JEFFREY L. FRANCE, CPIM

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Wilsonville, oregon 97070

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SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MEGGITT POLYMERS AND COMPOSITES, McMinnville, OR. 7/2017-PRESENT

Senior Production Planner /Master Scheduler Top Manufacturer of Commercial and Defense Sealants, Gaskets and related polymer and composite aerospace products for Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 customers all over the world including Boeing. SAP R3 and HANA Release ERP. Work center planning and work order releasing for multiple product families and exception message processing and related duties. Meggitt Production System responsibilities in this one plant operation.

GKN AEROSPACE, Hazelwood, MO. 9/2016-5/2017

Reason for leaving: Plant shutdown.

ERP Analyst /Planner III Top secret Military Aerospace Mfg. for the Navy and Air Force programs. Cincom ERP. Work center planning and work order releasing/shipments for F18 E/F Lef OEM and spares fairings for Boeing Military programs composite parts. Planned Ailerons, Doors, Skins and Shrouds for F18 E/F. Toyota Production System lean responsibilities for this 2 plant operation. Fairing spares record shipments 4/17.

THERMO KING, IR. Hastings, NE. 4/2016-8/2016

Materials Planner II World’s Leading Manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for large and small trucks, trailers, buses, rail cars and shipboard containers. Using the Oracle Release R12 ERP EBS and ASCP package. Buyer/Planner and Inventory Control duties with the Toyota Production System responsibilities in this one plant operation.

MODINE MANUFACTURING, Trenton, MO. 2/2015-1/2016

Reason for leaving: Retirement deal due to outsourcing.

Buyer/Planner Top Radiator manufacturer for the Truck/Auto. Industry. Helped improve customer service levels from 95% to 98.4% while driving lean mfg./buyer initiatives from my assigned product lines. Using the SAP Release R3 ERP package. Buyer /Planner and Inventory Control with the Toyota Production System responsibilities in this one plant 24/7 operation.

MASTERPIECE MACHINE, Stafford, TX. 2/2013-9/2014

Position eliminated during a layoff. References available.

Master Scheduler/Planner Top precision machine shop for the oil /gas industry for downhole drilling. Helped develop / implement formal Shop Scheduling and Control in May 2013 using the Global Shop Solutions ERP package (GSS) as a super user. Culture change agent and also responsible for daily balancing of shop labor.

L-3 COMMUNICATIONS POWER PARAGON, Anaheim, CA 10/2010-6/2011

Classified job ended with no replacement.

Senior Production Planner Top secret Military Electronics for navy nuclear programs. Networks MTO Manugistics ERP. Work center planning and work order releasing for Inverters and Converters.

GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL, San Diego, CA 2008-2010

Manufacturing Planner III

Reason for leaving: Resigned and can be rehired. References available.

Top Aerospace Defense Manufacturer of Predator A, Predator B and Sky Warrior Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) for the US Military and Allies and Homeland Security Markets Worldwide as part of the largest business in the UAV industry in the world. Duties included culture change agent for Production and Capacity Planning the Machine Shop to support the worldwide business including spares, production planning, work center capacity planning and work order releasing at the component levels for assembly and machine shop production and prototypes, customer service and dependent demand follow ups, production and purchasing expediting, processing engineering changes and NCR’s, inventory control and working with sales, engineering, tooling and ops. planning, materials analysts, QA, raw material purchasing and shop supervision to achieve on time delivery. Helped organization achieve record 2008, 2009 and 2010 results for throughput and sales during explosive growth of this top secret business and multi-plant environment all over the SW United States. Networks MTO Release 7.5 Manugistics ERP software.

SHUR-LOK COMPANY, SPS FASTENER DIVISION, A PCC COMPANY, Irvine, CA 2007-2008

Reason for leaving: Recruited by General Atomics for the Predator Production Increase.

Production Control Planner

Shur-Lok manufactures Aerospace Fasteners for Commercial and Defense Markets Worldwide as part of the 2nd. largest business in this industry, SPS Fastener Division. Duties included culture change agent for P lanning and Master

Scheduling the Barrel Nut, Expandable Diameter Fasteners and also for the Locknut Product Line in this 1 plant organization. Responsible for master scheduling, production planning and work order releasing at the parent and component levels for assembly and fabrication, customer service follow ups, production expediting, inventory control and working with sales, engineering, estimating, purchasing and shop supervision to achieve on time delivery. Helped organization achieve record Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 results for FY08 for profit and sales during explosive growth of this business. MAPICS ERP software.

ALCOA FASTENING SYSTEMS (AFS), Fullerton, CA 2006-2007

Reason for leaving: Recruited by their top competitor SPS Fasteners.

Planner II

AFS manufactures Aerospace Fasteners for Commercial and Defense Markets Worldwide as part of the largest business in this industry. Duties included culture change agent for Planning and Master Scheduling the Largest product line for Sheet Metal in Fullerton and the Acuna Mexico production transition. Responsible for master scheduling, production planning and work order releasing at the parent and component levels, customer service follow ups, production expediting, inventory control and working with sales, engineering, estimating, purchasing and shop supervision to achieve on time delivery. Helped organization achieve record October, November, Dec. results for 2006, and Jan. 2007 with the Sheet metal line for profit and sales during explosive growth of this business. Syteline ERP software with Oracle for Purchasing.

