Supply Chain Manager

Bruce D. Smith

***** **** ***** **** • Columbia Station, Ohio 44028 • 937-***-**** • *********@*******.***

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

A Supply Chain Management leader with a proven record of accomplishments in quality, operations, and procurement generating productivity with bottom-line profitability. Knowledgeable in manufacturing operational excellence, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, supply chain and quality management. Strong participative leadership, problem solving, communication, organizational and negotiation skills utilized to lead the supply chain teams to achieve goals. CPIM Certification from the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MAC Trailer Manufacturing, Salem Ohio 2018 to 2019

Materials Manager

Managed $12 million of inventory (raw materials/WIP/& finished goods) in a custom design environment.

Supervised six direct personnel related to Shipping/Receiving/Inventory Control/Warehousing and 35 indirect assigned to Material Handling in a multi-shift operation.

Problem solved to implement a barcode reporting process for the fabrication department’s aluminum sheet laser burn & routing tables. Eliminated $120,000 inventory shrink and because of accurate aluminum sheet inventory improved the burn/routing tables productivity.

Established a cycle count process to identify & correct a 7% inventory shrink. Worked with Engineering to trouble shoot and correct root cause systemic BOM issues. Benchmarked other MAC plants to improve/ implement other inventory reporting processes.

Capitalized on $20,000 savings implementing returnable metal racks for packaging extruded aluminum pipe kits.

Established department KPI metrics and targets in areas where they did not exist.

Henkel Inc., Westlake, Ohio 2015 – 2016

Senior Supply Planner

Planned and purchased Loctite Consumer Adhesive assigned product segment from Henkel international affiliates and subcontracted suppliers.

Responsible and controlled $2.5 million for assigned inventory achieving targeted 12 turns and sustained a 95% plus customer service level.

Norcold Inc., Sidney, Ohio 1991 - 2015

Materials Manager

Directed operation’s sales forecasting, master schedule, final assembly and supplier scheduling processes sustaining a 99% customer on time shipment level for OEM and service parts.

Reduced total inventory $2.5 million sustaining $6.5 million inventory to achieve and sustain 15-18 inventory turns. Was responsible to manage and control $100 million annual inventory spend.

Managed total inventory distributed across two production plants, one central warehouse, and three satellite distribution warehouses.

Implemented Lean principles for 5S/mix model schedule/ & pull systems for both purchased and internal manufactured Kanban parts. Strategically analyzed supply base to identify 75 suppliers and 2500 components incorporated into pull systems.

Was a co-project leader on a business software team with responsibility to specify, evaluate, select, document, train & implement the DataWorks (Epicor) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

Ran a second ERP project was as a Module Leader for Purchasing, Material Planning, Production & Inventory Control to implement CMS (Epicor) software.

Capitalized over $500,000 savings on various projects related to logistics/freight/returnable packaging/CNC to hard tooling conversion.

The Stolle Corporation., Sidney, Ohio 1983–1991

Business Systems Analyst

Engineering Change Coordinator

Mill Clerk

Inspection/Press Operator/Packer

EDUCATION

Undergraduate

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 1983

Bachelor of Science Business Administration – double major in Production/Operations & Procurement Management

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