Bedeanne Ogee
Kingston
Summary
Accomplished Production Support Supervisor with a proven track record at DC Management, enhancing warehouse productivity by optimizing inventory slotting and improving team accuracy metrics. Skilled in Manufacturing Engineering and leadership, I excel in driving operational excellence and project management, achieving significant process improvements.
Experienced with optimizing production support processes to ensure seamless operations. Utilizes strong analytical skills to identify root causes and implement effective solutions. Track record of leading cross-functional teams and maintaining high standards of service delivery.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Production Support Supervisor
Big Lots Distribution Center
12.2017 - 03.2025
- Collaborated with management daily to identify and propose improvement areas.
- Enhanced efficiency of slotting process by analyzing product attributes such as weight and size.
- Increasing overall warehouse productivity by optimizing item placement.
- Enhanced pick slot profiling in carton flow and mod 60 to boost efficiency.
- Developed effective slot profiling leading to higher productivity lowering pack-out.
- Ensured accuracy and productivity through collaboration with OP's team and Inventory Control.
- Demonstrated sound decision-making while transferring loads in the wave lane balancer.
- Assisted in maintaining team accuracy benchmarks.
- Supervised production schedules, production quality and on-time delivery.
- Mitigated production risks by detecting potential issues and executing corrective measures.
- Managed scheduling to maintain adequate staffing levels for every shift.
- Scheduled employees and made sure each shift had adequate coverage.
- Mitigated production issue risks by identifying potential problems and taking effective action.
- Improved efficiency by minimizing downtime.
- Established a robust incident management system, resulting in faster response times and improved root cause analysis capabilities.
- Championed a data-driven approach to decision-making within the department, using relevant performance metrics to inform resource allocation and process improvements.
- Implemented scheduled maintenance, retooling production status sheets and driving tasks to achieve scheduling effectiveness.
- Provided status reports to management.
Supervisor of Operations
Big Lots Distribution Center
01.2006 - 01.2018
- Supervise 3rd shift stock department, 1st Shift Repack and Convey Modules
- Establish and manage day-to-day priorities of the process and direct reports
- Ensure production and quality goals are met per the DC business plan
- Maintain attendance records
- Monitor employee performance, provide guidance, appraise and counsel individual employees to further develop their interpersonal skills and improve performance
- Provide team communication on company, DC, and department business plan objectives and performance
- Managed scheduling and workload distribution, maximizing productivity without overwhelming team members or compromising quality of work.
- Adapted quickly to changing business needs, ensuring the operations team was always prepared for any shifts in demand or industry trends.
- Oversaw inventory management, maintaining optimal stock levels while minimizing waste and excess costs.
Dispatch / Fleet Clerk
Big Lots Distribution Center
01.2005 - 01.2006
- Communicate with stores concerning daily scheduled deliveries and special deliveries of merchandise and inventory from the Distribution Center
- Communicates with transportation carriers with daily needs
- Research, prepares and maintains various paperwork and reports
- Updates and maintains store ship schedule to establish the store order process to include any special changes and daily monitoring of the stores to ensure that an order has been placed
- Performs semi-routine duties where judgment is required
- Investigates and communicates delivery related issues to Supervisor for resolution
- Support of the Outbound Team
- Utilized strong multitasking skills to manage multiple priorities and tasks, ensuring timely completion of each assignment.
- Reduced errors in data entry by carefully inputting information into computer systems with attention to detail.
Inventory Control Clerk
Big Lots Distribution Center
01.2004 - 01.2005
- Data entry of all related paperwork but not limited to manual billing and inventory adjustments
- Inventory product in a warehouse setting and make adjustments as necessary
- Process data from various records as a result of DC Operational activity
- Trained new employees on inventory control processes, ensuring consistency across all team members.
- Managed cycle counting program to maintain up-to-date inventory records and identify discrepancies early on.
Education
High School Diploma -
Cody
Detroit, MI06-1981
Skills
- Manufacturing Engineering Technician
- Demand Flow Technology
- Process Development
- Material Flow Process
- Data Process
- Inventory management
- Quality Data Reports
- Operational excellence
- Project management experience
- Quality assurance controls
- Project leader experience
- Application support
- Organizational skills
- Leadership expertise
- Release management
- Capacity planning
- Incident management
- Proficiency in relevant software
- Cross-functional communication
- Performance tuning
- Problem-solving abilities
- Critical thinking
- Team leadership
- Production problem resolution
- Operating budgets
Certification
- Microsoft Office
- WLB
- WMS
- Manhattan System Management
References
Upon Request
Technicalskillsandabilities
Demand Flow Technology, Process Development Material Flow Process to point of use Data Process, Inventory management Quality Data Reports, Plans, organizes and distribute work assignments to associates, Provide training, Provide evaluative feedback, Monitor completion of work assignment, Perform all supervisory responsibilities, Use discretion and independent judgement, seeks appropriate approvals involving disciplinary action
Timeline
Production Support Supervisor
Big Lots Distribution Center
12.2017 - 03.2025
Supervisor of Operations
Big Lots Distribution Center
01.2006 - 01.2018
Dispatch / Fleet Clerk
Big Lots Distribution Center
01.2005 - 01.2006
Inventory Control Clerk
Big Lots Distribution Center
01.2004 - 01.2005
High School Diploma -
Cody
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