Supply Chain/Materials/Procurement

Curriculum Vitae for Steve Willcox

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A highly motivated individual, capable of working independently & as part of a management team. Results driven by Company or self-governing K.P.I.’s to ensure optimum performance. A sound engineering base providing technical knowledge, proven sales experience & good customer service. Product Management experience .15 years managerial experience of successfully running a global Supply Chain department.

Experience/Job History

Master Scheduler – Destaco – Feb 2016 – Present

Responsible for Master Scheduling the Machine Shop & Robohand Assembly Operations for the consolidated requirements of a $36M Turnover company.

Reducing Backlog from $3m to $1m over a 12 month period

Improving Schedule Attainment twofold in both Machining & Assembly through setting KPI Metrics & communicating

Reliability Professional – Rockwell Automation – Jan 2015 – Feb 2016

Operating the Returns process for Allen Bradley equipment from the Bridgestone Firestone Warren plant, establishing costs for service level options, warranty evaluation, handling the shipping & receiving functions.

Asset Management - Tracking & reporting within production, providing statistical analysis for repeatability of failure, top cost items, reasons for failure, cost saving solutions etc., to reduce downtime within the plant & repair expenditure.

Coordinating with the Maintenance & Purchasing functions to provide optimized security stock coverage & obsoletion migration.

Supply Chain Manager – Kennametal May 2014 – Dec 2014

Responsible for 3 staff members controlling 4 manufacturing sites for global planning/replenishment & logistical global availability including outsourcing of supplementary products to support our manufactured items. Leader of the S & O Planning meetings for demand planning/forecasting for all 4 sites.

Global Materials Manager – Stellram USA Nov 2005 – May2014

Responsible for 2 staff members controlling Global availability for a $125 M Turnover.

Production loading & Demand Planning of 2 US, 2 U.K. & 1 Swiss in-house manufacturing facilities as well as outsourcing of supplementary items & procurement of raw materials via MPS & MRP tools.

Maintenance of the Company Item Database containing approximately 30,000 SKU’s for 7 different Country settings.

Responsible for the Procurement & Costing function developing partnerships, contract negotiations, standard costing & inter-company trading costs. Vendor agreements.

BOM & Routing creation to accurately capture costs & methodologies employed via W/O execution.

Developed the forecast model for uploading into the ERP system.

Creation of Operating Procedures for the Materials function in compliance with an ISO9001 requirement.

European Inventory Manager – ATI Stellram USA – 2000 – 2005

Responsible for 1 staff member remotely controlling European stock availability through our Swiss POS Warehouse.

Production loading of a Swiss & an English Manufacturing plant as well as outsourcing of supplementary items.

Maintenance of the Company Item Database containing approximately 30,000 SKU’s for 7 different country settings.

BOM & Routing creation on the Company ERP System to accurately capture costs & methodologies employed via W/O execution.

Materials planning, strategic planning, supply chain lo

UK Inventory Manager – Stellram UK –

1998 – 2000

Responsible for the UK Stellram stock availability & loading of the UK manufacturing facility & outsourcing of supporting products from the sister Swiss Company & external Vendors

Product Manager – Sine Pumps – Proven Systems Yate, Bristol, UK1996 - 1998

Responsible for overall performance including marketing, sales, customer support, sourcing, demonstrating a range of low agitation pumps for the food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical industries in a sales area covering the UK.

S.W. Sales/Applications Engineer – Flender Power Transmission, Frome, Somerset, UK - 1987 – 1996

Responsible for sales performance & technical specification in the South West of England for a range of motors & controllers, gearboxes & geared motors, Raising sales up to 1 M from a 690k base in 2 years.

Jig & Toolmaker – Clares Equipment Limited – Wells Somerset UK 1981 - 1987

Served a jig & toolmaking apprenticeship manufacturing hydraulic press tools & jigs & fixtures for manufacturing shop equipment for the supermarket industry providing a sound engineering base.

Qualifications (Post high school)

Professional Certificate in Management – Open University, UK – 2 yr course

HNC – Mechanical Production engineering (2 yr. course) (5 yrs. total equivalent to Bachelor’s degree)

ONC – Mechanical Production Engineering (3 yr. course)

Apprenticeship Indentures for 4 yr Jig & Toolmaking apprenticeship

APICS

Advanced level Business Studies

Skillsets

Good communication skills: Verbal & written via Microsoft Word, Excel, & Outlook

Excellent report creation skills supported by Excel level 3 & Access Level 2.

Listening & Inter-personal skills.

Prioritization – consistently performing in a high pressure environment to achieve K.P.I.’s

E.R.P. familiarity SAP, K.S.E., G2, Glovia, Oracle

Major successes to date

Increased sales by 45% within 2 years

Successfully managed a Product line incorporating all aspects of bringing a growth lifecycle product to the market place

Change Management - Managed the consolidation of 7 separate business entities Product Offering & Stock Consolidation to form the centralized European Warehouse, achieving a cost reduction of $12M to $20M

Installed measurement metrics for global Inventory valuation & stock availability to promise

Initiated a logistical distribution system which automated the division of available inventory between Warehouses improving the stock availability to 95 % whilst reducing the financial investment necessary to achieve this K.P.I.

Initiated a global Sales Order commitment system improving Customer Service delivery to promise

Assisted in the transition of the Stellram portfolio into the Kennametal business systems involving consolidation, activating synergies & best practices involving technical transference between manufacturing locations.

Assisted in the transition of 4 business units into 1 for Destaco reducing the backlog & improving Scheduling & Execution

Inventory Control

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