Production Scheduler Planner

Rick Korn

Materials Planner Procurement Production Inside Sales

Phone: 562-***-****

Wylie, TX *******@*****.***

Inventory Management • Materials Control • Procurement • Parts Order Placement • Planning • Material Requirement Planning MRP • SAP • Vendor Relations • Analyst • Organization • Microsoft Window Offices

Professional Experience:

04/2018 - 4/2021: Alcon Vision LLC - Lake Forest, CA

Buyer/Planner

Responsible for planning and buying spare parts to support all Field Engineers and Affiliates around the world.

●Daily review of MRP and ensuring the flow of materials to support Field Service Engineers, affiliates and repair shop.

●Creating purchase orders in accordance with requisitions and contractual requirements.

●Increasing fill-rates to 98% while reducing back orders and right sizing inventory.

●Maintaining relationships with suppliers, and evaluating vendor performance.

●Monitoring discrepant inventory and takes corrective action as required.

●Supporting customer service and sales teams with pricing, drop-ship P.O.s, expediting.

●Resolving invoice discrepancies.

●New product set up and ensuring accurate pricing and lead-time with suppliers.

●Analyzing, negotiating, and issuing RFQ’s to suppliers for new and existing materials.

●Focusing on minimization of "aged" inventory. Diligently working to minimize obsolescence.

●Managing Urgent Downtime Customer Requested.

9/2017 - 2/2018: Captek Softgel International - Cerritos, CA

Production Scheduler

Developed, communicated, and managed an integrated production plans for finished goods and semi-finished goods. Generated weekly production schedules to meet company’s sales requirements.

●Created and maintained production schedules; make adjustments as necessary due to capacity constraints.

●Analyzed and report schedule adherence to management.

●Identified potential risk orders that will not meet the confirmed ship date.

●Daily input and updated MPS of new orders; type of products, capsule sizes, rpm, total run time, etc.

●Performed multiple daily walks through on production floor to provide daily progress and maintained schedule adherence.

●Performed trial kitting and issuing pull tickets to production team and made sure deadlines are met.

●Other assignments assigned by management.

10/2013 - 12/2016: Colgate Oral Pharmaceutical - Farmers Branch, TX.

Materials Planner Procurement

Managed internal inventory of all packaging materials for the production department, 2.5 million cases for over 100 different products. Interfaced with vendors to achieve optimum ordering at a low cost with timely delivery of product.

●Daily Management of all packaging materials for the plant including new items as well as depleting obsolete items.

●Issue purchase orders for all raw materials; work with all vendors to manage on time delivery and issues that occur.

●Coordinated with Plant Production Planner and vendors any last minute inventory issues or line changes that could affect packaging material flow and storage capacity.

●Worked directly with corporate departments such as Production Planning, Sales/Marketing, R&D, Packaging Graphics, Engineering and A/P.

●Created manual orders and/or review MRP generated orders (checking accuracy) promptly and made sure suppliers have acknowledged receipt of orders.

●Ensured orders are received from suppliers on the specified due dates.

●Continuously focused on minimization of “aged” inventory. Diligently worked to minimize obsolescence.

● Reduced inventory by 10% by removing excess, obsolete and reducing high volume safety stock materials.

●Resolved PO discrepancies – including pricing, quantity, and shipping issues.

Education:

●Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

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