Production Planning, purchasing, inventory management
Resume:
PAUL RAICH, CPIM, CPM
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CAREER OBJECTIVE
A certified professional seeks a supply planning position to utilize his extensive background and education in planning, inventory analysis, and supplier management.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Harmonic Inc. San Jose CA
Materials Planner 3 June 2007 – January 2018
Coordinate procurement with contract manufacturer and production planning for $15-20 M products.
Create supply plan to support the marketing forecast, sales order demand and calculate promise dates.
Manage lead-times through what if analysis, critical path analysis, and key component expediting.
As a planner for the Cable Edge group from 2009 to 2016, improved on time delivery from 80% on time delivery consistently hitting 90-96% over ten consecutive quarters as well as increased inventory turns to a high of 12 turns.
Purchase server and storage products as well as spare parts for OEM Sales and Field Service provisioning group from existing supply base.
Create Excess and Obsolescence and Physical Inventory Summary reports for presentation to corporate finance and outside auditors.
From 2015 to 2018, manage entire offsite and in-transit inventory verification for corporation worldwide
Enabled $3-5M of yearly sales of refurbished products from 2012 to 2016 by designing a process to use oracle reports and excel functions to calculate available to promise data in a usable format for the company salesforce.
Organize production planning and shortage management for New Product Introduction from initial release to full production for Cable Edge qam product.
KLA Tencor Corp..Milpitas,CA
Spares Planner/RMA Buyer December 2004 - June 2007
Organize the return to vendor process for various commodities including robotics, printed circuit boards and optics.
Monitor inventory level of key parts to support an optimal level and initiate supply plans to rectify shortages.
Production Planner 3 July 2000 – December 2004
Release and schedule, plan material work orders to support MPS or Slot Plan for the wafer handler division.
Coordinate with buyers and procurement manager to resolve part shortages to meet shipment schedule and linearity.
Conduct what if analysis for shipment schedule improvement and expedited tool orders requests.
Honeywell Aerospace Boyne City
Master Scheduler March 1998 - July 2000
Create Master Production Schedule for five product lines for $30M facility to optimize on-time delivery.
Manage the monthly Sales Inventory Operation Plan process to help Program Managers run their products.
Design a spares forecast model and created a reorder point/safety stock system to support demand for fast moving SKU’s.
Buyer- Casting, Stampings, and Machined Parts April 1996 - March 1998
Improved on-time delivery from 78% to 90% and negotiated 6% material cost savings year over year.
Manage commodities such as gears and sand castings from price negotiation to PO placement to delivery/inspection.
Intern -Production Planner -Position Transmitters July 1995 - April 1996
Manually plan MRP for product line and place purchase orders to support new products for Boeing.
Republican National Committee Washington, DC
Mailroom Manager, Assistant Mailroom Manager, Tele-fundraiser October 1990 - June 1993
Managed mailroom and package shipments for entire Washington, DC site.
The Leadership Institute Arlington, VA
Recruitment Director, Intern January 1990 - August 1990
Recruited young conservative college students to attend political seminars and campaign schools.
EDUCATION
Michigan State University -- East Lansing, MI MBA -- Supply Chain, May 1995
University of Colorado – Boulder, CO BA -- History and Political Science, Aug 1989
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Oracle, SAP, BPCS, ERP systems; Microsoft Office, Agile, Qlikview, Minitab statistical analysis, Green Belt training
CPIM, APICS, May 1999, CPM, ISM, April 2007
Employment gap between June 1993 to June 1995 due to attending graduate school
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