Sr Production Planner

John W. Merrill

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Orlando, FL 32836

954-***-**** cell

Email: ********@***.***

Objective: To utilize my extensive experience in applications and systems,

inventory control and reporting, production tracking and reporting, ECR,

DCR documentation review and implementation, DOD proposal generation for

materials and labor, in a manufacturing organization.

Work History:

January 2009 - April 2014.

Senior Production Planner / Estimator The Protective Group Inc. Miami

Lakes, FL

Responsible for all of the forecast planning, scheduling, inventory status

updating, and production coordination and related reporting criteria.

Create all purchase orders, negotiate component pricing, terms and

deliveries. Create MRP, organize and run the daily production meeting,

reporting open sales order status and daily shipment and order bookings.

Track financial results of sales and shipments on a daily/weekly/monthly

basis as required. Create new product structures in system, with complete

bill-of-materials and calculated yield factors. Coordinate all new product

generation and implementation with the Product Managers, engineering

department, and contracts department when generating proposals. Analyze raw

material standard cost working with cost accounting annually to set

standards for the next fiscal year and set standard costs for all working

products and components. Issue product forecast/sales projections for the

manufacturing area on a yearly basis, with 3-month updates if necessary.

Coordinate with engineering on ECR, DCR implementations. Lead "Lean"

implementation initiatives throughout materials departments including

planning, inventory control, warehouse, and purchasing."

April 2004 to January 2009

Finished Goods Planner (Hematology Products) Beckman-Coulter Inc., 700 W.

83rd Street, Hialeah, FL

Responsible for forecasting, planning, and packaging orders for Hematology

product lines. Load and ensure accuracy of all shop floor orders. Update

bill-of-materials as required. Allocate materials to orders as needed based

on demand; verify required documentation and specifications. Issue

daily/weekly schedules to production floor for builds on a rolling timeline

forecast. Schedule builds for subassemblies to match system requirements

for finished goods products. Weekly reporting performed on anticipated

scrap, shop floor load and volume, and materials requirements. Implement

revision changes per specifications. Prepare and publish reports on monthly

shipments, WIP, and excess and obsolete materials. Research, prepare and

publish company-wide inventory report with weekly updates.

Reduced finished goods scrap from 3 million annually to less than 1 million

in my first year, with continuing improvements each year since.

June 1996 - October 2004

New Products Planner/ Supply/Demand planner Johnson & Johnson

Miami Lakes Fl

Responsible for all planning, forecasting, and coordinating movement of

materials for launching and validating new products in our Juarez, Mexico

facility from 2002-2004.

Supply Planner III Planning scheduling reporting the manufacturing of the

balloon catheters and self-expanding stents. Coordinate with our facility

in the Netherlands to schedule their production and delivery requirements

for the catheter subassemblies in order to meet final assembly and sales

schedules to avoid any finished goods shortages. Support order management

with supply availability information, including weekly P.T.S. report and

weeks-of-supply report. Load and ensure accuracy of all bill-of-materials

in the system, including master scheduling criteria, forecast and component

percentages, and costs. Prepare and publish updated supply information for

each of the product families. Identify supply/demand imbalances and make

corrections with supply facility.

Skills: Word, Excel Systems: Navision, Oracle, BPICS and Mapics and JD

Edwards.

4 of 6 APICS modules completed towards certification.

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