Charles Lawton

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Calgary, Alberta T3B-5S8

403-***-****

acqknf@r.postjobfree.com

Education and training

Medicine Hat College – Bachelor of General Studies/Business/Law 1983–1986

Medicine Hat High School–Graduated 1983

Medicine Hat Alberta

APICS (American Production Inventory Control Society)

Many courses taken to prepare for writing test for certitication

Experience

President 2007 to 2014

The Liberated Cook, Calgary, Alberta

Managed all duties of a small business owner. Purchasing, scheduling projects to employee management, and accounting. Set budgets for operation and create safety requirements.

Purchasing Company the hard operating costs were in excess of $30,000.00 per month. I decreased that number to $12,000 per month.

SCM Manager Apr 2006 till Dec 2006

Crown Energy, Calgary, Alberta

I happily took on the role on the Materials Manger. I managed the team that oversaw arriving inventories and shipment of finished goods met all customer (internal and external) expectations.

Introduced inventory location systems so that service could be provided more efficient to production personal.

As a result of organized warehouse we began to use cycle counting to ensure inventory accuracy could be investigated as to errors in inventory values and correct the processes that created the miscounts.

The role of Purchasing Manager was added to my responsibilities 2 weeks after my start date.

The Process to negotiate and ensure proper on time delivery and all quality tolerances were met.

Senior purchasers were brought in and began mentoring the existing inexperienced purchasers to create a strong team.

By use of lean initiatives and supplier managed inventories to reduce our financial commitments to inventory assets.

With a greater trust of inventory levels the purchasers were able to purchase correct amounts of purchased good for production and for cross docking for shipment to waiting customer.

The inventory and Purchasing teams worked together to one team to provide service to both internal and external customers.

Supervisor 1988 to 2006

SMED / Haworth, Calgary, Alberta

Recruited as an entry level employee to learn production needs

Was educated on JIT production through the use of a pull (not a push) production methodology.

Promote to Operator then to section Coordinator. Responsible to ensure internal customers’ needs were met in a timely manner (according to schedule matrix) and all quality tolerances were met.

Promoted to Production Foreman to manage front end production areas.

As Foreman I was responsible to move personal or create extra shifts when required to overcome bottle necks that interfered with meeting the production matrix successfully.

Interviewed and hired new personal do to production demands.

Chosen to join BAAN ERP software implementation team.

Developed database information for smooth transition.

Created ISO procedures for departments to use during and after implementation.

Trained key stakeholders to make transition smooth and provided support to departments after implementation.

Promoted to Materials Management Supervisor to create materials management department.

Provided budget requirements based on executive forecast of upcoming sales.

Implemented procedures to accurately report inventory values and to maintain procedures using cycle counting.

Implemented an extremely accurate location system for ease of inventory retrieval.

Achieved 95% accuracy which allowed MRP system to provide more accurate reports for purchasing department to create purchase orders

Set up supplier managed inventory for fast moving items to reduce the company’s labor costs.

Committed to JIT and pull inventory methods to match method of production.

Set up and used Kanban to manage semi-finished goods and creating orders for low value product.

Create and maintained documented quality inspections of incoming products to ensure tolerance were met.

Utilizing the above methods we were able to minimize inventory foot print (by over 40%) for return of the valuable area to be utilized by production for expansion for revenue generation.

All procedures and documents were created to adhere to ISO requirements.

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