Project Manager Inventory Control

Location:

Redford Charter Township, MI

Salary:

75000

Posted:

November 13, 2024

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GEORGE R. MURPHY, MBA

********@*****.***

***** ****** **** **., **********, MI 48076 TELEPHONE: 313-***-****

OBJECTIVE

My objective is to obtain a position with an organization offering further opportunities for advancement based on demonstrated results.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Detroit Manufacturing Systems August 2024 – October 2024

Materials Planner/Scheduler (Contractual)

Responsible for communicating with customers and suppliers on incoming materials and inventory within the facility.

Using SAP/ERP and Excel systems daily to track and plan inventory

Responsible for creating and supervising a ship schedule for various suppliers due to build schedule and inventory capacity in SAP.

Responsible for creating scorecards for all suppliers in order track supplier performances as well as lowering expedite charges.

Performs cycle counts on a daily basis to maintain accurate inventory and inventory control as well as run MRP for daily releases.

Responsible for tracking CUMs and adjusting final CUMs prior to implementation of new part numbers.

Responsible for tracking parts in the CMMS system to be procured for IP’s and Center Consoles.

Responsible for entering promise dates in the CMMS system for launch material.

Weldaloy Specialty Forgings May 2024 – August 2024

Project Manager

Serves as liaison between customers and other key contributors, including but not limited to Sales, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality to ensure accurate and timely order fulfillment

Manages orders and effectively communicates timelines to Manufacturing Team, and order status to the Sales Team and customers

Issues purchase orders to vendors for outsourced items

Ensures the purchase orders match customer quotation

Maintains and manages customer timeframes and deliverables

Effectively collaborates with the Manufacturing Team members to set priorities

Monitors project status and provides resolutions when necessary

Demonstrates proficiency in understanding the Company’s products, services and certifications to effectively meet customer’s needs

Leads project review after initial production

Works with authorized employees from all departments to provide purchasing support including researching suppliers, price comparisons, obtaining quotes, creating, and issuing purchase orders, tracking purchases while in-route, and receiving items in Plex

Compiles information needed to make a purchase (specifications, preferred or past vendors, pricing expectations, due date, quantity, purpose of purchase).

Makes credit card purchases as necessary, using company credit card

Tracks purchases and provide status updates to the relevant individual/departments

Works with Shipping/Receiving staff as deliveries are received and ensure ordering party receives the item(s) in a timely manner

Develops and maintains relationships with suppliers, including negotiating contracts and price agreements as appropriate

Additional duties as assigned

Detroit Chassis, LLC June 2022 – April 2024

Materials Analyst

Responsible for developing, tracking and continuously improving key performance indicators (KPI’s) for the supply chain and materials organization.

Administrative knowledge required includes product and process knowledge and the ability to foster a participative effort is paramount for success in the position.

Assist in the managing of engineering changes that will include minimizing or elimination of obsolescence, and the effective implementation of new product launches including all SAP system requirements.

Translate customer orders into the manufacturing production schedule and work with the planning personnel when fluctuations in customer demands require adjustments to ensure schedules maintained and desired inventory levels.

Help to develop Master Scheduling functions for Ford Motor Company and work with the planning group to ensure that all departmental processes are being developed and followed.

Monitor changes in customer requirements on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to ensure production schedules and operating plans are adequate.

Assist with development of level production schedules for manufacturing without substantial inventory increases all within plant capacities. Daily maintenance of production schedules and communication with materials and operations through assigned avenues.

Monitor inventory levels in both WIP and FG ensuring they remain within pre-determined tolerances.

Mobex Global November 2020 – May 2022

Materials Manager

Responsible for releasing 830 and 862 releases through the SAP systems creating orders for specific suppliers.

Responsible for creating and supervising a ship schedule for knuckle supplier due to build schedule and inventory capacity.

Responsible for tracking change notices (CN) where there will be an engineering change on an upcoming build schedule.

Performs cycle counts on a daily basis to maintain accurate inventory and inventory control as well as run MRP for daily releases.

Responsible for tracking CUMs and adjusting final CUMs prior to implementation of new part numbers.

Responsible for creating and supervising a route matrix for various carriers based on containerization, weight, and daily usage.

Responsible for submitting bids to various carriers and negotiating rates.

