James E. Mcdavid
Fredericksburg, VA 22407
540-***-**** abhvio@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
Supply Chain / Logistics Manager with 17 years manufacturing and leadership
experience.
Expertise includes:
Purchasing and Demand Process improvement Safety / OSHA
Planning
Transportation logistics Quality ISO9002 Auditing
MRP / CRP
Warehousing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRINTPACK, INC. Fredericksburg, VA 15 years
Supply Chain Manager
Led Materials Management Department consisting of two separate sections
supporting high speed printing plant. Departments were responsible for
planning customer inventory, raw material forecasting and purchasing, plant
scheduling, warehousing and shipping.
. Created work flow multi level production schedule allowing for control
and visibility of down stream production steps allowing better service in
new quick turn around market.
. Initiated move from "make to order" to "make to plan" allowing 33%
increase in throughput without additional production equipment.
. Received Printpack's President's Team Award for innovation for improved
customer service through development of "shipping schedules" that lined
up all open orders by customer, in ship date sequence. Reduced shipping
expedites by 95%.
. Increased plant productivity and throughput with logical equipment
routings and planned runs to support customer needs.
. Improved shipping accuracy from 95% to 99.8% with bar code scanning and
ship date verification prior to shipment being loaded.
PRINTPACK, INC. Grand Prairie, TX
2 years
Production Manager
Managed production in the extrusion of polyethylene film used in food
grade packaging.
. Exceeded production goals in productivity, quality, waste and safety
through teamwork and coaching.
. Implemented procedures to monitor production reporting which also
improved production reporting accuracy.
. Maintained plant operating supplies. Initiated order point (min / max)
rules eliminating stock outs.
. Changed accident prone shift into a zero safety infraction shift by
changing focus from OSHA recordable to any injury.
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United States MARINE CORPS Active Duty
12 years
Positions held:
Inspector Instructor Reserve Artillery Battalion, Ft. Worth Texas
. Directed staff on planning training locally and at off site locations for
Marine Artillery Battalion Headquarters.
Maritime Prepositioned Force Plans Officer 6th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
(MEB) / II MEF Camp Lejeune, NC
. Co-wrote the RLT-6 MPF Deployment SOP that was eventually used to deploy
the 2nd Marine Division to Desert Shield / Storm.
Artillery Battalion Camp Lejeune, NC
. Commanding Officer of a general support battery
. Assistant Operations Officer
9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) Okinawa Japan
. Commanding officer & Executive Officer of H&S Company
MCOTEA and H&S Battalion, Quantico, VA
. Administrative Officer for the agency
. Executive Officer for the Development Center Company
Artillery Battalion Camp Lejeune, NC
. Fire Direction Officer
. Motor Transport Officer
. Communications Officer
SECURITY CLEARANCE
Top Secret held - Clearable
EDUCATION
BA, The Citadel, Charleston, SC
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Leadership Foundations
APICS CPIM
ISO 9002 Auditing
AIB Auditing
Six Sigma