Project Manager Sales

Steven P. Eckerman

**** ** ******* ****** *-mail: k9fxlx@r.postjobfree.com 816-***-****

Blue Springs, Missouri 64015 816-***-****

Procurement - Materials - Distribution - Operations

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

A highly motivated, results oriented leader and Certified Professional with over 25 years of hands-on manufacturing experience. Demonstrated ability to rapidly acquire technical knowledge and skills. Innovative problem solver able to see both the business and technical sides of a problem. Proven leadership, negotiation and problem resolution abilities. Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written. Seeking a challenging opportunity to achieve world class results by driving business growth through process and product improvements with an innovative, aggressive company.

EXPERTISE

• Procurement/Strategic Sourcing • Global Sourcing • Lean Organizational Development

• Mixed Model Value Stream • Materials/Planning/Inventory Control • Staff/Team Development / Growth

• MRP/ERP Systems Execution • SAP/JD Edwards • Distribution/Logistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

B/E Aerospace $2.9 billion annual sales: The global market leader in aircraft interior solutions PSU / Life Support Systems

Lenexa, KS

Senior Buyer 7/05 to Present

• Major contributor to a $1.5 million inventory reduction effort through part identification and clarifying the reusability internally. Also, scrapping items that are truly obsolete.

• Negotiated numerous Long Term Agreements by consolidating like commodities to help leverage spend. We can do this by using the best overall vendors based on quality history, on-time delivery and overall costs. This resulted in over $400K in savings in 2011 alone.

• Project manager for the development and implementation of an E-Kanban system which reduced inventory by over $500K

• Assisted in the design and implementation of a report that takes all the appropriate data from JD Edwards and drops it into excel, which gives buyers and planners useable information that can easily be massaged and used independently.

• Improved inventory turns on my specific commodities from 3.6 to 10.3

• Identified a 1.7M dollar savings by purchasing our products in the correct increments based on accurate ABC code data.

• Mentor four junior buyers in their daily responsibilities and overall development.

Materials Supervisor 6/01 to 7/05

• Improved warehouse layout and material distribution to achieve $165k in annual labor savings.

• Wrote Standard Work instructions for each, made sure associates were thoroughly familiar and trained.

• Lead the development and initiation of an access program that allowed materials personnel to deliver parts to the focus factories before they needed them. (A pull system). What did take five full time employees now takes one 4 hours. ($225,000.00 annual savings)

• Initiated the development of several inventory tools to improve accuracy. When I accepted this challenge, our inventory accuracy was 76 %. It’s now above 97%!

• Reduced the number of associates through transfers and natural attrition from 24 in 2001 to the current number of 12 through process improvements and layout efficiencies which comes to an annual savings of $600,000.

• Also, in 2005 we shipped $80M; today we are shipping over $125M. (= 56% increase in sales)

Pitsco, Inc. $25 million annual sales: Industry leader in Educational tools and equipment.

Pittsburg, KS

Buyer/Planner/Inventory Control 3/93 to 5/01

• Responsible for purchasing and planning 6,500 catalog items which represented over $8M.

• Improved line fill rates from 60% to 97% and improved inventory accuracy from 65% to 94% by utilizing ROI software and implementing a cycle count program

• Reduced obsolete inventory by $530k by thoroughly evaluating inventory movement to current prints

• Worked directly with marketing and manufacturing to establish new BOM’s for yearly catalogs.

Butterball Turkey Company Manager of Materials and Distribution in a multiple global manufacturing platform. Carthage, MO 6/89 to 3/93

Distribution/Warehouse Supervisor:

• Managed and developed 30 hourly and 7 salaried employees.

• Assisted in the implementation of a custom R/F inventory system for this 500k square foot warehouse.

• Introduced a cycle count program and orchestrated the training of such.

• Managed the unloading and freezing of 15-20 truckloads of fresh product daily.

• Scheduled and managed the shipping of 75-80 trucks a day for 30 days on and around Thanksgiving.

• Educated and trained hourly employees on FIFO (first in first out).

• Reduced annual scrap/spoilage by 86% in my four years @ Butterball by locating and bar-coding product as it’s received.

EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS/CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelors of Science – Business Grad Date

Wichita State University - Wichita, KS 1982

Masters of Business Administration Future Graduate

Central Missouri State - Warrensburg, MO

APIC’s Certification– 1991 Mix Model Value Stream – 2007 Goal Deployment – 2009

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