Supply Chain Manager
Cornerstone Building Brands
Total years of experience :12 years, 5 Months
• Investigated historical data of demand forecasting vs. actual sales history, and reviewed market trends.
• Implemented and Orchestrated SIOP & PFEP meetings with supply chain parties to ensure demand feasibility, material availability, production capacity and allocation across plants, production plan and schedule, to ensure OTD and communicate revenue impacts.
• Tracked and monitored purchase orders, deliveries, and invoicing to verify accuracy and compliance.
• Increased customer satisfaction levels by ensuring on-time delivery of products through proactive shipment tracking and issue resolution.
• Led the supply chain of multiple suppliers, ensuring timely delivery of goods while maintaining quality standards.
• Promoted activities related to strategic and tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, Production capacity planning, production scheduling, controlling inventory, warehousing, and receiving.
• Enhanced inventory accuracy by implementation of a robust cycle counting program to prevent discrepancies.
• Optimized warehouse operations, resulting in better order fulfillment rates and reduced order processing time.
• Governed Supply Chain performance by Metrics and KPIs and drove Continuous Improvement culture.
• Oversaw, trained, and coached 21 staff members tasked with receiving raw materials and finished goods, planning, purchasing, and logistics.
Achievements
• Generated a cash flow of $2.3M by reducing stock levels from $4.8M to $2.8M and the value of open purchase orders from $920K to $560K.
• Decreased Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO) from 24.3 to 16.6.
• Enhanced On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery performance from 79% to 90%.
• Achieved end-of-year inventory accuracy of 99.8% with weekly cycle counts never falling below 98.5%.
• Improved warehouse labor efficiency, reducing the Minute Per Opening (MPO) from 3.6 to an average of 2.2, surpassing the standard MPO of 2.85, resulting in potential annual savings of approximately $300K.
• Briefed site management of supply chain-related issues requiring attention or improvement.
• Streamlined business tools and processes to capture and monitor metrics for supply chain processes.
• Determined appropriate supply chain strategies to maximize customer satisfaction and on-time delivery.
• Led and orchestrated SIOP, reviewed demand, supply, addressed issues, and commit Master Production Schedules and communicate financial implications.
• Led cross-functional teams in developing strategic initiatives related to process improvement and optimization.
• Orchestrated production scenarios and capacity models to support operations and forward-looking central initiatives.
• Established and maintained relationships with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Negotiated contract agreements with suppliers regarding payment terms, lead times, MOQ and VMI.
• Streamlined and automated processes to improve accuracy and reduce manual labor.
• Engaged in coordination of engineering changes, product line extensions, and new product launches (NPI) to ensure orderly and timely transitions in material and production flow.
• Recognized ways to improve efficiency in operations and implemented process changes and achieve strategic goals.
• Negotiated service terms and with carriers and 3PL vendors.
• Boosted team productivity by streamlining communication and implementing effective project management strategies.
• Cultivated strong relationships with customers, improving overall satisfaction and trust in leadership capabilities.
• Led Project’s planning, development of milestones and timelines.
• Identify projects critical path and prioritize activities and actions to mitigate and resolve any potential delay.
• Tracked and informed customers on the RMA’s progress and ship dates.
• Managed customers projects, developments, production, and reverse logistics.
Achievements
• Eliminated $1.5M of Excess & Obsolete inventory.
• Spearheaded the development of project objectives and strategies, develop timelines and milestones. Utilize project scheduling software to plan and track projects.
• Arranged resources by planning, scheduling, and forecasting manpower and resource requirements.
• Promoted daily operations and executed project work plans, revising based on changing priorities and requirements.
• Recognized and communicated critical path items to shorten overall project timelines.
• Perform root cause analysis, and cost benefit analysis.
• Assessed, managed, and mitigated risks by keeping risk registry up to date and involving stakeholders.
• Provided continuous progress reports to the stakeholders.
• Ensured proper closure of projects meeting operational and financial aspects.
• Maintained current action registry and punch list.
• Maintained engineering change orders (ECO) log.
• Tracked project financials.
• Developed and maintained the production schedule.
• Monitored jobs as they flowed through the manufacturing process.
• Planned and prioritized operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay.
• Led weekly production planning meeting.
• Rescheduled work orders as required to optimize productivity and satisfy customer needs.
• Addressed issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption.
• Established and submitted status and performance reports.
• Tracked defective material and sent it to rework.
• Received and reviewed firmed sales orders against current sales forecast, rationalized and documented demand drivers and changes.
• Reviewed and analyzed historical data including sales trends, seasonality, and material delivery on time to identify significant variances and measure performance through metrics.
• Conducted Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) study on monthly basis and reallocate production minimize cost and increase OTIF.
• Planned and managed Master Production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and utilized production lines across 4 plants in different countries.
• Tracked inventory levels, schedules, and availability of selected items, either manufactured or purchased to meet production schedules.
• Communicated with supplier to negotiate material availability, MOQ, payment terms, and best delivery time.
• Computed Supply Planning KPIs: OTD, MAPE, DIO, stockouts, supplier OTIF, and production compliance
• Optimized product transitions for EOL and NPI and proposed phase in/out plans.
• Conducted Master planning scheduling on the yearly budget.
Achievements
• Inventory turnover improved to 6.3, up from 3.7, for trading finished goods (FG) items.
• On-time delivery (OTD) rates have increased from 85% to 98%.
- Provide 3D modeling, and workshop drafts for mechanical & die parts.
- Redesigning & modifying demolished mechanical parts.
- Prepare appropriate work instructions.
- Execute manufacturing processes on CNC machines.
- Selecting suitable tools to perform the operation.
- Monitor performance of machines and report to department head.
- Prepare bill of materials regarding manufacturing operations & assembly operations.
- Report materials requirements to planning department.
• Responded immediately to equipment breakdown.
• Conducted breakdown analysis to provide preventive and corrective improvement interventions for plants' equipment.
• Conducted training for operations/maintenance technicians regarding the use of equipment, and how to utilize the machine.
• Checked and calibrated instruments to ensure they are working accurately and according to the standard tolerances.
• Analyzed and assessed manpower, equipment, and material requirements necessary to successfully and promptly executed maintenance/project plan.
• Reviewed and verified adequacy of estimated project cost prior to and during the work process.
• Provide training on SH&E policies and identified minimum PPE for new engineers.
Major in Manufacturing Engineering and minor in Supply Chain Management
