Department Manager Supply Chain

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

Dear Human Resource Manager,

I am happy to have the opportunity to recommend Derryl Nowak for a position in your company.

Derryl has worked for AmesburyTruth for over twenty-five years. During his time with us he has held several key positions. He was hired as a Production Supervisor and was quickly promoted to Department Manager. At the time of his promotion, we were a tier one supplier in the automotive industry.

Department Manager Derryl was responsible for a three-shift operation with approximately 40 employees. His responsibilities included safety, budgeting, quality, on time delivery and financial results. Derryl is reliable, dependable and consistently met all objectives and his performance appraisals were always at the top of the rating scale.

After two sales of the company the business moved away from the automotive industry and our core business became Urethane door and window seals. At that time Derryl transitioned into a Buyer/Planner role. This was a fast-paced high-volume operation with many interrelated processes. Derryl played a key role in streamlining the various operations to reduce costs and maximize profit. As a Buyer/Planner he was also responsible for inventory management. Under his direction we saw a significant reduction in inventory as well as a huge improvement in accuracy.

Derryl has a strong work ethic and is very dependable. He understands the importance of his role and how it benefits the organization. He is highly organized and communicates extremely well at all levels.

There came a time during his tenure where there was a mandated direct overhead reduction across the entire organization. It was unfortunate that Derryl and many others in the salaried ranks were reduced. The reductions were strictly for financial reasons with no reflection on job performance. Less than twoyears later we had a significant increase in business, and we hired Derryl back immediately.

In September 2017 we announced that we would be closing the AmesburyTruth facilities in Amesbury, Massachusetts and Rochester, New York on December 31, 2018. If this was not the case Derryl would remain employed without question.

I am confident that Derryl will make an immediate impact in your organization. He has my highest recommendation, and I will be happy to provide more details if you would like additional information.

Sincerely,

Ken Pitts

Operations Manager

Direct 585-***-****

Mobile 585-***-****

Derryl Nowak

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dynamic seasoned leader with years of combined experience in manufacturing, procurement, inventory, operational and supply chain management. Possess a strong background in lean manufacturing techniques and a proven track record of driving operational excellence and competitive positioning through continuous improvement. Well adept with proficiencies at developing and executing manufacturing and sourcing plans that enhance profitability while minimizing cost by overseeing production related processes, policies and procedures. Connecting strong interpersonal skills. By exhibiting strong servant leadership qualities including the ability to set clear goals prioritizing effective and cohesive team building and accountability across all levels of the organization. Local to office and available immediately for consideration.

SKILLS

Planner/Buyer, Procurement Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Customer Centric, Data Driven, Continuous Improvement, Forecasting,

Pricing, Profit & Loss, Root Cause Analysis, Purchasing, Value Stream Mapping, Product Management, Demand /

Capacity Resource Planning, Procurement, Supplier Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, Cost Control, Continuous

Improvement, Workforce Development, Training & Development, HR Sourcing, Logistics, Inventory Control,

Leadership Experience, Microsoft Dynamics GP, ERP systems, SAP, MRP, People Soft, NetSuite, JD Edwards, SQL, Oracle, Google Suite, MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Teams,

MS Excel, OSHA, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S Yellow Belt certified, F Endorsement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Operation Integration Analyst Cigna-Evernorth Home Based Care Tailored Management 614-***-**** Contract Project Ended- 8/20/2024-12/20/2024

Role accountabilities:

Tracked purchase orders and followed up with vendors and carriers to support timely deliveries.

Managed a diverse portfolio of suppliers, ensuring timely delivery of goods and services at competitive

Pricing.

Improved supplier relationships through regular communication and collaboration, enhancing overall service levels to and ON TIME DELIVERS to 98%

Enhanced the accuracy of demand forecasting through SAP data analysis, enabling better decision-making in the purchasing process.

Lead HBC Home Base Care activities on Evernorth platform team connected to CIGNA HEALTH CARE to sustain and change to supply chain. Provide operational excellence and regulatory discernment. Knowledge in ERP Implementation.

