Supply Chain Customer Service

Jeff Lyda

*** **** **** ****** ******, SC *****

Phone 864-***-****

Email: ********@*****.***

I am a leader with over 26 years of experience in all aspects of supply chain management. I have learned to use these experiences to become an out of the box thinker and an effective manager who trains and equips others to be able to advance their careers. I am calm under pressure while maintaining a sense of urgency. I am looking for a new challenge where I can test my skills in a new market. Wherever I have been, I have made an impact. I have been able to improve or stabilize the supply chain for that facility. I have experience using many different systems, including SAP and Oracle. I also have an advanced knowledge of Excel.

EXPERIENCE

Master Scheduler

Thermo King Greenville Greenville, SC October 2022 - Current

Schedule production for entire plant (2 production lines, welding dept, E-Coat line)

Daily coordination with the sales team and customer service teams to accurately place orders for customers, providing them with efficient timing and costs.

Manage the shipping department: 2 forklift drivers, 2 shipping clerks.

Work with trucking companies to get the best rates and delivery options for loads going across the US and Canada.

Weekly coordination with the engineering team and EC coordinator to minimize obsolescence and negate any impact to the flow of production.

Facilitate daily and weekly meetings with plant managers and staff to assess current and future production output and performance.

Daily update and presentation of MDI boards. Reviewing all KPI’s and current or upcoming items on the JDI Rail.

Facilitate weekly SIOP meeting with other TK plants, TK sales team, Supply Chain Director. Discussing current and future volumes/staffing/strategies to ensure all aspects of our brand’s performance meets our customers’ needs.

Work with Inventory Control and cycle counters to help investigate discrepancies.

The plant manager and I do daily process confirmation audits throughout the plant. Validating that standard work and processes are being followed.

Work closely with material planners to ensure all materials are in inventory and stock levels are not at risk.

Create forecast models using business analytics and intel from the sales team. Maintaining long term and short term models with multiple scenarios to best fit the ever changing economic climate.

Work with plant finance team and controller to project monthly revenue and profit/loss for our facility.

Team with plant production manager to analyze staffing needs based on shifts in volume/production.

Make accommodation to meet the needs of customer service and other TK plants have. Whether through sending replacement parts to customers, or helping other TK plants fill gaps in their supply chain.

Material Planning Manager

Plastic Omnium – Auto Exteriors, Greer, SC March 2020 –October 2022

Managed 6 planners, 1 transportation specialist, Inventory Analyst and their day to day activity.

Responsible for inventory control and accuracy. Managed cycle counts, material flow and lineside distribution.

Creative and proactive in the midst of the pandemic in terms of transportation methods (increasing/decreasing frequency of deliveries, tracking sea freight, organizing air freight, working with trucking companies to optimize deliveries in the midst of a driver shortage)

Facilitated engineering changes between production and our suppliers. Making sure that we minimized our obsolescence while ensuring our customer’s production was covered.

Responsible for managing/overseeing parts coming from all over Europe, China, Central America and across the US/Canada.

Coordinating/collaborating with projects team on the launch of 300+ new parts in 2022. Work with suppliers to make sure that they are ready to launch at the appropriate time.

Teamed with engineering (packaging/logistics) to improve packaging, warehouse and lineside layout options.

Negotiated financial settlements between our company and suppliers/customer.

Analyzed trends in the global supply chain to stay ahead of potential issues that would impact production

Took our customer’s orders/forecasts to build orders/forecasts for our suppliers around the world.

Organized and lead calls/meetings with our suppliers and customers to work through issues or concerns that may impact production.

Calculated daily/weekly/monthly KPI’s and provide feedback to the team.

MPS – Master Production Scheduler

Plastic Omnium – Auto Exteriors, Anderson, SC June 2014 – Feb 2020

Oversaw the day to day scheduling of injection molding, paint line and assembly departments.

Managed 4 paint line schedulers and their day to day activity.

Monitored daily, weekly and monthly volumes from customers to streamline the production schedules.

Forecasted long term volumes and communicate any potential issues to upper management.

Scheduled 11 injection molding machines daily.

Scheduled service and SKD requirements through assembly.

Coordinated and expedited bank builds for tools.

