Manager Sales

Ken Korsch

Inv & Prod Control Manager, Heatcraft World Wide Refrig - WORK_HISTORY

Midland, GA

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Inv & Prod Control Manager, Heatcraft World Wide Refrig

WORK_HISTORY - 2003 to Present

Duties and responsibilities:

Manage Inventory and Production Control functions and personnel for both Manufacturing Plant operations.

Develop best-fit Master Schedule to support customer requested ship dates with available material

and production capacity. Develop/Implement/Drive processes that support lean manufacturing initiatives

throughout Heatcraft Columbus Operations. Maintain current BPCS System parameters and determine and

implement best fit material strategy for all situations using KANBAN, Min Max, Sequence Scheduling, Safety

Stock or MRP. Lead weekly SIOP meeting and maintain and distribute SIOP and Product Lead-Time reports.

Currently have the responsibility of leading the Plan-To-Make SAP Implementation work stream team.

Achievements:

Developed Production Control procedures that supported the following metric improvements; On time shipping

2002 43%, 2003 86.2%, 2004 98.6%, 2005 98.8%, 2006-11 99%+ Mfg Hrs Per Case 2002 60, 2003 46, 2004

41, 2005 40, 2006 38, 2007 38, 2008 34,2009 37, 2010 36, 2011 32.

Successfully rolled 8 full time positions into the Production Control team of 7 while supporting an increase of

over tripling the overall production volumes in six years by automating manual process and streamlining others.

Implemented automated sequence scheduling system through directly linking mainframe tables through

Microsoft Access to schedulers and supervisors. Able to reduce Master Schedulers group by 30% while picking

up all subassembly scheduling and eliminating all scheduling transposition errors due to automation.

Developed/Implemented/Maintain SIOP Reports to support two divisions that are updated through Microsoft

Access Database that is linked to ERP Tables and our Sales forecast.

Reduced purchasing stockroom and fabricated parts stockroom by 20% and 30% respectively due mostly to

sequence scheduling.

All improvements were achieved with modest BOM accuracy by setting up systematic double checks on data

and manual review of schedules by product knowledgeable associates.

Developed sequence schedules for FAB parts that supported our Lean Manufacturing initiatives with a low

volume and high variation product mix.

Materials Manager

Bergquist Company - 1999 to 2003

Duties and responsibilities:

Manage all material functions/personnel including; forecasts, order acknowledgement, scheduling/planning,

purchasing and all inventory/shipping/receiving functions. Develop and implement company wide process

and procedures that would allow The Bergquist Company to move from a manual system to an MRP driven

company. Responsible for all inventory levels and accuracy (raw/WIP/FG) as well as on time shipments.

Achievements:

Setup BPCS MRP system along with the processes and procedures and ran MRP within 3 months.

Created SFC tool in Microsoft Access that tracked every order through every work cell with real time updates,

point and click time stamped functionality that supported MRP dates.

Materials Manager, Bergquist Company 1999 - 2003

Achievements: 'd

Established materials group that supported an 85% growth in sales from '98 to '99 and a 95% growth in sales

from '99 to '00.

Creation of reports that tracked daily shipments to plan/backlog as well as shipment/backlog by customer.

Creation of procedures and database to support sales monthly forecast as well as conversion to bi-monthly

demand for MRP.

Master Scheduler

Onan Corporation - 1995 to 1999

Duties and responsibilities:

Break down gross forecast into product line mix and load into master production schedule. Manage inventory

turns and levels (raw/WIP/FG) through self generated queries and reports. Establish and monitor reports for

operations actual performance to customer request and acknowledged delivery. Schedule all non-configurable

orders and all special requests. Materials representative on "Order Fulfillment" Re-Engineering team.

Achievements:

Creation of reports to monitor inventory levels and turns for all product lines.

Established procedures for the first spec advance on a reduced lead-time production line.

Creation of reports that track and manage the consumption of forecast at the configurable level.

Creation of reports to assist logistics with upcoming shipments and containerization issues.

Creation of procedures and database to support off site warehousing of purchased materials.

Creation of procedures and database to run daily MRP in Microsoft Access due to actual MRP system only

ran on weekends.

Master Scheduler

Cray Research Inc - 1987 to 1995

Duties and responsibilities:

Establish new master schedule (product mix, system power ups, ship dates, etc.), load master ship schedule

on an MRP system and reconfigure systems in check out due to configuration changes. Coordination and

facilitation of scheduling activities for new product line integration from prototype to production. Maintain leveled

production schedule for manufacturing while meeting the companies goals of on time shipments and inventory

management.

Achievements:

Creation of Cray's first attempt at building product at a rate, instead of by system BOM's.

Instrumental in setting up Systems Test inventory system which gave us the ability to track product by serial

number, which has resulted in more accurate and timely inventory.

Scheduled all companies production system modules which were valued between $100-180 Million in WIP

and Systems Test area.

EDUCATION

Bachelor in Business Admin

Univ of Minnesota Duluth - Duluth, MN

1981

Business Administration

Normandale Junior College

1979

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COMPUTER SKILLS

I have over 25 years of hands on MRP experience with full system implementation experience. I have found

that I'm usually the company expert in Microsoft Access and database management. I also have a solid working

knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word along with numerous hang on query writing software packages such

as Showcase and Cognos.

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