Supply Chain Sales

JEFF FISHER

**** ******* ****** ● Appleton, Wisconsin ● 920-***-****● ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results oriented Senior Manager with extensive experience working for a major manufacturing company and its Industrial

Manufacturing Business Units. An innovative and creative professional with extensive background in production control,

materials, shop floor, business system process improvement, and customer relationship management. Implemented

Oracle ERP and multiple MRP systems. Managed budgets to $800K. Adept at coordinating and communicating with all

levels of facility business unit and corporate staff. Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills.

CAREER HISTORY

Neenah Enterprises

Scheduling Manager 2013 to present

Work with Industrial and Municipal Sales with their unique data base platforms

Track on time delivery, orders in the system, inventory levels, and return costs

Work with Schedulers to assure parts are made on time

Reduce inventory in wip

Develop a system to accomplish master scheduling

PLEXUS Corporation, Neenah Wisconsin

Supply Chain Specialist 2010 to Current

Responsible for planning, execution, and delegation of plans to implement Supply Chain procurement and

deployment programs at the site level. Leveraged JDE ERP to integrate supply chain programs.

Manage Suppliers that support supply chain procurement programs.

Represent the organization in collaborative settings with suppliers, and customers for the purpose of

negotiating an integrated supply chain solution.

Viking Pump, Inc., IDEX Corporation, Northbrook, IL

Project Manager - Supply Chain Management 2005-2009 (Relocated from Benton Harbor MI to Cedar

Falls, Iowa)

Managed project activities to transition Viking Pump’s ASK CRM operating system to JD Edwards. Order

accuracy rate improved 40% and seamless integration through the configurator and reduced errors to

production by 25% ($400K annual savings in reduced rework/expedited shipping).

Implemented JDE forecasting module. Improved forecasting accuracy from 40% variance to +/-5%

variance ($500K inventory/working capital reduction improving WC/Sales $ by 50 bps)

Lead Kanban, scheduling, and planning process improvements. Evolved the system to where 40% of

materials are Kanban managed at point of use.

Worked with Sales, Engineering, and Operation teams to ensure timely delivery of customer requirements,

while minimizing over all supply chain costs. Improvements contributed toward improvements in On-Time

Delivery (80 to 94%), Order hit rate (40 to 85%), Inventory variance reductions from 5% to <1%, and a $2

million/yr spend reduction.

Outsourced castings, forgings, motors, and hydraulic components have been the primary products. The

decision is always made after a thorough investigation, including:

Qualification of potential suppliers

Request for quote

Comparison of external and internal costs; including the analysis of internal costs breaking down

variable and fixed costs

Full evaluation with weighing every key issue such as; flexibility, turn around time, capacity,

inventory levels, quality etc.

IDEX Corporation-Director Materials 2003-2005 Relocated from Cedar Falls Iowa to Benton Harbor MI.

Re-tooled Procurement, Material, and Shop Floor processes. Realized 30% ($250K) efficiency reduction

Automated Shop Floor scheduling to stabilize material planning and execution. Inventory Turns improved

from 5.0 to 8.0 in three years

Developed and instituted Consignment, Warehousing, and VMI cost reduction tools. Converted over $1

Million to consignment plan – reducing Working Capital and positively adding 0.4 inventory turns.

IDEX Corporation-Director IDEXconnect 2001 - 2003

Integrated digital collaboration with IDEX Business Units to standardize and streamline customer touches.

This enabled IDEX Corporation to establish one ERP platform, making it easier for business unit partners to

view marketing collateral, engineering application information, order entry, and order status.

Established the “Front End” of JD Edwards as the common “Central Instance” for IDEX Business Units.

Visited and mapped business unit order to cash processes. Created security groups for business units in

support of SOX. During this evaluation, made functional business process improvements.

Provided management and development as part of the Global Information Systems organization on projects

related to Oracle EnterpriseOne and associated third-party applications.

• Custom ERP applications for inventory analysis, automated cash receipts processing, sales bookings

analysis, application integration projects;

• Managed deployment of Enterprise-wide BI platform;

• Managed development and deployment for enterprise operational dashboards;

• Business Lead on Data warehouse/data mart design/implementation team;

• Led cross-company technical and functional software evaluation for Product Configuration software

Successfully implemented Oracle EnterpriseOne CRM for IDEX Pump Group business units.

Viking Pump IDEX Corporation-Director Customer Support 1995 - 2001

Created a Worldwide Customer Support Center. The support center grouped Application Engineering,

Sales, and Order Entry into cross-functional teams, supported by CRM. Order processing went from

first in / last out to real time. Order evaluation and entry was reduced 40%.

Automated A&E technical and commercial collateral. Allowing customers to view, and select products

based upon application.

Provided company with an International Business System eliminating manual export documentation.

Designed and implemented a “Distributor Network” for channel partners. The network allowed partners to

select a product based upon application data, print supporting sales and marketing collateral, order entry, and

view purchase order activity (order to cash).

Viking Pump IDEX Corporation-Inventory Planning Manager 1987 - 1995

Planned, directed, and controlled all activities related to Production Inventory Control.

Oversaw the completion of a system to support repetitive manufacturing, JIT, and forecasting processes.

Achieved a satisfactory balance between customer delivery performance, shop capacity, and inventory

levels.

Viking Pump-IDEX Corporation Master Scheduler B, Assistant Product Distribution Manager,

Machinist 1978-1987

EDUCATION

B.A. Organizational Management, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

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