Inventory Control Manufacturing

James Clinton Horner

(U.S citizen)

Location: Trinity, FL 37655

Availability: Immediate

Summary:

Dynamic and experienced purchasing professional catering manufacturing and aerospace clients with strong expertise managing the implementation of Material Requirement Planning System (MRP II) that lead to 10% cost reduction in expenses.

Experienced developing JIT/DFM processes resulting in inventory reduction from 5.5 weeks to 9 days or less and developed Material processes using Continuous Quality Improvement, which lead to successful ISO 9000 certification.

Experienced in Procurement/Materials and Manufacturing Management and specialist in development and implementation of JIT/DFM manufacturing techniques.

Outstanding track record of inventory reduction with significant financial returns and extensive years of inventory and material procurement management background with TQM, CQI, ISO Certification.

Education

University of Phoenix, Colorado Division (3 years degree) 1990

Bachelors Degree in Business Administration

Holton High School Holton, KS 1959

High School Diploma

Professional Experience:

Beckwith Electric Company, Largo, FL Nov 2011 – Dec 2016

Senior Buyer

Responsibilities

Commodity Buyer for Cables, Components, & Sheet Metal material.

Responsible for developing material flow to support manufacturing and maintain cost and inventory goals.

Negotiate long term contact and stocking programs with domestic supplier to meet inventory reduction goals.

Accomplishments

Implemented Inventory Control and Inventory reduction plans that resulted in increase turns.

Reptron Mfg Services Now Kimball Electronics, Tampa, FL Oct 2000 – Nov 2011

Senior Buyer

Responsibilities

Responsible for develop of supply and inventory plans for assigned medical customers.

Total responsibility for procurement of all material requires building customer products.

Develop plans to improve/maintain cost and inventory goals.

Negotiate long term contract with domestic and Far East suppliers to meet cost reduction goals.

Accomplishments

Implemented Inventory Control and Inventory reduction plans that resulted in increase inventory turns from 3 to 6 turns on assigned customers

Maintain zero purchase shortages to allow manufacturing scheduled adherence.

Engineered Data Products, Broomfield, CO Oct 1995 – Mar 2000

Materials Manager

Responsibilities:

Manage a group of 31 individuals, which included managers, supervisors, procurement, order entry, inventory control, traffic, material handling, and shipping. Supported 17 different product lines within the Just-In-Time environment.

Sustained annual purchases of $10 million and $2 million dollar freight budget.

Responsible for the day-to-day activities of ensuring a smooth material flow process to manufacturing.

Responsible for reviewing supplier quality, directly interfacing with the supplier, and developing improvement plans using the Total Quality Management (TQM) process.

Responsible for delivering the finished product to the customer and developing freight agreements that allows the product to be delivered to the customer.

These agreements allow the traffic department to operate on a zero-base budget.

Accomplishments:

Managed the development of specifications and requirements for Purchasing and Work Order Shop Floor control, for a Material Requirement Planning system (MRP II).

Implemented Inventory Control and Inventory reduction processes that reduced inventory from 53.7 to 39.2 days in a two (2) year period.

Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO 1977 – 1995

Manager, Manufacturing Product Procurement

Responsibilities:

Managed a group of 72 individuals, which included managers, procurement, production control, and configuration control with annual purchases of $220 million. Supported four major product lines with 55% of the dollars being delivered directly to the manufacturing floor in a Just-In-Time environment.

Responsible for reviewing supplier quality, directly interfacing with the supplier and implementation of improvement plans using the Total Quality Management (TQM) process.

Responsible for developing Corporate purchasing agreements with each major supplier, and negotiating terms that allow product cost goals to be met.

Accomplishments:

Responsible for developing Just-In-Time processes for the corporation.

These processes are used both internally in the manufacturing process and externally with our suppliers, leading to a direct delivery process with suppliers throughout the continental United States.

This process was based on supplier cycle time, internal build rates, and in-transit time to the factory.

This resulted in reduction of corporate warehouse inventory from 5.5 weeks to 9 days or less.

Responsible for developing material procurement plans that used JIT manufacturing methodologies to increase production rate by 300%.

This increase didn’t affect either manufacturing cycle time or raw materials inventories.

Managed the development of processes using Continuous Quality Improvement, which led to successful ISO 9000 certification for the corporation.

Responsible for developing yearly corporate inventory plans for manufacturing work in process, warehouse, and finished goods, resulting in inventory turns improvement at the corporate level.

Managed factory order content and machine configuration based on marketing forecast.

Developed methodologies to reduce manufacturing cycle time from two weeks to 6 days.

Developed the guidelines to form the Product Procurement Department.

Made presentations to upper management to gain approval for reorganization from traditional Purchasing and Production Control function and this process reduced headcount by 10%.

Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis,MN 1967 – 1977

Buyer, Engineering Development

Responsible for procuring engineering material required in new product development.

Purchased OEM, equipment, electronic components, machined parts, and sheet metal components as requested.

Accomplishments

Responsible for developing processes to purchase excess material from other divisions. This leaded to overall corporate inventory reduction.

Honeywell Corporation, Minneapolis, MN 1965 -1967

Buyer, for the Ordinance and Aerospace Divison

Responseble for procuring material requited to support customer orders.

Purchase screw machine material and some sheet metal material.

Responsible for development of suppliers that could be approved as future suppliers.

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