Production Coordinator Associate

GLOREE’ TEJADA

**-** ***** ****** # ** 646-***-****

Kew Gardens, NY 11415 *********@*****.***

• SKILLS: MS Office, BS System, Adobe Photoshop, Blue Cherry, Apparel Business System, Windows 2000/XP, Gerber Patternmaking Software, AS400, FileMaker/FoxPro.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ONE Jeanswear Group, New York, NY

Production Associate for Jessica Simpson (Junior) Brand, May 2014 – Present

• Monitor open order reporting to ensure accuracy and communicate required changes.

• Track pre-production & production deliverables and status to proactively identify issues, propose solutions and align with cross functional teams on a resolution that will minimize risk.

• Follow up change/cancel requests to determine if actionable based on production status.

• Create finished goods Purchase Orders for overseas production.

• Analyze weekly work process reports to identify any delivery issues as it relates to factory delays and/or potential customer delivery delays.

• Follow up pre-production and salesmen samples with overseas vendors to meet required date

• Approve shipping plan and enter shipping advise on SAP

• Effective and clear daily communication via e-mail with the overseas vendors to ensure execution of all production orders

• Elevate Production issues to manager, work for resolution and execute the determined course of action. G-III Apparel Group, New York, NY

Production Coordinator for Calvin Klein Outerwear, June 2012 – February 2014

• Follow up review and review all TOP/Design samples and send comments to overseas/agents

• Attend all bulk fitting and facilitate/communicate all comments to overseas offices with tech and design teams

• Establish updated T&A schedules on styles with tight deliveries to unsure timely deliveries from factories

• Maintenance and set up of production allocation charts for purchase orders issuance

• Attendance of costing meetings and presentation of negotiated costing to meet corporate margin goals

• Daily email correspondence to all department within G-III (design, sales & customer service), agent and factories

• Communicated and confirmed all production scheduling with the foreign offices

• Created, revised, inputted and maintained production orders and monitored transmission to factories

• Heated weekly production flow meetings with sales to communicate shortage/overage for all orders placed in prior and current Market to review any re-projection to fulfill sales orders

• Calculated open to buy dollars after each market for finance approval

• Challenged factories to hold deliveries, prioritize or air po’s if necessary in order to fulfill sales orders to make quarterly sales

• Approved and booked vessels for all upcoming deliveries

• Worked closely with customer service and allocations to secure start and cancel ship dates on all incoming styles

• Ensured all timelines are met from samples development through production to shipping

• Alerted management and sales team on high-rish areas, which may impact on production Oved Apparel, New York, NY

Production Coordinator for Viggos Jeans, Mecca & Akademics, July 2006-February 2012

• Daily email correspondence to all departments within Oved (design, sales, & customer service), agents and factories

• Created, revised, inputted and maintained production orders and monitored transmission to factories

• Attend line reviews, hand-off meetings, and fittings seasonally with product manager and technical designers to ensure all information received form design is accurate and complete

• Distributed tech packs to vendors for sample production and costing until the receipt of actual samples for accuracy of execution(fabric/trim/logo/detail information) before handing over to spec writers and set-up headers

• Responsible for the generation and accuracy of line sheets during market - updating color, cost, price, fabric, sketch and COO

• Set up production cost sheets for each style, maintained style master in Blue Cherry, maintained WIP report daily Parigi Group – Children’s Wear – AKADEMICS & ABS JEANS (Specializing in knit & denims) Associate Product Manager, March 2004-August 2006

Responsible for Von Dutch Boys and Girls (2-4 & 4-6 size ranges for soft lines and accessories) and Carter’s (newborn, infants and toddler size ranges for soft lines)

• Liaison between design teams and factories communicating daily comments and follow-up on denim washes, embroideries, strike-offs and lab dip approvals as well as coordinated all design prototypes, fit samples, and salesman samples

• Monitored technical designers during entire fit process and assisted design dept in sending initial & updated tech packs to vendors

• Coordinated sample submittals to Walmart Mexico Division for retail approval and testing

• Created and updated PO’s for factories as well as developed time and action calendars to ensure timely delivery

• Assisted Senior Product Manager in allocating tech packs/ styles to vendors each season

• Tracked lab dip approval status and all protos, fit samples, pre-production and TOP samples with the factories

• Communicated with Spec Tech and Design to inform them of deadlines needed for garment approvals in order to maintain delivery

• Placed bulk order by generating purchase orders in the Apparel Business System software

• Tracked order details, shipments, in transit reports, shortages, and approved shipment planning EDUCATION

Associates Degree in Production Management, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

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