Coordinate as the independent site lead analyst in development, management and distribution support to platform team In Home Base Care (HBC) with delivery safety, regulatory quality compliance, and cost performance to achieve platform goals in distribution and storage of FLU VACCIN

Develop, maintain, and update project schedules using scheduling software (e.g., Microsoft Project).

Collaborate closely with the project management team, contractors, and other stakeholders to create comprehensive project timelines.

Monitor and report project progress, identify potential delays, and propose corrective actions to ensure timely project delivery.

Prepare regular reports on project status, milestones, and resource utilization for internal stakeholders.

Coordinate with multiple teams to ensure smooth integration of activities and timely alignment with project deliveries to home-based care to patients.

Provide expert input on schedule development during project planning, design, and implementation to health care providers for timely administration to patient care

Ensure that project timelines comply with all compliance, policies, and standards.

Participate in regular project review meetings, providing detailed insights into schedule performance.

Track project changes and assesses the impact on project timelines and resources.

Assist with risk management by identifying schedule-related risks and implementing mitigation strategies.

Act as a liaison between Cigna and Evernorth Home Based Care to ensure that both parties are aligned on scheduling expectations and project priorities.

Attributes:

Function to gather and manage market input related to business needs, capacity, and demand. Collaborate with procurement to source materials and coordinate the supply chain process for regional teams to address network optimization projects and performance.

Successfully formulate Supply Chain operation plans to meet the platform team's HBC strategic objectives. In FLU VACCINE storage and distribution for Providers to achieve results. 100% on time delivery.

Address key operations issues that have major cost, quality, supply, revenue, asset utilization and/or strategic impacts. Globally working across enterprise sites.

Supports strategy development, capacity programs execution. Taking the lead in effectively communicating across these organizations while driving the strategy.

Supports the change to win process for the platform responsible in driving site execution and delivering platform cost to win savings.

Align HBC strategies with the worldwide platform team, supply chain organization, and regional management in assessing capacity needs, developing capacity, sourcing, and supply plans and in developing demand/capacity plans. Partnering with the capacity/network team to make location recommendations, considering network types based on market purpose.

Provide assisting in developing capital requests for capacity expansions, line extensions, and new products, while also maintaining existing products. Work with supply planners, marketing, and platform leaders recommending capital expenditures and their financial justification. Provides analysis and narrative outlining project objectives, scope, and timing. Provides capital planning information and monitor capital spending to ensure compliance to targets and forecast.

Provide leadership and coordination maintaining a strong communication pathway with leadership.

Ability to maintain and produce quality materials within tight time frames and simultaneously manage several assignments.

Ability to participate in and facilitate group meetings.

Excellent professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

OPERATIONS COORDINATOR SafeStepTub -Fergusion Adient One 206-***-**** Contract Project Ended 6/10/2024-8/21/2024

Streamlining Return Operations to establish clear and standardized procedures for handling product returns. Ensure that all involved parties, including customers, suppliers, and internal teams, follow consistent guidelines for initiating and processing returns.

Efficient Documentation to capture essential information related to returned items, including the reason for return, product condition, and customer details. Proper documentation facilitates accurate tracking, evaluation, and resolution of returns while maintaining a comprehensive record for future reference.

Minimizing Costs and Losses to minimize financial losses associated with returns by implementing appropriate resolution strategies by assessing the condition of returned products and determining the most cost-effective solution (repair, replacement, refund, etc.), businesses can optimize their return management processes.

Timely Resolutions with emphasis on prompt and timely resolutions to return requests. By establishing efficient communication channels, quick evaluation procedures, and streamlined return methods, businesses can ensure that customers’ issues are addressed in a timely manner, enhancing customer satisfaction.

Break in employment due to job searching/active interviewing

Advanced Integrative Medicine (AIM) - Remote 7/15/2023- 01/05/2024 Operational Manager

DME accreditation, process that ensures suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) meet quality standards and are eligible to bill Medicare Part B. It's a requirement for most suppliers.

Procurement buy goods and services needed

Research suppliers and negotiate prices to get the best value for taxpayers’ money.

