Senior Buyer
Resume:
John M. Beck
Bloomsburg, Pa **815
570-***-**** (Cell)
*******@*****.***
Manager/Director of Materials Management and Supply Chain. Team Builder and Team Player. Success in applying DMAIC methodology; to BP Change Project at all levels: Provided Strategic Direction, Evaluated Organizational Readiness, Was at times the Project Sponsor/Champion, Project Manager, Team Leader and Team Member. 20+ yrs experience.
Trained in Quality Circles and now studying for Six-Sigma Green-belt, Black-belt and Project Management (PMP) Certifications.
Jul, 2007 to Oct. 2010 Sr. Director of Materials Management for Kovatch Mobile Equipment; Nesquehoning Pa. (also 1 yr additional as a BP Consultant while working for ESPI):
Responsible for Production Inventory ($16M), Purchases ($65M annual) and Production Scheduling of ~ 390 Fire Trucks per year. (5 direct reports, approximately 50 people within these functions).
Developed & Fostered a culture of continuous improvement and root-cause analysis. John Kovatch, company President, my boss, said I did more to change the Culture of KME than any other person on the Management team. Realigned the Inventory and Purchasing Functions.
Reduced Inventory levels and improved Production efficiencies. Attained Cost reductions of Purchased Parts of more that $300K/year while improving Production efficiencies.
Implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) at points of use via Kaizen events resulting in reduction of MRO purchase costs by more that $500K/yr while improving efficiencies.
Improved the Truck Scheduling function by developing an Interface between the (stand-alone) Scheduling system and the ERP system. Result reduced the Purchased Part requisition to Stock lead-time cycle.
Apr., 2006 to Jul, 2007 Business Process Improvement, Senior Consultant; Enterprise System Consultants “ESPI” in Bethlehem, Pa.
Root cause Analysis, Recommendation & Implement of BP Improvements in small to mid-sized companies in eastern Pa.
Dec., 1998 to Feb., 2006 - VP of Information Systems for Weiler Corporation(ISO 9001 certified company) in Cresco, Pa.
Restructured IT resources by re-aligning technical resources with Corporate goals. Hired and managed Technical Employee Resources & 3rd Party Consultants made up of Network Administrator, Network Engineer, System & Business Analysts, Help Desk Technician, IT Training, and Project Management).
Improved the operational effectiveness of all Order to Cash processes by applying DMAIC process to evaluate root cause analysis. Secured $550,000 in funding for Implementation of Projects.
Defined requirements, negotiated, Purchased and Implemented numerous Business Systems within 5 years, with no increase in IT budget.: Applications included Cognos PM, SalesLogix CRM, Royal4 WMS, Open4 HR, Electronic Labor & Time & Attendance, Maximo CMMS and MS-Sharepoint.
IT Team maintained 99.98% up-time of all Business Business Applications and File Servers.
As member of the Industrial Distribution Assoc. E-commerce committee we developed standards for Electronic Business Transaction within the Industrial Distribution Supply Chain.
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Oct., 1993 to Mar., 1997 - Manager & Director of IT for Park Ohio Corp in Cleveland Oh.
Software Implementation/Project leader, trainer and Process Consultant to 12 factories.
Responsible for all aspects of Corporate IT Operations: Strategy, Budgets, Architectural Design.
Implemented or improved use of Symix/Syteline ERP system in 8 Factories.
Apr 1988 to Oct. 1993 – Sales & MRP Consultant to Small to Mid-Sized Co. Manufacturing Management for: (Manufacturing Solutions in Hudson, Oh.
MRP Application Implementations: Fourth Shift, Symix-Syteline, Lilly-Visual Systems. Hardware Platforms included IBM’s Risc, HP Unix, and Microsoft 2003. Assisted more than 40 mid-sized manufacturing companies with the implementation of ERP/MRP systems.
Trained Project Team members and end users in all functional areas including: Customer Service, Materials Management & Production Control, Shop Floor, Engineering, and Accounting.
Led Project teams created of Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions.
Developed implementation tools and utilized strategies that improved the implementation cycle.
Salesman of the year closing 7 ERP deals in 8 months to small Manufacturing Companies.
Oct 1977 to Jul, 1987 – Mid-Level Manager in Aerospace Landing Gear Facility (now part of BF Goodrich)
Department Manager: (5 yrs) Successful manager during times of transition in Union and Non-Union plants. (Quality Circles cross-functional team building)
Two successful assignments managing turning-around of Production Functions/ Depts.
Team Building, Recruiting, Training, Directing, Evaluating personnel. Realignment of personnel to meet both short and long term objectives. Experience in managing the downsizing of manufacturing operations.
Program Manager: (5yrs)
PM responsibility as Product Line Manager in a "Cross-Matrix" organization. Profit & Loss responsible for Douglas and McDonnell Aircraft (Multimillion $) Landing Gear Contracts. Including Change Control Board Management.
Financial Analysis & Cost Accountant (2 yrs.):
Acting Controller for various plants during end-of-period closing process.
Developed a complete Return-on-Investment model for Landing Gear Program.
Prepared Actual Costing Model for business segment of a highly Repetitive Mfg. Co.
References, Education - Business & Personal references available upon request.
Education: BS Accounting Akron University - Akron, Ohio 1977.
Currently enrolled and studying for Six-Sigma Green/Black Belt and PMP certifications.
Proficient in PC software including MS Office applications (MS-Project, MS-Excel w/Pivot Tables, MS-Word, MS Access and other Database schema, PowerPoint Presentation & with graphics, SharePoint Portal).
Other seminars include Karrass Negotiating skills, Solution Selling and Numerous IT and Management Seminars.
Honorable discharges from both US Army and US Coast Reserve.
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