Customer Service Production Planning

David Allen Patterson

Work Experience

Giesecke & Devrient EPayments

Production Planner / Scheduler: June 2020 – March 2024

Provide detailed scheduling of cardbody value stream operations, producing 7+ Million units per month

Facilitate S&OP alignment between forecast and executable production

Recommend optimal orders for level scheduling; subsidiary load balance efforts maximizing monthly production quantities

Evaluate PFEP material requirements vs. job allocations, on hand, and open PO levels to process new requisitions

Create production and stock jobs within Infor SyteLine 9 and SAP ERP systems

Assess excess and obsolete material levels to recommend inventory reductions for KPI goals

Review new products to determine proper design material builds and routings

Expedite orders to meet internal and external customer requirements; maximizing on time deliveries

Support daily production meeting updates, alerting customer service of any delays or quality issues

Contribute to scrap and downtime reductions by recommending proper run quantities and minimizing machine changeovers to target financial gains

Participate in yearly physical inventory, cycle counting of cardbody materials and WIP

Union Metal Industries Corp.

Master Scheduler / Production Control Supervisor: 2012 – February 13th 2020

Direct supervisor of three production control analysts

Create and schedule all customer manufacturing job orders; 11 manufacturing bays (250 employees)

Measure and record daily production dollars, summarizing into weekly and monthly reports

Define capacity, efficiency, and optimized run rate measurements

Report to manufacturing and sales VP’s, production manager, and customer service on scheduling activities and lead time changes

Monitor purchasing department and initiate improved lead times

Produce and publish weekly order hot list predicting monthly shippable dollars

Process engineering changes and revisions to active released orders

Additional Responsibilities:

Logistics / Truck Load Planner

Developed process to consolidate orders based on ship to region, size, finish, and need by date to improve forecasted ship date and increase monthly shipment dollars

Plan plant wide scheduling in coordination with final full load sequencing

Determine optimized shipping route, product load sequence, and overall capacity/utilization percentage of each truck load

Track orders and provide accurate updates on shipping dates for planned truck loads

Industrial Engineer: 2006 – 2012

Responsible for manufacturing production job routings and labor estimations

Implement cost estimation tool advancements

Record cost savings analysis and return on investment estimations

oD80 weld position turntable for circular welding applications

-Estimated 52.7% labor savings with yearly saving of 90 production hours for a $2,327 first year savings

oD71 Flux core weld repair

-Calculated savings based off weld deposition, material cost, and efficiency rate differences between current stick and flux core electrodes resulting in average savings of $42.4 per lb. of weld repair deposited

Vantage Epicor ERP/MRP version 8.03 implementation team core member

Formulated engineering issues spreadsheet monitoring floor issues

Contributed to continuous improvement initiatives leading to process and production enhancements

5S, Lean Implementation of D80 arm line increasing space utilization and productivity capacity

Developed D71 tube mill and D63 parts work instructions showing proper work center procedures

Conducted time studies in D71 auto-weld, flute, and rolling work centers to recommend process improvements for material handling flow through bay

Dietrich Metal Framing, Inc.

Operations Management Trainee: 2005

Underwent production scheduling, logistics, purchasing, supervision, shipping/receiving control, and machine operation training

Parker Hannifin – Hydraulic Valve Division

CO-OP Assistant to Lean Champion of Division: 2002-2004

Monitored electrohydraulic and pneumatic valve level scheduling goals, evaluated efficiencies, indirect hours, productivity, late dollars, and shipped dollars

Produced plant layouts, process drawings, value stream maps, and instructional sheets

Formulated standard work instructions for satellite tag control coordination of physical inventory

Prepared composite plant site planning board tracking centers including customized tendency graphs measuring customer service, productivity, inventory, quality, and safety for the division and individual product lines

Skills

Vantage Epicor 8.03 ERP / MRP

Infor SyteLine 9 ERP

SAP

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Teams, Outlook, Project)

Business Warehouse

Cube IQ Logistics Program

AutoCAD / Solidworks

OHSA 1910.120 1st responder HAZMAT Awareness Safety Certification

Education

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering

University of Cincinnati – June 5, 2005

The National Dean’s List

Alpha Lambda Delta National Academic Honor Society

Golden Key National Honor Society

College of Engineering Deans List

Class Valedictorian – Mineral Ridge High

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