Responsible for communicating with dispatchers to ensure timely deliveries and notify suppliers whenever carriers are delayed.

Responsible for supervising a delivery schedule based on the plant’s downtime and personnel availability and mandate overtime.

Responsible for working with LTL carriers for milk runs, live unloads, and special pickups.

Responsible for supervising the return schedule for carriers in order for empty containers to be delivered back to various supplier.

Responsible for identifying cost saving opportunities as well as lead process redesign initiatives.

Monitor supplier scorecards as well as verify ASNs in the system to ensure delivery accuracy as required.

Maintain 100% delivery rating to the customer as well as make decisions to maintain department Budget and Materials KPI’s.

Responsible for supervising and creating routes to ship product in a timely manner as well as setting up expedites for JIT orders.

Responsible for conducting BOM validations with Project Engineers in order to finalize parts for procurement using the PLEX system.

Responsible for tracking parts in the CMMS system to be procured for knuckle and extenders.

Responsible for expediting parts whether necessary and complete 8D’s as well as conduct daily conference calls for open issues.

Current programs include: Ford (F150, DR2, BEV, Warthog, C482 A/B, and Mustang) GM (K2XX, 4 X 2, and 4 X 4 Extender).

SAS Automotive, Sterling Heights, MI April 2019 –March 2020

Automotive Production Supervisor (Bought out by Faurecia)

To lead the shift properly by reaching the required production and quality target, following the standards and procedures defined by Management.

Oversee automotive line assembly for the afternoon shift as well as consult work-load distribution with other shift supervisors.

Assignment of tasks and jobs to each team member

Supervision of the work done by the shift workers and ACT leaders

Technical assistance to the team and ACT leaders

Check out quality problems, report them, find solutions together with team or superior if necessary; close communication with the Head of Production.

Communication with the customer, problem solver, and if quality is not available.

Responsible for solving quality problems at the customer, able to stop production if necessary.

Solve basic maintenance problems. Report any or all maintenance problems found during the shift and assist them if necessary.

Coordination of internal logistics and material flow.

Lead and be part of the emergency team of the shift.

Assist new workers with training measures within the ACT standard.

Responsible for the accomplishment of health and safety issues during the shift.

Report the shift indicators and shift activities.

Responsible for the proper compliance of CES, ACT, and 5S within the shift.

Sodecia North America, Roseville, MI January 2019 – April 2019

Master Production Scheduler (Contractual)

Responsible for the planning and scheduling of materials through the production schedules.

Coordinate between external suppliers, internal manufacturing, and the shipping department to ensure all customer requirements are shipped on time.

Schedules and coordinates flow of work within or between organizational units or businesses to expedite production

Set up and maintain Future 3 system to receive EDI requirements from customers.

Reviews master production schedule and work orders, establishes priorities for specific customer orders, and revises schedule according to work order specifications, established priorities, and availability or capability of workers, parts, material, machines, and equipment.

Translates orders into a sequential work schedule: Draws up master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet completion dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.

Review and respond to Chrysler, GM, and Ford supplier delivery computer systems as required.

Issue and monitor material releases to suppliers of outside processors, out-sourced assemblies, subassemblies, stampings, and blanks to support manufacturing production schedules.

Follow up with customer on concerns that may impact delivery; i.e. shortage of returnable containers, suspect requirements, and potential missed shipments.

Resolve requirement issues between customer and manufacturing to ensure that all requirements are shipped on time. Provide direction to the shipping department for abnormal shipments.

Distributes work orders denoting number, type, and proposed completion date of units to be produced.

Confers with supervisors to determine progress of work and to provide information on changes in processing methods received from methods or engineering departments.

Compiles reports concerning progress of work and downtime due to failures of machines and equipment to apprise production-planning personnel of production delays.

Perform weekly cycle count procedure for inventory at outside processors.

Provide direction to manufacturing concerning engineering changes and balance outs. Support customer ship requirements and minimize obsolescence.

FCA USA LLC, Sterling Heights, MI August 2011 – January 2019

Materials Area Supervisor

Responsible for creating a daily assembly schedule based on customer need, material availability, and rack accessibility.

Responsible for purchase finish part follow up as well as ordering new parts for pilot builds.

Responsible for running shipping docks to supply various assembly plants stock to fulfill their daily manufacturing schedules.