BELL HELICOPTER

A TEXTRON COMPANY, AMARILLO ASSEMBLY CENTER, Amarillo, TX 2005-2006

Reason for leaving: Mass layoff corporate wide due to staff and cost reductions and outsourcing for the H1 Program

Senior Manufacturing Resource Analyst

Top Aerospace Defense Manufacturer of V22 Tiltrotor Aircraft and H1 Helicopters for the US Military. Duties included primary and structures assembly planning for 30 plus days out to identify and resolve shortage issues with the centers of excellence corporate wide with Procurement, Drive Systems, Advanced Composites Center, RSAC and Sub Assembly for this growing Final Assembly Center. The assemble to order environment planning and scheduling was accomplished by using I2 Factory Planner Release 6.0.3 until October 05 and then Release 6.1.3 currently used in combination with Excel spreadsheet applications and the corporate legacy ERP package IMS. As part of the Resource Planning Team we achieved full rate production approval for the Bell-Boeing V22 Osprey 9/05 and zero jig locks during a measurement period from 9/05 to 12/05 when I was part of the V22 Resource Planning Team until 12/05 by helping the program to deliver 19 Aircrafts in 2005. Starting on 1/06 I joined the H1 Resource Planning Team and helped to continuously improve the dates to support the load to allow for the Defense Acquisition Board to pass a test to continue LRIP production on May 06. Standard hours backlog was eliminated from 1/06 to present for the H1 Program for an excellent team accomplishment. I worked closely with Manufacturing, Dispatch Management and Item Dispatchers, QC, Program Management, PCA’s, MRP Configuration Control, Master Scheduling, Purchasing, Warehousing, Bell Management and Operations to perform at a high level in this very complex and challenging worldwide supply chain operation and final assembly and flight facility. One of the leaders and torchbearers of change in this operation.

AC COIN AND SLOT SERVICE COMPANY, Las Vegas, NV 2004-2005

Reason for leaving: Plant shutdown.

Materials Analyst

AC Coin manufactures and services top boxes and related products in the slot machine manufacturing industry and is a business partner to IGT the world’s largest slot machine manufacturer. Duties included culture change agent for Materials Management and special Forecasting and ERP projects using the Navision ERP software in the New Jersey corporate offices until 1/05. Duties in Las Vegas included material planning, production and purchasing expediting, inventory control and sales order planning at their manufacturing facility in Las Vegas.

MOTOROLA, PCS DIVISION, Harvard, IL 2000-2002

Reason for leaving: Plant shutdown

Distribution Scheduling Analyst

Top manufacturer and distributor of Cellular CDMA, TDMA, Mobile and GSM technology phones and accessories. Duties included final assembly cell phone master scheduling of the 24 hours/seven days a week Distribution Operation. The assemble to order distribution environment scheduling was accomplished by using I2 Rhythm Factory Planner Release 4.3.1 in combination with Excel spreadsheet applications and the corporate home grown order administration package. Oracle ERP is also in use corporate wide. As part of the Distribution Operations team we achieved a 32% increase in service levels from May 2000 through Mar. 2001 from 62% to 94% for SSD or Scheduled Ship Date attainment. We also achieved 100% delivery performance for AT & T in December 2000 and received their top supplier award. Record throughput was also achieved in Sept., Oct. and Dec. of 2000 from Distribution Operations. Worked closely with Manufacturing, Manufacturing Scheduling, QC, Outsource Scheduling, Order Administration, Marketing Channel Management, Master Scheduling, Purchasing, Distribution Planning, PCS Management and Ticket Room Operations to perform at a high level in this very complex and challenging worldwide supply chain operation. One of the leaders and torchbearers of change in this operation.

MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, Oak Brook, IL 1999-2000

Reason for leaving: Professionally recruited to Motorola.

Consultant-Affiliate Manufacturing Software Consultant

Sub-contractor for a local company helping to implement the JBA ERP package for Product Data Management, Periodic Physical Inventory and Shop Floor Control in one of their divisions. I wrote all procedures and training materials and trained a whole division at this world-class leader in the metal stamping industry. I also assisted the President of MMA by performing Marketing and Sales for new business out of the corporate offices in Oak Brook.

SOLO CUP COMPANY, Highland Park, IL 1995-1999

Reason for leaving: Started my own consulting business.

Production Planning Analyst/Master Scheduler

Duties included master scheduling, production and capacity planning, and detail scheduling a large plastics plant which manufactures cups, lids and related products for consumer and institutional markets. Increased service levels from 90 to 99% for three straight years for the Urbana plastics plant for the company standard of performance. This performance led to Solo receiving the prestigious Wal-Mart supplier award in Oct. 98. Helped to implement the pilot for CPP with the Manugistics software for production planning. Computer systems consist of a WAN PC environment using client servers during a conversion from COPICS to the QAD MRP II software MFG/PRO. Solo implemented Manugistics for forecasting, DRP, CPP, and AMS. PeopleSoft was also implemented for purchasing.

EDUCATION

BS, Business Management, Production and Operations Mgt. Specialty, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

APICS-Chicago Chapter, 1985-2001; Racine/Kenosha 2002-2003; Las Vegas 2003-2005; Lubbock 2005-2006. San Diego Chapter 2008-2010. Orange County 2006-2008, 2010-2012. Houston Chapter 2013 to 2014. KC Chapter 2014 to 2016. Central Nebraska Chapter 2016. St. Louis Chapter 2016-2017, Portland Chapter 2017-Present.

Previously certified as a CPIM since May 1989 and recertified, 2003, recertified April 2011. Pursuing recertification now, and on temporary suspension until 2019.

Completed the APICS ERP Project Implementation Course in 1990, Strategic Management of Resources Course, 2003, Back to Basics Course March 2010, Value Stream Mapping Course December 2010, and the Master Planning of Resources Course March 2011.

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