Inventory Control Assistant Manager

270-***-**** cell phone

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Brandenburg, KY 40108

Michael Benham

Experience

February 2021-Present, Metalsa, Elizabethtown, KY

Inventory Control, Production Structure and QAD Coordinator

Implemented Cycle Count / Inventory Control plan to eliminate $1m monthly cycle count losses.

Implemented product change control process to manage manufacturing break-points for raw, wip and finished goods.

Manage ERP system to insure system accurately reflects state of business.

September 2016 –January 2021, Akebono Brake, Elizabethtown, KY

Materials Manager

Materials manager for 500,000 sq. ft. brake caliper assembly plant

Launched 6 programs in 6 months with 100% success; Ford Mustang S550, Mopar LX, Volvo XC60 and Polestar.

Manager plant raw materials purchasing both blanket and discrete purchase orders. Including price negotiations, terms and material routing.

Implemented Akebono standard manufacturing systems including EDI, Production, Sales, Quality, Warehousing and Purchasing modules.

Manage international supplier inbound transportation, including sea, rail, truck.

Monitor facility score card for purchased material, and plant inventory

Manufacturing systems management to insure data integrity.

Structured and manage a $10 million monthly purchasing program

Manage 120 person logistics team including tool crib and raw material / production warehouse, production scheduling, vendor scheduling, shipping and receiving.

Customer liaison to Mopar, Toyota, GM, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Honda, JCM Tier 1 facilities / and tier 2 manufacturing plants.

Integrated idled plants in Columbia, SC and Clarksville, TN into Elizabethtown, KY facility

Conduct quarterly physical inventory events resulting in 95% inventory accuracy. Reducing days on hand inventory from 54 days to 10 days with in months.

Generate and manage plant production schedules and production attainment to ensure FG 3 day safety stock,

May 2018-December 2019

Corporate Production QAD Planning / Engineering Change Management / Inventory Management

Work with NA facilities to understand delivery patterns to achieve oh and inventory projects.

Work with NA facilities to manage direct material spending as part of PWC ADR reorganization.

Coordinate team member activities to reimplement QAD ERP system at all Akebono NA facility (KY, TN, SC).

Manage engineering change point for SOP, EOP and rolling changes bills of material.

Assist production facilities with ERP planning, work center setup and system optimization.

Work with plant to achieve inventory reduction and inventory optimization to understand days on hand for RAW, WIP and Finish Goods.

September 2016-April 2018

Production Control Supervisor / QAD Implementation Coordinator

Coordinate team member activities to re-implement QAD ERP system at the Elizabethtown, KY facility.

Coordinate data cleansing activities in preparation for near system start-up.

Coordinate system hardware implementation for real-time material movement.

Review system data parameters for ERP system use.

Manage $40M purchased material inventory. 2/28/14 inventory reflected $10M loss in Raw / WIP / Finish good material. (Jan. 2, 2015 physical inventory results -$65K)

Coordinate Kaizan, team building activities to avoid future material losses.

Production Control Supervisor.

April 2014-September 2014 Ford Louisville Assembly Plant

Program Management

Contracted program management team member to support the launch of the C489 program.

Liaison between LAP MP&L and supplier to support production builds at the plant.

Work with supplier for completion of PPAP’s, and Alerts

Work with suppliers and launch STA’s to understand supplier releases, and updating of EDDL, VPP and WERS to insure on-time delivery.

Work with suppliers to insure Part Boundary Books are current.

Maintain and communicate part pedigree

March 2012-February 2014 Westport Fuel Systems

Plant Manager / Materials Manager

Launched 48,500 sq. ft. manufacturing facility dedicated to up-fitting Compressed Natural Gas systems to Ford F250-F550 trucks with annual revenue of $54 million.

Launched MP&L systems to support manufacturing facility.

Manage daily plant activities including manufacturing, Quality, Safety, MP&L.

Monitor facility score card for purchased material, and plant inventory including 0 lost time accidents, 99% inventory accuracy, 100% customer on-time delivery.

Manufacturing systems management to insure data integrity.

Structured and manage a $5 million purchasing program.

Member of Westport Fuel System global support task force.

March 2007-March 2012 JCIM

Materials Manager / Sr. Analyst / Inventory Control

Automotive plant production analyst for interior trim injection molding

Launched 18 programs in 6 months with 100% success; including 2 sequence lines (Ford, Toyota)

Implemented JCI standard manufacturing systems including EDI, Production, Sales, Quality, Warehousing and Purchasing modules.

Monitor facility score card for purchased material, and plant inventory

Manufacturing systems management to insure data integrity.

Structured and manage a $3 million purchasing program

Manage 40 person logistics team including tool crib and raw material / production warehouse, production scheduling, vendor scheduling, shipping and receiving.

Customer liaison to Toyota, GM, Ford, Honda, Nissan, JCM Tier 1 facilities / and tier 2 manufacturing plants.

Automotive plant production analyst for interior trim injection molding

Launched 14 programs in 6 months with 100% success

Implemented JCI standard manufacturing systems including EDI, Production, Sales, Quality, Warehousing and Purchasing modules.

Conduct quarterly physical inventory events resulting in 98% inventory accuracy. Reducing days on hand inventory from 54 days to 15 days with in months.

Sept 2005-March 2007 NHK Spring

Logistics Manager / Production Analyst

Manage 8 person logistics team including tool crib and raw material / production warehouse.

Customer liaison to Honda / Nissan / and tier 2 manufacturing plants.

Automotive plant production analyst / scheduler for valve spring manufacturer operating 20 / 5.

Develop daily / weekly production schedules for Tier 1 supplier to Honda, Nissan and tier 2 assembly plants.