Responsible for Engineering Change (EC) follow up as well as scrapping out old inventory while maintaining obsolesces in the plant.

Responsible for managing all material flow/movement within an assigned area in a fast paced, high volume unionized manufacturing environment.

Ensuring material manpower allocation/coverage is appropriate for assigned area, monitoring the inventory flow to ensure timely delivery of the correct part in the correct place.

Manage the docks to ensure the correct parts are leaving the facility while acting as the Production Control point of contact on the shift.

Communicating with any "next shift" operations, supporting area's safety, quality, delivery, cost, morale and World Class Manufacturing (WCM) metrics as well as monitor CSDS and SDSA for plant coverage.

Participating as required on any material flow/delivery projects supporting WCM.

Responsible for supporting daily manufacturing in the areas of scheduling, production, and shipping on all three shifts.

Lead, train and implement lean manufacturing techniques.

Responsible for inventory control as well as inventory adjustments due to cycle counts and scrap audits.

Developed a daily variance report to monitor increase variances in inventory between CMIS and cycle counts.

Faurecia Automotive Seating, Sterling Heights, MI May 2011 – August 2011

Materials Scheduler (Contractual)

Responsible for releasing 830 and 862 releases through the QAD systems creating orders for specific suppliers.

Responsible for creating and supervising a ship schedule for various suppliers due to build schedule and inventory capacity in QAD.

Responsible for creating scorecards for all suppliers in order track supplier performances as well as lowering expedite charges.

Performs cycle counts on a daily basis to maintain accurate inventory and inventory control as well as run MRP for daily releases.

Responsible for tracking CUMs and adjusting final CUMs prior to implementation of new part numbers.

Current programs include: JS27 & JS41.

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI April 2010 – May 2011

Chassis AVBOM Integration Specialist (Contractual)

Review/Manage BOM Database changes on a weekly basis by conducting part adds, deletes, usage, cost changes, and weight changes.

Resolve bill of material database input errors by working directly with engineers and/or Database team.

Work with team with managing updates while coordinating changes with Finance and Weight teams.

Establish Cost/Weight agenda for management and engineering team weekly reviews.

Skills required are fundamental understanding of database systems and experience with using and managing Bill of Materials.

Knowledge of Microsoft Products such as Excel / Word / Power Point / Outlook Skills Preferred

Understanding of Ford systems: AVBOM, WIPS, GPLUS, PTMS2, WERS, and CPARS

Mariah Industries, Warren, MI January 2010 – April 2010

MP&L Manager (Contractual)

Responsible for releasing 830 and 862 releases through the QAD systems creating orders for specific suppliers.

Responsible for creating and supervising a ship schedule for various suppliers due to build schedule and inventory capacity in SAP.

Responsible for creating scorecards for all suppliers in order track supplier performances as well as manage Toyota Kan Ban System.

Performs cycle counts on a daily basis to maintain accurate inventory and inventory control as well as run MRP for daily releases.

Responsible for tracking CUMs and adjusting final CUMs prior to implementation of new part numbers.

Current programs include: Chrysler, ACH, GM, GMSPO, and Toyota.

Chrysler Motor Corp, Detroit, MI June 2008 – December 2008

Engineering Change Specialist (Contractual)

Process approved source packages by issuing Advance Requisitions to the buyers for all purchased parts disclosed.

Issue cancellation notices to the Buyer when source packages are canceled, and Advance Requisitions were issued.

Provide guidance to Engineers to write CN’s (Change Notices), to affect part/production revision.

Communicate the status of open or undecided CN’s to the Product Team by running appropriate reports.

Run edit reports out of the Part Spec file and review for error and correct accordingly through WebCN (similar to CPV2) system.

Process CN’s written by the Design Office that release new colors for the model year.

Work with Plant Production Control and Resident Engineering to minimize obsolescence and rework costs associated with job changes.

Current programs include: Dodge Ram 1500, 2500, 3500, and 4500.

OMMC, LLC, Toledo, OH February 2007 – June 2008

Materials Analyst/Coordinator

Responsible for releasing 830 and 862 releases through the SAP systems creating orders for specific suppliers.

Responsible for creating and supervising a ship schedule for axle supplier due to build schedule and inventory capacity.