Draft contracts and ensure compliance with regulations and policies.

Communicate with department heads to identify their needs and create procurement plans.

Monitor contracts to ensure delivery of goods and services meets requirements.

Manage inventory and track spending to identify cost-saving opportunities.

Evaluate supplier performance and address any escalate issues.

Participate in bid evaluation committees to select winning bids.

Stay up to date on industry trends, regulations, and best practices to improve procurement processes.

Developing and implementing compliance programs: Performs ongoing organizational and service due diligence and financial analyses as deemed necessary to evaluate provider profitability, business partners, and vendors.

Monitoring compliance: monitor the organization’s adherence to regulations, policies, and procedures and identify potential risk areas including credentialing and adherence to state and federal laws.

Educating employees: Assist the Practice Manager in developing, mentoring, and inspiring a cross functional clinical team (census dependent on state laws) to deliver the best for our patients, teammates, and community.

Investigating complaints: assist management in professionally addressing patient complaints and questions.

Assist in the management of staff: assist in overseeing medical clinical and administrative staff collaboration with the Medical Director and Practice Manager.

As well as being the liaison between payroll processing and staff to address any discrepancies in time and/or pay.

Compliance analysis: Ensures adherence to company policies and procedures and DOH.

Pool and Spa Depot - Smyrna, TN Aug 2022 to Jul 2023 Inventory Control Specialist

Organize and maintain accurate inventory across all functional warehouses and retail locations, reconciling inventory discrepancies.

Performing cycle counts as required to maintain inventory integrity.

Identify stagnant inventory and determine a course of action to mitigate.

Assist with the preparation, execution and reconciliation of the annual physical inventory.

Research and Correct discrepancies.

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel pivot tables, PowerPoint, Project.

Break in employment due to relocation to Tennessee

Rochester Industrial Control - Rochester, NY Nov 2021 to Mar 2022 Global Supply Chain Manager

Supervised the overall supply management operations across branches globally and domestically, while monitoring the logistics details and processes to prevent distribution and manufacturing delays.

Responsible for the development of innovative solutions for the planner /buying role to reduce bottom-line operational costs for all components and services.

Identify cost-reduction resources by negotiating and coordinating with trusted suppliers and vendors to provide the highest-quality materials according to client requirements.

Align processes with business KPI's.

Analyze and maintain all costing by the shared ERP system.

Preside over the purchasing and transportation functions and oversee scheduling/execution, inventory, and logistics.

Design a strategy to deliver lower costs, risk mitigation, higher quality and secure delivery on time to the needs of the business.

Accepted new employment In Tennessee

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Gleason Automation - Rochester, NY Jun 2021 to Nov 2021 Supply Chain Analyst (contract)

Procurement Specialist using SAP and ORACLE business systems

Collaborate with suppliers to negotiate optimal terms for sourcing. Tenne

Understand the trade-offs between cost, volume, and quality in order to strike agreements that meet performance criteria and secure long term supply continuity.

Purchase goods or services that meet the quantity and quality expectations of the organization.

Evaluate and negotiate contracts with vendors.

Track inventory and restock goods when needed.

Stay up to date on industry trends and new products.

Compare available goods with industry trends to determine appropriate pricing.

Break in employment due to being on furlough at Continuum Global Solutions due to COVID-19

Continuum Global Solutions - Rochester, NY Mar 2020 to Jun 2020 Customer Support Specialist

Responded to customer inquiries and complaints regarding company records, billings, contract renewals, and supply returns.

Answers and initiates a variety of real-time inbound and outbound voice-based communications in English or other languages to support customer care.

Responsible for activities involving quality assurance and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.

Monitor customer service interactions as well as representative adherence to policy / practice as input for training purposes.

Role works independently, exercising appropriate business judgment and problem- solving skills.

Identifies problems in straightforward situations and makes sound decisions using standard procedures.

Works within established procedures with a moderate degree of supervision.

Conducts audits and reviews/analyzes data and documentation.

Use the organization's resources to enhance customer satisfaction.

Evaluates improvements to various systems.