Facilitated the launch of SKD for BMW in Anderson

Launched 5 new carlines and 1 new customer

Oversaw the build out of 4 programs for BMW.

Assisted in building out 4 carlines

Worked on a team to develop and launch new scheduling software (Preactor).

Responsible for maintaining inventory targets and keeping WIP levels at target.

Supported and coordinated with tool shop PM’s for molds and emergency repairs.

Conduct meetings to support trials for new product development.

Assisted with plant inventories during customer shutdowns.

Lead meetings to discuss daily performance and address any potential or present issues.

Master Scheduler - Injection Molding

Draexlmaier, Duncan, SC November 2011 – June 2014

Lean/Six Sigma project leader – reduced headcount by 6, reduced inventory by 18%, also reduced foot/forklift traffic.

Planned and coordinated mold changes, color changes for 21 different machines in the injection molding department.

Responsible for inventory levels for finished parts as well as WIP.

Coordinated bank builds for BMW, Cadillac, and GM with other departments to ensure meeting demands of our customer while keeping our cost as low as possible.

Helped facilitate a project to develop a new scheduling program with an engineering student from Clemson University.

Worked with the Transportation Department to coordinate daily deliveries of Cadillac parts to GM in Michigan.

Supported tool shop to coordinate PM’s for molds and emergency mold repairs

Provided schedules and orders to outside vendors and suppliers

Resolved production conflicts through flexibility and creative decision making

Worked with outside warehousing company to support our needs for storage and logistical demands

Coordinated shipping of raw material/finished goods between locations here locally and in Lansing, MI as well as in Mexico.

Worked with Raw Material planners to support increases in demands, bank builds and quality related opportunities.

Master Scheduler/Materials Manager

MP Husky, Greenville, SC January 2007 – November 2011

Managed department that consisted of planning, purchasing, and warehouse.

Oversaw the delivery of raw materials as well as shipping of finished projects.

Developed a master schedule and production schedules for plant.

Reviewed orders, shipping needs, plant capacity and inventory before developing schedules.

Responsible for a complete raw material, work in process, and finish goods inventory every year for completion of the fiscal year.

Work with outside processing facilities (galvanizer/platers) to ensure timely delivery to our facility, even in the case of expedites or breakdowns. Also negotiated pricing for the galvanizing/plating. Set up weekly/daily trucks for these processes.

Negotiate with our suppliers and vendors pricing (materials, trucking, etc…).

Planned raw material needs based on current usage, previous months usage and future forecasts.

Expedited customer’s needs from the purchase of the material all the way to the shipping of the order.

Responsible for creative solutions of increasing efficiency and reducing over-time.

Worked with our Lean Manufacturing Manager to implement a Kanban system.

Worked with Sales/Customer Service team daily to ensure our customers are taken care of.

Conducted daily meetings with manufacturing team to make sure they were on schedule and reported any issues back with our sales team so we can work with our customers to meet their needs.

Responsible for negotiating and setting up a scrap vendor and coordinating pickups.

Created/updated charts for various areas to measure production and shared these with my team as well as monthly meetings with plant and sales managers.

Placed employee’s on the machines that were best suited for their skills and the overall benefit of the production team

Daily study and use of MRP in use of scheduling and planning

Master Scheduler/GM Customer Service Rep

Milliken & Co., Marietta, SC July 1998 – January 2007

Developed production schedule for finishing plant.

Worked closely with Customer Service to adjust production to fit customer needs.

Held daily meetings with Customer Service team to review delivery and assess new orders.

Conducted daily production meetings to review output against schedule.

Monitored plant efficiencies, adjusting schedule accordingly.

Communicated material needs to sister facilities and scheduled material receipts according to demand.

Maintained inventory thru MRP, cycle counts, and daily audits.

Adjusted inventory levels based on usage/forecasts.

Planned raw material based on current orders and future forecasts.

Responsible for holding Manufacturing accountable and ensuring on time delivery.

Worked on a special team to create a new scheduling system (Adexa). Put together all the pegging, rules, etc. to run the new program.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel level 3, Outlook Worksmart certification

Adexa

Crystal

Data Repository

Demand Viewer

Host

IPST

Oracle

Preactor

ProSes

Reflections

SAP

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