Quality Assurance Manager

FRANKIE DEAN SETTIPANE

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Professional Summary

Experience in supply chain management – Aerospace – Automotive – Consumer Products

Established procedures for inventory reduction and increased shipments.

Reduced processing time for purchase order requisitions to delivery of product.

Management experience in Inventory Control – Operations – Warehouse

Software Excel, Word, Oracle, Access, PowerPoint, QAD (MRP), Vision (DRP), SAP

Supply Chain Analyst Feb 2010 – Present

AppleOne Employment Svcs (Assigned to Henkel Corp), Rancho Dominguez, CA

Responsible for monitoring, tracking and maintaining global inventory levels for Asia,

Europe and North America manufacturing, sales and shared sites. Developed and

established new weekly and monthly inventory reports and procedures that reflected the latest

changes to inventory movement and currencies for each site. Provided training for new

inventory procedures to all site personnel.

Component Material Planner

Alcoa Fastening Systems, Torrance, CA Jul 2006 – Oct 2009

Responsible for developing, planning and forecasting demand inventory levels for purchased

component parts, raw material to support BOM for two product lines. Insured that sufficient

inventory was available through the timely release of purchase order requisitions by reducing

processing time from 2 weeks to 2 days which in part was responsible for the reduction of

inventory by 10%. Coordinated activities between various departments such as production

control, purchasing, receiving and outside vendors in the timely receipt of product.

Specialist, Parts Supply Scheduling

Nissan, North America, Gardena, CA 1997- 2006

Responsible for the timely delivery of service parts. Maintain inventory levels, coordinate and

communicate activities to resolve supplier, dealer and internal Nissan issues with regard to

availability of finished good and component parts at all PDCs. Forecasts demand management

and replenishment orders from off-shore and domestic suppliers. Monitor delivery performance

of suppliers. Established bills of material for service parts kits.

Specialist, North American Parts Supply. Responsible for forecasting, planning, purchasing,

tracking, and monitoring parts orders and parts inventory from local suppliers. Improved part fill

rate from 93.0% to 99.5%. Established procedures to insure inventory balance of New Model

Service Parts are available at all PDCs prior to wholesale launch of each vehicle. Also,

established PDC transfer procedures.

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Specialist, New Model Parts. Established New Model Parts Development schedules, Vehicle

Tables using Carflow and PRG reports to forecasts parts requirements which include accessories,

color, model types, styles, etc. Established procedures for establishing and tracking of Request

for Pricing Quotations for new model parts.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Distribution and Auto Service (Nissan Affiliate), Wilmington, CA 1992 - 1997

Responsible for monitoring, tracking and maintaining selective parts inventory at eight vehicle

processing centers and two contractors by forecasting parts requirements based on analysis of car

flow report, vehicle receipts and vehicle inventory levels. Negotiated freight rates on shipments

of parts. Developed procedures for computerized vehicle Final Inspection program using radio

frequency scanners coupled with PC system, which reduced QA processing time by 30% and

increased accuracy by 50%. Conducted port quality audits on Nissan and Infiniti vehicles.

Member Nissan VPC Quality Committee.

Inventory Control Coordinator

Responsible for monitoring, tracking and maintaining car cover inventory for eight vehicle

processing centers as well as two contracted centers for both Nissan and Infiniti divisions by

forecasting parts requirements based on analysis of car flow report, vehicle receipts and vehicle

inventory levels. Improved inventory accuracy to 99.5% and reduced processing time by 10%.

Provided DAS and Nissan management with weekly and monthly status reports.

Other positions included: Inventory Control Manager, Materials Manager, Warehouse

Manager,

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, CSU, Dominguez Hills

Graduate courses: CSU Long Beach, Marketing Management, Marketing Research,

CSU Dominguez Hills, Export/Import Procedures, International Business

Coastline College: Overview of Quality Control, Statistical Process Control, Procurement

Quality Assurance.

APICS courses: Production Activity Control, Capacity Management, Inventory Management.

Completed LPA Vision Basic DRP course.

Associations:

APICS - Los Angeles chapter - Past member Board of Directors - positions held - Vice President

Publicity, (received several awards for best APICS’s newsletter), Vice President of Student

Chapters, Vice President of Evening Programs, Director of Evening Programs.

Received Los Angeles chapter APICS Member of the Year award.

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