David Novotny

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Materials/Production/Demand analyst

Analytical, decisive, and experienced manufacturing manager with a verifiable track record of progressive growth and experience in the planning and execution of strategic and tactical material planning, inventory management, and production control processes with strong P&L management, quality systems, leadership, and organizational development skills. Energetic and inventive self-starter known for my ability to apply my deep understanding and hands-on experience in the analysis and implementation of supply chain processes vital to cost reduction and bottom-line profit improvement. Proven success in the development of sound policies and practices that ensures that the company’s financial, business and customer service objectives are achieved.

Summary of Qualifications

Material Management Production Planning Warehouse Operations Manufacturing

ERP System Implementation Lean Manufacturing ISO 13485 Compliance

Six Sigma P&L Responsibility Staff Training

Strong knowledge of and experience in leveraging Lean Manufacturing and the Theory of Constraints in driving business change and continuous improvement.

Proven record of restructuring operations and staff functions with measurable results in enhanced productivity, cost reduction, and costing and product structure development.

Expertise in ERP system implementation, usage and training.

Professional Experience

Family Leave 05/12/2018 to 06/01/2021

DATAMATICS, 4/9/2018 to 05/11/2018

Contract Employee

Functioned as customer liaison charged with maintaining on time delivery and all feedback to customer.

US TECH, Warsaw IN 12/2017 to 1/31/2018

Contract Employee

Demand analyst with role as rationalization facilitator.

MILESTONE AV, Warsaw, IN 7/2016 to 8/2017

Supplier of Audio Visual to the education and commercial markets.

Position moved to corporate in Minnesota, relocation not offered

Demand Manager

Formulate and input forecast

develop and input safety stocks

facilitate the S+OP process

Analyze capacity constraints

SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTANT, Warsaw, IN 2009 - 2016

Provide supply chain and manufacturing consulting expertise to a wide range of turnkey suppliers with a specialized focus in the areas of capacity planning, production, MRP and CRP design and execution, costing, product structure design, manufacturing, APS and purchasing.

SYMMETRY MEDICAL, Warsaw, IN 2008-2009

Turnkey supplier of surgical instruments, implantable components, custom and standard instrument delivery systems to the worldwide medical device marketplace.

Director of Planning/Scheduling Instrument

Directed planning and scheduling operations for a $300 million multi-plant instrument division, managing capacity, demand, and shop floor functions, incorporating industry trends into day-to-day processes to improve and streamline planning, scheduling, procurement, and operational efficiencies and standards.

Led the redesign and corrected usage of the supply chain’s ERP system including the 2009 implementation of the Vantage ERP software upgrade throughout the division.

Restructured the entire planning and scheduling function resulting in an improved on-time delivery rate by 45%.

Successfully reduced past due orders from $7 million down to $200,000, the equivalent of one day’s shipments down from 2 months.

PRECIMED INC, Columbia City, IN 2004 - 2007

Single source, turnkey supplier of surgical instruments, implantable components, custom and standard instrument delivery systems to the worldwide medical device marketplace.

General Manager

Provided operational leadership and oversight in managing a quality, manufacturing, material management, and engineering operations and staff of 90. Complete P&L responsibility for the facility, responsible for the restructuring and leadership of process development and improvement initiatives, leveraging key staff strengths to redefine roles to support business growth for a $15 million sales operation.

Improved operational strategies and efficiencies resulting in an on-time shipment improvement of 60% and a recovery in past due customer orders of ~$2.4 million while increasing shipping dollar output by 2.5 times.

Led multiple project improvement initiatives including the implementation of an SAP MRPII based scheduling system and capacity planning methodology.

Personally led the master scheduling of a critical $7.5 million project with the company’s largest customer.

Maintained continuous improvement methodologies and improvements, leading 5S initiatives to implement formalized shop floor performance metrics.

Slashed customer return levels resulting in a significant quality improvement standing with key customers.

MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK, Warsaw IN 2000 - 2004

Single source, turnkey supplier of surgical instruments, implantable components, custom and standard instrument delivery systems to the worldwide medical device marketplace.

Director of Operations Planning

Led and managed a team of 45 responsible for all master scheduling, shop floor scheduling, capacity and materials planning, inventory control, shipping and receiving functions to support an annual sales volume of $1.3 billion. Facilitated Kaizen continuous improvement events targeted at improving productivity, performance and cost control. Responsible authority for make/buy analysis and inventory investment planning and decision-making.

Reduced inventory in the first year from $26 million to $12 million while increasing turns four-fold.

Increased production plan efficiency from 65% to 95% while decreasing internal lead-times by 50%.

Project leader for ERP selection and implementation, including an advanced APS system based on Drum-Buffer-Rope methodology leading to MAPICS hall of fame induction for overall lead-time reduction.

Implemented a unique tooling management program, establishing a pay-as-you-need consignment program for tooling inventory that provided increased tooling availability.

Spearheaded the creation and launch of a management level dashboard used by management on a daily basis. Requested by upper management to return as key manager.

CTB INC, Milford, IN 1998 - 2000

Industry leader in feeding equipment and storage devices with annual revenues of $250 million.

Materials Manager

Responsible for the management and oversight of production planning, master scheduling, material planning, purchasing, and warehouse operations and a staff of 20 responsible. Introduced all formalized manufacturing principles to the organization including Kanban design and implementation and also ERP system implementation.

Improved on-time delivery performance from 60% to 96% while reducing inventory levels by 50%.

ALN ASSOCIATES INC, South Bend, IN (1997 - 1998)

Senior Applications Specialist & Lead Consultant

MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK, Warsaw IN (1996 - 1997)

Director of Operations Planning

DEXTER AXLE, Elkhart, IN (1993 – 1996)

Division Materials Manager in charge of 8 plants

DALITE SCREEN, Warsaw, IN (1988 – 1993)

Materials Manager

Education & Professional Development

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, Accounting

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Production Management Systems Development Computer Programming

APICS Certified in Production & Inventory Management

Statistical Process Control Training (Wright State University, OH)

Certification as a JONAH by the Goldratt Institute

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