Warehouse Manager Control Specialist

Thomas Talan

*** ****** ** * Lombard, IL ***** * 630-***-**** * ***.*****@*******.***

Commitment l Determination l Integrity

Profile

A strategic planner committed to deliver results that eliminate waste, increase profits, and streamline processes. A dedicated professional with integrity and years of experience in manufacturing, capacity/ resource planning, forecasting, purchasing, materials management, inventory control, business operations, warehouse management, and employee development that is determined to deliver winning supply chain metric results.

Areas of Expertise

Strategic / Tactical Planning Capacity / Resource Planning ERP Systems

Operations Management Materials Management MRP Systems

Employee Development Coaching Procurement

Forecasting Sales & Operations Scheduling

APICS Certification Six Sigma

Professional Experience

Prepared Meals Co; Elior (Preferred Meals Systems, Inc.) -- Berkeley, IL 1993 - Present

Innovative food service Company providing quality, value, and solutions to our customers.

Director of Scheduling/ Resource Planning 2010 - Present

Responsible for the overall management and performance of the national team that defines the manufacturing build plan for all production facilities. Directs and leads organization to optimize service levels, inventory goals, quality, resource utilization in regards to master company schedule.

Lead S&OP supply planning and develops Key metrics to drive business improvement within 17 product families.

Controls all planning tools in ERP for 2,100 sku’s to improve production efficiency, lower cost per unit, reduce over time, and improve customer order fill rate.

Maintains finished meal inventory levels at 26 warehouses to budget and responsible for reduction of obsolete meals to meet or exceed goal.

Responsible for assigning production facility on new items with in the product development process at 6 manufacturing locations on 56 production lines across the country.

Filled in as Director of Manufacturing for Berkeley, IL facility during times of transition controlling budget, staff management, and production efficiencies.

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Operations Manufacturing Manager 2000– 2010

Responsible for 60 million dollars per year of inventory being available for production and distribution in order to secure the highest level of customer service.

Planning and execution of forecast to ensure menu and order fulfillment.

Manage a staff that includes planners, buyers, schedulers, production managers, logistic, and inventory control personnel.

Responsible for production schedule for up to 18 production lines.

Responsible for setup of transportation for all interstate customer base and distribution locations for 9 out of 10 years.

Involve in purchasing and vendor sourcing decisions.

Filled in as Warehouse Manager at the Berkeley, IL facility during times of transition, managing 50 warehouse employees, expenses, and workload.

Coordinate the usage of excess and over stock food product.

Materials Manager 1995 – 2000

Control the flow of material from outside warehouses through plants to distributors and customers.

Responsible for all products being available for production and distribution at multiple plants.

Determine what production plant should produce what product groups considering given plant capacities and cost analysis.

Master Scheduler / Purchasing Agent 1993 - 1995

Developed the monthly and weekly production schedule for Elk Grove and Moosic facilities.

Purchased raw materials and packaging to support production at Elk Grove plant.

Responsible for production activity control to ensure production schedule is met.

Accomplishments

Continuous execution of upper management strategic plans to optimize operational cost savings.

Increased inventory turns by over 80%.

Reduced inventory stock out situations by 50% while customer sales have increased by 200%.

Part of team focused on line personal layout that increased productivity by 8%.

Tighten up on planning forecast, which reduced carrying inventory by 18%.

Able to maintain materials management budget at 4% of an increase per year while company growth has averaged over 20%.

Worked with a team on material positioning lay out to increase productivity and reduce material waste by 3%.

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Life Fitness -- Franklin Park, Illinois 1992 - 1993

Manufacturer of computerized fitness equipment

Production Control Specialist 1993

Supervised 6 material handlers to control the flow of materials from outside warehouses through our warehouse to meet the production schedule and guarantee inventory accuracy.

Create production schedule and released materials to support master schedule in a repetitive and batch line-manufacturing set up.

Assisted: Purchasing to ensure timely deliveries of parts; Information Service to improve material flow; Quality Control to process rejected materials; and Engineering in monitoring materials for engineer changes and pilot projects.

Production Scheduler 1992

Same duties as production control specialist except responsibilities for fewer production line.

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION DEGREE in Operations Management

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois December 1989

APICS CERTIFICATION - DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois February 1993

Lean Six Sigma Certification - ASMI Arlington, VA July 2010

Lean Manufacturing Sigma Six Seminar

Communicating with Professionalism and Diplomacy Seminar

ISO 9002 Implementation Team

American Purchasing and Inventory Control Society

Society for Advancement of Management

SKILLS - MRP, MRP II, MPS, PAC, DRP, Capacity Planning, JIT, Outlook 2007, Planet Together, Excel, Word, Visio, Ramco Enterprise, Mara Sales & Forecasting, BPICS, MAPICS, Repetitive Manu Software.

References Available Upon Request

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