Launched logistics department for start up production facility including manning and staffing. From SOP Dec. 2007 NHK has a 100% on time delivery record.

Packaging engineer for 7 customer sites including returnable containers, pallets and expendable packaging and other packaging specifications.

Implemented Plexus ERP system for start up facility including EDI, Production, Sales, Quality, Warehousing and Purchasing modules.

Generate weekly supplier releases for international suppliers with lead times of 16 weeks.

Assisted customers in establishing transportation lanes including cross docks.

Established Kaizen event schedule.

Conduct semi-annual physical inventory events.

May 2003-Sept 2005 Faurecia Exhaust

Assistant Materials Manager / Master Scheduler

Customer liaison to GM / Ford / Saturn manufacturing plants.

Automotive plant production scheduler for exhaust systems manufacturer operating 24/7.

Develop daily / weekly production schedules for Tier 1 supplier to General Motors, Ford, and Saturn assembly plants.

Developed a level load scheduling procedure to minimize capacities constraints when customer requirements increase.

Work with management to reduce inventory levels while maintaining adequate on hand inventory levels to facilitate production.

Work with GM schedulers to maintain optimum load capacities for JIT / Sequenced production.

Work with suppliers to maintain minimum on hand raw material inventory without interrupting the production process.

Implemented just in time inventory replenishing from suppliers.

Implemented Kanban pull systems through manufacturing and inter-company plants.

Reduced on hand raw materials from as much as 30 days on hand to 2 days on hand.

Corporate JDE / Manufacturing consultant for 5 North American plants.

Supervised a 6 member Logistics team.

Generate weekly supplier releases for domestic and international suppliers with lead times ranging from 4 hours to 4 months.

November 2002-May 2003 Intertec Systems, LLC (JCI)

Master Scheduler

Automotive plant production scheduler for plastics components.

Develop weekly production schedules for Toyota and Honda product lines.

Work with management to reduce inventory levels and create JIT (Just In Time) production schedules.

Implemented Kan-Ban system for press production of pre production material.

Work on project to integrate EDI into QAD manufacturing system to eliminate excessive paperwork.

May 1994–October 2002 Crumax (VAC) Magnetics Elizabethtown, KY

Factory Planner / Scheduling Manager

Project manager for the Implementation of I2 Factory Planner Software in to U.S. manufacturing facilities.

SAP / Factory Planner Database Analyst.

Corporate report preparation.

Manage Shop floor.

Manage manufacturing raw materials for global operations.

Monitor WIP and goods inventory levels.

Train users on use of factory management software.

Prepare weekly and monthly reports.

SAP Implementation Team Member

Project Team member for the implementation of SAP modules including Material Master, Inventory Control, Production Control

Monitor data interchange between SAP batch files and FP files

Monitor WIP and good inventory.

Train users on the use of SAP management software.

IS Manager / Network Administrator

Manage IBM AS400 system and Windows NT servers, Windows 2000.

Designed, installed and manage fiber-optic / category 5 network including racks, hubs, switches and routers.

Implemented web / email service plant-wide.

Managed 152+ computers at 3 locations (Oklahoma City, OK; Elizabethtown, KY; Newtown, PA) including an analog 24/7 connection and a 24/7 T1 connections.

Manage Rolm 2000 48 port phone system.

MRP Manager

Manage the MRP system for a magnet manufacturing plant.

Work Center Management / Capacity Planning

Coordinated the Y2K compliance upgrade for the MRP software.

Coordinate the re-writing of in-house programming for Y2K compliance.

Implemented a bar-coding project for customers using the AIAG standards.

EDI Manager

Implemented and manage and EDI service for customers requiring electronic data interchange with its supplier using 4010 standards.

Payroll Backup

Implemented two (2) payroll system conversions, including a custom corporate package and ABRA Payroll systems.

Implemented an automated Simplex / Winstar time / attendance system.

Prepare payroll in the absence of Payroll Manage for 400-plus person workforce.

PC Coordinator / Technician

Responsible for the daily operations for 152+ personal computers.

Provide software and hardware technical support to users, including repair of failed hardware. (Provided a $200,000 per year cost savings to the company.)

Education

1994 University of Louisville Louisville, KY

B.A., Business Administration / Management.

Interests

Weightlifting, landscaping, carpentry, computers

Computer Skills

Windows NT Server/Workstation (including web and exchange), IBM OS400, Microsoft Windows 95/98, Windows 2010, Microsoft Frontpage, HTML programming, RPG programming, Windows Microsoft Project, Corel WordPerfect Suite, ProfitKey MRP software, TL Ashford Barcoding software, GE Desktop EDI, limited Autodesk Autocad, I2 Factory Planner software, SAP factory management software, JD Edwards MRP software. Currently working on MSCE certification. QAD, SAP, FORD EDDL, FORD WERS

Letter of Recommendation

Michael Benham

8/22/02

This letter serves as my recommendation of Michael Benham as an employee of your company. Michael worked for me over six years in the area of Computer Systems Management. During that period we were able to upgrade our systems under Michael’s direction. Michael knowledge of computer systems and ability to relate that expertise to the daily requirements of a growing business was instrumental in our company meeting its goals.

Michael was one those employees that always did what it took to ensure the project or goal was meet. He has a good understanding of business systems.

Michael worked well within the team environment that was part of Crumax’s culture; both in leading the team as well as a supporting team member. Michael was a supervisor of several employees and handled that role very effectively.

I have recently retired as President of Crumax, but if I were starting another company I would hire Michael as one of my keys employees to help manage the business, especially in the area of computer systems, computer networking, business systems integration, production and financial processes.

If I can be of help or you need to contact me, you can contact me.

Phone no: 270-***-****

E-mail: ********@*****.***

Bob Zoglmann

President

Zoglmann Associates

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