David Howlett

SUMMARY

Management with integrity. Delivering on time results through leadership striving to continuously improve the process.

Purchasing

Merchandising

Master Scheduling

Systems

•Negotiate

•Demand plan

•Order Management

•SAP

•Supplier relationships

•Sales Forecast

•Constraints

•Legacy

•Inventory control

•Commercialization

•Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

•AS400

•Supervise buyers

•Source Materials

•Product Lifecycle Management

•Material Availability

•Excel & Word

EXPERIENCE

San Antonio Shoe Co. – San Antonio, TX Nov 2015 – Mar 2017

Director of Purchasing

•Responsible for all direct and indirect purchases company wide

•Controlled inventory levels for three manufacturing locations and one finished goods warehouse

•Mentor and direct fifteen purchasing staff

•Responsible for having raw materials available to support production forecast, and process improvement

•Maintain and support BOM, MRP, and ERP

•Inter-functional support of Manufacturing, Retail, Store Décor, Finance, Design and Development, Marketing

Key Results:

•Initiated a buyer training program

•Weekly meetings to review and eliminate obsolete materials

•Collaborate with all departments to continuously improve the processes that provide materials and services

•Created the report structure to show raw material data by buyer, commodity, and location

•Moved the Machine Parts Inventory room to be closer to where they are used and the mechanics

•Combined the parts data for two separate Parts inventories into one integrated system

•Centralized parts buying to one location and one set of buyers

•Contributed to the configuration and set up for a new AX2012 system implementation

•Expanded the raw materials included on the BOM, and included sized items

Weinbrenner Shoe Co. – Merrill, WI Jun 2015 – Oct 2015

Commodity-International Procurement Agent/Traffic Manager

•Responsible for most direct purchases

•Supervised the company truck driver

•Responsible for the company truck, forklifts, and the fleet of vans

Key Results:

•Developed a report to track incoming containers of finished goods from China allowing management to know when orders could be picked and shipped

•Contributed to the configuration and set up for a new Aegis system implementation

•Implemented a system to consolidate space and label bins in the warehouse

Wolverine World Wide – Rockford, MI Oct 2001 – Dec 2014

Commodity Manager

•Partnered with Design and Development team to source and vet all new materials for prototypes and preproduction

•Provided all raw material documents required for military contracts (RFQ/RFPs, COCs, lab test results)

•Master Scheduling for Big Rapids MI plant Oct 2013-Dec 2014

•Collaborated with manufacturing weekly to review material availability to support the production forecast

Key Results:

•100% of the raw materials to support military contracts were delivered to the contract administrator on time for bids

•All military contract finished goods were delivered by the contract date

•95% of sample materials were delivered on time

•Trained others to help with military bids Worked as many as six military contracts on top of our normal responsibilities Contract work supported about half of the production at the factory

Wolverine Worldwide – Rockford, MI Mar 1996 – Oct 2001

Merchandising Manager

•Responsible for Hytest division Merchandising and finished Goods Inventory control

•Contributed to the predation of the Hytest Business plan

•Collaborated with Design and Development to steer and expedite the commercialization of new product

•Worked with sales team and distributors to determine what new product was needed in the Hytest line

Key Results:

•Increased sales while reducing SKU counts

•Delivered 95% of new products by the promised date

•Achieved a 5% increase in margins on new products

•Planned domestic production to maintain acceptable pick and service levels

•Purchased 60-70% of finished goods off-shore (mostly China) to maintain acceptable pick and service levels

EDUCATION

Illinois State University – Normal, IL

BS Management

College of Lake County – Grayslake, IL

AA Accounting

Completed Six Sigma Green Belt Nov 2014 Washburn University – Topeka, KS

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