Susan Gingery
Phone: 727-***-**** Email: *.*******@*****.***
**** **** *** *, ** Petersburg Fl 33713
Executive summary
A forward-thinking, highly motivated leader with comprehensive
expertise in the following areas:
Procurement 7 years experience ( Scheduling and planning 11 years
experience ( Systems Implementation 5 years experience
Ability to build high performance teams through collaborative
leadership strategies, effective communications, and performance
management. Utilize strong supply chain background in procurement and
scheduling along with extensive experience in manufacturing systems to
consistently improve Business Technology Optimization and exceed
established goals and objectives.
professional experience
GUILFORD PERFORMANCE TEXTILES
Material Flow Manager, Wilmington North Carolina: Aug/2010 -
June/2011
Responsibilities include Production Control, Order fulfillment, Master
Scheduling, and Purchasing.
. Improved Customer on Time Delivery from 34% to 72% in 5 months.
. Worked with Engineering to determine best source for lowest price
and reduced lead-times.
. Improved transportation costs by 50% for outgoing shipments by
working closely with customers.
. Improved production capacity from 85k lbs per day to over 100k
per day in first month by implementing a capacity scheduling
solution.
. Reduced staff by 25% while maintaining production levels through
a redesign of planning tools and processes.
pARKER AEROSPACE
Supply Chain Leader, Naples, Florida: Nov/2009 - Jun/2010
Responsible for purchasing material required for all production lines,
Master Scheduling $50 Million sales, and Inventory Management.
. Improved Customer on Time Delivery from 56% to 91% in 4 months.
. Achieved material cost savings of more than $500K in 6 months.
. Improved Supplier on Time to Need Date from 50% to 83%.
. Reduced Inventory by 10% and implemented cycle counting process
that achieved over 99% accuracy.
Smiths/General Electric
Materials Manager, Clearwater, Florida: Jul/2006 - Oct/2009
Responsibilities for Master Scheduling, Production Control, Inventory
Management, and Sales Order Entry. Accountable for $350M in sales, 20%
inventory reduction, and Customer on Time Delivery all of which
exceeded plan. Implement a "buyer toolkit" using RapidResponse for new
orders to be placed, exception message management, and supplier demand
reports. Developed and implemented pull process with our largest
supplier that makes up over $20M of spend per year. This supplier's
performance improved from 40% to 98% on time to need date. Created an
integrated Master Production Schedule that blends the global forecasts
and firm customer requirements. Allowing our global sourcing
organization to consolidate spend over multiple sites.
. Implemented process that improved performance to schedule from 10% to
85% in 6 months.
. Implemented S&OP Supply Plans and successfully lead a team that
improved Customer on time delivery from 40% to 95%.
. Established sales forecasting process for Digital North America that
has a accuracy of 99%
. Created a process that reduced inventory from $54M to $45M in one
year.,
GOODRICH AEROSPACE
Materials Manager, Oldsmar, Florida: Jul/2005 - Jul/2006
Responsibilities included procurement, master scheduling, production
control, and all aspects of warehouse management including inventory.
Financially responsible for $35M in material spend. I ensured the
sites were tied to the corporate initiatives to take advantage of
price breaks based on corporate spend. Established and enforced
business policies and procedures. Implemented an automated purchase
ordering system and trained suppliers. Develop process to look
upstream for pending requirements for Engineering and Manufacturing
Sales to ensure sourcing had adequate cycle time to procure material
while hitting deflation objectives and targets. Scheduled operations
to ensure capacity and material aligned to successfully execute $90M
in annual sales.
. SAP Implementation team member and trainer for all of the Materials
Functions.
. Collaborated with suppliers to create a value stream map of the supply
chain which included a successful cost savings of 6%.
. Reduced inventory by 40% in six months.
. Formed a successful organization that was in line with the business
goals.
. Facilitated a cross-functional leadership team to manage sales
projections and consistently exceed the monthly sales plan.
. Automated the top ten suppliers on a web based collaborative tool that
reduced the buyer interaction by 80%.
l-3 SECURITY AND DETECTION
Associate Program Manager, St Petersburg, Florida - Aug/2003 -
Jul/2005
. Implemented S&OP. A process that reviewed forecasts, inventory,
production, and sales plans 18 months in advance.
. Successfully plant consolidation and relocation of the manufacturing
capabilities.
. Performed Monthly Program Review for Senior Management to review the
P&L status.
. Facilitated cross-functional leadership team to manage various
projects to ensure they stay within budget.
Smiths-AEROSPACE
Buyer/Planner Lead, Clearwater, Florida - Dec/2000 - Mar/2003
. Provided direction for the Buyer and Planner roles all acquisitions
and manufacturing site transfers. This included moving supply base, in
souring or out sourcing decisions, program reviews, inventory
transfers, and scheduling overlap to ensure limited risk to customer
delivery. Created planning bills of material for new engineering
designs and quoted material to ensure accurate proposals were
submitted to customers.
. Developed and trained team on the system tools, Including Labor
planning, Production Schedule, and system communication between buyers
and planners. Implemented and deployed Kinaxas RapidResponse to the
manufacturing and procurement teams, a "real-time" MRP simulation tool
that was key to the business success.
PPG / Transitions Optical
Master Scheduler, Pinellas Park, Florida - Jan/1991 - Dec/2000
. Start-up Company. Generated initial procedures and flows for the
planning, purchasing, and inventory control departments.
. Developed a database for running a monthly MRP that ran the business
successfully for six years including ordering the raw materials needed
to support production.
. Responsible for all procurement of raw materials and working with key
suppliers to ensure they have capacity to meet our build plan.
. Implemented S&OP including a forecasting ability that cut lead-times
from 90 days to 4 hours with a 98% accuracy.
. Key Player on the MRP implementation team for QAD MFGPro a MRP II
closed loop system and was implemented globally.
. Reduced inventory from $20 million to $11 million during a one year
period.
. Developed relationships with top 80% customers and managed their
inventory which included VMI and ordering products for them.
. Key player in outsourcing to low cost countries including South
America and Thailand
professional experience/TRAINING
University of PHOENIx - B.S. Business Management
St. PetersBUrg COLLEGE, - A.S., Computer Science
American Production and inventory control society (APICS) - Certified
in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
SYSTEMS AND MRP KNOWLEDGE - Extensive Systems and MRP knowledge
including three implementations and previous experience with AMAPS,
QAD's MFGpro, SAP, RapidResponse, Advantix, WDS MTO, MINX, Syteline,
Manman, and other MRP/ERP systems.
Pinellas Vocational Technical InstitUTE (PVTI ), - Certified in
Electronics Technology
GENERAL ELECTRIC - Green Belt Certification
Facilitator of Cross-Functional Process Mapping, Motorola University
Lean aerospace executive manufacturing QAD system Sales and Operations
Planning SIOP director purchasing PROCUREMENT production control planning
manager