Materials & Planning Leader with Proven Lean Results

DAVID SOLIS

**** ****** *****, ***** *****, CA **051 C: 1-408-***-**** ******@**************.***

Experienced Materials and Planning professional with strong leadership and relationship-building skills. Project management

Team leadership

Process implementation

Extremely organized

Root Cause Analysis

Kaizen Events

LEAN Principals

Six Sigma (yellow belt)Value Stream Mapping

Gemba Walks

weekly stand up meeting facilitator?

ERP super user

Estimating, Purchasing, 06/1985 to 07/1999

Bay Pneumatic, Inc – Redwood City, CA

Worked directly with Sales, Engineering and Purchasing to achieve the best cost possible in all competitive situations.

Purchasing; Basic distribution procurement with a pre-determined supplier base, Quoting, Planning, Order placing, Expediting

Operations Manager, 07/1999 to 07/2000

Airtronics Metal Products – San Jose, CA

Started up a Value Add division which incorporated sheetmetal card cage assemblies and electronic components as turnkey units. sourced and Leased a building to suit our operations size, populated the building with tools, conveyors, air compressors, work tables, hi-pot test equipment and all other things necessary to run the operation

Buyer, Purchasing Manager, Materials Manager, Sr. Planner, 05/2004 to Current Lin Engineering, Inc. – Morgan Hill, CA

Buyer; General purchasing duties including generating PO's, Expediting, scheduling, planning and all other duties related

Purchasing Manager; managed a group of 2 buyer/planners and 2 expeditors. yearly cost reduction sucesses of 5% per year, increased supplier on-time delivery from 85% to 95%, cut the supplier base down by 13% Materials Manager; improved inventory accuracy from 92% to 99.8%, weekly cycle count, maintenence and enhancements to PFEP (plan for evey part), maintained a production KANBAN program, reduced inventory from 2.2MM to 1.456MM

Sr. Planner; responsible for the overall OTD to the customer, increased OTD from 78% to 94% by evaluation of materials and stocking what is commonly used, customer forecasting High School Diploma: 1981

Wilcox High School - Santa Clara, CA

ISO9001 certified Internal auditor

AS9100 certified Internal Auditor

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