Ensures that data and information are sufficiently accurate and reliable.

Performs call monitoring and provides trend data to site management team.

Uses quality monitoring data management system to compile and track performance at team and individual level.

Lockheed Martin - Liverpool, NY Jul 2019 to Sep 2019 Manufacturing Planner II (contract)

Performs the Make/Buy planning activities associated with Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) transactions.

Maintains SAP/ERP production systems integrity to drive inventory optimization.

Expedites and optimized material flow through the supply chain to meet customer requirements.

Coordinates with manufacturing and Operations Management to provide shop floor control on make parts, analyses and controls production schedule, executes the plan, provides timely status and expedites or works around plans to preserve schedule.

Works with Ops Management team and Master Scheduling to maintain accurate MRP parameters including lead times and lot sizes and coordinates with Engineering and Change Board Rep to make the associated changes to the BOM.

Released work to the production floor on time and accurately.

Amesbury Truth formally Schlegel Systems - Rochester, NY Aug 2015 to Dec 2018 Senior Tactical /Strategic Buyer/Planner

Maintained the master production schedule with a rolling 12-month view of demand, inventory and production required based on the latest forecast and inventory position.

oOn a weekly basis update the master schedule with production, sales and inventory actuals.

Analyzed the monthly forecast data for significant changes.

Enter the forecast into the master schedule to determine feasibility.

Proactively escalate concerns with plan execution to the supply chain manager and other key functions (manufacturing, engineering, finance).

Collaborated with key plant functions to identify current and potential operational issues and agree resolutions.

Monitor the supply chain dashboard for sales, production, inventory, and customer service.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with manufacturing, scheduling and customer service.

Earlier Positions Include

Schlegel/Amesbury March 1998 to March 2015 Business Unit/Supply Chain Manager

Sourced reliable Vendors or suppliers to provide quality goods at reasonable prices.

Negotiating prices and contracts for consumption-based pricing

Reviewing technical specifications for raw material and components, equipment.

Analysis of quantity and timing for deliveries (more commonly in small companies)

Forecasting upcoming demand and finite planning models

Implementation of Level Load planning tying into revenue.

Unit manager of a $30 million annual sales of high volume 19-line extrusion/finishing operation for Automotive and housing industry

Ensured continuous improvement and performance excellence achieved with Good Manufacturing Practices across department technology.

Implemented best practices and standardized methods executed in production process for total cumulative effect on performance and quality yielding sound financial cost controls.

Developed master production planning for demand and finite requirements of daily, weekly, long-range forecast models

Develop annual budget, manage approval of department spending and capital project expenditures.

Responsibility for all OSHA safety training across the department of technology and stringent audit

Department Manager/Strategic Production Planner

Chaired daily cross functional Policy Deployment communication review, transferring KPI's into viable tactical implementation driving sustainable competitiveness.

Managed a 60-employee stamped metal and assembly operation for the Saturn and GM WINDLACE Program.

Developed long term strategic objectives into tactics which drove structural/ behavioral changes through process/ procedural controls for continuous improvement.

Implemented data trend analysis for predictability outcomes on extrusion dies targeted to effectiveness in cost reduction across department technology.

Implemented compliance standardization to achieve consistent product quality approval at zero defect PPM threshold.

Performed PAs, skill gap assessment, career expansion for hourly and salaried employees.

Designed, implemented, and monitored training certification for new and experienced operators, front line supervisors and engineering staff.

Controlled department spending, including variance and actions for improvement.

Provided input on annual budget capital and forecasting cycles.

Experienced in new product launching, Value Stream Mapping, Six sigma with lean DMAIC methods.

Procured consignment inventory based on consumption on highest dollar commodity raw material.

Maintain BOM Bill of Material and databases to support manufacturing system software.

EDUCATION

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Management

Rochester Institute of Technology

Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification

Total Quality Management Certification

REFERENCES

Karen Holdridge -Nowak COO Advanced Integrative Medicine 315-***-****

Ken Pitts-President Rochester Specialty (585) 585-***-****

Clarence Head- Program Manager Permobil 615-***-****

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