoted through increasingly higher responsible levels of assembler, lead-

person, traffic manager, service manager, product coordinator, research and

development, research and development manager to manufacturing manager.

Direct supervision of thirty-five non-union employees and a quality control

employee. Reversed declining profit trend by reducing material expenses by

20% and labor by 30%. Took company gross profit level of 12% and

maintained it at 45%. Increased inventory turns from 3.2 to 11.4 turns.

Transferred company to New Jersey.

Education: Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH, 2005 BA: Business

Administration, 3.82 Summa Cum Laude

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